JamesJohnMcGoughMD

Psychiatry • Los Angeles, CA

Addiction, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Professor, Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine

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Office
UCLA Medical Center
300 Medical Plaza, Room1524C
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone+1 310-794-7841

Fax+1 310-794-7841
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Education & Training

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterFellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 1989 - 1991
Duke University HospitalResidency, Psychiatry, 1986 - 1989
Duke University School of MedicineClass of 1986

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1989 - 2025
NC State Medical License 1987 - 2006
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Top Doctors:LA Area Castle Connolly, 2013
Top Doctors:Southern California Castle Connolly, 2012
Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com

Clinical Trials

Single Versus Combination Medication Treatment for Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Start of enrollment: 2007 Jan 01
Completed
Phase 4
Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Start of enrollment: 2011 Jul 01
Completed
Early Phase 1
Characterization and Sequential Pharmacotherapy of Severe Mood Dysregulation Start of enrollment: 2013 Jan 01
Completed
Phase 2
Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for ADHD Start of enrollment: 2015 Apr 01
Completed
Not Applicable
Four-week Open-trial Extension TNS for ADHD Start of enrollment: 2014 Dec 01
Completed
Not Applicable
12 Month Open Extension of TNS for ADHD. Start of enrollment: 2014 Dec 01
Completed
Not Applicable
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

