About the SWAN Lab

The Schiller Lab for Women’s Affective Neuroscience (SWAN) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and students focused on identifying the neuropathophysiology of reproductive-related mood disorders and advancing evidence-based psychotherapy. Our research has demonstrated the role of reproductive hormones in depression and anxiety during and after pregnancy and during the menopause transition. Our ongoing research aims to explain how normative changes in ovarian hormones over the course of the reproductive lifespan trigger mood dysregulation in some but not all people. Increasingly, our research focuses on issues related to diversity and equity in reproductive science, clinical psychology, and access to treatments that work.

We are currently recruiting for studies of premenstrual dysphoric disorder, perinatal depression and anxiety, and perimenopause.

We are grateful to the National Institute of Mental Health, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Foundation of Hope, and Health Resources and Services Administration for supporting our research and training programs.

We offer training opportunities to undergraduate students, graduate students, clinical psychology interns, medical residents, and postdoctoral fellows. Please contact Kate Gibson at kathryn_gibson@med.unc.edu to learn more.