Dr. Laurie M. McCormick

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University of Iowa
Carver College of Medicine
Psychiatry
Iowa Neuroimaging Center
AssociateAppointed: 2005
University of Iowa
Human Subjects Office
IRB MemberAppointed: 2007
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Mailing Address

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry, Iowa Neuroimaging Center
200 Hawkins Drive, W278 GH
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (319) 384-7136
Fax: (319) 384-5532
laurie-mccormick@uiowa.edu

Qualifications

Fellowship, University of Iowa, Neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neurobiology, 2005.
M.D., University of Oklahoma, Psychiatry, 2003.
M.D., University of Oklahoma, Family Medicine, 2003.

Expertise and Research Interests

Board Certification: Psychiatry and Family Medicine

Clinical Assignments: Eating disorder service (inpatient and partial hospitalization) and Co-Director of the ECT service

Neuroimaging Research Fellowship training: Longitudinal Clinical and Neuropsychological Assessments, Structural MRI, FDG-PET and EEG (qEEG and LORETA)


Research Interests:

Anorexia Nervosa: Regional Brain Abnormality Relationship to Neuropsychological Deficits and Outcome

Estrogen Effects on Women's Mental Health

Abnormal Hippocampal-Subgenual Cingulate Circuitry is its Relation to Suicidal Ideation in Psychotic Depression

EEG Evidence of Mirror Neuron Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

Efficiency and relapse rates of right unilateral versus bilateral ECT

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Neuroimaging, Neuroscience, Psychiatry.

Additional Terms:

Neuroscience, Primary Care, Psychiatry.

Memberships

Academy of Eating Disorders
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
Association of Convulsive Therapy
Organization of Human Brain Mapping

Honors and Awards

2005-2008, Loan Repayment Recipient, National Institutes of Health
2002-2003, Psychiatry Resident Award of Excellence, American Psychiatric Association
2002-2003, Mentorship Award, American Psychoanalytic Association
2001-2002, Martin J. Fenton, MD Award, Association of Medicine and Psychiatry, For Outstanding Medicine/Psychiatry Resident
2001-2003, Janssen Scholar Award, American Psychiatric Institute for Education and Research

Previous Positions

Fellow Associate, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Psychiatry

Funding Received

  • American Psychiatric Institute for Research and Education: APIRE/Kempf Award, , 2008 to 2009.
  • Nellie Ball Trust Research Fund: Schizophrenia Research, , 2005 to 2007.
  • University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine: Collaborative Interdisciplinary Project Grant, , 2004 to 2006.
  • American Psychiatric Insittute for Research and Education: Effects of ECT on the Anterior Cingulate in Psychotic Depression, , 2001 to 2003.

Publications

  • Boes AD, McCormick LM, Coryell WH, Nopoulos P (2008) The Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex as a Neural Substrate for Mood in Normal Healthy Children: a Possible Endophenotype of Depression, Biological Psychiatry, 63 (4), 391-7
  • McCormick LM, Ponto LL, Pierson RK, Johnson HJ, Magnotta V, Brumm MC (2007) Metabolic Correlates of Antidepressant and Antipsychotic Response in Patients with Psychotic Depression Undergoing ECT, Journal of ECT, 23 (4), 265-73
  • Vaidya JG, Paradiso S, Ponto LL, McCormick LM, Robinson RJ (2007) Aging, Grey matter, and Blood Flow in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, NeuroImage, 37 (4), 1346-53
  • McCormick, LM, Ziebell, S (2006) McCormick LM, Ziebell S, Nopoulos P, Andreasen NC, Cassell M: Anterior Cingulate Cortex: An MRI-Based Paracellation Method, NeuroImage, 32, 1167-1175
  • McCormick LM, Decker L, Nopoulos P, Andreasen NC (2005) Effects of Atypical and Typical Effects of Atypical and Typical Neuroleptics on Anterior Cingulate Volume in Schizophrenia, Schizophr Res, 80, 73-84.
  • McCormick, LM, Flaum, M (2005) Diagnosing schizophrenia circa 2005. How and why?, Current Psychosis and Therapeutics Reports, 3 (2), 43-47
  • Leung, AF, McCormick, LM (1997) Leung AF, McCormick LM: An Electrical Model for the Cytoplasmic Calcium Wave in Fertilized Eggs, J Biol Physics, 23, 67-72
  • McCormick, LM (1993) McCormick LM: Dynamic Infrared Imaging of Cardiac Pacemaker Induction and Cortical Muscle Contraction of Embryonic Avian Heart, Biochem Biophys Res Comm, 192, 547-55
  • McCormick LM, Keel P, Bowers W, Andersen A, Swayze V, Brumm MC, Andreasen NC, Implications of Right Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Volume Sensitivity to Starvation in Anorexia Nervosa, International Journal of Eating Disorders, In Press
  • McCormick LM, Yamada T, Yeh M, Brumm MC, Thatcher RW, Normalization of Theta Activity in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex, American Journal of Psychiatry, Submitted
  • Narushima K, McCormick LM, Yamada T, Robinson RG, Subgenual Cingulate Theta Activity Predicts Treatment Response of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Subjects with Vascular Depression, NeuroImage, Submitted
  • Paradiso S, Vaidya JG, McCormick LM, Jones A, Robinson RG, Aging and Alexithymia: Association with Reduced Right Rostral Cingulate Volume., American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, In Press

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