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Desmond J. Oathes, PhD

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Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Department: Psychiatry
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40 The California State University-Hayward, 1999.
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3a The Pennsylvania State University, 2002.
21 a Ph.D. 20 (Clinical Psychology) c
3a The Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

102 Cognitive behavioral therapy (including prolonged exposure therapy, exposure and response prevention, etc.); diagnostic and neurocognitive assessments ; neuropsychological assessment ; transcranial magnetic stimulation ; clinical supervision
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Description of Research Expertise

c0 Functional MRI, transcranial magnetic stimulation, clinical psychology, psychophysiology, cognitive neuroscience, affective disorders, depression, anxiety, TMS, PTSD, MDD, fMRI
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Selected Publications

126 Oathes Desmond J, Patenaude Brian, Schatzberg Alan F, Etkin Amit: Neurobiological signatures of anxiety and depression in resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. Biological psychiatry 77(4): 385-93, Feb 2015.

1ab Goodkind Madeleine, Eickhoff Simon B, Oathes Desmond J, Jiang Ying, Chang Andrew, Jones-Hagata Laura B, Ortega Brissa N, Zaiko Yevgeniya V, Roach Erika L, Korgaonkar Mayuresh S, Grieve Stuart M, Galatzer-Levy Isaac, Fox Peter T, Etkin Amit: Identification of a common neurobiological substrate for mental illness. JAMA psychiatry 72(4): 305-15, Apr 2015.

107 Oathes Desmond J, Hilt Lori M, Nitschke Jack B: Affective neural responses modulated by serotonin transporter genotype in clinical anxiety and depression. PloS one 10(2): e0115820, Feb 2015.

1a4 Chen Ashley C, Oathes Desmond J, Chang Catie, Bradley Travis, Zhou Zheng-Wei, Williams Leanne M, Glover Gary H, Deisseroth Karl, Etkin Amit: Causal interactions between fronto-parietal central executive and default-mode networks in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(49): 19944-9, Dec 2013.

109 Grupe Daniel W, Oathes Desmond J, Nitschke Jack B: Dissecting the anticipation of aversion reveals dissociable neural networks. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y.: 1991) 23(8): 1874-83, Aug 2013.

187 Tromp Do P M, Grupe Daniel W, Oathes Desmond J, McFarlin Daniel R, Hernandez Patric J, Kral Tammi R A, Lee Jee Eun, Adams Marie, Alexander Andrew L, Nitschke Jack B: Reduced structural connectivity of a major frontolimbic pathway in generalized anxiety disorder. Archives of general psychiatry 69(9): 925-34, Sep 2012.

e0 Oathes Desmond J, Squillante Christian M, Ray William J, Nitschke Jack B: The impact of worry on attention to threat. PloS one 5(10): e13411, Oct 2010.

184 Nitschke Jack B, Sarinopoulos Issidoros, Oathes Desmond J, Johnstone Tom, Whalen Paul J, Davidson Richard J, Kalin Ned H: Anticipatory activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate in generalized anxiety disorder and prediction of treatment response. The American journal of psychiatry 166(3): 302-10, Mar 2009.

100 Oathes Desmond J, Bruce Jared M, Nitschke Jack B: Worry facilitates corticospinal motor response to transcranial magnetic stimulation. Depression and anxiety 25(11): 969-76, Nov 2008.

109 Oathes Desmond J, Ray William J: Depressed mood, index finger force and motor cortex stimulation: a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study. Biological psychology 72(3): 271-7, Jun 2006.

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