NolanRyanWilliamsMD

Psychiatry • Palo Alto, CA

Neuropsychiatry

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Office
300 Pasteur Dr
Palo Alto, CA 94305
Phone+1 650-723-4000
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Education & Training

Medical University of South CarolinaResidency, Psychiatry, 2008 - 2014
Medical University of South CarolinaResidency, Psychiatry/Neurology, 2008 - 2014
Medical University of South CarolinaClass of 2008

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 2014 - 2024
SC State Medical License 2010 - 2015
GA State Medical License 2011 - 2014
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Clinical Trials

Use of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to Augment Hypnotic Analgesia Start of enrollment: 2017 Apr 24
Completed
Not Applicable
Accelerated Theta Burst in Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Dose Finding and Biomarker Study Start of enrollment: 2018 Apr 13
Enrolling by invitation
Not Applicable
Establishing Functional Biomarkers for Spaced Theta-Burst Stimulation Start of enrollment: 2019 Apr 01
Terminated
Not Applicable
The Effects of Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy on Explicit and Implicit Suicidal Cognition Start of enrollment: 2021 Nov 07
Enrolling by invitation
Not Applicable
rTMS for Orthopaedic Trauma Patients Start of enrollment: 2019 Aug 01
Withdrawn
Not Applicable
Pilot Accelerated Theta Burst in Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Depression Start of enrollment: 2019 Jul 01
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Opiate Suicide Study in Patients With Major Depression Start of enrollment: 2020 Aug 01
Recruiting
Phase 3
Roles: Contact
SEEG-Guided DBS for OCD Start of enrollment: 2023 Apr 06
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Contact
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Chronometric TMS-fMRI of personalized left dorsolateral prefrontal target reveals state-dependency of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex effects.
Sarah Grosshagauer, Michael Woletz, Maria Vasileiadi, David Linhardt, Lena Nohava, Anna-Lisa Schuler, Christian Windischberger, Martin Tik, Nolan Williams> ;Molecular Psychiatry. 2024 Mar 26
2 citations
Accelerated Theta Burst Stimulation: Safety, Efficacy, and Future Advancements.
O'Sullivan, S. J., Eleanor Cole, Sean J O'Sullivan, Martin Tik, Nolan R Williams> ;Biological Psychiatry. 2024 Mar 15
Pilot study of stanford neuromodulation therapy (SNT) for bipolar depression.
Kristin S Raj, Andrew D Geoly, Clive Veerapal, Mia Gholmieh, Pouya Toosi, Flint M Espil, Jean-Marie Batail, Ian H Kratter, Nolan R Williams> ;Brain Stimulation. 2024 Mar 4
5 citations
Magnesium-ibogaine therapy in veterans with traumatic brain injuries.
Cherian, K., Keynan, J., Anker, L., Faerman, A., Brown, R., Shamma, A., Keynan, O., Coetzee, J., Batail, J., Phillips, A., Bassano, N., Sahlem, G., Inzunza, J., Millar...> ;Nature Medicine. 2024 Feb 1
1 citations
Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion.
Nho, Y., Rolle, C., Topalovic, U., Shivacharan, R., Cunningham, T., Hiller, S., Batista, D., Feng, A., Espil, F., Kratter, I., Bhati, M., Kellogg, M., Raslan, A., Will...> ;Neuron. 2024 Jan 3
3 citations
Sustained Efficacy of Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy (SNT) in Open-Label Repeated Treatment.
Geoly, A., Toosi, P., Cole, E., Kratter, I., Sahlem, G., Williams, N.> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 1
A preliminary randomized controlled trial of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation applied to the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in treatment seeking parti...
Gregory L Sahlem, Bohye Kim, Nathaniel L Baker, Brendan L Wong, Margaret A Caruso, Lauren A Campbell, Irakli Kaloani, Brian J Sherman, Tiffany J Ford, Ahmad H Musleh, ...> ;Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 2024 Jan 1
1 citations
An Avenue for Optimization of Theta Burst Stimulation Protocols? Comments on the FOUR-D Randomized Noninferiority Clinical Trial.
Jean-Marie V Batail, Michael T Feyder, Brandon S Bentzley, Nolan R Williams> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2024 Jan 1
3 citations
Concurrent TMS/fMRI reveals individual DLPFC dose-response pattern.
Martin Tik, Maria Vasileiadi, Michael Woletz, David Linhardt, Anna-Lisa Schuler, Nolan Williams, Christian Windischberger> ;Neuroimage. 2023 Nov 15
4 citations
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation-Induced Heart-Brain Coupling: Implications for Site Selection and Frontal Thresholding-Preliminary Findings.
Eva Dijkstra, Hanneke van Dijk, Fidel Vila-Rodriguez, Lauren Zwienenberg, Renée Rouwhorst, John P Coetzee, Daniel M Blumberger, Jonathan Downar, Nolan Williams, Alexan...> ;Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science. 2023 Oct 1
38 citations
Treatment-resistant depression: definition, prevalence, detection, management, and investigational interventions.
