Susan Andersen PhD

Susan L. Andersen, PhD, is director of the Laboratory of Developmental Neuropharmacology at McLean Hospital and an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is interested in understanding how the brain typically matures between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Her research focuses on how environmental factors, such as drugs of abuse or early adversity, result in atypical brain development that leads to psychiatric disorders including ADHD, depression, and drug abuse.

Dr. Andersen serves in editorial roles for Psychopharmacology, Synapse, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, and Pediatric Rehabilitation. She reviews or chairs review panels for the National Institutes of Health and numerous other funding agencies. An author of numerous journal articles, she frequently lectures to national and international audiences.