Psychiatry

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• Neuropathology
• Cerebellar development
• Glucocorticoids

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• Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis risk, general medicine-psychiatry interface

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• Understanding how apoE contributes to the clearance and metabolism of Aβ in Alzheimer’s disease

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• Nicotine withdrawal and related conditions such as major depression

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• Cognitive and neural analyses of mechanisms underlying the development of emotion and its effects on social interactions focussing on the infancy and early childhood periods

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• Neural dynamics
• Neuropsychiatric disorders

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• PTSD

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• Functional Brain Networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Mechanisms Supporting Joint Attention Behaviors
• Theory of Mind and Higher-Order Relational Reasoning

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• Repurposing antipsychotic drugs for cancer treatment
• Extreme Overvalued Beliefs
• Ethical issues in psychiatry

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• Implementation of evidence-based treatments for substance use disorders
• Integrating genomic applications into clinical practice
• Use of technology-based tools to support treatment delivery
• Organizational behavior and change in health care settings

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• Genetics of childhood-onset psychiatric disorders including autism, ADHD, and others
• Childhood precursors to schizophrenia
• Relationships between psychiatric disorders and neurological disorders

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• Method development in genetic epidemiology
• Collection and analysis of family and population data on bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia and substance abuse

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• Neuroimaging biomarkers of abnormal social and emotional development in formerly preterm children
• Effects of adverse environmental factors on social and emotional development of preterm and full term infants

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• Psychopathology of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT)
• Characterization of presymptomatic DAT and very mild DAT

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• Methods of integrating genomic databases into the design, analysis and interpretation of SNP association studies of human disease

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• Child Maltreatment
• Consult Liaison Psychiatry
• Psychotherapy

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• Chemical dependency
• Personality and Personality Disorder
• Genetics of Schizophrenia

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• Functional Brain Networks in Childhood Anxiety Disorders
• Anxiety
• Depression

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• Nicotine exposure, course of childhood ADHD, and disruptive outcomes
• Parenting as a moderator for disruptive outcomes in early childhood
• Characterization of disorders in the preschool period, including ADHD
• Empirically-supported psychotherapies for preschoolers
• Child maltreatment

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• Psychiatric genetics
• Study design and methods for genetic epidemiological studies

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• Family Therapy and Fluoxetine in the Treatment of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
  Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes Therapy

Research Interests:

• Positive role of physical activity on the developing brain and affective systems

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• Causes, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders and obesity among children, adolescents, and adults

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• Substance use disorders in birthing people
• Inequities in psychiatric diagnosis
• Prescribing controlled substances in people with addiction

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• Alzheimer's disease
• Behavioral phenotyping of new genetic models
• Evaluating functional effects of specific treatment strategies on diverse models of neurological disorders

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• Physiology and pharmacology of amino acid neurotransmitters with emphasis on the regulation of responses at glutamate and GABA receptors