Jennifer Townsend
Research Collaborator
Radiology
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Pre-Health Certificate Pre-Medicine SFSU 05/2010
• BA Psychology, Biological Basis of Behavior University of Pennsylvania 05/2002
• MD Medicine UCSF

Interests

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• Amygdala and limbic system
• AI
• Emotion and emotion regulation
• fMRI
• Evidence-based patient-centered integrative medicine
• Resilience and trauma

Publications (31)

Top publication keywords:
AmygdalaDown-RegulationPrefrontal CortexMemory DisordersModels, AnatomicBrain MappingFunctional NeuroimagingEmotionsBipolar DisorderMagnetic Resonance ImagingNeural PathwaysFrontal LobeBasal GangliaCerebral Blood VolumeMemory, Short-Term

• Highly accelerated submillimeter resolution 3D GRASE with controlled T2 blurring in T2 -weighted functional MRI at 7 Tesla: A feasibility study.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 Park S, Torrisi S, Townsend JD, Beckett A, Feinberg DA
• Comparison of BOLD and CBV using 3D EPI and 3D GRASE for cortical layer functional MRI at 7 T.
  Magnetic resonance in medicine 2020 Beckett AJS, Dadakova T, Townsend J, Huber L, Park S, Feinberg DA
• Neural Subtypes of Euthymic Bipolar I Disorder Characterized by Emotion Regulation Circuitry.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2020 Njau S, Townsend J, Wade B, Hellemann G, Bookheimer S, Narr K, Brooks JO
• Simultaneous Multi-VENC and Simultaneous Multi-Slice Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
  IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2019 Park S, Chen L, Townsend J, Lee H, Feinberg DA
• Relationships Between Altered Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Activation and Cortical Thickness in Patients With Euthymic Bipolar I Disorder.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2016 Joshi SH, Vizueta N, Foland-Ross L, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Thompson PM, Narr KL, Altshuler LL

