Johanna Seitz-Holland, M.D., Ph.D.
Contact Infromation
Relevant Links
Investigator; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory;Department of Psychiatry; Brigham and Women’s Hospital; HMS
Instructor; Department of Psychiatry; Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, HMS
Research
Johanna holds a B.Sc. in psychology, an M.D., and a Ph.D. In 2019 she joined the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory as a postdoctoral research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Marek Kubicki. She became an instructor in 2021. Her research interests lie in applying advanced neuroimaging methods, statistical modeling, and translational approaches to understand the structure of the human brain and its role in psychiatric disorders, especially psychosis. Specifically, she is interested in the interaction of brain structure, physical health, and cognition and the effect of sex, age, and environment on this interaction. Her most recent projects use proteomics and neuroimaging to explore the relationship between cellular senescence, physical health, and brain health in psychosis. In addition, she is working on several projects exploring risk factors for mental disorders, including sleep and social media use.
Research Interest
- Aging
- Diffusion MRI
- Neurobiology
- Neurodevelopment
- Neuropsychiatry
- Psychotic Disorders
- Sex Differences
- Social risk factors
- Structural MRI
Grants
2021 Livingston Fellowship Award from Harvard Medical
2021 Young Investigator Grant sponsored by Mary and John Osterhaus
and the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation