Mood Disorders

Mood disorders are a serious mental health illness that affect primarily a person emotional state. They can impact children, teens and adults. At the Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences our researchers work on external and internal factors (i.e 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.