Ian Greenhouse
PhD Student,  UCSD

email address: igreenhouse@ucsd.edu

Biography: Ian is from Noank, Connecticut and attended Tufts University as an undergraduate from 2000-2004.  He received a bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology.  While at Tufts he worked in the laboratory of Dr. Bob Cook where he studied memory and visual cognition in pigeons.  After graduation he worked at Harvard Medical School under Dr. Stephan Heckers and Dr. Dost Öngür where he conducted research on memory and reward function in patients with psychiatric illnesses through the application of behavioral tests, structural and functional MRI, and in vivo MR Spectroscopy.  He moved to San Francisco in 2006 to work in the Gazzaley Lab where he initiated an fMRI clinical trial and served as a midwife for the birth of the UCSF, Neuroscience Imaging Center.  He is now pursuing a PhD at the University of California San Diego.

Research Description: Ian worked as a Research Associate at UCSF and UC Berkeley under Dr. Adam Gazzaley from August, 2006 to August, 2007.  His primary roll was to initiate a double-blind placebo-controlled fMRI investigation of the effects of the acetylcholinesterase inhibitor Aricept on memory and attention in individuals diagnosed with Mild Cognitive Impairment.  In addition to this project he conducted a behavioral investigation of the ability to intentionally forget previously encoded images.  He helped design and build the infrastructure for data collection and analysis at the UCSF, Neuroscience Imaging Center.  Lastly, he collected and analyzed fMRI data for a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study.
Ian currently works in the laboratory of Dr. Adam Aron at UCSD where he is studying the mechanisms of cognitive control in clinical and healthy populations.

Publications:
Sim K, DeWitt I, Ditman T, Zalesak M, Greenhouse I, Goff D, Weiss AP, Heckers S (2006) Hippocampal and parahippocampal volumes in schizophrenia: a structural MRI study. Schizophrenia Bulletin 32(2): 332-340
Abler B, Greenhouse I, Öngür D, Heckers S (2007) Abnormal reward system activation in mania. Neuropsychopharmacology  In press.
Abstracts:
Greenhouse I, Cohen BM, Renshaw PF, Öngür D (2006) Combined group ICA and GLM analysis of resting state network in bipolar disorder using fMRI. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. (95.5/OO13)
Abler B, Greenhouse I, Öngür D, Heckers S (2007) Neural mechanisms of anticipation and receipt of reward in patients with schizophrenia and bipolar. Human Brain Mapping Abstracts.
Lundy M, Greenhouse I, Cohen B, Renshaw P, Öngür D (2007) Default-mode network in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. (608.16/II1)
Acknowledgments:
Öngür D, Cullen TJ, Wolf DH, Rohan M, Barreira P, Zalesak M, Heckers S (2006) The neural basis of relational memory deficits in schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psychiatry 63(4): 356-365.