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• Frontal lobe hypoactivation in medication-free adults with bipolar II depression during response inhibition.
  Psychiatry research 2014 Penfold C, Vizueta N, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Differences in resting corticolimbic functional connectivity in bipolar I euthymia.
  Bipolar disorders 2013 Torrisi S, Moody TD, Vizueta N, Thomason ME, Monti MM, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Three-dimensional mapping of hippocampal and amygdalar structure in euthymic adults with bipolar disorder not treated with lithium.
  Psychiatry research 2012 Foland-Ross LC, Thompson PM, Sugar CA, Narr KL, Penfold C, Vasquez RE, Townsend J, Fischer J, Saharan P, Bearden CE, Altshuler LL
• Frontostriatal neuroimaging findings differ in patients with bipolar disorder who have or do not have ADHD comorbidity.
  Journal of affective disorders 2012 Townsend JD, Sugar CA, Walshaw PD, Vasquez RE, Foland-Ross LC, Moody TD, Bookheimer SY, McGough JJ, Altshuler LL
• Frontal-amygdala connectivity alterations during emotion downregulation in bipolar I disorder.
  Biological psychiatry 2012 Townsend JD, Torrisi SJ, Lieberman MD, Sugar CA, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Regional fMRI hypoactivation and altered functional connectivity during emotion processing in nonmedicated depressed patients with bipolar II disorder.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2012 Vizueta N, Rudie JD, Townsend JD, Torrisi S, Moody TD, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Deficits in inferior frontal cortex activation in euthymic bipolar disorder patients during a response inhibition task.
  Bipolar disorders 2012 Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Foland-Ross LC, Moody TD, Eisenberger NI, Fischer JS, Cohen MS, Sugar CA, Altshuler LL
• Emotion processing and regulation in bipolar disorder: a review.
  Bipolar disorders 2012 Townsend J, Altshuler LL
• The functional neuroanatomy of bipolar disorder: a consensus model.
  Bipolar disorders 2012 Strakowski SM, Adler CM, Almeida J, Altshuler LL, Blumberg HP, Chang KD, DelBello MP, Frangou S, McIntosh A, Phillips ML, Sussman JE, Townsend JD
• Anterior cingulate activation relates to local cortical thickness.
  Neuroreport 2012 Hegarty CE, Foland-Ross LC, Narr KL, Townsend JD, Bookheimer SY, Thompson PM, Altshuler LL
• Mood-state effects on amygdala volume in bipolar disorder.
  Journal of affective disorders 2012 Foland-Ross LC, Brooks JO, Mintz J, Bartzokis G, Townsend J, Thompson PM, Altshuler LL
• Normal amygdala activation but deficient ventrolateral prefrontal activation in adults with bipolar disorder during euthymia.
  NeuroImage 2011 Foland-Ross LC, Bookheimer SY, Lieberman MD, Sugar CA, Townsend JD, Fischer J, Torrisi S, Penfold C, Madsen SK, Thompson PM, Altshuler LL
• Investigation of cortical thickness abnormalities in lithium-free adults with bipolar I disorder using cortical pattern matching.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2011 Foland-Ross LC, Thompson PM, Sugar CA, Madsen SK, Shen JK, Penfold C, Ahlf K, Rasser PE, Fischer J, Yang Y, Townsend J, Bookheimer SY, Altshuler LL
• Differential electrophysiological response during rest, self-referential, and non-self-referential tasks in human posteromedial cortex.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011 Dastjerdi M, Foster BL, Nasrullah S, Rauschecker AM, Dougherty RF, Townsend JD, Chang C, Greicius MD, Menon V, Kennedy DP, Parvizi J
• Amygdala reactivity in healthy adults is correlated with prefrontal cortical thickness.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Foland-Ross LC, Altshuler LL, Bookheimer SY, Lieberman MD, Townsend J, Penfold C, Moody T, Ahlf K, Shen JK, Madsen SK, Rasser PE, Toga AW, Thompson PM
• fMRI activation in the amygdala and the orbitofrontal cortex in unmedicated subjects with major depressive disorder.
  Psychiatry research 2010 Townsend JD, Eberhart NK, Bookheimer SY, Eisenberger NI, Foland-Ross LC, Cook IA, Sugar CA, Altshuler LL
• fMRI abnormalities in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during a working memory task in manic, euthymic and depressed bipolar subjects.
  Psychiatry research 2010 Townsend J, Bookheimer SY, Foland-Ross LC, Sugar CA, Altshuler LL
• Abnormalities of visual processing and frontostriatal systems in body dysmorphic disorder.
  Archives of general psychiatry 2010 Feusner JD, Moody T, Hembacher E, Townsend J, McKinley M, Moller H, Bookheimer S
• Alterations in functional activation in euthymic bipolar disorder and schizophrenia during a working memory task.
  Human brain mapping 2009 Hamilton LS, Altshuler LL, Townsend J, Bookheimer SY, Phillips OR, Fischer J, Woods RP, Mazziotta JC, Toga AW, Nuechterlein KH, Narr KL
• Regional brain volumes and symptom severity in body dysmorphic disorder.
  Psychiatry research 2009 Feusner JD, Townsend J, Bystritsky A, McKinley M, Moller H, Bookheimer S
• Regional brain changes in bipolar I depression: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
  Bipolar disorders 2008 Altshuler L, Bookheimer S, Townsend J, Proenza MA, Sabb F, Mintz J, Cohen MS
• Increased volume of the amygdala and hippocampus in bipolar patients treated with lithium.
  Neuroreport 2008 Foland LC, Altshuler LL, Sugar CA, Lee AD, Leow AD, Townsend J, Narr KL, Asuncion DM, Toga AW, Thompson PM
• Evidence for deficient modulation of amygdala response by prefrontal cortex in bipolar mania.
  Psychiatry research 2007 Foland LC, Altshuler LL, Bookheimer SY, Eisenberger N, Townsend J, Thompson PM
• Visual information processing of faces in body dysmorphic disorder.
  Archives of general psychiatry 2007 Feusner JD, Townsend J, Bystritsky A, Bookheimer S
• Blunted activation in orbitofrontal cortex during mania: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
  Biological psychiatry 2005 Altshuler LL, Bookheimer SY, Townsend J, Proenza MA, Eisenberger N, Sabb F, Mintz J, Cohen MS
• Increased amygdala activation during mania: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study.
  The American journal of psychiatry 2005 Altshuler L, Bookheimer S, Proenza MA, Townsend J, Sabb F, Firestine A, Bartzokis G, Mintz J, Mazziotta J, Cohen MS