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Salvador Guinjoan, M.D., Ph.D.


Principal Investigator, LIBR
Research Associate Professor, Oxley College of Health and Natural Sciences​, ​The University of Tulsa
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The Guinjoan Laboratory


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Our Research Approach


Dr. Guinjoan's research focuses on defining causal relationships between dysfunction in large-scale brain circuits and the symptoms of internalizing disorders, with a particular emphasis on treatment-resistant depression. Recently, his lab has concentrated on characterizing the neurobiological mechanisms underlying rumination—a well-established adverse prognostic factor in various psychiatric conditions, including depression.
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To achieve this, the lab employs a novel, noninvasive, and anatomically precise neuromodulation tool: low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU). This safe technique enables the probing of deep brain circuits to elucidate their roles in symptom generation and maintenance.
 
The long-term objective of this research is to improve the prognosis of depression and related disorders by developing a personalized treatment approach that accounts for interindividual variability in both neuroanatomy and clinical presentation.


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Scientific Background


Dr. Guinjoan earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He completed his psychiatry residency training at the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital/University of Maryland program in 1999, where he also served as chief resident, obtaining board certification in 2000.
 
Upon returning to Buenos Aires in 1999, Dr. Guinjoan pursued a distinguished career in clinical and academic psychiatry at the University of Buenos Aires and the Fleni Foundation, where he served as Chief of Psychiatry and interim Chief of Cognitive Neurology. He is an International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and an active member of the American College of Psychiatrists and the Society of Biological Psychiatry.
 
Dr. Guinjoan’s research has extensively employed psychophysiological methods as well as structural and functional imaging techniques. His work has contributed to the characterization of autonomic nervous system dysfunction as a potential mechanism linking depression to adverse cardiac outcomes, the neurobiological underpinnings of cognitive dysfunction in psychotic disorders, and early markers of Alzheimer’s disease.
 
He is a collaborator in the ANDES consortium, a multinational initiative investigating the impact of poverty, violence, and social and gender inequality on cognition and brain biology in patients with psychosis. Additionally, he has worked with colleagues at the University of Barcelona to define functional imaging and autonomic signatures of stress regulation in depression compared to borderline personality disorder.
 
Currently, Dr. Guinjoan’s primary research focuses on the use of low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) to investigate the mechanisms underlying depressive symptom formation. By modulating the activity of large-scale white matter tracts deep within the brain, his work aims to elucidate the role of these circuits in psychiatric disease manifestations.
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Selected Publications


Duarte-Abritta B, et. al. Cortical thickness, brain metabolic activity, and in vivo amyloid deposition in asymptomatic, middle-aged offspring of patients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease. J Psychiatr Res. 2018 Dec;107:11-18.
Forthman KL, Kuplicki R, Yeh HW, Khalsa SS, Paulus MP, Guinjoan SM (2023): Transdiagnostic behavioral and genetic contributors to repetitive negative thinking: a machine learning approach. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 1672: 207-213.
Guinjoan SM, Bernabó JL, Cardinali DP. Cardiovascular tests of autonomic function and sympathetic skin responses in patients with major depression. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1995 Sep;59(3):299-302.
Misaki M, Young K, Tsuchiyagaito A, Savitz J, Guinjoan SM (2025): Clinical response to neurofeedback in major depression relates to subtypes of whole-brain activation patterns during training. Molecular Psychiatry, in press.
Park H, Kuplicki R, Paulus MP, Guinjoan SM (2024): Rumination and over-recruitment of cognitive control circuits in depression. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 9(8): 800-808.
Sanchez SM, Tsuchiyagaito A, Kuplicki R, Park H, Postolski I, Rohan M, Paulus MP, Guinjoan SM (2023): Repetitive negative thinking-specific and -nonspecific white matter tracts engaged by historical psychosurgical targets for depression. Biological Psychiatry 94(8): 661-671.
Tsuchiyagaito A, Misaki M, Cochran G, Philip NS, Paulus MP, Guinjoan SM (2023): Thalamo-cortical circuits associated with trait- and state-repetitive negative thinking in major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 168: 184-192.
Tsuchiyagaito A, Sanchez SS, Misaki M, Kuplicki R, Park H, Paulus MP, Guinjoan SM (2022): Intensity of repetitive negative thinking in depression is associated to greater functional connectivity between semantic processing and emotion regulation areas. Psychological Medicine, 53(12): 5488-5499.
Vigo DE, et. al. Relation of depression to heart rate nonlinear dynamics in patients > or =60 years of age with recent unstable angina pectoris or acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol. 2004 Mar 15;93(6):756-60.
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Stella Sanchez, Ph.D.
Former LIBR Post-Doc Associate
Heekyeong Park, Ph.D.
LIBR Affiliate Investigator
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