Dr. Nassir Ghaemi

Dr. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH is a psychiatric researcher with expertise in bipolar disorder and psychopharmacology. He is the director of the Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology Programs at Tufts Medical Center. He also has interests and training in philosophy and public health. His research has helped identify, the common misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder as unipolar depression, the contours of the nosology of the bipolar spectrum, the frequent occurrence of impaired insight during the acute manic syndrome, and the limitations of antidepressant use in bipolar disorder.

He is the author of The Concepts of Psychiatry: A Pluralistic Approach to the Mind and Mental Illness (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003, 2007). His most recent book is the 2nd edition of Mood Disorders: A Practical Guide (Baltimore, Maryland: Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins; 2003, 2007).

He has also edited or co-edited Bipolar Depression (Washington DC: American Psychiatric Press, 2006) and Polypharmacy in Psychiatry (New York: Marcel Dekker, 2002), has published over 100 scientific articles or book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of numerous journals.

A prior recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Dr. Ghaemi's current NIMH-funded research focuses on long-term outcome with antidepressants in bipolar disorder. He has also been a principal investigator in a number of pivotal clinical trials for new agents for bipolar disorder.

His PT blog is Mood Swings.