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Joan L. Luby, MD
Current
Position
Professor of Psychiatry (Child)
University Roles
Director, Early Emotional Development Program
Education and Training
A.B.: Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1981
Medical Degree: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, 1985
Residency: Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 1988
Fellowship: Child Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, 1990
Major Awards
CHADS Coalition for Mental Health Research Award, 2008
Listed in America's Top Doctors, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd, 2002, 2003, 2004, & 2007
NARSAD Gerald L. Klerman Award for Outstanding Clinical Research, 2004
Listed in Best Doctors in America, 2002-2008 (Best Doctors, Inc)
NIMH and NARSAD Career Development Award, 1999-2003
Gordon Andrews Community Service Award in Child Psychiatry, 1990
Graduate with Honors, Poetry and Science, Brown University, 1981
Areas of Clinical Interest
Mood disorders in preschool children: diagnosis and treatment, Developmental Psychopathology, Mental disorders in preschool children, Dyadic Play Therapy for preschool mood disorders, Preschool Psychiatry
Areas of Research Interests
Mood disorders in the preschool period.
Emotional development and Early intervention/prevention
The nosology and course of preschool depression
Treatment study of pediatric bipolar disorder
Functional and Structural neuroimaging of depressed preschool populations
Key Publications
Luby, JL, Si, X., Belden, A.C., Tandon, M., Spitznagel, E. Preschool Depression: Homotypic Continuity and Course Over 24 Months. Archives of General Psychiatry 2009; 66(8): 897-905
Luby, J.L (in press) Early Childhood Depression: Clinical Identification and Treatment Considerations. American Journal of Psychiatry.
Luby JL, Belden AC, Pautsch J, Si X, Spitznagel E (2008 May 15). The clinical significance of preschool depression: Impairment in functioning and clinical markers of the disorder. Journal Affective Disorders. Full Article ->
Belden AC, Thomson NR, Luby JL (2008 Jan). Temper tantrums in healthy versus depressed and disruptive preschoolers: defining tantrum behaviors associated with clinical problems. The Journal of Pediatrics 152(1): 117-22. Full Article ->
Luby JL, Belden AC: Defining and validating bipolar disorder in the preschool period. Development and Psychopathology 2006; 18(4):971-988
Luby JL, Heffelfinger AK, Mrakotsky C, Brown KM, Hessler MJ, Wallis JM, Spitznagel EL (2003 Mar). The clinical picture of depression in preschool children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 42(3): 340-8. Full Article ->
Funded Research Projects
NIMH(PI):Treatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM)
NIMH(PI):Early Intervention in Depression: Dyadic Emotion Development Therapy for Preschool Children
NIMH(PI):Preschool Mood Disorders: Developmental Continuity and School Age Outcomes
CHADS Coalition for Mental Health(PI):Functional Neuroimaging in a Depressed Preschool Population Pre and Post Treatment
NARSAD(PI):Seratonin Transporter Polymorphisms and Course of Preschool Onset Depression
NIMH (PI): Phenomenology and Course of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders