Jamie Feusner
Titles
Director, Eating Disorder and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Research Program
OCD Intensive Treatment Program
Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Outpatient Anxiety Disorders
Member, Brain Research Institute
Neuroscience GPB Home Area
Faculty, Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Contact Information
Office Phone Number: 310 206-4951
Laboratory Address:
760 Westwood PlazaLos Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Mailing Address:
300 UCLA Medical PlazaLos Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES
Biography
Jamie D. Feusner, M.D. is Professor in Residence in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director of the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Intensive Treatment Program, and Director of the Eating Disorders and Body Dysmorphic Disorder Research Program.
Dr. Feusner joined the faculty in the department of psychiatry in July of 2006. He graduated with honors from UC San Diego with a major in Biochemistry and Cell Biology. He obtained his medical degree and completed his psychiatry residency training at UCLA. He then completed a clinical psychopharmacology fellowship followed by an NIMH T32 psychobiology research fellowship where he received training in neuroimaging. Dr. Feusner’s research program seeks to understand phenotypes of perceptual and emotional processing across conditions involving body image and obsessions/compulsions, including body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), eating disorders, and OCD. He also studies gender identity, own body perception, and the effects of hormone treatments, in individuals with gender dysphoria in the interest of improving health outcomes of gender-affirming treatments. Dr. Feusner published the first functional neuroimaging studies in BDD, and the first studies to directly compare the neurobiology of BDD to anorexia nervosa. He has also conducted research in OCD investigating neurometabolites and brain connectivity, including predictors of acute and long-term treatment response in OCD. He is currently funded by the NIH to study anorexia nervosa, BDD, and gender dysphoria. His research utilizes functional (fMRI and EEG) and structural neuroimaging ( sMRI and DTI), as well as psychophysical testing, to understand the brain. An additional area of work is in novel applications for mobile assessment of affective, interoceptive, and perceptual distortions of appearance across platforms (smartphones, tablets, computers) for research and clinical purposes. Dr. Feusner's clinical work includes Directorship of the UCLA Adult OCD Intensive Treatment program. He teaches cognitive-behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy, and is a research supervisor for postdoctoral fellows, Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program PhD students, and undergraduates. Dr. Feusner is also a faculty advisor for the Brain Research Institute Neuroimaging Affinity Group.