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Lori Altshuler, M.D.

Office Address:
300 Medical Plaza, Suite 1544
Box 957057
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Fax Number:
310-794-9915
Work Phone Number:
310-794-9911


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Department / Division Affiliations
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Member, Neuroscience Graduate Program, Brain Research Institute, Semel Institute (NPI)

Dr. Altshuler is a Professor-in-Residence in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and holds the Julia S. Gouw Endowed Chair for Mood Disorders. She received her bachelor and M.D. degrees from Cornell and completed a two-year fellowship at the Biological Psychiatry Branch of the NIMH. In 1989 she was appointed assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and in her first year on faculty received the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital Junior Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award. She has been an active teacher and mentor, and has been the recipient of numerous awards including, in 1994 and again in 2004, the UCLA Department of Psychiatry Outstanding Research Mentor Award. In 2006 she received the Gerald L. Klerman Distinguished Investigator Award from the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, and the National Nola Maddox Falcone Prize from NARSAD for Outstanding Achievement in Affective Disorders Research.
Publications:

Altshuler LL, Post R, Black DO, Nolen WA, Leverich G, Keck PE, Frye MA, Kupka R, McElroy SL, Grunze H, Kitchen C, Suppes T: Lower switch rate in bipolar II than in bipolar I depressed patients treated adjunctively with second-generation antidepressants. A brief report. Am J Psychiatry 2006; 163(2): 313-315.
Post RM, Altshuler LL, Leverich GS, Frye MA, Nolen WA, Kupka RW, Suppes T, McElroy S, Keck PE, Denicoff KD, Grunze H, Walden J, Kitchen CMR, Mintz J: Mood switch in bipolar depression: Comparison of adjunctive venlafaxine, bupropion and sertraline. Brit J Psychiatry 2006; 189: 124-131.
Cohen LS, Altshuler LL, Harlow BL, Nonacs R, Newport J, Viguera A, Suri R, Burt V, Hendrick V, Reminick A, Loughead A, Vitonis AF, Stowe ZN: Relapse of major depression during pregnancy in women who maintain or discontinue antidepressant treatment: A prospective study. JAMA 2006; 295(5): 499-507.
Altshuler LL, Post R, Black DO, Keck PE, Nolen WA, Frye MA, Suppes T, Grunze H, Kupka R, Leverich G, McElroy SL, Walden J, Mintz J: Subsyndromal depressive symptoms are associated with functional impairment in patients with bipolar disorder. J Clin Psychiatry 2006; 67: 1551-1560.
Altshuler LL, Bookheimer S, Townsend J, Proenza MA, Sabb F, Cohen MS: Blunted activation in orbitofrontal cortex during mania: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biol Psychiatry 2005; 58(10): 763-769.
Altshuler LL, Bookheimer S, Proenza MA, Townsend J, Sabb F, Firestine A, Bartzokis G, Mintz J, Mazziotta J, Cohen MS: Increased amygdala activation during mania: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162: 1211-1213.
Altshuler LL, Ventura J, Van Gorp W, Green M, Theberge D: Neurocognitive function in clinically stable men with bipolar I disorder or schizophrenia and normal controls. Biol Psychiatry 2004; 56(8): 560-569.