General Education Meeting

STEPHAN F. TAYLOR is the Albert J. Silverman MD CM Research Professor of Psychiatric Disorders, Professor of Psychiatry and interim chair of the Department of Psychiatry. He is also a faculty associate in psychology at the University of Michigan. His work focuses on psychiatric disorders (schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder), and he uses brain mapping technologies (functional MRI, MRS, event related potentials, positron emission tomography) to understand and treat the pathophysiology of these conditions.

His work has also investigated processes and neurocircuits relevant to these diseases, such as brain systems which underlie emotion, performance monitoring, and cognitive-emotional interactions. In addition, he uses brain stimulation technologies (transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, transcranial direct current stimulation) to target and treat neurocircuits relevant to psychiatric conditions. Clinically, he has extensive experience with the treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, directing the Program for Risk Evaluation and Prevention (PREP), designed to identify youth at risk of serious mental illness such as schizophrenia and conduct research into the early stages of psychosis.

He also directs the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) clinic, providing therapy for patients with refractory depressions, and he conducts research using TMS and deep brain stimulation to translate the understanding of brain pathology gained through neuroimaging studies to develop and refine new treatments. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and serves on several journal editorial boards, as well as numerous NIH review panels and advisory boards.  He is a past president of the Psychiatric Research Society.  He has a B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.D. from the Washington University School of Medicine.