
Seth A. Ament, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, genetics, genomics, systems biology, stem cells, neuron, brain, behavior, mood disorders, substance use disorders, Huntington's disease, neuroinflammation, hearing loss

Sonia Bansal, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Schizophrenia, cognitive neuroscience, visual attention and perception, sensorimotor systems

P. Leon Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Addiction, depression, dopamine, electrophysiology, habenula, motivation
Robert W. Buchanan, MD
Clinical Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Pharmacological treatment of schizophrenia, neuroanatomical basis of the psychopathology of schizophrenia and related disorders

William T. Carpenter, MD
Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry

Shuo Chen, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology & Public Health and Psychiatry
MPower Professor
Areas of Interest: Big Data, machine learning, clinical trial design/analysis, network/graph statistics, neuroimaging statistics (MRI, EEG, fMRI, MRS, and DTI data), genomics and proteomics, Bayesian modeling, spatiotemporal models, and optimization

Joshua J. Chiappelli, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Schizophrenia, stress pathophysiology, magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Jacqueline Clauss, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Risk, resilience, neuroimaging, clinical high-risk for psychosis, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, clinical outcomes, trajectories, development, adolescence

Adam J. Culbreth, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Negative symptoms, schizophrenia, effort-cost decision-making, reinforcement-learning

Gregory I. Elmer, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry and Pharmacology
Areas of interest: Trauma, depression, habenula, PTSD, addiction, psychopharmacology

James M. Gold, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia, attention, working memory, motivation, negative symptoms

David A. Gorelick, MD, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Addiction, substance use disorders, cocaine, cannabis, withdrawal, pharmacological treatment

Stephanie M. Hare, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia, hallucinations, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Deanna L. Kelly, PharmD, BCPP
Dr. William and Carol Carpenter Professor of Psychiatry for Mental Illness Research
Acting Director, Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
Chief, Treatment Research Program
Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia research, antipsychotic medication, women, gluten, clozapine, inflammation, clinical trials

Sathyasaikumar V. Korrapati, PhD
Instructor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Kynurenine Pathway Metabolism, Neurodegeneration, Schizophrenia, Cognition

Daniel J. O. Roche, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Human laboratory models of addiction, behavioral pharmacology, clinical trials, medication development
Laura Rowland, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia and related disorders, translational neuroscience, MR Spectroscopy, MRI, women's mental health, aging
Robert Schwarcz, PhD
Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Cognition, excitotoxicity, glutamate, kynurenic acid, neurodegenerative diseases, neuroprotection, quinolinic acid, schizophrenia, tryptophan

James A. Waltz, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Schizophrenia, reinforcement learning, avolition, anhedonia, psychosis, dopamine
Ze Wang, PhD
Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine
Areas of Interest: Arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI, signal processing, image reconstruction, machine learning, lesion-symptom mapping, brain entropy mapping

Elaine Weiner, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia; smoking cessation in schizophrenia