Elliot Nelson

Additional Titles & Roles

---

• Psychiatry Consult Attending
• Psychiatry Clinic Attending

Education & Training

---

• Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1990
• M.D.: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986
• B.A.: Johns Hopkins University, 1982

Major Awards

---

• American Psychiatric Association – Distinguished Fellow, 2003

Areas of Clinical Interest

---

Dr. Nelson has experience, and interest in treating OCD, anxiety and affective disorders.

View clinician profile

Research Interests

---

I have expertise in genetic studies of opioid and other drug dependence. I also have a strong interest in the contribution of trauma exposure to liability for psychopathology. I have conducted large investigations in these areas.

Recent Publications

---

• Cornichon Homolog-3 (Cnih3) deletion impairs spatial memory, operant learning, and fentanyl self-administration behavior

  Lintz, T., Liu, A., Aal, T. A., Park, A., Dearman, J. J., Agrawal, A., Nelson, E. & Moron-Concepcion, J., Dec 2026, In: Translational psychiatry. 16, 1, 312.

• Early onset of cannabis use and risk for opioid use disorder across two decades in the United States

  Agrawal, A. & Nelson, E., Aug 2026, In: Addictive Behaviors. 179, 108703.

• Runx1 transcription factor modulates opioid analgesia and withdrawal in humans and rodents

  Leduc-Pessah, H., McAllister, B. B., Sinha, S., Stokes-Heck, S., Nishizawa, D., Fan, C. Y., St-Pierre, M. K., Bradaia, A., Defaye, M., Burma, N. E., Damblon, J., Muñoz-Pino, E., Visser, F., Dorion, M. F., Healy, L. M., Tang, Y. M., Canet-Pons, J., van den Hoogen, N. J., Zhang, Z. & Antunes, F. T. T. & 20 others, Piscopo, V. E. C., Medina, M., Fukuda, K. I., Ichinohe, T., Nagashima, M., Hayashida, M., Johnson, E., Agrawal, A., Degenhardt, L., Martin, N. G., Zamponi, G. W., Nelson, E. C., Altier, C., Tremblay, M. E., Bousman, C., Stifani, S., De Koninck, Y., Ikeda, K., Biernaskie, J. & Trang, T., Mar 4 2026, In: Neuron. 114, 5, p. 903-921.e13

• Shared genetic architecture of posttraumatic stress disorder with cardiovascular imaging, risk, and diagnoses

  Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, Dec 2025, In: Nature communications. 16, 1, 5631.

• Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis

  APEX Consortium, iPSYCH Autism Consortium & PGC-PTSD Consortium, Oct 30 2025, In: Nature. 646, 8087, p. 1146-1155 10 p.

See more publications

See NCBI publications

Funded Research Projects

---

View NIH Research