University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry

Recruiting Subjects for Research Studies

The Department of Psychiatry has a strong and diverse research component. UW Department of Psychiatry faculty members are recruiting subjects for the following studies:

Pediatric Anxiety Study

Ned Kalin, MD, Hedberg Professor and Chair of Psychiatry is leading a study investigating anxiety in children. Kalin and his team hope to better understand how to detect early risk for the development of anxiety.

Anxiety disorders affect one in eight children. The study is currently recruiting children ages 8 to 12. For more information visit the study's website or call the HealthEmotions Research Institute at (608) 265-4380 or . You can also send an email with your name, contact information, and the best time to reach you, and a member of our study staff will call you.

Depression and Memory Study

This study, led by Heather Abercrombie, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, will examine the role of the stress hormone cortisol in depression by investigating whether childhood adversity (like loss, abuse, or neglect) moderates the effects of cortisol on neural function and emotional memory. The study will recruit women between ages 18-45. Recruitment will begin in May 2013. Contact the study coordinator at 608-263-6114 or email.

Youth PTSD Study

Ryan Herringa, MD, PhD leads a study that examines the differences in brain function in youth with PTSD symptoms compared to healthy youth. Dr. Herringa hopes that by better understanding how the brain works differently in youth with PTSD, there will one day be improved detection and better treatment of post-traumatic stress in youth. The study is currently recruiting boys and girls between age of 8 and 18. For more information contact the Youth PTSD Study at 608-265-3610 or email, or visit the study website.

Pediatric Anxiety Research

Dr. Ned Kalin, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, is an accomplished biological psychiatrist whose research focuses on anxiety. Through imaging studies and understanding the genetic and environmental components of mental illness, his lab is working toward discoveries that can form the basis of early interventions to treat children who are at risk of developing long-term anxiety and related psychiatric disorders.

New Publications

updated June 7, 2013

Adluru N, Hanlon BM, Lutz A, Lainhart JE, Alexander AL, Davidson RJ. Penalized likelihood phenotyping: unifying voxelwise analyses and multi-voxel pattern analyses in neuroimaging: penalized likelihood phenotyping. Neuroinformatics. 2013 Apr;11(2):227-47.

Alisch RS, Wang T, Chopra P, Visootsak J, Conneely KN, Warren ST. Genome-wide analysis validates aberrant methylation in fragile X syndrome is specific to the FMR1 locus. BMC Med Genet. 2013 Jan 29;14:18.

Baldo BA, Pratt WE, Will MJ, Hanlon EC, Bakshi VP, Cador M. Principles of motivation revealed by the diverse functions of neuropharmacological and neuroanatomical substrates underlying feeding behavior. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2013 Mar 1. doi:pii: S0149-7634(13)00053-5. 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.02.017.

Bavelier D, Davidson RJ. Brain training: Games to do you good. Nature. 2013 Feb 28;494(7438):425-6.

Billings ME, Rosen CL, Wang R, Auckley D, Benca R, Foldvary-Schaefer N, Iber C, Zee P, Redline S, Kapur VK. Is the relationship between race and continuous positive airway pressure adherence mediated by sleep duration? Sleep. 2013 Feb 1;36(2):221-7.

Cirelli C. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23623392 Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2013 Apr 23. Epub ahead of print].

Coan JA, Kasle S, Jackson A, Schaefer HS, Davidson RJ. Mutuality and the social regulation of neural threat responding. Attach Hum Dev. 2013 Apr 2. [Epub ahead of print].

Costanzo ES, Juckett MB, Coe CL. Biobehavioral influences on recovery following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Brain Behav Immun. 2013 Mar;30.

Emrich SM, Riggall AC, Larocque JJ, Postle BR. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23575849J Neurosci. 2013 Apr 10.

Gallagher TA, Nair VA, Regner MF, Young BM, Radtke A, Pankratz J, Holdsworth RL, Baniulis D, Kornder NK, Voss J, Austin BP, Moritz C, Meyerand ME, Prabhakaran V. Characterizing the relationship between functional MRI-derived measures and clinical outcomes in patients with vascular lesions. Neurosurg Focus. 2013 Apr.

Hanson JL, Suh JW, Nacewicz BM, Sutterer MJ, Cayo AA, Stodola DE, Burghy CA, Wang H, Avants BB, Yushkevich PA, Essex MJ, Pollak SD, Davidson RJ. Robust Automated Amygdala Segmentation via Multi-Atlas Diffeomorphic Registration. Front Neurosci. 2012;6:166.

Hanson JL, Adluru N, Chung MK, Alexander AL, Davidson RJ, Pollak SD. Early Neglect Is Associated With Alterations in White Matter Integrity and Cognitive Functioning. Child Dev. 2013 Mar 10.

Haq C, Stearns M, Brill J, Crouse B, Foertsch J, Knox K, Stearns J, Skochelak S, Golden RN. Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health: TRIUMPH. Acad Med. 2013 Mar;88(3):352-63.

