Additional Titles & Roles
- Director, Washington Early Recognition Center (2020-present)
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral Fellowship: NIMH: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
- MPE: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2007
- Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2005
- MD: Semmelweis University of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary, 1998
Major Awards
- Dr. John M. Anderson Excellence in Mental Health Award, 2021
- BRAINS (Biobehavioral Research Award for Innovative New Scientists), NIMH, 2014
- DSM-5 Task Force, American Psychiatric Association: Member, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- President (founding), Missouri Psychiatric Association, 2010, 2011
- Award for Outstanding Leadership, Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Society, 2010
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award, 2009
Areas of Clinical Interest
Psychosis Risk, Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Bipolar Disorders
Research Interests
1. Functional Connectivity MRI
2. Diffusion and Structural MRI
3. Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
4. Psychiatric Nosology
Key Publications
- Mamah D, Owoso A, Sheffield JM, Bayer C. The WERCAP Screen and the WERC Stress Screen: psychometrics of self-rated instruments for assessing bipolar and psychotic disorder risk and perceived stress burden. Compr Psychiatry. 2014 Jul 7.
Read publication »The WERCAP Screen and the WERC Stress Screen: psychometrics of self-rated instruments for assessing bipolar and psychotic disorder risk and perceived stress burden. - Mamah D, Barch DM, Repovš G. Resting state functional connectivity of five neural networks in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. J Affect Disord. 2013 Sep 5;150(2):601-9.
Read publication »Resting state functional connectivity of five neural networks in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. - Mamah D, Owoso A, Mbwayo AW, Mutiso VN, Muriungi SK, Khasakhala LI, Barch DM, Ndetei DM. Classes of psychotic experiences in Kenyan children and adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2013 Jun;44(3):452-9.
Read publication »Classes of psychotic experiences in Kenyan children and adolescents. - Mamah D, Harms MP, Barch D, Styner M, Lieberman JA, Wang L. Hippocampal shape and volume changes with antipsychotics in early stage psychotic illness. Front Psychiatry. 2012 Nov 12;3:96.
Read publication »Hippocampal shape and volume changes with antipsychotics in early stage psychotic illness. - Mamah D, Harms MP, Wang L, Barch D, Thompson P, Kim J, Miller MI, Csernansky JG. Basal ganglia shape abnormalities in the unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients. Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Jul 15; 64(2): 111-20.
Read publication »Basal ganglia shape abnormalities in the unaffected siblings of schizophrenia patients. - Mamah D, Barch DM, Csernansky JG. Neuromorphometric measures as endophenotypes of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. In: Neuropsychiatric Biomarkers, Endophenotypes, and Genes: Promises, Advances and Challenges. Michael S. Ritsner (ed). Springer 2009.
Funded Research Projects
NIMH (PI): Validation of Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia
NIMH (PI): Connectomics in Psychiatric Classification
NIMH (PI): Clinical and Biomarker-Based Trajectories of Psychosis-Risk Populations in Kenya.
NIMH (PI): Neuromorphometry of Psychosis in Bipolar Disorder
NIMH (site-PI): Psychosis-Risk Outcomes Network (ProNET)
NIMH (PI): Identifying Imaging Biomarkers of Schizophrenia Risk in Kenya
NIMH (PI): Genes, Behavior and Psychosis Risk in Kenya
NIMH (PI): Identification of Psychosis Risk Traits in Africa
McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience (PI): Optimizing Brain Connectomics in Psychiatric Disorders
NARSAD (PI): Neuromorphometry of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders