Hillary Blumberg, M.D.

Appointments & Promotions

  • Professor of Psychiatry, Diagnostic Radiology and in the Child Study Center

Community Service

  • Continued service on the Board of CT-NAMI

Grants & Patent Awards

  • International Bipolar Disorder Foundation “The Development of Bipolar Disorder in Adolescence”

Publications and Presentations

  • Kerestes, R., C.D. Ladouceur, S. Meda, P.J. Nathan, H.P.Blumberg, K. Maloney, B. Ruf, A. Saricicek, G.D. Pearlson, Z. Bhagwagar, M.L. Phillips. Abnormal prefrontal activity subserving attentional control of emotion in remitted depressed patients during a working memory task with emotional distracters. Psychological Medicine. 2012, 42:29-40. PMID: 21733287
  • Ho, H.P., F. Wang, X. Papademetris, H.P.Blumberg, L.H. Staib.  Fasciculography: robust prior-free real-time normalized volumetric neural tract parcellation. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2012, 31:217-230. PMID: 21914568
  • Spann, M.N., L.C. Mayes, J.H. Kalmar, J. Guiney, F.Y. Womer, B. Pittman, C.M. Mazure, R. Sinha, H.P.Blumberg. Childhood abuse and neglect and cognitive flexibility in adolescents. Child Neuropsychology. 2012, 18:182-189. PMCID: PMC3326262
  • Liu, J., T.M. Chaplan, F. Wang, R. Sinha, L.C. Mayes, H.P.Blumberg. Stress reactivity and corticolimbic response to emotional faces in adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 2012, 51:304–312. PMCID: PMC3292764
  • Chepenik, L.G., F. Wang, L. Spencer, M. Spann, J.H. Kalmar, F. Womer, K.E. Edmiston, B. Pittman, H.P.Blumberg. Structure-function associations in hippocampus in bipolar disorder. Biological Psychology. 2012, 90:18-22. PMCID: PMC3319637
  • Liu, J., B.N. Blond, L.I. van Dyck, L. Spencer, F. Wang, H.P. Blumberg. Trait and state corticostriatal dysfunction in bipolar disorder during emotional face processing. Bipolar Disorders. 2012, 14:432-41. PMCID: PMC3361579.
  • Strakowski, S.M., C.M. Adler, J. Almeida, L.L. Altshuler, H.P.Blumberg, K. Chang, M.P. DelBello, S. Frangou, A. McIntosh, M. Phillips, J. Sussman, J. Townsend. The functional neuroanatomy of bipolar disorder: a consensus model from the ISBD NEUROIMAGING TASK FORCE. Bipolar Disorders. 2012, 14:313-325. PMID: 22631617
  • Blond, B.N., C.A. Fredericks, H.P.Blumberg. Functional neuroanatomy of bipolar disorder: structure, function and connectivity in an amygdala-anterior paralimbic neural system. Bipolar Disorders. 2012, 14:340-55. PMID: 22631619
  • Kerestes, R., Z. Bhagwagar, P.J. Nathan, S. Meda, C.D. Ladouceur, K. Maloney, B. Ruf, A. Saricicek, F. Wang, G. Pearlson, M.L. Phillips, H.P.Blumberg. Prefrontal cortical response to emotional faces in individuals with major depressive disorder in remission. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging. 2012, 202:30-37.   PMID: 22595508
  • Xu, K., W. Jiang, L. Ren, X. Ouyang, Y. Jiang, F. Wu, F. Womer, Z. Liu, H.P.Blumberg, Y. Tang, F. Wang. Impaired interhemispheric connectivity in medication naïve subjects with major depressive disorder. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 2012 Apr 3;37(3):110132. doi: 10.1503/cjs.110132. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22498077
  • Van Dyck, L., B. Pittman, and H.P.Blumberg. Non-right-handedness in adolescents and adults with bipolar disorder.Bipolar Disorders 2012, 14:571-72. PMCID: PMC3408619
  • Whalley, H.C., M. Papmeyer, L. Romaniuk, E. Sprooten, E.C. Johnstone, J. Hall, S.M. Lawrie, K.L. Evans, H.P.Blumberg, J.E. Sussmann, A.M. McIntosh. Impact of a microRNA MIR137 susceptibility variant on brain function in people at high genetic risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, Neuropsychopharmacology 2012 Aug 1. doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.137. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 22850735
  • Wang, F., L. Bobrow, J. Liu, L. Spencer, H.P. Blumberg. Corticolimbic functional connectivity in adolescents with bipolar disorder, PLoS One, 2012;7(11):e50177. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050177. Epub 2012 Nov 21.
  • Perlis, R.H., and H.P.Blumberg. Integrating imaging and genetics research: towards personalized medicine. In The Bipolar Brain: Integrating Neuroimaging and Genetics, eds. S. Strakowski, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012, pp. 239-252.
  • Blumberg, H.P. Euthymia, depression, and mania: what do we know about the switch? Biological Psychiatry. 2012, 71:570-571. PMID: 22424111