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. |
