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James Swain, MD, Psychiatry, Stony Brook, NY, Stony Brook University Hospital

JamesEdwardSwainMDPhD, FRCPC

Psychiatry • Stony Brook, NY

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Psychopharmacology

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Psychology, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Medicine, and Program in Public Health, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University

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Summary

  • Dr. Swain is a clinician-scientist - child & adolescent psychiatrist and biological psychiatry researcher. As a clinician, he is interested in preventing and treating acute mental illness among children with special attention to parenting and early childhood. He has served at Stony Brook University Medical School as Inpatient Medical Director and Outpatient Clinician. As a researcher, he studies the brain-basis of parent-infant bond formation and child outcome as a function of mental health problems and solutions for issues such as depression, anxiety, the chronic effects of stress and poverty and finally psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacological treatments.

    • RePORT 〉 RePORTER

    Postpartum Intervention for Mothers with Opioid Use Disorders - Brain-Behavior Mechanisms

    NIH/NICHD/NIMHD Grand Opportunity RC2 Grant

    Childhood Poverty and Brain Development: The Role of Chronic Stress and Parenting

    James Swain, MD, PhD, Receives $3.5 Million Grant from NIH/NIDA

    Opioids & maternal brain-behavior adaptation during the early postpartum https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9818042&icde=46762912

Education & Training

  • Yale-New Haven Medical Center
    Yale-New Haven Medical CenterFellowship, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2002 - 2005
  • University of Ottawa
    University of OttawaFellowship, Child Psychiatry, 2002 - 2002
  • University of Ottawa
    University of OttawaResidency, Psychiatry, Board Certification, 1998 - 2001
  • McMaster University
    McMaster UniversityInternship, Medicine, 1997 - 1998
  • University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
    University of Toronto Faculty of MedicineClass of 1997
  • University of Toronto
    University of TorontoPh.D., Neuroscience Program, 1990 - 1994
  • University of Toronto
    University of TorontoPhD, Neuroscience, 1994
  • University of Toronto
    University of TorontoM.Sc., Cellular Neurobiology, 1988 - 1990
  • University of Toronto
    University of TorontoB.S., Major in Biophysics, Minor in Zoology, With honors, 1984 - 1988

Certifications & Licensure

  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 2016 - 2025
  • MI State Medical License
    MI State Medical License 2009 - 2019
  • CT State Medical License
    CT State Medical License 2002 - 2009
  • Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of CanadaPsychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Honored as Fellow American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021
  • "Hot Topic" Selection American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2008, 2011, 2020
  • “Making a Difference” Clinical Service Award University of Michigan, 2016
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Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Plasticity in the Human Parental Brain  
    Kim P, Strathearn L, Swain JE, Hormones and Behavior, 1/9/2015
  • Childhood Poverty and Recruitment of Adult Emotion Regulatory Neurocircuitry  
    Liberzon I, Ma ST, Okada G, *Ho SS, Swain JE, Evans GW, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 1/4/2015
  • The parental brain: A neural framework for study of teaching in humans and other animals  
    *Kim HE, *Torres-Garcia A, Swain JE, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1/1/2015
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Parenthood From Biology to Relation. Prevention, Assessment and Interventions for Developmental and Clinical Issues 
    Chapter: A Prospective and Longitudinal Study of Perceived Infant Outcomes at 18-24 months: Neural and Psychological Correlates of Parental Thoughts and Actions Assessed During the First Month Postpartum 
    Page 126 - 138Kim P, Rigo P, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Coleman, Feldman R, Swain JEFrontiers Media SA2018
  • The SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development 
    Chapter: Security 
    Page 1913 - 1916Swain JEEditors: Marc H. Bornstein.Sage Publications, 20182018
  • Early Vocal Contact and Preterm Infant Brain Development 
    Chapter: Stress-Sensitive Parental Brain Systems Regulate Emotion Response and Motivate Sensitive Child Care 
    Page 241 - 269Swain JEEditors: Pierre Kuhn, Björn Westrup, Manuela Filippa, Springer.Springer2017
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Abstracts/Posters

  • Functional Connectivity and Stress in the Parental Brain for Postpartum Women Receiving Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
    Swain JE, Ho SS, Biological Psychiatry 2020; 87:S438, Virtual, 5/1/2020
  • Resting State Functional Connectivity and Parenting Stress in Postpartum Women Receiving Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
    Swain JE & Ho SS, Neuropsychopharmacology 2019; 44:529, Orlando, FL, 12/11/2019
  • Brain Adaptations for Buprenorphine Medicated Postpartum Women
    Swain JE, Ho SS, Neuropsychopharmacology 2018; 43:S366-367, Hollywood, FL, 12/13/2018
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Lectures

  • Enlightening the Parent-Child Relationship - Neuroendocrine Models Toward Transgenerational Mental Health 
    Yale Child Study Grand Rounds, New Haven, CT - 11/10/2020
  • Opioids and Brain Adaptations for Early Postpartum Women 
    4th Biennial Perinatal Mental Health Conference, Charlotte, NC - 10/27/2019
  • Parent-Infant Research: Transdisciplinary, Translational, Transformational and Transgenerational” - Children’s Hospital of Ontario 
    Mental Health Vision Seminar, University of Ottawa, Ontario - 5/31/2019
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Other

  • Modulation of Synaptic Transmission by Protein Phosphatases. Ph.D. Thesis 
    Swain JE, University of Toronto
    1/1/1994
  • The Effects of Okadaic acid, a Protein Phosphatase Inhibitor, on Synaptic Transmission at the Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction. M.Sc. Thesis 
    Swain JE, University of Toronto
    1/1/1990

Press Mentions

  • Study: Women Pregnant During Superstorm Sandy More Likely to Have Kids with Mental Health Problems
    Study: Women Pregnant During Superstorm Sandy More Likely to Have Kids with Mental Health ProblemsSeptember 22nd, 2022
  • ACNP 59th Annual Meeting: Poster Session III
    ACNP 59th Annual Meeting: Poster Session IIIDecember 6th, 2020
  • Stony Brook Medicine Fights Substance Abuse on Multiple Levels
    Stony Brook Medicine Fights Substance Abuse on Multiple LevelsMarch 4th, 2020

Grant Support

  • Postpartum Intervention for Mothers with Opioid Use Disorders - Brain-Behavior MechanismsNIH/NIDA2022–2024
  • OPIOIDS AND MATERNAL BRAIN-BEHAVIOR ADAPTATION DURING THE EARLY POSTPARTUMNIDA2019–2024
  • Childhood Poverty And Brain Development: The Role Of Chronic Stress And ParentingNational Center On Minority Health And Health Disparities2009–2010
  • CHILDHOOD POVERTY AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF CHRONIC STRESS AND PARENTINGNATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIESPresent

Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • Spanish

Hospital Affiliations

External Links

  • Faculty Web Pagehttp://www.psych.med.umich.edu/profile/?linkid=jamesswa
  • Faculty Web Pagehttps://www.stonybrookmedicine.edu/profile?pid=2038&name=James%20Swain%20MD
  • Bibliographyhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/james.swain.1/bibliography/47441094/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

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