Reza Tadayon-Nejad, MD, PhD

Reza Tadayon-Nejad, MD, PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of psychiatry at UCLA and Visiting Associate faculty in Neuroscience at California Institute of Technology.

He obtained his medical degree from Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences and did a PhD in Neuroscience at Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary. He then completed a residency in psychiatry followed by a NIMH-funded T32 fellowship in Neuroscience of Mental Health with focus on psychiatric neuroimaging at the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining UCLA in 2016. He was awarded a mentored NIMH K23 and Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant (NARSAD) to study underlying decision-making mechanisms of compulsivity in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

He is a board-certified psychiatrist and involved in the treatment of patients with refractory OCD, depression, and related comorbidities. He is the director of the UCLA OCD Intensive Treatment Program as well as the principal investigator of the UCLA OCD deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment program. He is also a staff psychiatrist at UCLA TMS clinical and research service.

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