Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UC Davis Imaging Research Center
4701 X St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
E-Mail:  michael.minzenberg@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu

Dr. Minzenberg studies the neurochemical systems in the brain that modulate cognitive function in healthy individuals, and which may be related to cognitive dysfunction in persons with schizophrenia. These systems may serve as targets for novel medications to treat this illness. In addition, Dr. Minzenberg is interested in the processing of social and emotional information and its basis in cortico-limbic circuitry, and how dysfunction of this circuitry may relate to emotional and interpersonal disturbances in both schizophrenia and personality disorders.

B.S., Zoology, UC Davis, 1985
M.S., Neurobiology, Rutgers University, 1988
M.D., McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Click here for a list of Dr. Minzenberg's publications from July 2007 through June 2008.