Chris Aiken MD

Chris Aiken is a psychiatrist whose writing focuses on natural therapies for mood disorders. He emphasizes treatments that improve the long-term health of the brain through neuroprotection, and contributed a chapter to the first textbook on that subject. Dr. Aiken hosts a podcast (The Pocket Psychiatrist) and website for the general public (Psycheducation.org). He is the Editor-in-Chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report and the Mood Disorders Section Chief for Psychiatric Times. He teaches at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and is active in research on mood disorders. Dr. Aiken's interest in mood disorders came from experience with close friends who suffered from depression. He began his career as a research assistant at the National Institute of Mental Health and went on to complete medical school at Yale and residency at Cornell and Duke Medical Centers.