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Faculty Detail    
Name ADRIENNE C. LAHTI
Director of Behavioral Neurobiology
 
Campus Address SC 501 Zip 0017
Phone 205-996-6776
E-mail alahti@uab.edu
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Education
Medical School  University of Liege (Belgium)      M.D. 

Certifications
Board Certification in Psychiatry and Neurology   


Faculty Appointment(s)
Appointment Type Department Division Rank
Primary  Psychiatry   Psych - Behavioral Neurobiology Professor
Center  Civitan International Research Center  Civitan International Research Center Professor
Center  General Clinical Research Center  Comprehensive Neuroscience Center Professor
Center  General Clinical Research Center  Ctr for Clinical & Translational Sci Professor

Graduate Biomedical Sciences Affiliations
Cancer Biology 
Cell, Molecular, & Developmental Biology 
Neuroscience 

Research/Clinical Interest
Title
Neuroimaging
Description
Use of multimodal brain imaging techniques (PET, fMRI, MR Spectroscopy) to study the neuropathology of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and to evaluate the effects of psychotropic drugs on brain function and biochemistry. Translational work aiming at bridging human brain imaging and postmortem studies.

Selected Publications 
Publication PUBMEDID
Reid, M.A., Kraguljac, N.V., Avsar, K.B., White, D.M., den Hollander, J.A., Lahti, A.C. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the substantia nigra in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2013   23706412 
Bolding, M.S., White, D.M., Hadley, J.A., Weiler, M., Holcomb, H.H., Lahti, A.C. Antipsychotic drugs altered functional connectivity between medial frontal cortex, hippocampus, and ventral striatum. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 3: 105, 2012  23230425 
Bolding, M.S., Lahti, A.C., Gawne, T.J., Hopkins, K.B., Gurler, D., Gamlin, P.D., Ocular convergence deficits in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 3: 86, 2012.  23087652 
Bolding, M., Reid, M., Avsar, K.B., Roberts, R., Gamlin, P., Gawne, T., White, D., den Hollander, J., Lahti, A.C. Magnetic Transfer Contrast Accurately Localizes Substantia Nigra Confirmed by Histology. Biol Psychiatry. 2012 Sep;pii: S0006-3223(12)00697-X. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.035.  22981657 
Kraguljac, N., Reid, M., White, D.M., den Hollader, J.A., Lowman, D.K., Lahti, A.C. Neurometabolites in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder-a systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 203 (2-3): 111-25, 2012.  22981426 
Hutcheson, N., Reid, M.A., White, D.M., Kraguljac, N.V., Avsar, K.B., Bolding, M.S., Knowlton, R.C., Den Hollander, J.A., Lahti, A.C. Multimodal analysis of the hippocampus in schizophrenia using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Schizophrenia Research, 140 (1-3): 136-42, 2012.  22831772 
Kraguljac, N., Reid, M., White, D., den Hollander, J.A., Lahti, A.C. Regional Decoupling of N-acetyl-aspartate and Glutamate in schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2012 Jul;doi:10.1038/npp.2012.126.  22805603 
Savage, R.M., Weiner, H.W., Nimgaonkar, V., Devlin, B., Calkins, M.E., Gur, R.E., O'Jile, J., Bradford, L.D., Edwards, N., Kwentus, J., McEvoy, J.P., Nasrallah, H., Santos, A.B., Aduroja, T., Allen, T., Lahti, A.C., Mays, R.S., Montgomer-Barefield, L. Go RCP: Heritability of Functioning in Families with Schizophrenia in Relation to Neurocognition. Schizophrenia Research, 139 (1-3): 105--, 2012  22627125 
Avsar, K.B., Stoeckel, L.E., bolding, M., White, D.M., Tagamets, M., Holcomb, H.H., Lahti, A.C. Aberrant visual circuitry associated with normal spatial match-to-sample accuracy in schizophrenia. Psychiatry: Neuroimaging, 193 (3): 138-43, 2011.  21782395 
Lahti, A.C., Reid, M.A. Is there Evidence for Neurotoxicity in the Prodromal and Early Stages of Schizophrenia? Neuropsychopharmacology, 36 (9): 1779-80, 2011.  21753798 

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