What We Do
We advance translational neuroscience through Brain-Retinal Research, leveraging cutting-edge retinal imaging, neuroimaging, discovery science, neuromodulation, and stem cell technologies to uncover mechanisms of psychosis spectrum disorders to develop innovative therapeutic strategies.
On-Going Research Studies
Precision Neuroimaging
Vision and
Oculomics
Non-invasive Neuromodulation
Brain Liquid
Biopsy
Stem Cell
Models
Parsing
Heterogeneity
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Meet our Research Team
Dr. Paulo Lizano, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Rebekah Trotti, MS, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Deniz Altunsu, MSc, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Ling-Yu (Beryl) Huang, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Cemal Demirlek, MD, PhD
Post Doctoral Fellow
Victor Zeng
Data Scientist
Nicolas Raymond
Data Scientist
Brendan Stiltner
Clinical Research Assistant
Jennifer Nicholson
Clinical Research Assistant
Iwona Grzela-Juskiewicz, MD, MPH
Senior Health Project Coordinator
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What We Believe
Scientific Rigor &
Integrity
Patient-Centered &
Translational Impact
Open Science, Innovation & Curiosity
Collaboration &
Interdisciplinary
Thinking
Education &
Mentorship
Resilience, Growth &
Belonging
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Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Towards a Precision Psychiatry Approach to Targeting Visual Dysfunction in Psychosis
Collaborators/Mentors
Matcheri Keshavan
Steve Silverstein
Rakesh Karmacharya
Robert MG Reinhart
Pat D’Amore
Bill Stone
Martin Reuter
- Visual cortical functional connectivity alterations and their associations with psychotic symptoms in early-onset bipolar disorder.; Journal of affective disorders; Vol 401, pp. 121229. 2026 Jan 24.
- White matter alterations in the corpus callosum and visual cortical regions associated with depressive and psychotic symptoms in early-onset bipolar disorder.; Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences. 2026 Jan 16.
- Stimulating Clinical Neuroscience Education: A Pilot Study of an Immersive Simulation Curriculum for Psychiatry Residents.; Cureus; Vol 17(12), pp. e99952. 2025 Dec 23.
- Retinal Cytoarchitectural Alterations Across the Psychosis Spectrum and Their Correlates with Cognition: A UK Biobank Nested Case-Control Study.; medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2025 Aug 21.
- Hierarchical Clustering of Canonical Retinal-Biopsychosocial Covariation Patterns Reveals Distinct Psychosis Subgroups: A Data-Driven Study from the UK Biobank.; medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. 2025 Aug 21.
