Recruitment of special populations can be facilitated by resources available through the Medical Center and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Access to individuals with developmental disabilities is made possible through the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Clinical staff includes psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric nurses, research assistants, and secretarial staff adequate to conduct a number of ongoing clinical trials and other research projects. The Clinic serves as a primary treatment and referral site for patients. The Adult Psychiatry Clinic is a treatment research clinic operating within the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Research makes use of clinical services through the Medical Center. All laboratories are located on the main Vanderbilt campus, the Peabody campus at Vanderbilt, and the Vanderbilt Medical Center and all are within ten minutes walking distance of one another. Research with animals is conducted in a secure facility on the ground floor of Wilson Hall which includes animal housing quarters, laboratories with extensive computer, physiological monitoring, and stimulus presentation equipment, and an aseptic surgical suite. Research using Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Positron Emission Tomography is conducted in specialized laboratory space in the Medical Center. Research using functional brain imaging is conducted in the Institute for Imaging Science, a short walk from Wilson, Jesup, and Hobbs. Research with special populations is conducted in laboratories at Wilson Hall and at other laboratories in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Hobbs Lab, and at the Medical Center.
These laboratories include computer stimulus presentation and response collection capabilities, a vast array of computers for data analysis and computational modeling, and specialized research equipment (including several eyetracking systems, optics benches, acoustical analysis systems, acoustically dampened testing environments, and various kinds of custom experimental hardware and electronics). Most of the behavioral research with nonclinical adult human subjects is conducted in laboratory suites in Wilson Hall or in the Hobbs Lab. All faculty have individual laboratory space on campus. Research Facilities and Resources Research Facilities Psychology and Human Development (Peabody).Papers Every Graduate Student Should Read.