Neuroimaging and the future of personalized treatment in psychiatry.

Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, 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 MD/PhD at Columbia University with Nobel laureate Eric Kandel, completed his psychiatry residency and concurrent postdoc at Stanford University with Alan Schatzberg, and joined the faculty at Stanford in 2009. He has 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, and is an Associate Editor at Neuropsychopharmacology. 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.