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Deanna Barch

Associate Professor of Psychology in Arts & Sciences

Barch studies cognitive and language deficits in disorders such as schizophrenia, and the neurobiological mechanisms that contribute to such deficits. Her research includes behavioral, pharmacological, and neuroimaging studies with normal and clinical populations. One line of research examines discourse-level ...


Expertise: cognitive and language deficits, language production, dopamine, neurobiological mechanisms, neuroimaging, prefrontal cortex and modulatory neurotransmitters, schizophrenia, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-8729


John Constantino

Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Child Psychiatry)

Constantino is an expert on genetic and environmental factors that influence early social development. In particular, he studies the genetic influences that contribute to autism. In other research he also is working with very young children and their parents, hoping to better understand the earliest ...


Expertise: autism, early social development, genetic influences on autistic social impairment, psychiatric disorders in children

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Linda Cottler

Professor of Epidemiology in Psychiatry

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Linda Cottler, Ph.D., investigates the epidemiology of many psychiatric disorders including gambling, drug use -- particularly use of so-called "club" drugs such as ecstasy -- and high risk sexual behavior among drug users.


Expertise: HIV, club drugs, compulsive gambling, high risk behaviors, needle exchange programs, peer education, safe sex

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John Csernansky

Gregory B. Couch Professor of Psychiatry

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John G. Csernansky, M.D. uses sophisticed imaging techniques to study changes in the brains of patients with schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses.


Expertise: Brain imaging studies of mental illness

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Alison M. Goate

Professor of Genetics and Psychiatry

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A professor of genetics in psychiatry, Alison Goate is a molecular geneticist who discovered the first genetic mutation that causes a form of Alzheimer's disease.


Expertise: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid, genetics, psychiatry, genetic mutation, amyloid-beta, disease-causing mutations

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Ramesh Raghavan

Assistant professor of Social Work

Ramesh Raghavan's clinical, policy and administrative expertise in public health and psychiatry fuel his research interests in mental health services and policies for children in the child welfare system. Prior to joining the faculty at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the School of ...


Expertise: public health, mental health services, children in the child welfare system, health policy, Medicaid

Direct contact: 314-935-4469 / raghavan@wustl.edu



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