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Neuromodulation for the Study and Treatment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Dr. Khaled Moussawi

Dr. Khaled Moussawi

Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Moussawi completed his undergraduate degree in Biology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon before joining the MD/PhD program at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) for his medical and doctoral training. He finished his Neurology Residency at the Mass General Brigham Program affiliated with Harvard Medical School before completing a clinical fellowship in Neuropsychiatry at Johns Hopkins and a research fellowship at the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Dr. Moussawi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Psychiatry and Neurology Departments at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests involve using neuromodulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders such as drug addiction.

Collection Overview

Neuromodulation involves the use of an energy source (e.g., electrical, magnetic, sound, or light) to modify the activity of neurons in the central or peripheral nervous system. Neuromodulation tools are increasingly used by basic and clinical neuroscientists to probe the functions of neuronal circuits and to explore new treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Electric and magnetic-based neuromodulation tools like Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Vagal Nerve Stimulation (VNS), and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) are clinic-ready and have been FDA approved for several clinical conditions, while others that are sound or light-based are still being developed and are mostly used pre-clinically. The proposed methods collection includes a variety of articles that encompass the current state of the art in the neuromodulation field both at the clinical and pre-clinical levels. We will solicit contributions that focus on 1) clinical use of DBS, 2) clinical use of TMS, 3) clinical use of Magnetic Seizure Therapy, 4) pre-clinical use of TMS, 5) pre-clinical use of VNS, 6) pre-clinical use of neuromodulatory transcranial Focused UltraSound (tFU), and 7) pre-clinical use of optogenetics. 

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Using Optogenetics to Reverse Neuroplasticity and Inhibit Cocaine Seeking in Rats
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Using Optogenetics to Reverse Neuroplasticity and Inhibit Cocaine Seeking in Rats

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