The Department of Biostatistics collaborates with the School of Medicine in conducting research on the area of psychiatry. This is done both by having joint faculty appointments in departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics, and by having biostatistics faculty participate in psychiatry research. For example the Biostatistics department faculty members currently participate in a clinical drug study which is the largest research contact ever awarded by the National Institutes of Mental Health. This study focuses on a new group of atypical anti-psychotic drugs, used to treat schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.