Heather Burrell Ward, MD
@hbwardMD
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Psychiatrist. Assistant Professor @VUMCPsych using fMRI/TMS to study the circuit basis of co-occurring substance use and psychotic disorders. Mom.
Nashville, TN
Joined August 2018
Excited to announce the Notice of Award for my K23, "Network-Targeted Neuromodulation for Nicotine Dependence in Schizophrenia" It truly takes a village, and I have the very best, with a mentorship team of @StephanHeckers @roscoebradyjr @cately00 @hilary_tindle @EdenEvins
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Congratulations, Sahit! You continue to make @VUMCPsych proud! 🎉
Excited to share this new systematic review in @Transl_Psych evaluating neurophysiological correlates for treatment response in suicidal ideation with @CoryWeissman and colleagues (1/x):
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Thank you to Dr. Colleen Hanlon and Dr. Jovana Lubarda for inviting me to "Hear from Her: The Women in Healthcare Leadership" podcast series to talk about "The Brain's Electric Circuitry: Harnessing Neuromodulation to Transform Mental Health" Listen here: https://t.co/kjZ7xeatEF
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Open access free text available now: Effectiveness of transcranial magnetic stimulation for PTSD. I pulled the most important figure - very large PTSD symptom improvement. Over 30 #VA clinics represented - real world results from real-world people. https://t.co/WGwACNLSPi
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Congratulations to Dhvani D. Mehta, BSc for being awarded the NEATOR Award, The Neuropsychopharmacology Editors' Award for a Transformative Original Report @npp_journal
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Happy to share that we will be presenting lots of exciting new data at #SOBP2026 - work on low intensity focused #ultrasound AND new findings using TMS for #PTSD. Going to be a great meeting....
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Led by an amazing team of now @UCSDPsychology grad student Sophia Blyth, @VUMCPsych residents including @vumcpsych_rsch Sahit Menon, and @VandyAtVandy
Excited to share our recent systematic review with a meta-analysis of 47 studies to evaluate the safety/tolerability of TMS for SUD! Existing guidelines are based on expert opinions, not quantitative data. Our paper sought to fill this gap: 🧵 (1/x) https://t.co/1puKkY6R0c
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A study of 356 patients identified three schizophrenia subtypes—distress, negative, and low symptom—based on PANSS profiles. These subtypes differ in emotion, cognition, and functioning. Brain imaging revealed a gradient of cortical volume loss, greatest in the negative subtype,
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🧠mechanisms of psychomotor abnormalities... Our @PNASNews paper shows distinct areas in the primary motor cortex are involved in psychomotor behaviors. Orchestration of complex movement is impaired and could become a TMS🧲target https://t.co/y5YAwhcdbI
https://t.co/UmQCFwKeuj
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Check out the final paper from my @BBRFoundation Young Investigator Award, now published in Nature Mental Health! https://t.co/kP9cFhtHzg
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Four reasons why generative AI chatbots could lead to #psychosis in vulnerable people: @JohnTorousMD @keshavanms
https://t.co/aAUK2DCGqE
statnews.com
“Just like a mirror can distort as much as it reflects, LLMs’ distortion of reality can have real mental health risks that are only beginning to surface.”
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Excited to share our latest work with #Margaret_Hahn #Emily_Smith #Mahavir_Agarwal #Christoph_Correll and collaborators. This is the largest systematic review to date examining disruptions in glycemic control associated with #antipsychotic drugs @JAMAPsych
https://t.co/913JkXLcm7
jamanetwork.com
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the association between antipsychotic drug use and glucose homeostasis while considering weight gain propensity, medication type, and treatment...
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation with symptom provocation improved clinical responses for #OCD and #nicotine dependence. https://t.co/FAg1MjvKxD
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Congratulations, @SanneRooij @DrJenniStevens and team! Such impressive work! 💪🏻
Thrilled to share our new publication in @NatMentHealth! We took a longitudinal, dynamic and transdiagnostic approach to define the r factor for post-trauma resilience that explains >50% of variance in mental wellbeing 6-months after #trauma (1/9) –
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Grip Strength as a Marker of Resting-State Network Integrity and Well-Being in Early Psychosis | American Journal of Psychiatry https://t.co/zxNAFtZYsF
psychiatryonline.org
Objective: Psychomotor function is a critical marker of risk and outcome of psychosis. Grip strength is one aspect of psychomotor function that is known to be linked to structural neural integrity...
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The kind of emails that make your day.✨ This is the second big paper from my lab this year and resumes TMS targets across 4’283 patients living with Schizophrenia 🧲🧠Great work led by Lorina Sinanaj & Kostas Pallis at Synapsy Center for Neuroscience and Mental Health Research.
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Full text out now in this issue of @brainstimj! Pragmatic accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation for posttrauma...
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Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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Senators from both parties endorsed a $400 million increase to the budget of the National Institutes of Health on Thursday
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ICYMI: Finally some good news! The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase! Science for the win.
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Vought has ordered a halt on all extramural NIH funding for the rest of the FY. No words. You cannot let this stand @SenateDems @SenateGOP @NIHDirector_Jay @hubermanlab
https://t.co/tJSaWl7Ddk Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research
wsj.com
The administration halted and then restarted billions in new research grants flowing from the National Institutes of Health.
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