Faculty

Tobias Teichert, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email
Website
Teichert Lab
Assistant
Kate Gurnsey
kag145@pitt.edu

Education & Training

PhD
Psychology, Philipps University
Neuroscience, Columbia University

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Neuroscience

Research Interests

Auditory deficits in schizophrenia; Neural substrate of echoic memory; Adaptation and predictive coding
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. T. Teichert (2017). Loudness and time-dependence of auditory evoked potentials is blunted by the NMDA channel blocker MK-801. Psychiatry Research 256:202-206.
  2. T. Teichert, K. Gurnsey, D. Salisbury & R. Sweet (2016). Contextual processing in unpredictable auditory environments: The limited resource model of auditory refractoriness in the rhesus. Journal of Neurophysiology 116(5), 2125 - 39.
  3. T. Teichert (2016). Tonal frequency affects amplitude but not topography of rhesus monkey cranial EEG components. Hearing Research 336;29-43.
  4. T. Teichert, D. Yu & V. Ferrera (2013). Performance monitoring in monkey frontal eye field. The Journal of Neuroscience 34(5), 1657-71.
  5. T. Teichert, V. Ferrera & J. Grinband (2013). Humans optimize decision-making by delaying decision onset. PLoS One 10.1371.

Clinical Interests

Selected Clinical Publications & Products
  1. E. Kalanthroff, T. Teichert, M. Wheaton, M. Kimeldorf, O. Linkovski, S. Ahmari, A. Fyer, F. Schneier, G. Anholt, H. Simpson (2016). The role of response inhibition in medicated and unmedicated obsessive-compuslive disorder patients: evidence from the stop-signal task. Depression and Anxiety.
  2. T. Teichert*, F. Marquet*, S.-Y. Wu, Y.-S. Tung, M. Downs, S. Want, C. Chen, V.Ferrera, E. Konofagou (2013). Real-time, transcranial monitoring of safe blood-brainbarrier opening in non-human primates. PLoS One. *Both authors contributed equally.
  3. F. Marquet, Y.-S. Tung, T. Teichert, V. Ferrera, E. Konofagou (2011). Noninvasive,transient and selective blood-brain barrier opening in non-human primates in vivo. PLoS One, 6(7).

Education Interests

Research mentorship

Pitt Psychiatry’s 2025 Research Day, Part I: A Celebration of Science

Research Day Attendees

The 23rd annual Department of Psychiatry Research Day, held on June 12, 2025, was the most highly attended Research Day ever, with 653 faculty members, trainees, and staff gathering at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum on the University of Pittsburgh campus. Lunchtime Roundtables More than 300 individuals participated in or facilitated one of 30 roundtable discussion groups focused on topics including...

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Promotes Tobias Teichert, PhD, to Associate Professor of Psychiatry 

Tobias Teichert, PhD, Promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry

We are delighted to announce that Tobias Teichert, PhD, has been promoted to Associate Professor of Psychiatry by the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Teichert received his PhD in psychology from Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) and completed postdoctoral training at the Columbia University Department of Neuroscience. After serving for a year as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia, Dr...

Department Researchers Probe Auditory Short-Term Memory to Learn More About Auditory Deficits in Schizophrenia

Teichert & Gurnsey 2019 Journal of Neurophysiology

People with schizophrenia have deficits in some aspects of auditory short-term memory that impair their ability to discriminate between similar sounds. A new study from Pitt Department of Psychiatry researchers explored the short-term storage of auditory information in rhesus monkeys to learn more about how this process goes awry in schizophrenia; they found that monkeys and humans share a simple form of auditory...

MindScapes Art Exhibit Aims to Reduce Mental Health Stigma

Mindscapes, an exhibit of artwork created by Pittsburgh brain researchers and people who have experienced mental illness, was held at The Image Box as part of the Unblurred: First Fridays on Penn monthly art crawl. Drs. Lizzie Manning and Micah Shelton, researchers from the Translational Neuroscience Program (working with Dr. Susanne Ahmari and Dr. Ryan Logan, respectively), held the event during national Mental...