Rajendra A. Morey
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Overview
Selected Grants
IPA - Sarah Laskowitz awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2022
IPA - Delin Sun awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
Trauma and Genomics Modulate Brain Structure across Common Psychiatric Disorders awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2021
An Analysis of Psychosocial Risk and Protective Factors: Accelerated Cognitive Aging and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Among Retired NFL & Former NCAA Football Players awarded by The George Washington University (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
RAM Replay Clinical Outcomes for TBI/Suicidality Option awarded by Teledyne Scientific & Imaging, LLC (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
IPA - Emily Clarke awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2021
IPA - Ryan Wagner awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Principal Investigator). 2019 to 2021
ENIGMA-SD: Understanding Sex Differences in Global Mental Health through ENIGMA awarded by University of Southern California (Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
White Matter Damage in Subconcussive Blast Exposure awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2020
IPA - Mary Nicole Buckley awarded by Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Principal Investigator). 2020
Pages
Junglen, A. G., et al. “Current progress and future direction in the genetics of PTSD: Focus on the development and contributions of the PGC-PTSD working group.” Personalized Psychiatry, 2019, pp. 285–96. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-813176-3.00023-7. Full Text
Marx, C. E., et al. “Neurosteroids and traumatic brain injury translating biomarkers to therapeutics; overview and pilot investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans.” Translational Research in Traumatic Brain Injury, 2016, pp. 145–61.
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Genetic predictors of hippocampal subfield volume in PTSD cases and trauma-exposed controls.” Eur J Psychotraumatol, vol. 11, no. 1, July 2020, p. 1785994. Pubmed, doi:10.1080/20008198.2020.1785994. Full Text
Faul, Leonard, et al. “Proximal threats promote enhanced acquisition and persistence of reactive fear-learning circuits.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 117, no. 28, July 2020, pp. 16678–89. Pubmed, doi:10.1073/pnas.2004258117. Full Text
Koch, Saskia B. J., et al. “The role of the dentate gyrus in stress-related disorders.” Mol Psychiatry, vol. 25, no. 7, July 2020, pp. 1361–63. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0572-4. Full Text
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Neural correlates of conceptual-level fear generalization in posttraumatic stress disorder.” Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 45, no. 8, July 2020, pp. 1380–89. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41386-020-0661-8. Full Text
Kinzel, Philipp, et al. “Serum Neurosteroid Levels Are Associated With Cortical Thickness in Individuals Diagnosed With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” Clin Eeg Neurosci, vol. 51, no. 4, July 2020, pp. 285–99. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/1550059420909676. Full Text
Kochunov, Peter, et al. “ENIGMA-DTI: Translating reproducible white matter deficits into personalized vulnerability metrics in cross-diagnostic psychiatric research.” Hum Brain Mapp, Apr. 2020. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/hbm.24998. Full Text
Grasby, Katrina L., et al. “The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex.” Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 367, no. 6484, Mar. 2020. Epmc, doi:10.1126/science.aay6690. Full Text Open Access Copy
Clausen, Ashley N., et al. “Combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder, and head injuries differentially relate to alterations in cortical thickness in military Veterans.” Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 45, no. 3, Feb. 2020, pp. 491–98. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41386-019-0539-9. Full Text
De Bellis, Michael D., et al. “A Pilot Study of Neurocognitive Function and Brain Structures in Adolescents With Alcohol Use Disorders: Does Maltreatment History Matter?” Child Maltreat, vol. 24, no. 4, Nov. 2019, pp. 374–88. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/1077559518810525. Full Text Open Access Copy
Rakesh, Gopalkumar, et al. “Resilience as a translational endpoint in the treatment of PTSD.” Mol Psychiatry, vol. 24, no. 9, Sept. 2019, pp. 1268–83. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41380-019-0383-7. Full Text
Pages
O’Leary, B., et al. “Classification of PTSD and Non-PTSD Using Cortical Structural Measures in Machine Learning Analyses—Preliminary Study of ENIGMA-Psychiatric Genomics Consortium PTSD Workgroup.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 12241 LNAI, 2020, pp. 118–27. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59277-6_11. Full Text
Salminen, Lauren, et al. “108. Hippocampal Subfield Volumes Relate to Unique Phenotypes of PTSD: International Analysis by the PGC-ENIGMA PTSD Working Group.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 85, no. 10, Elsevier BV, 2019, pp. S45–S45. Crossref, doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.03.122. Full Text
Dennis, E. L., et al. “ENIGMA military brain injury: A coordinated meta-analysis of diffusion MRI from multiple cohorts.” Proceedings International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, vol. 2018-April, 2018, pp. 1386–89. Scopus, doi:10.1109/ISBI.2018.8363830. Full Text
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Genome-Wide Association of Neuroimaging Phenotypes in PTSD at Multiple Sites.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 79, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2016, pp. 165S-165S.
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Assessment of Myelin Compromise in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury with Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 77, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2015, pp. 40S-40S.
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Network Analysis of Intrinsic Functional Organization of the Brain in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 73, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2013, pp. 198S-198S.
Morey, Rajendra A. “Vulnerability or Consequence: Amygdala Volume Changes with PTSD in a Large Case-Controlled Veteran Group.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 73, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2013, pp. 124S-124S.
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Diffusion Tensor Imaging of OEF/OIF Veterans with and without Exposure to Primary Blast Forces.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 73, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2013, pp. 93S-93S.
Brown, Vanessa M., et al. “Resting State Connectivity Between Amygdalar Subregions and the Prefrontal Cortex is Disrupted in PTSD.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 71, no. 8, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2012, pp. 307S-307S.
Morey, Rajendra A., et al. “Clinical Predictors of White Matter Disruption in Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury among Post-9/11 Veterans.” Biological Psychiatry, vol. 69, no. 9, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2011, pp. 255S-256S.