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Brian Pittman is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans across several fields including medicine, psychology, and neuroscience, with a significant focus on clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as functional brain connectivity studies, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, bipolar disorder and treatment, cannabis and cannabinoid research, neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior, prenatal substance exposure effects, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Brian Pittman has published in a variety of frequent venues, including Biological Psychiatry, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, Psychopharmacology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, and Journal of Affective Disorders.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Pittman include:

  • Synaptic Changes in Parkinson Disease Assessed with in vivo Imaging, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Exploratory Controlled Study of the Migraine-Suppressing Effects of Psilocybin, 2020, Neurotherapeutics
  • Psilocybin-assisted therapy for major depressive disorder: An exploratory placebo-controlled, fixed-order trial, 2023, Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Exploratory investigation of a patient-informed low-dose psilocybin pulse regimen in the suppression of cluster headache: Results from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 2022, Headache The Journal of Head and Face Pain
  • Testing the effects of the GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide on cocaine self-administration and subjective responses in humans with cocaine use disorder, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Frequent co-authors that have collaborated with Brian Pittman include Sherry A. McKee, Hilary P. Blumberg, David Matuskey, Deepak Cyril D'Souza, and Anjali Sankar.

Best Publications

  • Imaging robust microglial activation after lipopolysaccharide administration in humans with PET

    Christine M. Sandiego;Jean-Dominique Gallezot;Brian Pittman;Nabeel Nabulsi

  • Phenethyl isothiocyanate and sulforaphane and their N-acetylcysteine conjugates inhibit malignant progression of lung adenomas induced by tobacco carcinogens in A/J mice

    C. Clifford Conaway;Chung Xiou Wang;Brian Pittman;Yang Ming Yang

  • Investigating the behavioral and self-report constructs of impulsivity domains using principal component analysis.

    Shashwath A. Meda;Michael C. Stevens;Marc N. Potenza;Brian Pittman

  • Childhood abuse and neglect and cognitive flexibility in adolescents.

    Marisa N. Spann;Linda C. Mayes;Jessica H. Kalmar;Joanne Guiney

  • The effects of cannabidiol (CBD) on cognition and symptoms in outpatients with chronic schizophrenia a randomized placebo controlled trial.

    Douglas L. Boggs;Toral Surti;Aarti Gupta;Swapnil Gupta

  • The antidepressant effect of ketamine is not associated with changes in occipital amino acid neurotransmitter content as measured by [1H]-MRS

    Gerald W. Valentine;Graeme F. Mason;Rosane Gomez;Rosane Gomez;Madonna Fasula

  • The effects of ketamine on prefrontal glutamate neurotransmission in healthy and depressed subjects.

    Chadi G. Abdallah;Chadi G. Abdallah;Henk M. De Feyter;Lynnette A. Averill;Lynnette A. Averill;Lihong Jiang

  • Multimodal Neuroimaging of Frontolimbic Structure and Function Associated With Suicide Attempts in Adolescents and Young Adults With Bipolar Disorder

    Jennifer A.Y. Johnston;Fei Wang;Jie Liu;Benjamin N. Blond

  • Rapid Changes in Cannabinoid 1 Receptor Availability in Cannabis-Dependent Male Subjects After Abstinence From Cannabis

    Deepak Cyril D’Souza;Jose A. Cortes-Briones;Jose A. Cortes-Briones;Mohini Ranganathan;Mohini Ranganathan;Halle Thurnauer;Halle Thurnauer

  • Transiently increased glutamate cycling in rat PFC is associated with rapid onset of antidepressant-like effects.

    G M I Chowdhury;J Zhang;M Thomas;M Banasr;M Banasr

  • The neuroinflammation marker translocator protein is not elevated in individuals with mild-to-moderate depression: A [11C]PBR28 PET study

    Jonas Hannestad;Nicole DellaGioia;Jean-Dominique Gallezot;Keunpoong Lim

  • Onset and Exacerbation of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period

    Ariadna Forray;Mariel Focseneanu;Brian Pittman;Christopher J. McDougle

  • Functional connectivity between ventral prefrontal cortex and amygdala at low frequency in the resting state in bipolar disorder.

    Lara G. Chepenik;Lara G. Chepenik;Mariella Raffo;Michelle Hampson;Cheryl Lacadie

  • ELEVATED FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY ALONG A CORTICOSTRIATAL LOOP AND THE MECHANISM OF AUDITORY/VERBAL HALLUCINATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA

    Ralph E. Hoffman;Thomas Fernandez;Brian Pittman;Michelle Hampson

  • Relation Between Amygdala Structure and Function in Adolescents With Bipolar Disorder

    Jessica H. Kalmar;Fei Wang;Lara G. Chepenik;Fay Y. Womer

  • Synaptic Changes in Parkinson Disease Assessed with in vivo Imaging.

    David Matuskey;Sule Tinaz;Kyle C. Wilcox;Mika Naganawa

  • Antiglutamatergic Strategies for Ethanol Detoxification: Comparison With Placebo and Diazepam

    Evgeny M. Krupitsky;Anatoly A. Rudenko;Andrey M. Burakov;Tatyana Y. Slavina

  • Regression of mouse prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the transgenic adenocarcinoma mouse prostate model.

    Bhagavathi A. Narayanan;Narayanan K. Narayanan;Brian Pittman;Bandaru S. Reddy

  • Craving to Quit: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Smartphone App-Based Mindfulness Training for Smoking Cessation.

    Kathleen A Garrison;Prasanta Pal;Stephanie S O’Malley;Brian P Pittman

  • Abnormal Corpus Callosum Integrity in Bipolar Disorder: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study

    Fei Wang;Jessica H. Kalmar;Elliot Kale Edmiston;Lara G. Chepenik

  • Preliminary evidence for persistent abnormalities in amygdala volumes in adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder

    Hilary P Blumberg;Carolyn Fredericks;Fei Wang;Jessica H Kalmar

  • Preliminary evidence of cannabinoid effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels in humans

    Deepak Cyril D’Souza;Brian Pittman;Edward Perry;Arthur Simen

  • Effects of haloperidol on the behavioral, subjective, cognitive, motor, and neuroendocrine effects of Δ-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in humans

    Deepak Cyril D’Souza;Gabriel Braley;Rebecca Blaise;Michael Vendetti

  • Family History of Alcoholism Influences Naltrexone-Induced Reduction in Alcohol Drinking

    Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin;John H. Krystal;Julia Shi;Brian Pittman

Frequent Co-Authors

Deepak Cyril D'Souza
Deepak Cyril D'Souza Yale University
Hilary P. Blumberg
Hilary P. Blumberg Yale University
Sherry A. McKee
Sherry A. McKee Yale University
Kelly P. Cosgrove
Kelly P. Cosgrove Yale University
Robert T. Malison
Robert T. Malison Yale University
Ismene L. Petrakis
Ismene L. Petrakis Yale University
Marc N. Potenza
Marc N. Potenza Yale University
Nabeel Nabulsi
Nabeel Nabulsi Yale University
Joel Gelernter
Joel Gelernter Yale University

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