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Arpana Agrawal, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Genetic and environmental underpinnings of substance-related behaviors
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Andrey Anokhin, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Genetic and neurobiological bases of personality and psychopathology
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Laura Bierut, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Alcoholism
  • Substance Abuse
  • Genetics
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Monica Bishop, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Anorexia nervosa
  • Binge eating disorder
  • Bulimia nervosa
  • Obesity
  • Interpersonal functioning
  • Depression
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Kevin Black, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Tourette syndrome (TS)
  • Parkinson's disease
  • Huntington's disease
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Kelly Botteron, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Structural brain differences in children and adolescents with affective disorders, attention deficit disorder and autism
  • Fragile X Syndrome
  • Down Syndrome
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Kathleen Bucholz, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Development and course of alcohol and other substance use disorders
  • Effects of alcohol dependence on health services use and costs
  • Ethnic differences in psychiatric disorders
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Robert Carney, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Depression in cardiovascular disease
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Anil Cashikar, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Neuroinflammation
  • Cholesterol metabolism
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Patricia Cavazos-Rehg, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Reduction of health and mental health disparities among underserved populations
  • Risk behaviors associated with substance abuse and dependence
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Li-Shiun Chen, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Precision medicine
  • Clinical trials
  • Genetics of smoking cessation and treatment
  • Implementating smoking cessation treatment in patients with mental illness
  • Cross-population and longitudinal studies
  • Public health genomics
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Theodore Cicero, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Prescription opioid epidemic
  • Epigenetics
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C. Robert Cloninger, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Characterizing the genotypic and phenotypic architecture of mental disorders as non-linear dynamic systems, primarily in analysis of genome-wide association studies
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Charles Conway, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) phenomenology
  • Novel treatments for TRD
  • Neuroimaging of mood disorders
  • Bipolar disorders
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Pilar Cristancho, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Carlos Cruchaga, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Genetic basis of Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, stroke and other neurodegenrative disorders
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Sarah Eisenstein, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • D2 dopamine receptor and reward-related behavior in obesity and schizophrenia
  • Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus on mood in Parkinson disease
  • Pharmacological/neurobiological bases for comorbidity of substance abuse and mental health disorders
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Nuri Farber, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Cell death
  • Psychosis
  • Depression
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Robert Fitzgerald, PhD, MPH

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Epidemiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder and related developmental disabilities
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Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Etiology and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating
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Kenneth Freedland, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Depression as a risk factor for multiple hospital readmissions in patients with heart failure
  • Stepped care for depression and self-care in patients with heart failure
  • Methodological aspects of behavioral intervention research
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Kirsten Gilbert, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Self-control/over control in young children
  • Overcontrol and its contributions to psychopathology (e.g., social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive presentations, anorexia)
  • Development of reward processing/positive emotional functioning and the role of parenting in overcontrolled phenotypes in children
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Paul Glaser, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Prevention of Adolescent Substance Use
  • Treatment of Adolescent Substance Use
  • Neuropsychopharmacology of ADHD, stimulant, and non-stimulant medications
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Jessica Gold, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Physician Wellness and Mental Health
  • College Mental Health
  • Psychiatry and the Media
  • Stigma
  • Medical Education
  • Social Media
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Oscar Harari, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Identification of “omics” (proteomic, transcriptomic and genetic) factors associated with neurodegeneration
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Michael Harms, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Advanced structural, functional, and diffusion MR acqusitions and analyses to study brain networks in healthy individuals and those with psychiatric conditions
  • Endophenotypes (biological markers) of schizophrenia, psychosis, and early onset (pediatric) depression
  • Quality control of MR data, including rigorous multi-site studies
    Temporal dynamics of the fMRI response
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Sarah Hartz, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Psychiatric Genetics
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Andrew Heath, DPhil

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Genetic studies of alcoholism, smoking and drug dependence, depression, suicidality and anxiety disorders, personality disorders
  • Methodological research in genetic epidemiology
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Tamara Hershey, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Clinical neuroscience of diabetes and related diseases - Wolfram Syndrome, Parkinson disease
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Barry Hong, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Organ donation
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Laura Ibanez, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Novel bioinformatics tools to unique longitudinal datasets to create a predictive models for neurodegenerative diseases
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Yukitoshi Izumi, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Synaptic plasticity
  • Long-term potentiation (LTP)
  • Long-term depression (LTD)
  • Modulation of hippocampal function by various drugs
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Michael Jarvis, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Suicide
  • Treatments for significant psychiatric illness - Electroconvulsive Therapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Emma Johnson, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • To understand the genetic architecture of psychiatric disorders, particularly focusing on substance use and addictions
Celeste Karch, PhD

Celeste Karch, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Molecular mechanisms underlying tauopathies
  • Stem cell models of dementia
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Neha Kirtane, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Risk and resilience in young children
  • Effectiveness of parent-child therapies
  • Ethnic identity development
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Alexxai Kravitz, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Basal ganglia contributions to movement
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Eric Lenze, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Perinatal
  • Mood disorders
  • Psychotherapy
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Shannon Lenze, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Perinatal mood disorders
  • Develop psychosocial interventions for perinatal depression
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Joan Luby, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Early emotional development
  • Affective disorders
  • Affective neuroscience
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Patrick Lustman, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Diabetes
  • Gastrointestinal disease
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Pamela Madden, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Identification of genes that contribute to vulnerability to dependence on nicotine and heavy smoking
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Susan Maloney, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Impact of genetic and environmental liabilities for intellectual and developmental disorders (IDD) on neural circuit function
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Daniel Mamah, MD, MPE

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Functional Connectivity MRI
  • Diffusion and Structural MRI
  • Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
  • Psychiatric Nosology
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Natasha Marrus, MD, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Autism
  • Development of language and social cognition
  • Social motivation
  • Emotion regulation in early childhood
  • Biomarkers of child psychiatric disorders
  • Neuroimaging
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Kim McCallum, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Eating disorders
  • Obesity
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Vivia McCutcheon, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Alcohol use disorders, remission and relapse
  • Trauma
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Steven Mennerick, PhD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Glutamate neurotransmission
  • GABA neurotransmission
  • Plasticity
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Elliot Nelson, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Opioid and other drug addiction
  • Contribution of trauma exposure to liability for psychopathology
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Ginger Nicol, MD

Psychiatry

Research Topics

  • Identification and prevention of cardiometabolic risk in mentally ill pediatric populations
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Child mental health care cost and utilization