Dr. Carmen Andreescu is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. A licensed psychiatrist with additional expertise in Geriatric and Interventional Psychiatry, Dr. Andreescu is a faculty member in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh and the director of the ARGO Neuroscience of Aging Research lab https://argo.pitt.edu. Her research focus is on mapping the neural circuitry associated with mood/anxiety phenotypes in late-life, identifying neural markers of treatment response in late-life depression and anxiety, and describing the pathways through which anxiety accelerates
brain aging. Her research has been funded by BBRF, NIMH and NIA.