Mood Disorders

Mood disorders are serious mental health illnesses that primarily affect a person’s emotional state. They can impact children, teens, and adults. At the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, our researchers work on external and internal factors (e.g., stress, trauma, genetics) as well as therapies to understand and mitigate the impact of those disorders on our patients.

Useful keywords: Bipolar, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Postpartum Depression, Neurogenetics, Psychedelic Research, …

Meet some of our leading researchers:

Researcher Name	Research Focus	Keywords	Laboratories / Institutes
Andrew Gaudet	Neurological Disorders / Systems • Neuroinflammation • Spinal Cord Injury • Biological Clocks • Mood- and Anxiety-like Disorders	Neuroscience / Neuroinflammation / Circadian Rhythms / Behavioral Neuroscience	Gaudet Lab
Caitlin Orsini	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Behavioral Neuroscience • Decision Making • Anxiety Disorders • Substance Use Disorders	Drug addiction / Genetics / Protein Biomarkers / Sex Differences	Orsini Lab
Charles Nemeroff	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Early Life Development • Child Abuse and Neglect • Mood Disorders • Anxiety Disorders • Psychopharmacology Technology & Drugs Development • Personalized Medicine in Psychiatry	Psychedelic Research	Institute for Early Life Adversity Research
Deborah Cohen	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Youth Mental Healthcare • Serious Mental Illness Technology & Drugs Development • Leveraging Electronic Health Records to Improve Care	Early serious mental illness / Pathways to care /Family Involvement / Young adult friendly services / Coordination across systems
Elizabeth Lippard	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Mood Disorders • Bipolar Disorders • Alcohol Use Disorders • Depression, • Neuroimaging • Developmental neuroscience Technology & Drugs Development • Transdermal Alcohol Monitoring	Bipolar Disorder / Stress	The Main Lab
Greg Fonzo	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • PTSD • Mood Disorders • Anxiety Disorders • Neuromodulation Clinical Rehabilitation • Neurorehabilitation	Trauma / Anxiety / Stress / Depression / Brain Imaging / Brain Modulation / Psychedelic Research / Neuromodulation	Translational and Clinical Neuroscience (TrAC Neuro) Lab/a> / Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy
Jeff Newport	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Reproductive Psychiatry • Mood Disorders • Anxiety Disorders • Psychofarmacology Technology & Drugs Development • Clinical Rehabilitation •	Reproductive Psychatry / Postpartum Depression	Texas Women's Reproductive Mental Health website
Jorge Almeida	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Mood Disorders • Bipolar Disorders Technology & Drugs Development • Neuro Imaging • Functional Magnetic Resonance (fMRI)	Bipolar disorders / Neurooimaging / Neurostimulation / Functional MRI (fMRI)	Bipolar Center Bipolar Medical Service website
Joseph Dunsmoor	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Anxiety Disorders • PTSD • Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience / Emotion / Fear / Conditioning / Memory / Neuroimaging	Learning, Memory, and Emotion Lab
Mbemba Jabbi	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Mood Disorders • Neurogenetics • Neurotranscriptomics • Neuroanatomy • Lifespan and Aging Technology & Drugs Development • Behavioral Phenotyping • Cellular Studies	Neurobiology of Diseases / Behavioral Genetics / Neuroinflammation / Afffective Functions/Dysfunctions / Mood Functions/Dysfunctions / Brain Imaging / Diagnostics / RNA-Sequencing	Laboratory of Affective Neurogenetics
Nicholas Ortiz	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Depressive disorders • Bipolar disorders • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) • Neuromodulation therapies • Schizophrenia Clinical Rehabilitation • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) • Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) • Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for OCD • Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS)	Clinical Trials
Rex A. Wright	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Motivation • Cardiovascular Health • Chronotype • Cognitive Decline • Fatigue • Self-Regulation • Trauma
Roshni Koli	Psychiatric Disorders / Systems • Pediatric mood disorders • Pediatric anxiety disorders • Pediatric consultation-liaison psychiatry • Integration of behavioral health in pediatric primary care
Tawny Smith	Psychiatric Disorders/ Systems • Mood Disorders • Bipolar • Schizophrenia • Reproductive Psychiatry • Psychopharmacology.