1 citations
Methylphenidate, Guanfacine, and Combined Treatment Effects on Electroencephalography Correlates of Spatial Working Memory in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Giorgia Michelini, Agatha Lenartowicz, Joel P Diaz-Fong, Robert M Bilder, James J McGough, James T McCracken, Sandra K Loo> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
Neurofeedback for ADHD: Time to Call It Quits?
James J McGough> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2022 Dec 1
6 citations
Inhibitory control in youth with Tourette's Disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and their combination and predictors of objective tic suppressibility.
Alexandra Sturm, Emily J. Ricketts, Joseph F. McGuire, Juliette Lerner, So Jeong Lee, Sandra K. Loo, James J. McGough, Susanna Chang, Douglas W. Woods, James T. McCrac...> ;Psychiatry Research. 2021 Aug 5
19 citations
Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Cognitive and Electroencephalographic Predictors of Treatment Response.
Sandra K. Loo, Giulia Salgari, Alissa Ellis, Jennifer Cowen, Andrea Dillon, James J. McGough> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2021 Jul 1
470 citations
Genomic Relationships, Novel Loci, and Pleiotropic Mechanisms across Eight Psychiatric Disorders
Phil Lee, Verneri Anttila, Hyejung Won, Yen-Chen Anne Feng, Jacob Rosenthal, Zhaozhong Zhu, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob, Michel G. Nivard, Andrew D. Grotzinger, Danielle Pos...> ;Cell. 2019 Dec 12
3 citations
Reply to "Transcutaneous electric currents to target the peripheral and central nervous system in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder".
James J. McGough, Sandra K. Loo, Ian A. Cook> ;Clinical Neurophysiology. 2019 Oct 1
24 citations
Alpha modulation during working memory encoding predicts neurocognitive impairment in ADHD
Agatha Lenartowicz, Holly Truong, Giulia C. Salgari, Robert M. Bilder, James J. McGough, James T. McCracken, Sandra K. Loo> ;Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. 2019 Aug 1
59 citations
Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled, Pilot Study of Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
James J. McGough, Alexandra Sturm, Jennifer Cowen, Kelly L. Tung, Giulia Salgari, Andrew F. Leuchter, Ian A. Cook, Catherine A. Sugar, Sandra K. Loo> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2019 Apr 1
1116 citations
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
Verneri Anttila, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Hilary K. Finucane, Raymond K. Walters, Jose Bras, Laramie E. Duncan, Valentina Escott-Price, Guido J. Falcone, Padhraig Gorml...> ;Science. 2018 Jun 22
7 citations
Are the components of social reciprocity transdiagnostic across pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders? Evidence for common and disorder-specific social impairments
Alexandra Sturm, Michelle Rozenman, Susanna Chang, James J. McGough, James T. McCracken, John Piacentini> ;Psychiatry Research. 2018 Jun 1
2 citations
The Effect of Neurocognitive Function on Math Computation in Pediatric ADHD: Moderating Influences of Anxious Perfectionism and Gender.
Alexandra Sturm, Michelle Rozenman, John Piacentini, James J. McGough, Sandra K. Loo, James T. McCracken> ;Child Psychiatry and Human Development. 2018 Mar 20
41 citations
Parsing heterogeneity in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder using EEG-based subgroups.
Sandra K. Loo, James J. McGough, James T. McCracken, Susan L. Smalley> ;Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines. 2018 Mar 1
29 citations
Hemispheric brain asymmetry differences in youths with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Pamela K. Douglas, Boris A. Gutman, Ariana Anderson, C. Larios, Katherine E. Lawrence, Katherine L. Narr, Biswa Sengupta, Gerald Cooray, David B. Douglas, Paul M. Thom...> ;Neuroimage. Clinical. 2018 Jan 1
13 citations
Acute and Long-Term Cardiovascular Effects of Stimulant, Guanfacine, and Combination Therapy for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Gregory R. Sayer, James J. McGough, Jennifer G. Levitt, Jennifer Cowen, Alexandra Sturm, Edward Castelo, James T. McCracken> ;Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2016 Dec 1
1 citations
New Insights From the MTA: Who Outgrows Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and What Becomes of Those Who Don't?
James J. McGough> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2016 Nov 1
19 citations
Treatment Controversies in Adult ADHD
James J. McGough> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2016 Oct 1
27 citations
Combined Stimulant and Guanfacine Administration in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Controlled, Comparative Study
James T. McCracken, James J. McGough, Sandra K. Loo, Jennifer G. Levitt, Melissa Del’Homme, Jennifer Cowen, Alexandra Sturm, Fiona Whelan, Gerhard Hellemann, Catherine...> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2016 Aug 1
16 citations
Cognitive Effects of Stimulant, Guanfacine, and Combined Treatment in Child and Adolescent Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Robert M. Bilder, Sandra K. Loo, James J. McGough, Fiona Whelan, Gerhard Hellemann, Catherine A. Sugar, Melissa Del’Homme, Alexandra Sturm, Jennifer Cowen, Grant Hanad...> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2016 Aug 1
28 citations
Effects of d-Methylphenidate, Guanfacine, and Their Combination on Electroencephalogram Resting State Spectral Power in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.
Sandra K. Loo, Robert M. Bilder, Alexander L. Cho, Alexandra Sturm, Jennifer Cowen, Patricia D. Walshaw, Jennifer G. Levitt, Melissa Del’Homme, John Piacentini, James ...> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2016 Aug 1
37 citations
A randomized placebo-controlled lovastatin trial for neurobehavioral function in neurofibromatosis I
Carrie E. Bearden, Gerhard Hellemann, Tena Rosser, Caroline A. Montojo, Rachel K. Jonas, Nicole Enrique, Laura Pacheco, Shaun A. Hussain, Joyce Y. Wu, Jennifer Ho, Jam...> ;Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology. 2016 Feb 22
21 citations
Pharmacotherapy of the Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS) Children Growing Up.
Benedetto Vitiello, Deborah Lazzaretto, Kseniya Yershova, Howard Abikoff, Natalya Paykina, James T. McCracken, James J. McGough, Scott H. Kollins, Laurence L. Greenhil...> ;Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2015 Jul 1
4 citations
Neuropsychological and dimensional behavioral trait profiles in Costa Rican ADHD sib pairs: Potential intermediate phenotypes for genetic studies.
Viviana A. Peskin, Anna E. Ordóñez, R. Scott Mackin, Kevin L. Delucchi, Silvia Monge, James J. McGough, Denise A. Chavira, Monica Berrocal, Erika Cheung, Eduardo Fourn...> ;American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 2015 Jun 1
10 citations
A parietal biomarker for ADHD liability : As predicted by the distributed effects perspective model of ADHD
T. Sigi Hale, Joshua F. Wiley, Susan L. Smalley, Kelly L. Tung, Olivia Kaminsky, James J. McGough, Ashwin M. Jaini, Sandra K. Loo> ;Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2015 May 7
30 citations
An eight-week, open-trial, pilot feasibility study of trigeminal nerve stimulation in youth with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
James J. McGough, Sandra K. Loo, Alexandra Sturm, Jennifer Cowen, Andrew F. Leuchter, Ian A. Cook> ;Brain Stimulation. 2015 Mar 1
532 citations
Psychiatric genome-wide association study analyses implicate neuronal, immune and histone pathways
Colm O'Dushlaine, Lizzy Rossin, Phil Lee, Laramie E. Duncan, Neelroop N. Parikshak, Stephen Newhouse, Stephan Ripke, Benjamin M. Neale, Shaun Purcell, Danielle Posthum...> ;Nature Neuroscience. 2015 Jan 19
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