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Office
525 East 68th St
Box 140
New York, NY 10065Phone+1 212-746-5757Fax+1 212-746-8800- Is this information wrong?
Education & Training
- New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)Residency, Psychiatry, 2013 - 2016
- Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 2010
- University of PennsylvaniaPh.D., Neuroscience, 2008
- Cornell UniversityB.S., Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, 2001
Certifications & Licensure
- NY State Medical License 2013 - 2025
- NJ State Medical License 2021 - 2025
- CT State Medical License 2021 - 2022
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Medical Student Teaching Award Weill-Cornell Psychiatry Residency, 2016
- Resident Research Paper Prize First Place New York County Psychiatric Society, 2016
- Best Trainee Abstract International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation, 2015
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 10 citationsDeficits in Pre-attentive Processing of Spatial Location and Negative Symptoms in Subjects at Clinical High Risk for Schizophrenia.Pejman Sehatpour, Michael Avissar, Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Cheryl Corcoran, Heloise M. De Baun, Gaurav H. Patel, Ragy R. Girgis, Gary Brucato, Javier Lopez-Calderon, Gai...> ;Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2021 Feb 2
- 9 citationsComparison of cortical network effects of high-definition and conventional tDCS during visuomotor processing.Pejman Sehatpour, Clément Dondé, Devin Adair, Johanna Kreither, Javier Lopez-Calderon, Michael Avissar, Marom Bikson, Daniel C. Javitt> ;Brain Stimulation. 2021 Jan 1
- 33 citationsSignificant improvement in treatment resistant auditory verbal hallucinations after 5 days of double-blind, randomized, sham controlled, fronto-temporal, transcranial ...Joshua T. Kantrowitz, Pejman Sehatpour, Michael Avissar, Guillermo Horga, Anna Gwak, Mathew J. Hoptman, Odeta Beggel, Ragy R. Girgis, Blair Vail, Gail Silipo, Marlene ...> ;Brain Stimulation. 2019 Jul 1
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Journal Articles
- Refractoriness enhances temporal coding by auditory nerve fibersAvissar M, Wittig Jr JH, Saunders JC, Parsons TD, J. Neurosci, 1/1/2011
- Adaptation reduces spike-count reliability, but not spike-timing precision, of auditory nerve responsesAvissar M, Furman AC, Saunders JC, Parsons TD, J. Neurosci, 1/1/2007
- The effects of intense sound exposure on phase locking in the chick (Gallus domesticus) cochlear nerveFurman AC, Avissar M, Saunders JC, Eur. J. Neurosci, 1/1/2006
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Abstracts/Posters
- rTMS Modulates the Limbic Frontostriatal Circuit in DepressionAvissar M, Powell F, Liston C, Dubin M, Soc. Of Biological Psychiatry 71st Annual Scientific Meeting, 1/1/2016
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex modulates frontstriatal connectivity in depressionAvissar M, Powell F, Liston C, Casey BJ, Dubin M, International Society for ECT and Neurostimulation Annual Meeting; Soc. of Biological Psychiatry 70th Annual Scientific Meeting, 1/1/2015
- The Reliability and Precision of Auditory Nerve ResponsesAvissar M, Furman AC, Saunders JC, Parsons TD, Otolaryngology 31st Midwinter Research Meeting, 1/1/2008
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Other
- Auditory-Verbal HallucinationAvissar M, Arbuckle M, National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative
www.nncionline.org/course/auditory-verbalhallucination
1/1/2016
Hospital Affiliations
- New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, New York
- New York State Psychiatric InstituteNew York, New York
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical CenterNew York, New York
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