Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic

The Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic is the world’s first academic specialty clinic which provides evaluation and treatment for patients struggling with psychiatric illness and metabolic abnormalities. Metabolic abnormalities include insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, or unhealthy excess body weight. The clinic aims to help treat patients with the disease of obesity, metabolic syndrome and its associated co-morbidities to reduce cardiovascular risk and improve brain function, while simultaneously addressing mental health. In patients with psychiatric illness, diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease occur in much greater proportions than the general population. Metabolic dysfunction is often found in a wide range of illnesses including depression, bipolar illness, schizophrenia or psychosis, eating disorders, such as binge eating and bulimia nervosa, and in patients with metabolic side effects from psychotropic medications. The clinic serves as a time-limited consultation clinic and collaborates closely with the Eating Disorder, Bipolar, Women’s Wellness, and Lifestyle Psychiatry Clinic. The clinic also serves as a flagship teaching and training site for medical students and residents interested in Metabolic Psychiatry.