Cameron Carter, MD

University of California - Davis

Director, Imaging Research Center
Director, Center for Neuroscience
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology

Research Interests
Neural mechanisms of attention and memory and the pathophysiological processes underlying clinical disorders that involve these cognitive systems through the integration of behavioral, computational and functional neuroimaging (fMRI, PET, ERP)

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Amit Etkin, MD, PhD

Stanford University

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Investigator in the VA Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Palo Alto VA

Research Interests
Neurobiology and treatment of of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress, including: (a) which domains of neural/mental functions are involved, (b) how different existing treatment approaches yield their effects on the brain, and (c) whether emerging tools for mapping and modulating neural circuits can remediate brain abnormalities that may not be affected by current treatments

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Charles Nemeroff, MD, PhD

The University of Texas at Austin

Matthew P. Nemeroff Endowed Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Institute for Early Life Adversity Research
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Research Interests
Biological basis of affective disorders, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders, and clinical research focused on the use of genetic, neuroendocrine, neuroimaging and neurochemical methods to comprehensively understand the pathophysiology of depression

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Mary Phillips, MD

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Professor of Psychiatry
Co-Director of the Brain Imaging Research Centre (BIRC)

Kings College, Institute of Psychiatry
Professor of Neuroscience and Emotion

Research Interests
Application of fMRI techniques to examine the neural basis of emotion processing in healthy and psychiatric populations, specifically, the identification of neural correlates that underlie the symptoms of abnormalities in emotion processing in people with mood disorders​

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Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD

Emory University School of Medicine

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Research Interests
Molecular and cellular mechanisms of fear learning and the process of extinction of fear in mouse models to improve our understanding of and advance treatments for fear-based disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder and panic disorder

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Larry Schramm, PhD

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Whiting School of Engineering

Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience

Research Interests
Spinal systems that affect arterial pressure before and after spinal injury, with the goal of identifying and understanding these systems to predict potential cardiovascular dysfunction in the event of inappropriate regeneration of pathways during spinal cord regeneration

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Murray Stein, MD, MPH

University of California-San Diego

Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Family & Preventive Medicine
Vice Chair for Clinical Research in Psychiatry, Anxiety & Traumatic Stress Disorders Program

Research Interests
Epidemiology, neurobiology, and the treatment of anxiety and trauma and stress-related disorders, especially social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder