Ellen Leibenluft is an American psychiatrist and physician-scientist researching the brain mechanisms mediating bipolar disorder and severe irritability in children and adolescents.

[1] Leibenluft is a senior investigator and chief of the mood dysregulation and neuroscience section in the emotion and development branch at the NIMH intramural research program.

[1] Leibenluft's major research interests center on the brain mechanisms mediating bipolar disorder and severe irritability in children and adolescents.

Her research focuses primarily on the brain mechanisms involved in bipolar disorder and severe irritability in children and adolescents.

[1] Her work involves the use of cognitive neuroscience techniques and neuroimaging modalities, primarily functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).