Adolf Pfefferbaum

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emeritus

Academic Appointments

Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Member, Bio-X

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Abnormalities in brain structure and function in healthy aging, alcoholism, HIV infection, and Alzheimer's Disease; diffusion tensor imaging of white matter microstructure in alcoholism; spectroscopic analysis of brain brain metabolite concentrations in alcoholism and HIV infection; functional neuroimaging of cognitive networks in alcoholism.

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Christine Blasey

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

74 Total Publications
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Gayle Deutsch, PhD, ABPP

Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Neurology
Clinical Focus
Neuropsychology, Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychology, Clinical Neuropsychology

44 Total Publications
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Gary Glover

Professor of Radiology (Radiological Sciences Lab) and, by courtesy, of Psychology and of Electrical Engineering
Research Interests
My present research is devoted to the advancement of functional magnetic resonance imaging sciences for applications in basic understanding of the brain in health and disease. We collaborate closely with departmental clinicians and with others in the school of medicine, humanities, and the engineering sciences.

361 Total Publications
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Ian Gotlib

David Starr Jordan Professor
Research Interests
Current interests include social, cognitive, and biological factors in affective disorders; neural and cognitive processing of emotional stimuli and reward by depressed persons; behavioral activation and anhedonia in depression; social, emotional, and biological risk factors for depression in children.

584 Total Publications
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Michael Greicius, MD, MPH

Iqbal Farrukh and Asad Jamal Professor and Professor, by courtesy, of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Administrative and Academic Special Programs)
Clinical Focus
Neurology, Alzheimer's disease, Genetics, Neurodegenerative diseases, Lewy Body disease, Frontotemporal Dementia
Research Interests
As the Medical Director of the Stanford Center for Memory Disorders and Principal Investigator of the Stanford Extreme Phenotypes in Alzheimer's Disease (StEP AD) Cohort, Dr. Greicius' research focuses on elucidating the neurobiologic underpinnings of AD. His lab combines cutting edge brain imaging, "deep" phenotyping, and whole-genome sequencing of human subjects to identify novel pathways involved in AD pathogenesis. The goal of his work is to develop effective treatment for AD patients.

128 Total Publications
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Kalanit Grill-Spector

Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Research Interests
For humans, recognition is a natural, effortless skill that occurs within a few hundreds of milliseconds, yet it is one of the least understood aspects of visual perception. Our research utilizes functional imaging (fMRI),diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), computational techniques, and behavioral methods to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying visual recognition in humans. We also examine the development of these mechanisms from childhood to adulthood as well as between populations.

113 Total Publications
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Jennifer Keller

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Focus
Clinical Psychology
Research Interests
interpersonal violence and abuse prevention; empowerment of women; cognitive and affective information processing in depression; clinical, biological, and neuropsychological aspects of depression; South Asian mental health

44 Total Publications
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Helena Chmura Kraemer

Professor of Biostatistics in Psychiatry, Emerita
Research Interests
I am interested in the methodology pertinent to dealing with research problems where biological and behavioral interests meet. These interests have been applied not only in psychiatric research, but in those areas of Cardiology, Pediatrics and other fields of medicine in which behavioral research is becoming ever more salient.

481 Total Publications
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Feng Vankee Lin

Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Research Interests
My career has been devoted to understanding the neural mechanisms involved in brain aging and brain plasticity, with a special focus on early detection and prevention of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). My research approach integrates principles and findings from cognitive theory, clinical neuroscience, and computational neuroscience.

112 Total Publications
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Jay McClelland

Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Professor of Psychology and, by courtesy, of Linguistics and of Computer Science
Research Interests
My research addresses topics in perception and decision making; learning and memory; language and reading; semantic cognition; and cognitive development. I view cognition as emerging from distributed processing activity of neural populations, with learning occurring through the adaptation of connections among neurons. A new focus of research in the laboratory is mathematical cognition and reasoning in humans and contemporary AI systems based on neural networks.

44 Total Publications
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Eva Maria Muller-Oehring

Sr Res Scholar, Neurology

86 Total Publications
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Ruth O'Hara

Director, Spectrum, Senior Associate Dean, Research and Lowell W. and Josephine Q. Berry Professor
Research Interests
Dr. O'Hara's research aims to investigate how cognitive information processing deficits subserve affective symptoms in psychiatric disorders, and interact with key brain networks integral to these disorders. To do so, she has implemented a translational, interdisciplinary program that encompasses cellular models, brain and behavioral assays of affective and cognitive information processing systems in psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

209 Total Publications