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Scott Matthews
Marc Wittmann
Elizabeth Wheeler
Tony Yang
Estibaliz Arce
Amanda Bishoff-Grethe
Jared W. Young |
Junior Faculty and Collaborators
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Scott C. Matthews, M.D. is an Assistant
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San
Diego. He completed his M.D. degree from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical
School, his psychiatric residency at UCSD, and his research fellowship
in UCSD's Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience.
His research uses fMRI to characterize the neural
correlates of emotional, behavioral and autonomic control.
At the Veterans Affairs San Diego Health Services,
Dr. Matthews is Director of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Division of the
Psychiatry Service, Lead Psychiatrist on the Polytrauma Support Clinic Team and
Staff Psychiatrist in the Mood Clinic.
He is actively involved in teaching medical
students and resident physicians, and is Co-Chair of the Program Committee of
the American Psychosomatic Society.
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Marc Wittmann,
Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at the Department of Psychiatry, University
of California San Diego. He completed his M.A. degree in Psychology and
Philosophy at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and his Ph.D
degree at the Institute of Medical Psychology at the University of
Munich, Germany.
His research focuses on the experience of time as indicator of
cognitive functioning emotional processes underlying behavior. His
studies on different time ranges employ psychophysical experiments, time
perception inventories and neuroimaging (fMRI). At present he
investigates the effects of chronic drug abuse and impulsivity on the
experience of time. Marc's page |
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Elizabeth Wheeler,
Ph.D. is a Post-doctoral Scholar in Psychiatry at UCSD. Her background
is in Cognitive Science at Wellesley College, and Cognitive Neuroscience
at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for the Neural Basis of
Cognition. She has studied reward & punishment processing,
decision-making, and emotion in the brain using fMRI and brain-damaged
populations. She is currently helping to develop fMRI as a tool for
examining anxiety and anxiolytic effects on the brain.
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Tony T. Yang, M.D., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor, In
Residence, within the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division in the
Department of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine. He graduated
Phi Beta Kappa from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985. Following his
undergraduate education, he attended U.C. San Diego in the Medical
Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He obtained his Ph.D. in the lab of
Dr. Floyd Bloom at The Scripps Research Institute. His Ph.D. thesis
focused on applying Magnetoencephalography (MEG) to examine neural
plasticity and somatosensory cortical reorganization in upper limb
amputees and brachial avulsion patients. Upon finishing the M.D.-Ph.D.
program at UCSD in 1996, he entered and completed an internship and
adult psychiatry residency program at Stanford University. Following
completion of residency, he entered a three-year combined Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship and NIMH T32 post-doctoral research
training program at Stanford University. In 2002, he graduated from
Stanford University and took a position at UCSD.
Research Focus Dr. Yang’s research focus is on the study of
adolescent depression using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
(fMRI). He has support for his research from the NARSAD foundation, the
Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation, and NIMH. He has a 5-year NIMH
Career Development Award (K23) from NIMH to study adolescent depression
using functional MRI.
Clinical Focus & CBT Program for Depressed Adolescents Dr. Yang is a
child and adolescent psychiatrist working at Children’s Plaza in the
outpatient psychiatry clinic. He is the physician leader on two
treatment teams at Children’s Plaza, supervisor of the child and
adolescent psychiatry fellows, and primary psychiatrist for his patients
at Children’s Plaza. Dr. Yang’s primary clinical focus is on the
understanding and treatment of depression in children and adolescents.
He has recently established a Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT)
Program for Depressed adolescents at Children's Plaza. If anyone is
interested in learning more about this CBT program for Depressed
Adolescents, please contact Dr. Yang at his office: 858-966-5832 ext.
7761.
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Estibaliz Arce, Ph.D. is a post-doctoral fellow in the
Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Dr. Arce attended undergraduate and doctoral studies at Universidad de
Deusto, Spain. Upon completion of her B.S., she received a predoctoral
fellowship to develop part of her clinical and research requirements in
the United States. In 2004, she started working under the supervision of
Dr. Martin Paulus and Dr. Murray Stein, investigating the neurobiology
of anxiety disorders using fMRI. In 2006, she was awarded an NIMH-funded
Research Fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience to
evaluate the neural substrates of healthy and abnormal emotion
processing and its relationship to genetic structure. In 2007, she
received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award to investigate the neural
substrates of emotion processing underlying resilience to anxiety
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Amanda Bischoff-Grethe, Ph.D., is an Assistant
Project Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at University of
California, San Diego. She received her BS in Electrical Engineering
from Lehigh University and later attended the University of Southern
California, obtaining her Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on
neural computation. As part of her graduate work, she developed a
computational model of the basal ganglia' in order to explore its
involvement in movement disorders, particularly Parkinson's disease. Her
current research includes using functional MRI to study the signal
change within basal ganglia nuclei and the frontal areas in paradigms
exploring reward expectancy and reward receipt, and how rewards
influence motor response. She is also interested in the differences in
reward and punishment processing found in individuals with stimulant
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Jared W. Young, Ph.D. is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
Department of Psychiatry, also affiliated with the Stein Institute for
Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego. He completed his
BSc with Honors (1st class) in Psychology and Biology at the University
of Paisley, United Kingdom, and his Ph.D. in Psychopharmacology at the
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom..
His research focuses on assessing behavioral function in rodents,
with particular reference to the creation of cross-species translatable
models of cognitive functioning. Primary interests include developing
methodologies to assess putative cognitive therapeutics for
schizophrenia patients, but he also collaborates with groups modeling
behavior in Bipolar Disorder patients, as well as identifying genetic
contributions to successful aging. He is also a member of the Treatment
Units for Research on Neurocognition and Schizophrenia preclinical
subcommittee. |
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