Michael P. Milham

Michael P. Milham, MD, PhD, is an internationally recognized neuroscience researcher, the Chief Science Officer and the founding director of the Center for the Developing Brain at the Child Mind Institute. He is also a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist. Dr. Milham’s research interests include investigating how functional and structural connectivity in the brain may underlie differing forms of mental illness, and seeking to chart the course of brain development in healthy and affected children. He has published in the most scientifically respected journals, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, Journal of Neuroscience, Biological Psychiatry, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and JAMA-Psychiatry. He has also received honors and funding support from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).