Brian Mohlenhoff, MD
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Brian Mohlenhoff, MD, is the Director of Pharmacotherapy for the posttraumatic stress disorder program at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He studied the history and sociology of medicine at the City University of New York, earned his M.D. at UCSF in 2009 and then stayed at UCSF for his residency in general adult psychiatry.
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He completed a VA Advanced Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment, researching PTSD, sleep and cognition with Dr. Thomas Neylan and the Stress and Health Research Program and working in the neuroimaging lab of Dr. Michael Weiner. His clinical and research interests include PTSD, the use of dogs in the treatment of PTSD and the contribution of sleep problems to the symptoms and sequelae of PTSD.
Interests
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- posttraumatic stress disorder
- sleep
- veteran care
- cognition
- canine-assisted therapy
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
Gulf WarSleep Initiation and Maintenance DisordersDementiaBiophysicsHippocampusSelf ReportDisabled PersonsVeteransStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticLegislation as TopicSleepSpectrophotometry, InfraredMemory DisordersHallucinationsSleep Wake Disorders
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Pretreatment stabilization increases completion of trauma-focused evidence-based psychotherapies.
Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy 2022 Staudenmeyer AH, Maxwell S, Mohlenhoff B, Yasser J, Schmitz M, Metzler T, Maguen S, Neylan T, Wolfe W -
Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults.
JAMA network open 2021 Insel PS, Mohlenhoff BS, Neylan TC, Krystal AD, Mackin RS -
Laws and Ethics Related to Emotional Support Animals.
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 2020 Carroll JD, Mohlenhoff BS, Kersten CM, McNiel DE, Binder RL -
Total Sleep Time Interacts With Age to Predict Cognitive Performance Among Adults.
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2018 Mohlenhoff BS, Insel PS, Mackin RS, Neylan TC, Flenniken D, Nosheny R, Richards A, Maruff P, Weiner MW -
Dementia Risk in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: the Relevance of Sleep-Related Abnormalities in Brain Structure, Amyloid, and Inflammation.
Current psychiatry reports 2017 Mohlenhoff BS, O'Donovan A, Weiner MW, Neylan TC
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Sleep and Cognitive Performance From Teens To Old Age: More Is Not Better.
Sleep 2017 Anne Richards, Sabra S. Inslicht, Thomas J. Metzler, Brian S. Mohlenhoff, Madhu N. Rao, Aoife O’Donovan, Thomas C. Neylan -
Cerebrospinal fluid α-synuclein and Lewy body-like symptoms in normal controls, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2015 Mackin RS, Insel P, Zhang J, Mohlenhoff B, Galasko D, Weiner M, Mattsson N -
Are hippocampal size differences in posttraumatic stress disorder mediated by sleep pathology?
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014 Mohlenhoff BS, Chao LL, Buckley ST, Weiner MW, Neylan TC -
Effects of traumatic brain injury and posttraumatic stress disorder on Alzheimer's disease in veterans, using the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2014 Weiner MW, Veitch DP, Hayes J, Neylan T, Grafman J, Aisen PS, Petersen RC, Jack C, Jagust W, Trojanowski JQ, Shaw LM, Saykin AJ, Green RC, Harvey D, Toga AW, Friedl KE, Pacifico A, Sheline Y, Yaffe K,… -
Associations between subjective sleep quality and brain volume in Gulf War veterans.
Sleep 2014 Chao LL, Mohlenhoff BS, Weiner MW, Neylan TC -
Infrared micro-spectroscopy of human cells: Causes for the spectral variance of oral mucosa (buccal) cells.
Vibrational Spectroscopy 2006 Romeo M, Mohlenhoff B, Diem M -
Infrared micro-spectroscopic studies of epithelial cells.
Biochimica et biophysica acta 2006 Romeo M, Mohlenhoff B, Jennings M, Diem M -
Mie-type scattering and non-Beer-Lambert absorption behavior of human cells in infrared microspectroscopy.
Biophysical journal 2005 Mohlenhoff B, Romeo M, Diem M, Wood BR