The Division of Clinical Phenomenology was formed during this past year by combining the staff of the following Departments: Research Assessment and Training, Biometrics, Personality Studies, and Communication Sciences. These groups share an interest in improving the evaluation of subject characteristics and identifying how various types of clinical phenomenology are related to diagnosis, severity of symptoms and impairment in functioning, course of illness, differential treatment response, and genetics.
Members of the four groups also develop procedures and training materials to aid investigators in their assessment of both patients and non-patients and consult with investigators within the medical center, nationally, and internationally. In addition, members of the Division are involved in many different substantive studies.
