Department of Psychiatry Faculty

Hilary P. Blumberg, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Director, Mood Disorders Research Program 470 Congress Avenue Suite 120 Tel: 203-785-6180 Email: hilary.blumberg@yale.edu Mail to: 300 George St., Suite 901 New Haven, CT 06511

Education

1990, M.D., Cornell Medical School
1986, B.A., Neurobiology, Harvard University

Research Interest

The focus of my research is the utilization of brain scanning techniques to understand the neural systems that underlie emotional processing, and to investigate abnormalities in these neural systems in mood disorders. I have a particular interest in the cortico-limbic structures that include the amygdala, hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex. I am especially interested in how genetic, developmental and environmental factors interact to influence the expression of abnormalities in these structures over the lifespan. I use a variety of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to study the brain including structural MRI to look at regional brain volumes, functional MRI to look at regional brain activity, and diffusion tensor MRI to look at the integrity of connections between structures.

Publications of Note

Blumberg HP, Kaufman J, Martin A, Whiteman R, Gore JC, Charney DS, Krystal JH, Peterson BS. Amygdala and hippocampus volumes in adolescents and adults with bipolar disorder. Archives of General Psychiatry 2003;60:1201-1208

Blumberg HP, Martin A, Kaufman J, Leung H-C, Skudlarski P, Lacadie C, Fulbright RK, Gore JC, Charney DS, Krystal JH, Peterson BS. Frontostriatal abnormalities in adolescents with bipolar disorder: preliminary observations using functional MRI. American Journal of Psychiatry 2003;160: 1345-1347.

Blumberg HP, Leung HC, Skudlarski P, Lacadie C, Fredericks C, Harris B, Charney D, Gore JC, Krystal JH, Peterson BS. A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of bipolar disorder: state- and trait-related dysfunction in ventral prefrontal cortices. Archives of General Psychiatry 2003;60: 599-607.

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