Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.

Pittsburgh

15213

Email stujenskejm@upmc.edu

Education & Training

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

PhD

Neuroscience, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Psychiatry, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center

Research Interests

Brain mechanisms underlying safety; Fear & anxiety

Selected Research Publications & Products

Stujenske JM, O'Neill P, Fernandes-Henriques C, Nahmoud I, Goldburg SR, Singh A, Diaz L, Labkovich M, Hardin W, Bolkan SS, Reardon TR, Spellman TJ, Salzman CD, Gordon JA, Liston C, Likhtik E (2022). Prelimbic cortex drives discrimination of non-aversion via amygdala somatostatin interneurons. Neuron 110:2258-2267.e11
Bolkan SS, Stujenske JM, Parnaudeau S, Spellman TJ, Gordon JA, Kellendonk C (2017). Thalamo-prefrontal inhibition disrupts prefrontal delay period activity supporting working memory. Nature Neuroscience 20:987-996. PMCID: PMC5501395
Likhtik E, Stujenske JM, Topiwalla MA, Harris AZ, Gordon JA (2013) Prefrontal inputs to the amygdala signal safety in learned fear and innate anxiety. Nature Neuroscience 17:106-13. PMCID: PMC4035371

December 8, 2023

Department

Pitt Psychiatry News from the 2023 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Annual Meeting

Many University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry faculty and trainees attended the 2023 American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting to learn about and present new research, and connect with colleagues. Below is a recap of Pitt Psychiatry news from the meeting: Honorific Award Mary Phillips, MD, MD (Cantab) (Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Clinical and Translational Science, and...

September 18, 2023

Faculty

The Department of Psychiatry Welcomes New Faculty Members Douglas D’Agati, MD; Andrew Gerlach, PhD; and Joseph Stujenske, MD, PhD

Pitt Psychiatry extends a warm welcome to three new faculty members: Douglas D’Agati, MD (Assistant Professor of Psychiatry) Dr. D’Agati received his MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and completed his psychiatry residency training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he served as chief resident. Dr. D’Agati then completed a clinical research fellowship (the Alexander Wilson Schweizer...