Specialty Areas: Tourette's Disorder and Depression

Dr. Gabbay is Medical Director of our Anita Saltz Institute for Anxiety and Mood Disorders and is Leon Levy Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. One of the nation’s leading experts in the clinical treatment of adolescent Depression, Dr. Gabbay is also a renowned researcher. The goal of her research is to generate knowledge of the neuronal mechanisms contributing to the development and maintenance of mood disorders in youth to inform and improve methods of assessment, treatment, and prevention. 

Dr. Gabbay earned her M.D. and her B.Med.Sc. in human sciences from Tel Aviv University in Israel. She completed a residency in General Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a residency in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine.

Recent Publication:

Lateralized Caudate Metabolic Abnormalities in Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder: A Proton MR Spectroscopy Study - The American Journal of Psychiatry, December 2007