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Daniel Mathalon, PhD, MD

Working Title

Professor

Preferred Pronouns
He/Him/His
Dr. Daniel Mathalon is a psychiatrist who cares for patients who have recently developed or are at high risk of developing psychosis.

Using such methods as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), Mathalon studies abnormalities in the brains of people with schizophrenia, looking at the range of patients from those who have the high-risk syndrome that sometimes develops into psychosis to those living with chronic psychosis. His current research specifically focuses on improving the ability to diagnose and treat the warning signs of psychosis before the condition fully develops, with a long-term goal of preventing psychosis and improving outcomes for young people with psychosis and their families.

Mathalon earned his doctorate in psychology at Indiana University and his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also completed a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in psychophysiology.

  • Fellowship, 1999 - Psychophysiology, Stanford Medicine
  • Residency, 1998 - Psychiatry, Stanford Medicine
  • MD, 1994 - , Stanford University

Psychotic Disorders
Electroencephalography
Prodromal Symptoms
Event-Related Potentials, P300
Evoked Potentials
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Cerebral Cortex
Hallucinations
Auditory Perception
Auditory Cortex
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Psychology
Evoked Potentials, Auditory
Brain
Connectome

  • Lifetime Achievement Award, Dept. of Psychology, Indiana University, 2021

July 23, 2000 - March 31, 2027 - TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCHERS , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R25MH060482
February 1, 2021 - November 30, 2022 - Secondary data analysis of auditory steady-state response to explore the RDoC cognitive system constructs across the psychosis spectrum , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R03MH125226
April 1, 2006 - June 30, 2021 - 9/9-Predictors and Mechanisms of Conversion to Psychosis , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01MH076989
September 20, 2016 - November 30, 2019 - Improving Frontal Emotion Regulation in PTSD by Targeting Sleep , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R56MH107042
January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2016 - Visual and Motor Neuroplasticity in Schizophrenia , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R21MH102727
April 1, 2008 - February 28, 2015 - Applying Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy to Treatment-Resistant Depression , Co-Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01AT004572
May 21, 2007 - September 24, 2014 - Functional Brain Abnormalities in the Schizophrenia Prodrome , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH076989
December 12, 2003 - November 30, 2009 - Calcium Signaling &Prefrontal Deficits in Schizophrenia , Co-Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: P50MH068789

Contact information

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San Francisco, CA 94158
United States