Faculty
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
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
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
Daniel J. O. Roche, PhD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Human laboratory models of addiction, behavioral pharmacology, clinical trials, medication development
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
Elaine Weiner, MD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Areas of Interest: Pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment of schizophrenia; smoking cessation in schizophrenia