Edison Leung, MD – PGY4

Awards & Honors:

  • Society of Biological Psychiatry Chair’s Choice Travel Award, 2023.
  • CINP Research Fellowship Program, 2023.
  • Career Development and Research Excellence (CaDRE) Program award 2022.
  • Participant in the Research Colloquium for Junior Psychiatrist Investigators, American Psychiatric Association, 2022.
  • Journal of Psychiatric Practice. Winner of Resident Paper Competition, 2022

Publications:

  • Leung E, Selvaraj S, Walss-Bass C. Alcohol, Opioid, and Combined Alcohol and Opioid Use Disorders Affect Different Proteomic Pathways in a Proteomic Analysis of Post-Mortem Samples.  (Submitted Molecular and Cellular Proteomic) 2022.
  • Jones GH, Suchting R, Zanetti MV, Leung E, Correa da Costa S, de Sousa RT, Busatto G, Soares J, Otaduy MC, Gattaz WF, Machado-Vieira R. Lithium Increases Cortical and Subcortical Volumes in Subjects with Bipolar Disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2022.
  • Jones GH, Vecera CM, Chudal R, Leung E, Ruiz AC, Shahani L, Zanetti MV, Teixeira de Sousa R, Busatto G, Soares J, Gattaz WF, Machado-Vieira R. The Role of Lithium Treatment on Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Patients with Bipolar Depression. Journal of Affective Disorders 2022.
  • Kandalaft MN, Slater K, Budd K, Shull J, Anderson K, Leung E. A Case of Late Onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Following an Upper Respiratory Infection. Psychiatry Research Case Reports Jan 2022.
  • Leung E, Suchting R, Correa da Costa S, de Sousa FT, Jones G, Beal L, Zanetti MV, Busatto G, Soares JC, Gattaz WF, Otaduy MC, Machado-Vieira-Machado R. Lithium Increases the Cortical Thickness for Areas Responsible for Audiovisual Processing and in Episodic Memory in Bipolar Patients. (Accepted British Journal of Psychiatry) 2022
  • Leung E, Ngo DH, Espinoza J, Beal L, Chang C, Cervenka G, Baris DA, Lackey BN, Lane SD, Wu HE. A Retrospective Study of the Adjunct Use of Gabapentin with Benzodiazepines for the Treatment of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal. Journal of Psychiatric Practice 2022
  • Leung E, Lau EW, Liang A, de Dios C, Suchting R, Ostlundh L, Masdeu JC, Fujita M, Sanches M, Soares JC, Selvaraj S. Alterations in brain synaptic proteins and mRNAs in mood disorders:  A systematic review and meta-analysis of postmortem brain studies.  Molecular Psychiatry 2021.
  • Sharma VP, Williams J, Leung E, Sanders J, Eddy R, Castracane J, Oktay M, Entenberg D, Condeelis J.S. SUN-MKL1 Crosstalk Regulates Nuclear Deformation and Fast Motility of Breast Carcinoma Cells in Fibrillar ECM Microenvironment. Cells 2021.
  • Li X, Xiu M, Guan X, Wang Y, Wang J, Leung E, Zhang X. Altered oxidative stress markers in drug-naive first episode patients with schizophrenia are associated with poor treatment response to risperidone: 12-Week Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Study.  Neurotherapeutics 2021.

Abstracts/ Presentations:

  • Leung E, Catherine C, Cervenka G, Baris D, Wu HE. A Retrospective Study of the Adjunct Use of Gabapentin with Benzodiazepines for the Treatment of Benzodiazepine Withdrawal.  Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology, Virtual Conference, 2020.