UCLA Neuroscience Program Ph.D. Admissions Neuroscience Faculty UCLA and Beyond  



Jamie Feusner
Understanding Perception and Emotion in Body Image Disorders; New Treatments for OCD and Anxiety Disorders

Email Address:  jfeusner@mednet.ucla.edu
Home Page: http://www.brainmapping.org/directory/index.php?userid=389 Home Page: http://www.semel.ucla.edu/bdd

Laboratory Address:
760 Westwood Plaza
Mailing Address:
300 UCLA Medical Plaza


Phone Numbers:
310 206-0468 lab
310 206-4951 office


Selected Publications:

Feusner JD, Townsend J, Bystritsky A, McKinley M, Moller H, Bookheimer S. Regional brain volumes and symptom severity in body dysmorphic disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging 2009; 172(2): 161-7.
Feusner JD, Bystritsky A, Hellemann G, Bookheimer S. Impaired identity recognition of faces with emotional expressions in body dysmorphic disorder. Psychiatry Research ; in press: .
Bystritsky A, Kerwin L, Feusner JD. A Preliminary Study of fMRI-Guided rTMS in the Treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder: 6-Month Follow-up. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2009; 70(3): 431-2.
Feusner Jamie D, Kerwin Lauren, Saxena Sanjaya, Bystritsky Alexander Differential Efficacy of Memantine for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder vs. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: An Open-Label Trial.. Psychopharmacology bulletin. 2009; 42(1): 81-93.
Bystritsky Alexander, Kerwin Lauren, Feusner Jamie D, Vapnik Tanya A Pilot Controlled Trial of Bupropion XL Versus Escitalopram in Generalized Anxiety Disorder.. Psychopharmacology bulletin. 2008; 41(1): 46-51.
Bystritsky Alexander, Kerwin Lauren, Feusner Jamie D A pilot study of Rhodiola rosea (Rhodax) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD).. Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.). 2008; 14(2): 175-80.
Bystritsky Alexander, Kerwin Lauren, Feusner Jamie A pilot study of cranial electrotherapy stimulation for generalized anxiety disorder.. The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 2008; 69(3): 412-7.
Bystritsky Alexander, Kaplan Jonas T, Feusner Jamie D, Kerwin Lauren E, Wadekar Mitali, Burock Mark, Wu Allan D, Iacoboni Marco A preliminary study of fMRI-guided rTMS in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder.. The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 2008; 69(7): 1092-8.
Phillips Katharine A, Didie Elizabeth R, Feusner Jamie, Wilhelm Sabine Body dysmorphic disorder: treating an underrecognized disorder.. The American journal of psychiatry. 2008; 165(9): 1111-8.
Feusner Jamie D, Yaryura-Tobias Jose, Saxena Sanjaya The pathophysiology of body dysmorphic disorder.. Body image. 2008; 5(1): 3-12.
Feusner JD Book Review of Sabine Wilhelm’s Feeling Good About the Way You Look: A Program For Overcoming Body Image Problems. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice 2007; 14(2): 238-41.
Feusner Jamie D, Townsend Jennifer, Bystritsky Alexander, Bookheimer Susan Visual information processing of faces in body dysmorphic disorder.. Archives of general psychiatry. 2007; 64(12): 1417-25.
Saxena S, Feusner JD Toward a neurobiology of body dysmorphic disorder. Primary Psychiatry 2006; 13(7): 41-48.
Feusner JD, Winograd A, Saxena S Beyond the mirror: treating body dysmorphic disorder. Current Psychiatry 2005; 4(10): 69-83.
Feusner JD, Saxena S Compulsive hoarding. Unclutter lives and homes by breaking anxiety's grip. Current Psychiatry 2005; 4(3): 12-26.
Feusner JD, Bystritsky A Managing Treatment-Resistant OCD. Psychiatric Times 2005; 22(8): 18-22.
Feusner JD, Cameron M, Bystritsky A Pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy for panic disorder. Primary Psychiatry 2005; 12(11): 49-55.
Yerevanian BI, Koek RJ, Feusner JD, Hwang S, Mintz J Antidepressants and suicidal behavior in unipolar depression. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2004; 110(6): 452-8.
Yerevanian Boghos I, Koek Ralph J, Feusner Jamie D Pharmacotherapy and risk of suicidal behaviors among patients with bipolar disorder.. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2004; 291(8): 939; author reply 940.
Yerevanian Boghos I, Feusner Jamie D, Koek Ralph J, Mintz Jim The dexamethasone suppression test as a predictor of suicidal behavior in unipolar depression.. Journal of affective disorders. 2004; 83(2-3): 103-8.
Wirshing Donna A, Boyd Jennifer A, Pierre Joseph M, Saunders C Scott, Wirshing William C, Azizian Krist, Patel Ketan R, Ashcraft Jeanne C, Darmandjian Hasmik, Feusner Jamie Delusions associated with quetiapine-related weight redistribution.. The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 2002; 63(3): 247-8.
Feusner JD, Ritchie T, Lawford B, Young RM, Noble E GABA-A receptor beta-3 subunit gene and psychiatric morbidity in a posttraumatic stress disorder population. Psychiatry Research 2001; 104: 109-117.
Avet-Loiseau H, Andree-Ashley LE, Moore II D, Mellerin MP, Feusner J, Bataille R, Pallavicini MG Molecular cytogenetic abnormalities in multiple myeloma and plasma cell leukemia. Genes, Chromosomes, and Cancer 1997; 19: 124-133.
Feusner, J.D. The Role of Ascorbic Acid in the Prevention of Cancer. Nutrition Bytes. 1996; 2(2): .
Research Interest:

We are using functional and structural brain imaging and multi-modal techniques to understand the basis for perceptual distortions in body dysmorphic disorder and anorexia nervosa. We are also developing new treatments for obsessive-compulsive disorder and other anxiety disorders.