Harper DG, Plante DT, Jensen JE, Ravichandran C, Buxton OM, Benson KL, O'Connor SP, Renshaw PF, Winkelman JW. Energetic and cell membrane metabolic products in patients with primary insomnia: a 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy study at 4 tesla. Sleep. 2013 Apr 1;36(4):493-500.

Kuna ST, Benca R, Kushida CA, Walsh J, Younes M, Staley B, Hanlon A, Pack AI, Pien GW, Malhotra A. Agreement in computer-assisted manual scoring of polysomnograms across sleep centers. Sleep. 2013 Apr 1;36(4):583-9.

Kundu B, Penwarden A, Wood JM, Gallagher TA, Andreoli MJ, Voss J, Meier T, Nair VA, Kuo JS, Field AS, Moritz C, Meyerand ME, Prabhakaran V. Association of functional magnetic resonance imaging indices with postoperative language outcomes in patients with primary brain tumors. Neurosurg Focus. 2013 Apr;34(4):E6.

Murphy K, Birn RM, Bandettini PA. Resting-state fMRI confounds and cleanup. Neuroimage. 2013 Apr 6.

Myers-Schulz B, Pujara M, Wolf RC, Koenigs M. Inherent emotional quality of human speech sounds. Cogn Emot. 2013 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print].

Noguti J, Andersen ML, Cirelli C, Ribeiro DA. Oxidative stress, cancer, and sleep deprivation: is there a logical link in this association? Sleep Breath. 2013 Feb 1.

Patriat R, Molloy EK, Meier TB, Kirk GR, Nair VA, Meyerand ME, Prabhakaran V, Birn RM. The effect of resting condition on resting-state fMRI reliability and consistency: A comparison between resting with eyes open, closed, and fixated. Neuroimage. 2013 Apr 15.

Piantoni G, Cheung BL, Van Veen BD, Romeijn N, Riedner BA, Tononi G, Van Der Werf YD, Van Someren EJ. Disrupted directed connectivity along the cingulate cortex determines vigilance after sleep deprivation. Neuroimage. 2013 May 2.

Plante DT, Frankenburg FR, Fitzmaurice GM, Zanarini MC. Relationship between sleep disturbance and recovery in patients with borderline personality disorder. J Psychosom Res. 2013 Apr;74(4):278-82.

Prigge MD, Bigler ED, Fletcher PT, Zielinski BA, Ravichandran C, Anderson J, Froehlich A, Abildskov T, Papadopolous E, Maasberg K, Nielsen JA, Alexander AL, Lange N, Lainhart J. Longitudinal Heschl's Gyrus Growth During Childhood and Adolescence in Typical Development and Autism. Autism Res. 2013 Feb 21.

Pujara M, Motzkin JC, Newman JP, Kiehl KA, Koenigs M. Neural correlates of reward and loss sensitivity in psychopathy. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2013 May 9. [Epub ahead of print].

Reardon CL, Dottl S, Krahn D. Psychiatry student interest groups: what they are and what they could be. Acad Psychiatry. 2013 May 1;37(3):175-8.

Shackman AJ, Fox AS, Oler JA, Shelton SE, Davidson RJ, Kalin NH. Neural mechanisms underlying heterogeneity in the presentation of anxious temperament. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Apr 9;110(15):6145-50.

Song J, Desphande AS, Meier TB, Tudorascu DL, Vergun S, Nair VA, Biswal BB, Meyerand ME, Birn RM, Bellec P, Prabhakaran V. Age-related differences in test-retest reliability in resting-state brain functional connectivity. PLoS One. 2012;7(12):e49847.

Vergun S, Deshpande AS, Meier TB, Song J, Tudorascu DL, Nair VA, Singh V, Biswal BB, Meyerand ME, Birn RM, Prabhakaran V. Characterizing Functional Connectivity Differences in Aging Adults using Machine Learning on Resting State fMRI Data. Front Comput Neurosci. 2013 Apr 25;7:38.

Voss J, Meier TB, Freidel R, Kundu B, Nair VA, Holdsworth R, Kuo JS, Prabhakaran V. The role of secondary motor and language cortices in morbidity and mortality: a retrospective functional MRI study of surgical planning for patients with intracranial tumors. Neurosurg Focus. 2013 Apr;34(4):E7.

Vyazovskiy VV, Olcese U, Cirelli C, Tononi G. Prolonged wakefulness alters neuronal responsiveness to local electrical stimulation of the neocortex in awake rats. J Sleep Res. 2012 Nov 21.

Willette AA, Coe CL, Birdsill AC, Bendlin BB, Colman RJ, Alexander AL, Allison DB, Weindruch RH, Johnson SC. Interleukin-8 and interleukin-10, brain volume and microstructure, and the influence of calorie restriction in old rhesus macaques. Age (Dordr). 2013 Mar.

Baron DA, Reardon CL, Baron SH. Clinical Sports Psychiatry: An International Perspective. 2013. John Wiley & Sons.

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