Roger S McIntyre, Mohammad Alsuwaidan, Bernhard T Baune, Michael Berk, Koen Demyttenaere, Joseph F Goldberg, Philip Gorwood, Roger Ho, Siegfried Kasper, Sidney H Kenne...> ;World Psychiatry. 2023 Oct 1
2 citations
A Preliminary Investigation Of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Applied To The Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex In Treatment Seeking Participants With C...
Gregory L Sahlem, Bohye Kim, Nathaniel L Baker, Brendan L Wong, Margaret A Caruso, Lauren A Campbell, Irakli Kaloani, Brian J Sherman, Tiffany J Ford, Ahmad H Musleh, ...> ;Medrxiv. 2023 Jul 12
3 citations
Network effects of Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy (SNT) in treatment-resistant major depressive disorder: a randomized, controlled trial.
Jean-Marie Batail, Xiaoqian Xiao, Azeezat Azeez, Claudia Tischler, Ian H Kratter, James H Bishop, Manish Saggar, Nolan R Williams> ;Translational Psychiatry. 2023 Jul 3
1 citations
No place in France for repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the therapeutic armamentarium of treatment-resistant depression?
Jean-Marie Batail, Raphaël Gaillard, Emmanuel Haffen, Emmanuel Poulet, Anne Sauvaget, David Szekely, Jérôme Brunelin, Samuel Bulteau, Maxime Bubrovszky, Julien Smadja,...> ;Brain Stimulation. 2023 May 27
9 citations
Targeted neurostimulation reverses a spatiotemporal biomarker of treatment-resistant depression.
Anish Mitra, Marcus E Raichle, Andrew D Geoly, Ian H Kratter, Nolan R Williams> ;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2023 May 23
1 citations
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression: Mismatch of Evidence and Insurance Coverage Policies in the United States.
Cory R Weissman, Richard A Bermudes, Jeffrey Voigt, Conor Liston, Nolan Williams, Daniel M Blumberger, Paul B Fitzgerald, Zafiris J Daskalakis> ;The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2023 Apr 26
Real-Time Semi-Automated and Automated Voxel Placement using fMRI Targets for Repeated Acquisition Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
James H Bishop, Andrew Geoly, Naushaba Khan, Claudia Tischler, Ruben Krueger, Poorvi Keshava, Heer Amin, Laima Baltusis, Hua Wu, David Spiegel, Nolan Williams, Matthew...> ;Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 2023 May 15
4 citations
Time for Brain Medicine.
Joshua C Brown, Helen Dainton-Howard, Jared Woodward, Charles Palmer, Manish Karamchandani, Nolan R Williams, Mark S George> ;The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences. 2023 Jan 1
1 citations
Taking modern psychiatry into the metaverse: Integrating augmented, virtual, and mixed reality technologies into psychiatric care.
T J Ford, Derrick M Buchanan, Azeezat Azeez, David A Benrimoh, Irakli Kaloiani, Igor D Bandeira, Saron Hunegnaw, Lucy Lan, Mia Gholmieh, Vivek Buch, Nolan R Williams> ;Frontiers in Digital Health. 2023 Jan 1
Appetitive Mapping of the Human Nucleus Accumbens.
Jonathon J Parker, Cammie E Rolle, Rajat S Shivacharan, Daniel A N Barbosa, Bina W Kakusa, Tom Prieto, Richard A Jaffe, Nolan R Williams, Casey H Halpern, Austin Feng,...> ;Biological Psychiatry. 2023 Mar 15
5 citations
Aberrant impulse control circuitry in obesity.
Daniel A N Barbosa, Fiene Marie Kuijper, Jeffrey Duda, Allan R Wang, Samuel C D Cartmell, Sabir Saluja, Tricia Cunningham, Rajat S Shivacharan, Mahendra T Bhati, Debra...> ;Molecular Psychiatry. 2022 Aug 1
191 citations
Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy (SNT): A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
E. Cole, Angela Phillips, Brandon S. Bentzley, Katy H. Stimpson, Romina Nejad, Fahim Barmak, Clive Veerapal, Naushaba Khan, Kirsten Cherian, Emily Felber, Randi Brown,...> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 Oct 29
2 citations
Hypnotic predictors of agency: Responsiveness to specific suggestions in hypnosis is associated with involuntariness in fibromyalgia
Afik Faerman, Katy H. Stimpson, James Bishop, Eric Neri, Angela Phillips, M. Gulser, Heer Amin, Romina Nejad, Aryandokht Fotros, Nolan R. Williams, David Spiegel> ;Consciousness and Cognition. 2021 Oct 22
6 citations
Unraveling the opioid actions of S-ketamine and R-ketamine: comment on Bonaventura et al.
Boris D. Heifets, Brandon S. Bentzley, Nolan R. Williams, Alan F. Schatzberg> ;Molecular Psychiatry. 2021 May 18
1 citations
Lather, Rinse, Repeat? Breaking Repetitive Behaviors With Repetitive Stimulation
Jennifer I. Lissemore, Nolan R. Williams> ;The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2021 May 1
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Press Mentions

Jolting the Brain’s Circuits with Electricity Is Moving from Radical to Almost Mainstream Therapy. Some Crucial Hurdles RemainJanuary 12th, 2022
Deep Brain Stimulation Treatment for 5 Days Can Cure Depression? Here's What Stanford University SaysOctober 30th, 2021
5-Day Brain Stimulation Treatment Highly Effective Against Depression, Stanford Researchers FindOctober 29th, 2021
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