Akiko Mizuno, PhD
Research Instructor in Psychiatry
Contact Details
3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
PA
15213
Email mizunoa3@upmc.edu
Education & Training
PhD
Cognitive Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
Clinical and Translational Research Training in Late Life Mood Disorders, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Interests
Psychosocial & neurocognitive factors in late life; Aging-related brain changes
Selected Research Publications & Products- Mizuno A, Karim HT, Ly MJ, Lopresti BJ, Cohen AD, Ali AA, Mathis CA, Klunk WE, Aizenstein HJ & Snitz BE. Low thalamic activity during a digit-symbol substitution task is associated with symptoms of subjective cognitive decline. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2023;14.
- Kolobaric A*, Mizuno A*, Yang X, George CJ, Seidman A, Aizenstein HJ, Kovacs M & Karim HT. History of major depressive disorder is associated with differences in implicit learning of emotional faces. Journal of psychiatric research. 2023;161:324-32
- Mizuno A, Karim HT, Newmark J, Khan F, Rosenblatt MJ, Neppach AM, Lowe M, Aizenstein HJ, Mennin DS & Andreescu C. Thinking of me or thinking of you? Behavioral correlates of self vs. other centered worry and reappraisal in late-life. Front Psychiatry. 2022;13:780745. Epub 2022/07/12.
- Chen J*, Mizuno A*, Lyew T, Karim HT, Karp JF, Dombrovski AY & Pecina M. Naltrexone modulates contextual processing in depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020;45(12):2070-8.
