Shabnam Nohesara has been an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the IRAN University of Medical Sciences (IUMS), Tehran, Iran since November 2006. She is also a research scholar in the Section of Biomedical Genetics at Boston University, Boston, MA. Her research areas are PsychiatryMental HealthGenetics and Epigenetics. She has piblished more than 15 review or original articles in psychiatric diseases.