
Martin Peter Paulus MD
Scientific Director and President Laureate Institute for Brain Research Professor, Psychiatry, UCSD School of Medicine
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6655 S Yale AveTulsa, OK 74136
Phone+1 918-502-5180
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Education & Training
University of California (San Diego) Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1994 - 1997
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/NorthwellInternship, Transitional Year, 1993 - 1994
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz Faculty of MedicineClass of 1985
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1995 - 2028
OK State Medical License 2014 - 2027
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Clinical Trials
- How do Sleeping Pills Affect Pain in the Brain? Start of enrollment: 2006 Dec 01
- Drug Treatment Validation of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Generalized Anxiety Disorder Start of enrollment: 2008 Apr 01
- Negative-Positive Valence Domains in Anxiety and Depression Start of enrollment: 2013 Sep 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Cumulative trauma, neural circuits, and burnout: an integrative model of healthcare worker post-traumatic stress syndromes.Adrienne A Taren, Martin P Paulus
European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2026-12-01 - Computational mechanisms of learning and forgetting differentiate affective and substance use disorders.Navid Hakimi, Ko-Ping Chou, Jennifer L Stewart, Martin P Paulus, Ryan Smith
Molecular Psychiatry. 2026-03-25 - Social Determinants of Health and Pediatric Long COVID in the US.Kyung E Rhee, Tanayott Thaweethai, Deepti B Pant, Cheryl R Stein, Amy L Salisbury
JAMA Pediatrics. 2026-03-01
Journal Articles
- Neurobiology, Clinical Presentation, and Treatment of Methamphetamine Use DisorderMartin Paulus, MD, JAMA Psychiatry
- Screen Media Activity and Brain Structure in Youth: Evidence for Diverse Structural Correlation Networks from the ABCD StudyMartin P Paulus, Susan F Tapert, Lindsay M Squeglia, Joanna Jacobus, ScienceDirect
- Empirical Evidence of Mental Health Risks Posed by Climate ChangeMartin P Paulus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Authored Content
- Neighborhood Affluence Is Not Associated with Positive and Negative Valence Processing in Adults with Mood and Anxiety Disorders: A Bayesian Inference ApproachMarch 2019
- F128. Transcriptomics of Brain Age Gap Estimate (BrainAGE): Association Analysis of Depressed and Healthy IndividualsApril 2018
Press Mentions
At Tulsa’s LIBR, Martin Paulus Brings Cutting-Edge Neuroscience to OklahomaJanuary 7th, 2025
How Exercise Can Impact Your Mental HealthJuly 30th, 2024
How Heat Waves Take a Toll on Mental HealthAugust 19th, 2022
Grant Support
- The Center for Neuroscience-based Mental Health Assessment and Prediction (NeuroMAP)LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH2017–2028
- 15/21 ABCD-USA Consortium: Research Project Site at LIBRLAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH2020–2027
- A neurocomputational assay of gastrointestinal interoception in anorexia nervosaLAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH2021–2026
- Interoceptive Dysregulation In Amphetamine Dependent IndividualsNational Institute On Drug Abuse2010–2012
- Center On Interoceptive Dysregulation In Addiction (CIDIA)National Institute On Drug Abuse2010–2012
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