Konasale M Prasad, MD, MBBS (MD)

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Bioengineering

Areas of Expertise

  • Psychosis
  • Basic & Translational Neuroscience
Konasale Prasad, MD, MBBS (MD)
Expertise & Interests Selected Publications Education & Credentials Related News

Expertise & Interests

Research Interests

Network neuroscience related to risk for psychoses; Multimodal neuroimaging; Schizophrenia treatment clinical trials

Clinical Interests

Psychosis in early life & during early course; Psychopharmacological management; Psychotherapeutic management of psychosis

Education Interests

Research mentorship; Resident education; Medical student clinical & research training

Selected Publications

  1. Lewis M, Jiang W, Theis ND, Cape J and Prasad KM. Classification of psychosis spectrum disorders using graph convolutional networks with structurally constrained functional connectomes. Neural Networks 2025 Vol. 181 Pages 106771
  2. Theis N, Bahuguna J, Rubin JE, Banerjee SS, Muldoon B and Prasad KM. Energy of functional brain states correlates with cognition in adolescent-onset schizophrenia and healthy persons, Human Brain Mapping, 2025, 46:e70129; https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.70129
  3. Prasad KM, Burgess AM, Keshavan MS, Nimgaonkar VL, Stanley JA. Neuropil pruning in early-course schizophrenia: Immunological, Clinical and Cognitive Correlates, Biol Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 2016 Nov;1:528-538
  4. DAiuto L, Prasad KM, Upton CH, Viggiano L, Milosevic J, Raimondi G, McClain L, Chowdari KV, Tischfield J, Sheldon M, Moore J, Yolken RH, Kinchington P, Nimgaonkar VL. Persistent infection with HSV-1 associated with changes in working memory, brain activation patterns and functional architecture of iPSC-derived neurons, Schizophr Bull, 2015 Jan;41(1):123-32. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbu032. Epub 2014 Mar 12. PubMed PMID: 24622295; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4266288 (*equally contributed to the manuscript)
  5. Prasad KM, Eack SM, Keshavan MS, Yolken RH, Iyengar S, Nimgaonkar VL. Antiherpes Virus-Specific Treatment and Cognition in Schizophrenia: A Test-of-Concept Randomized Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Trial. Schizophr Bull. 2013 Jul;39(4):857-66. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbs040. Epub 2012 Mar 23. PubMed PMID: 22446565; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3686443.
  6. Prasad KM. Course and Prognosis of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, (In Press) Oxford University Press, United Kingdom.
  7. Prasad KM, Horner MS. Psychiatric Assessment, In Oxford American Handbook of Psychiatry (Eds) Kupfer DJ, Horner MS, Brent DA, Lewis DA, Reynolds CF, Thase ME and Travis MJ, 2008. pp. 37-96. Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  8. Prasad KM, Keshavan MS. Structural cerebral variations as useful endophenotypes in schizophrenia: Do they help construct extended endophenotypes? Schizophr Bull. 2008 Jul;34(4): 774-790. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbn017. Epub 2008 Apr 11 PubMed PMID: 18408230; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2632444.
  9. Prasad KM, Nimgaonkar VL. Gene Mapping Studies for Schizophrenia: How useful are they for the clinician? In Neurogenetics of Psychiatric Disorders, (Ed) Sawa A & McInnis M, 2007. pp. 35-54. Taylor & Francis, New York, USA.
  10. Roffman JL, Simon AB, Prasad KM, Truman CJ, Morrison J, Ernst CL. Neuroscience in Psychiatry Training: How much do residents need to know? Am J Psychiatry. 2006 May;163:5:919-926. PubMed PMID: 16648336.

Education & Credentials

Education & Training

Education
MD, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Education
MBBS (MD), Government Medical College
Residency
Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
Residency
Psychiatry, Oxford Deanery & Region, Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom
Residency
Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Postdoctoral
Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Professional Affiliations

  • Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry
  • Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping

Selected Honors & Awards

  • Fellowship Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry
  • Outstanding Resident Award, National Institute of Mental Health

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