Expertise

Research:

  • Suicide prevention, blood tests for psychiatric disorders, apps for tracking and improving mental health, genomics and phenomics of neuropsychiatric disorders, brain and tissue banking.

Clinical Interests:

  • Precision diagnostics and improved pharmacological treatments. Clinical trials. Health and wellness.

Current Research: From Convergent Functional Genomics to Phenomics: Translational Studies in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

We have conducted work in the mind domains of anxiety, mood (bipolar, depression)  and cognition (schizophrenia, Alzheimer), along with pain and stress as  key environmentally driven component, as well as addictions and suicide as major negative behavioral outcomes, and longevity as a positive behavioral outcome.


Expertise:

  • Psychiatric Disorders Research
Past Affiliations

Professor, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Associate Professor, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Director, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Research Director, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California San Diego (past)

Associate Professor, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Communities
Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Neuroscience
Degrees
PhD, Scripps Research Institute, Molecular Biology, 1997
MSc, University of Geneva, Medical Biology, 1992
MD, Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie "Carol Davila", 1991
Keywords
animal models substance abuse psychopharmacology psychiatry genetics