Jessica L Ables
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Jessica L Ables, MD, PhD

JESSICA LYNN ABLES (Preferred Name)

Psychiatry

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About Me

Dr. Jessica Ables is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a New York State licensed physician and an ABPN board-certified psychiatrist. Dr. Ables completed her undergraduate education in Chemistry at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. She then entered the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she completed her PhD in Integrative Biology. She then transferred to Mount Sinai to complete her medical schooling, graduating. After medical school, Dr. Ables went to The Rockefeller University for a 4 year postdoctoral fellowship in molecular Neuroscience prior to returning to Mount Sinai to complete her residency training in Psychiatry.

Dr. Ables has won numerous awards in both clinical practice and research. She has been nominated to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, named to the Outstanding Resident Award Program, named a Laughlin Fellow by the American College of Psychiatrists, and received a NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, a Pathways Award from Alkermes, Inc. and a research grant from the Whitehall Foundation. 

Dr. Ables works in the Student Trainee Mental Health Program at Icahn School of Medicine one day a week and conducts research on the basic biology underlying mental illness the other four days of the week. Dr. Ables practices general psychiatry and her reserch interests are in the effects of diabetes on the brain and the mechanisms underlying tolerance and addiction.

 

Language
English
Position
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Psychiatry, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Neuroscience
Hospital Affiliations
  • Mount Sinai Queens
  • The Mount Sinai Hospital
Research Topics

Addiction, Bioinformatics, Brain, Depression, Diabetes, Metabolism, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Post-Transcriptional Processing, RNA, Systems Neuroscience, Transcriptional Activation and Repression, Transgenic Mice

Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas

Neuroscience [NEU]

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Education

PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
MD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
, The Rockefeller University
, Mount Sinai Hospital
Residency, Psychiatry

Mount Sinai Hospital

Awards

2019

NARSAD Young Investigator

Brain & Behavior Foundation

2019

Fellow

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society

2019

Laughlin Fellow

American College of Psychiatrists

2019

Class Participant

Career Development Institute in Psychiatry

2018

Fellow in Neuroscience

Leon Levy Foundation

2017

Outstanding Resident Award

National Institute of Mental Health

Research

The interpeduncular nucleus (IPN) is a GABAergic nucleus that is characterized by high expression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase (Nos1) as well as striking vascularity. We have recently found that Nos1 is increased in IPN after chronic exposure to nicotine. We hypothesize that this increase in Nos1 mediates the development of tolerance to the aversive effects of nicotine, as we found that eliminating Nos1 in the IPN reduces preference for a rewarding dose of nicotine (Ables et al. PNAS 2017). Our goal is to determine if this increase in Nos1 in the IPN generalizes to other drugs of abuse or to stress and might represent a target for treatment of addiction. Future studies will focus on visualizing nitric oxide release from the IPN and the effects of nitric oxide on the epigenome, transcriptome and function of neurons in the reward circuitry.

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Publications

Publications:27
Selected Publications

Industry Relationships

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