CDI Faculty

Alan F. Schatzberg

Alan F. Schatzberg, M.D.

Dr. Schatzberg's research examines the biology and psychopharmacology of depressive disorders. Past studies include norepinephrine systems in depression as a means of subtyping, the biology of delusions in major depression, the clinical pharmacology of nondelusional depression with a focus on chronic depression, and the pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response. He was elected into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 2003, and he holds or has held co-editor, editorial board, or presidential positions with several journals and societies. From 1991 to 2010, he was the Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.


Positions

  • Kenneth T. Norris, Jr., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

 

Education

  • M.D., 1968, New York University School of Medicine, Medicine

 

Relevant Publications

  • Etkin A, Schatzberg AF. Common abnormalities and disorder-specific compensatin during implicit regulation of emotional processing in generalized anxiety and major depressive disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2011; epub June 11.
  • Etkin A, Prater KE, Hoeft F, Menon V, Schatzberg AF. Failure of anterior cingulate activation and connectivity with the amygdala during implicit regulation of emotional processing in generalized anxiety disorder. Am J Psychiatry. 2010; 167:545-554.
  • Kupfer DJ, Schatzberg AF, Grochocinski VJ, Dunn LO, Kelley KA, O'Hara RM. The Career Development Institute for Psychiatry: An innovative longitudinal program for physician-scientists. Acad Psychiatry. 2009; 33:313-318.
  • Reynolds CF, Lewis DA, Detre T, Schatzberg AF, Kupfer DJ. The future of psychiatry as clinical neuroscience. Acad Med. 2009;84(4):446-450.
  • Keller J, Shen L, Gomez R, Garrett A, Solvason HB, Reiss A, Schatzberg AF. Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in psychotic and nonpsychotic unipolar depression. Am J Psychiatry. 2008;165(7):872-880.