Blair Vail

Entering Class 2020

E-MAIL:  [email protected]

Undergraduate Institution and Major:

Columbia University, New York City, New York. B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior, 2017

Undergraduate Publications:

  • Sehatpour P, Dondé C, Hoptman MJ, Kreither J, Adair D, Dias E, Vail B, Rohrig S, Silipo G, Lopez-Calderon J, Martinez A, Javitt DC. Network-level mechanisms underlying effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on visuomotor learning. Neuroimage. 2020;223:117311.
  • Kantrowitz JT, Javitt DC, Freedman R, Sehatpour P, Kegeles LS, Carlson M, Sobeih T, Wall MM, Choo TH, Vail B, Grinband J, Lieberman JA. Double blind, two dose, randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over clinical trial of the positive allosteric modulator at the alpha7 nicotinic cholinergic receptor AVL-3288 in schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2020;45(8):1339-1345.
  • Dondé C, Martínez A, Kantrowitz JT, Silipo G, Dias EC, Patel GH, Sanchez-Peña J, Corcoran CM, Medalia A, Saperstein A, Vail B, Javitt DC. Bimodal distribution of tone-matching deficits indicates discrete pathophysiological entities within the syndrome of schizophrenia. Transl Psychiatry. 2019;9(1):221.
  • Kantrowitz JT, Sehatpour P, Avissar M, Horga G, Gwak A, Hoptman MJ, Beggel O, Girgis RR, Vail B, Silipo G, Carlson M, Javitt DC. Significant improvement in treatment resistant auditory verbal hallucinations after 5 days of double-blind, randomized, sham controlled, fronto-temporal, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): A replication/extension study. Brain Stimul. 2019;12(4):981-991.
  • Avissar M, Xie S, Vail B, Lopez-Calderon J, Wang Y, Javitt DC. Meta-analysis of mismatch negativity to simple versus complex deviants in schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2018;191:23-34.

Graduate Advisor

Alexander Herman, MD/Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
David Darrow, MD/MPH., Department of Neurosurgery

Graduate Honors and Awards:

  • 3M Science and Technology Doctoral Fellowship    2020-2024
  • Deans Distinguished Graduate School Fellowship   2020-2021

 

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