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NEUROBIOLOGY OF ANXIETY: FROM NEURAL CIRCUITS TO NOVEL SOLUTIONS?
Author(s) -
Etkin Amit
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.21957
Subject(s) - anxiety , neuroscience , psychology , biological neural network , cognitive science , psychiatry
Dr. Amit Etkin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine and an Investigator in the VA Sierra-Pacific Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) at the Palo Alto VA. Dr. Etkin received his BS in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997, and his MD and PhD with distinction from Columbia University. His PhD work was done in the laboratory of Nobel laureate Dr. Eric Kandel, and focused on the molecular and cellular basis of learning and memory in mice. Simultaneous with this work, Dr. Etkin pursued functional MRI neuroimaging research, which he continued through his residency and postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, with Dr. Alan Schatzberg. He has recently been awarded the BRAINS (Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists) R01 Award from the National Institute of Mental Health and a Dana Neuroscience Scholar Award from the Dana Foundation. Dr. Etkin’s lab currently takes multiple, integrated, approaches to understanding basic affective neuroscience and the neurobiology of mental illnesses, and translating these findings into novel interventions. As a board-certified psychiatrist, Dr. Etkin also treats patients with anxiety and depression in the clinic.