Dr. James J. Levitt
Brockton VA Medical Center, USA
Associate Professor
Email: jlevitt@bwh.harvard.edu
Qualifications
1979 M.D., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1975 B.A., Harvard College
Publications(selected)
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Hirayasu Y, Potts GF, O'Donnell BF, Kwon JS, Arakaki H, Akdag SJ, Levitt JJ, Shenton ME, McCarley RW: Auditory mismatch negativity in schizophrenia: topographic evaluation with a high density recording montage. Am J Psychiatry 1998; 155: 1281-1284.
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Goff DC, Tsai G, Levitt JJ, Amico E, Manoach D, Schoenfeld DA, Hayden DL, McCarley RW, Coyle JT: A placebo-controlled trial of D-cycloserine added to conventional neuroleptics in patients with schizophrenia. Arch Gen Psych 1999; 56: 21-27.
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McCarley RW, Wible CG, Frumin M, Hirayasu Y, Levitt JJ, Fischer IA, Shenton ME: MRI Anatomy of Schizophrenia. Biol Pyschiatry 1999; 45: 1099-1119.
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Levitt JJ, McCarley RW, Nestor PG, Petrescu C, Donnino R, Hirayasu Y, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, Shenton ME: Quantitative volumetric MRI study of the cerebellum and vermis in schizophrenia: clinical and cognitive correlates. Am J Psychiatry 1999; 156: 1105-1107.
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Niznikiewicz M, Donnino R, McCarley RW, Nestor PG, Iosifescu DV, O’Donnell BF, Levitt JJ, Shenton ME: Abnormal Angular Gyrus Asymmetry in Schizophrenia. American J Psychiatry 2000; 157: 428-437.
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Budimirovic D, Levitt J, Garshick E: A case of treatment-resistant schizoaffective disorder bipolar type and sleep disordered breathing. Engrami 2000; 22: 127-152.
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Hirayasu Y, Tanaka S, Shenton ME, Salisbury DF, DeSantis MA, Levitt JJ, Wible CG, Yurgelun-Todd D, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW: Prefrontal gray matter volume reduction in first episode schizophrenia.Cerebral Cortex 2001; 11: 374-381.
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Wible CG, Anderson J, Shenton ME, Kricun A, Hirayasu Y, Tanaka S, Levitt JJ, O’Donnell BF, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW: Prefrontal cortex, negative symptoms, and schizophrenia: An MRI study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2001; 108(2): 65-78.
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Levitt JJ, McCarley RW, Dickey CC, Voglmaier MM, Niznikiewicz MA, Seidman LJ, Hirayasu Y, Ciszewski AA, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, Shenton ME: MRI study of caudate nucleus volume and its cognitive correlates in neuroleptic-naive patients with schizotypal personality disorder. Am J Psychiatry 2002; 159: 1190-1197.
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Levitt JJ, Westin C-F, Nestor PG, Raul S.J. Estepar RSJ, Dickey CC, Voglmaier MM, Seidman LJ, Kiknis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW, Shenton, ME: The Shape of the Caudate Nucleus and its Cognitive Correlates in Neuroleptic-Naïve Schizotypal Personality Disorder. Biol Pyschiatry 2004; 55: 117-184.
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Wiegand LC, Warfield SK, Levitt JJ, Hirayasu Y, Salisbury DF, Dickey CC, Heckers S, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW, Shenton ME: Prefrontal cortical thickness in first episode psychosis: A magnetic resonance imaging study. Biol Psychiatry 2004; 55: 131-140.
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Park HJ, Levitt JJ, Shenton ME, Salisbury DF, Kubicki M, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW: An MRI study of spatial probability brain map differences between first-episode schizophrenia and normal controls. Neuroimage 2004; 22: 1231-46. [Featured on the Cover of NeuroImage.]
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Osser DN, Patterson RD, Levitt JJ: Guidelines, algorithms, and evidence-based psychopharmacology training for psychiatric residents. Academic Psychiatry 2004; 29: 180-186.
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Wiegand LC, Warfield SK, Levitt JJ, Hirayasu Y, Salisbury DF, Heckers S, Bouix S, Schwartz D, Spencer M, Dickey CC, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW, Shenton ME: An in vivo MRI study of prefrontal cortical complexity in first-episode psychosis. Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162: 65-70.
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Nierenberg J, Salisbury DF, Levitt JJ, David EA, Robert W. McCarley RW, Shenton ME: Reversed angular gyrus asymmetry in first-episode schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2005; 162: 1539-1541.
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Kubicki M, Park H, Westin CF, Mulkern RV, Maier SE, Niznikiewicz M, Connor EE, Levitt JJ, Frumin M, Kikinis R, Jolesz FA, McCarley RW, Shenton ME: DTI and MTR Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: Analysis of White Matter Integrity. Neuroimage 2005; 26: 1109-1118.
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Kuroki N, Kubicki M, Nestor PG, Salisbury DF, Park HJ, Levitt JJ, Woolston S, Frumin M, Niznikiewicz M, Westin CF, Maier SE, McCarley RW, Shenton ME: Fornix integrity and hippocampal volume in male schizophrenic patients. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 60: 22-31.
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Haider H, Bouix S, Levitt JJ, Du Plessis A, McCarley RW, Shenton ME, Soul JS: Characterizing the shape of anatomical structures with Poisson’s equation. IEEE Trans on Med Imaging 2006; 25(10): 1249-1257.
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Koo MS, Levitt JJ, McCarley RW, Seidman LJ, Dickey CC, Niznikiewicz MA, Voglmaier MM, Zamani P, Long KL, Kim SS, Shenton ME: Reduction of caudate volume in neuroleptic-naive female subjects with schizotypal personality disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2006; 60: 40-48.
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Koo M-S, Dickey CC, Park H-J, Kubicki M, Ji NY, Bouix S, Pohl KM, Levitt JJ, Nakamura M, Shenton ME, McCarley RW: Smaller neocortical gray matter and larger sulcal CSF volumes in neuroleptic-naïve females with schizotypal personality disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2006; 63: 1090-1100.
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Levitt JJ, Chen QC, May FS, Gilbertson MW, Shenton ME, Pitman RK: Volume of cerebellar vermis in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: Lack of relationship to post-traumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2006; 148: 143-149.
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Nakamura M, Nestor PG, McCarley RW, Levitt JJ, Hsu L, Kawashima T, Niznikiewicz M, Shenton ME: Altered Orbitofrontal Sulco-Gyral Pattern in Schizophrenia. Brain 2007; 130: 693-707.
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Nakamura, M, Nestor, PG, Levitt JJ, Cohen AS, Kawashima T, Shenton ME, McCarley RW: Orbitofrontal volume deficit in schizophrenia and thought disorder: Brain 2008; 131: 180-195.
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Koo M-S, Levitt JJ, Salisbury DF, Nakamura M, Shenton ME, McCarley RW: A cross-sectional and longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study of cingulate gyrus gray mater volume abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia and first-episode affective psychosis. Arch Gen Psychiatry 2008; 65: 746-760.
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Oh JS, Kubicki M, Rosenberger G, Bouix S, Levitt J, McCarley RW, Westin C-F, Shenton ME: Thalamofrontal white matter alterations in chronic schizophrenia: A quantitative diffusion tractography study. Human Brain Mapping (2009); 30: 3812–3825.
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