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Karuna Subramaniam, PhD

Working Title

Associate Professor

Preferred Pronouns
She/Her/Hers

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, 06/2014 - Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco
  • Ph.D, 12/2008 - Neuroscience, Northwestern University
  • BA, 06/2002 - Biological Psychology, Knox College

Hallucinations
Memory
Anticipation, Psychological
Cognition Disorders
Judgment
Magnetoencephalography
Schizophrenic Psychology
Speech Perception
Prefrontal Cortex
Tinnitus
Beta Rhythm
Speech
Affect
Auditory Cortex
Schizophrenia

  • NIMH R01S: Neural Predictors of rTMS Response in Schizophrenia, NIMH, 2024-2025
  • NIMH R01 Causal Role of Medial Prefrontal Neural Activity in Self-Agency in Schizophrenia, NIMH, 2020-2025
  • BBRF: Optimizing rTMS Neuromodulation Parameters in Schizophrenia, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, 2020-2022
  • Schizophrenia International Research Society Travel Award, Schizophrenia International Research Society, 2018
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society Presentation Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2017
  • NIMH K01: The Neural Impact of Mood on Motivation and Reward Networks in Schizophrenia, NIMH, 2014-2020
  • NARSAD Young Investigator: Neural Basis of How a Positive Mood Impacts Cognition in Schizophrenia, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, 2014-2018
  • NIMH T32 Fellowship: Neurobiological Mechanisms Underlying the Symptoms and Course of Schizophrenia, NIMH, 2014-2015
  • Partner Program Award, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, 2012
  • Cognitive Science Advanced Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2008
  • Pew Sponsored Research Award, Pew Charitable Trust, 2003
  • Magna Cum Laude, Knox College, KNox College, 2002

May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2025 - Causal Role of Medial Prefrontal Neural Activity in Self-Agency in Schizophrenia , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01MH122897
September 25, 2014 - January 31, 2021 - Neural Impact of Positive Mood on Motivation and Reward Networks in Schizophrenia , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: K01MH105615

Contact information

654 Minnesota Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
United States