Publications:104
Nelly Alia-Klein, PhD
About Me
On January 2, 2013, Dr. Alia-Klein was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry (primary) and Neuroscience (secondary) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-chief of Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions (NARC) research program.
Prior to joining Mt. Sinai, Dr. Alia-Klein was Medical Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where she developed a program of study on aggression. She received her PhD from Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Alia-Klein is Principal Investigator on NIMH R01 and co-investigator on several grants from NIDA. As co-chief of NARC, Dr. Alia-Klein works on gene-brain-behavior modeling to predict anger and reactive aggression in clinical diagnoses as Intermittent Explosive Disorder. One of her goals is to further develop understanding and treatment of anger attacks in psychiatric disorders. She published on the neurochemistry modulating these behaviors and the reactivity interplay of prefrontal and subcortical brain regions during provocation or other challenge. Her tools probe select genotypes and their effects on brain function through application of MRI and PET technology. Other topics of study such as sex differences are also of interest, in particular as they affect anger disorders.
In the News
Nova Science Now, PBS series on the neurobiology of violent behavior, title: Can Science Stop Crime? (Aired 10/17/2012)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/can-science-stop-crime.html
PBS special After Newtown
http://video.pbs.org/video/2320006234/
Prior to joining Mt. Sinai, Dr. Alia-Klein was Medical Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York where she developed a program of study on aggression. She received her PhD from Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Alia-Klein is Principal Investigator on NIMH R01 and co-investigator on several grants from NIDA. As co-chief of NARC, Dr. Alia-Klein works on gene-brain-behavior modeling to predict anger and reactive aggression in clinical diagnoses as Intermittent Explosive Disorder. One of her goals is to further develop understanding and treatment of anger attacks in psychiatric disorders. She published on the neurochemistry modulating these behaviors and the reactivity interplay of prefrontal and subcortical brain regions during provocation or other challenge. Her tools probe select genotypes and their effects on brain function through application of MRI and PET technology. Other topics of study such as sex differences are also of interest, in particular as they affect anger disorders.
In the News
Nova Science Now, PBS series on the neurobiology of violent behavior, title: Can Science Stop Crime? (Aired 10/17/2012)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/can-science-stop-crime.html
PBS special After Newtown
http://video.pbs.org/video/2320006234/
Language
English
Position
PROFESSOR | Psychiatry, PROFESSOR | Neuroscience
Research Topics
Addiction, Brain Imaging
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Neuroscience [NEU]
Publications
Selected Publications
- Speak and You Shall Predict: Evidence That Speech at Initial Cocaine Abstinence Is a Biomarker of Long-Term Drug Use Behavior. Carla Agurto, Guillermo A. Cecchi, Sarah King, Elif K. Eyigoz, Muhammad A. Parvaz, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein. Biological Psychiatry
- Shared orbitofrontal dynamics to a drug-themed movie track craving and recovery in heroin addiction. Greg Kronberg, Ahmet O. Ceceli, Yuefeng Huang, Pierre Olivier Gaudreault, Sarah G. King, Natalie McClain, Nelly Alia-Klein, Rita Z. Goldstein. Brain
- Peripheral Blood Cytokines as Markers of Longitudinal Change in White Matter Microstructure Following Inpatient Treatment for Opioid Use Disorders. Eduardo R. Butelman, Yuefeng Huang, Sarah G. King, Pierre Olivier Gaudreault, Ahmet O. Ceceli, Greg Kronberg, Flurin Cathomas, Panos Roussos, Scott J. Russo, Eric L. Garland, Rita Z. Goldstein, Nelly Alia-Klein. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science