Andrew Lee, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• P&S Investigator, Brain Behavior Research Foundation, 2020-2022
• AP Giannini Award Finalist, 2020
• Academic Scholarship Award, UCSF, 2020
• American Psychiatric Society Research Colloquium, APA, 2019
• NIMH Outstanding Resident Award, NIMH, 2018
• UCSF MSTP, UCSF, 2007-2016
• Magna Cum Laude, Northwestern University, 2003-2007
• Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University, 2003-2007

Education & Training

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• Psychiatry- Residency UCSF 06/2020
• MD Medicine UCSF 06/2016
• PhD Neuroscience UCSF 06/2013
• BA Neuroscience, Math, Integrated Science Northwestern University 06/2007

Interests

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• OCD
• Tic Disorder
• Anxiety-Spectrum Disorders
• Neuromodulation
• Neural Circuits

Websites

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• TMS and Neuromodulation Clinic (psych.ucsf.edu)
• Foundation for OCD Research (ffor.org)
• OCD and Tic Disorder Clinic (psychiatry.ucsf.edu)

Grants and Projects

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• Direct Intracranial Electrophysiological Mapping of Insular Circuits for Anxiety in the Human Brain, NIH, 2021-2025
• Advancing DBS for OCD, Foundation for OCD Research, 2020-2025
• Targeting DBS Therapy to the OCD Network Using fMRI and Intracranial Recordings, NIMH, 2022-2024
• Using MR Imaging to Personalize and Target Neuromodulation to Treat OCD, UCSF Resource Allocation Program, 2022
• Direct Electrophysiological Mapping of Insular Circuits for Anxiety, Brain and Behavior Foundation- P&S Fund, 2021-2022
• Genomics of OCD, Foundation for OCD Research

Publications (7)

Top publication keywords:
Brain StemCorpus StriatumInternal CapsuleMesencephalonNeural PathwaysDecision MakingPrimatesNeuronsLocomotionBasal GangliaDeep Brain StimulationArousalVisual CortexDepressionMice

• Intracranial electrical stimulation of corticolimbic sites modulates arousal in humans.
  Brain stimulation 2023 Fan JM, Lee AM, Sellers KK, Woodworth K, Makhoul GS, Liu TX, Henderson C, Astudillo Maya DA, Martinez R, Zamanian H, Speidel BA, Khambhati AN, Rao VR, Sugrue LP, Scangos KW, Chang EF, Krystal AD
• Identification of a personalized intracranial biomarker of depression and response to DBS therapy.
  Brain stimulation 2021 Frank AC, Scangos KW, Larson PS, Norbu T, Lee AT, Lee AM
• Human Responses to Visually Evoked Threat.
  Current biology : CB 2020 Yilmaz Balban M, Cafaro E, Saue-Fletcher L, Washington MJ, Bijanzadeh M, Lee AM, Chang EF, Huberman AD
• Cell-Type-Specific Control of Brainstem Locomotor Circuits by Basal Ganglia.
  Cell 2016 Roseberry TK, Lee AM, Lalive AL, Wilbrecht L, Bonci A, Kreitzer AC
• Between the primate and 'reptilian' brain: Rodent models demonstrate the role of corticostriatal circuits in decision making.
  Neuroscience 2015 Lee AM, Tai LH, Zador A, Wilbrecht L
• Identification of a brainstem circuit regulating visual cortical state in parallel with locomotion.
  Neuron 2014 Lee AM, Hoy JL, Bonci A, Wilbrecht L, Stryker MP, Niell CM
• Transient stimulation of distinct subpopulations of striatal neurons mimics changes in action value.
  Nature neuroscience 2012 Tai LH, Lee AM, Benavidez N, Bonci A, Wilbrecht L