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Einat Liebenthal, DsC

January 1, 2010

Einat Liebenthal, DSc, is a cognitive neuroscientist, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is a Principal Investigator and the Associate Director of the Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics Lab in the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. She studies verbal and non-verbal communication, using digital measures of behavior and multimodal neuroimaging methods. Her work has contributed to understanding the functional organization of the human brain for spoken language perception, and the abnormal interactions of language and emotion neurocircuits in psychotic disorders. Dr. Liebenthal’s research is supported by the NIH/NIDCD and the Brain & Behavior Foundation.

Justin Baker, MD PhD

FNIBI / People / Digital phenotyping, ITP /

January 1, 2010

Justin T. Baker has a background in neuroscience and clinical psychiatry. He is currently the Director of Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics for the Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Research Program at McLean Hospital, as well as the Scientific Director of the Institute for Technology in Psychiatry. Dr. Baker earned both his PhD and MD from Washington University in St. Louis in 2007, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital.

Email: jtbaker@mgb.org

Neuroimaging Correlates of Genetic and Clinical Variables in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

FNIBI / Past Projects / Bipolar Disorder, Functional MRI, Genetics, Neuroimaging, Schizophrenia /

April 1, 2008

In collaboration with Dost Ongur, the major goals of this study were to characterize any brain system abnormalities present in patients who are experiencing psychotic or manic symptoms, and relate these patterns to specific genetic variables (e.g., single nucleotide polymorphisms) and clinical findings (e.g., presence or absence of hallucinations or delusions).