Ellen Bradley, MD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2021
• Research Fellowship San Francisco VA Medical Center
• BA Stanford University
• Psychiatry Residency University of California, San Francisco
• MD Yale University

Grants and Projects

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• A pharmaco-imaging approach to predicting social functioning and clinical responses to oxytocin administration in schizophrenia, Veterans Affairs Health Care System, 2019-2024
• Quantifying oxytocin effects on vocal expression in schizophrenia, NIH, 2020-2024
• Psilocybin's effects on cognitive flexibility, surrogate markers of neural plasticity, and systemic inflammation: an ancillary study to a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in patients with Major Depressive Disorder, Resource Allocation Program (RAP), 2021-2022

Publications (14)

Top publication keywords:
Social PerceptionCompetitive BehaviorMemory, Short-TermObject AttachmentMotivationOxytocicsCross-Over StudiesReinforcement, SocialOxytocinFacial RecognitionFixation, OcularSchizophreniaDecision MakingRewardSchizophrenic Psychology

• Quantifying abnormal emotion processing: a novel computational assessment method and application in schizophrenia.
  Psychiatry Research 2024 Ellen R. Bradley, Jake Portanova, Josh D. Woolley, Benjamin Buck, Ian S. Painter, Michael Hankin, Weizhe Xu, Trevor Cohen
• A Plea for Nuance: Should People with a Family History of Bipolar Disorder Be Excluded from Clinical Trials of Psilocybin Therapy?.
  Psychedelic Medicine 2024 Amanda E. Downey, Ellen R. Bradley, Anna S. Lerche, Aoife O'Donovan, Andrew D. Krystal, Joshua Woolley
• Personal Psychedelic Use Is Common Among a Sample of Psychedelic Therapists: Implications for Research and Practice.
  Psychedelic Medicine 2023 Jacob S. Aday, Zachary Skiles, Noa Eaton, Lisa Fredenburg, Mollie Pleet, Jessica Mantia, Ellen R. Bradley, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold, Joshua D. Woolley
• Evaluating the Risk of Psilocybin for the Treatment of Bipolar Depression: A Review of the Research Literature and Published Case Studies.
  Journal of Affective Disorders Reports 2021 David E. Gard, Mollie M. Pleet, Ellen R. Bradley, Andrew Penn, Matthew L. Gallenstein, Lauren S. Riley, Meghan DellaCrosse, Emily Garfinkle, Erin E. Michalak, Joshua D. Woolley
• Preliminary evidence that oxytocin does not improve mentalizing in women with schizophrenia.
  Hormones and behavior 2020 Bradley ER, Tai M, Hankin M, Woolley JD

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• Oxytocin increases eye gaze in schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia research 2019 Bradley ER, Seitz A, Niles AN, Rankin KP, Mathalon DH, O'Donovan A, Woolley JD
• Victory is its own reward: oxytocin increases costly competitive behavior in schizophrenia.
  Psychological medicine 2019 Bradley ER, Brustkern J, De Coster L, van den Bos W, McClure SM, Seitz A, Woolley JD
• Oxytocin does not improve working memory in schizophrenia.
  Schizophrenia research 2019 Bradley ER, van Nieuwenhuizen A, Abram S, Niles AN, Woolley JD
• S184. Oxytocin Increases Gaze to the Eyes in Schizophrenia.
  Biological Psychiatry 2018 Alison Seitz, Ellen Bradley, Andrea Niles, Aoife O'Donovan, Daniel Mathalon, Katherine Rankin, Josh Woolley
• S243. Heightened Effect of Unfairness and no Effect of Oxytocin on Ultimatum Game Behavior in Schizophrenia.
  Biological Psychiatry 2018 Ellen Bradley, Tim Campellone, Wouter van den Bos, Samuel McClure, Josh Woolley
• Oxytocin effects in schizophrenia: Reconciling mixed findings and moving forward.
  Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews 2017 Bradley ER, Woolley JD
• 1009 Oxytocin Enhances Overbidding in Multiplayer Auctions.
  Biological Psychiatry 2017 Ellen Bradley, Johanna Brustkern, Lize De Coster, Wouter van den Bos, Samuel McClure, Josh Woolley
• Postpartum depression screening in the pediatric emergency department.
  Pediatric emergency care 2014 Emerson BL, Bradley ER, Riera A, Mayes L, Bechtel K
• Control of intestinal bacterial proliferation in regulation of lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans.
  BMC microbiology 2012 Portal-Celhay C, Bradley ER, Blaser MJ