CONTACT INFORMATION
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Psychiatry
Psychiatric Institute
1601 W. Taylor Street, (M/C 912)
Chicago, IL 60612
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Executive Assistant: Darcel Brothers
Office Phone: (312) 996-7383
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KEY PUBLICATIONS
Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry (3rd Edition), Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, (Abou-Saleh, M., C. Katona and A. Kumar, Eds.), 2011.
Kumar, A., R. Gupta, A. Thomas, O. Ajilore, and G. Hellemann. Focal Subcortical Biophysical Abnormalities in Patients Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 66(3): 324-330, 2009.
Ballmaier, M., K. Narr, A. Toga, V. Elderkin-Thompson, P. Thompson, L. Hamilton, E. Haroon, D. Pham, A. Heinz, and A. Kumar. Hippocampal Morphology Distinguishing Late-Onset from Early-Onset Elderly Depression. The American Journal of Psychiatry 165(2): 229-237, 2008.
Steffens, D.C., E. Otey, G.S. Alexopoulos, M.A. Butters, B. Cuthbert, M. Ganguli, Y. Geda, H.C. Hendrie, R.R. Krishnan, A. Kumar, O.L. Lopez, C.G. Lyketsos, B.T. Mast, J.C. Morris, M.C. Norton, G.M. Peavy, R.C. Petersen, C.F. Reynolds, S. Salloway, K.A. Welsh-Bohmer, and J. Yesavage. Perspectives on Depression, Mild Cognitive Impairment, and Cognitive Decline. Archives of General Psychiatry 63(2): 130-139, 2006.
Ballmaier, M., A.W. Toga, R.E. Blanton, E.R. Sowell, H. Lavretsky, J. Peterson, D. Pham, and A. Kumar. Anterior Cingulate, Gyrus Rectus and Orbitofrontal Abnormalities in Elderly Depressed Patients: An MRI-based parcellation of the prefrontal cortex. American Journal of Psychiatry 161: 99-108, 2004.
Kumar, A., A. Thomas, H. Lavretsky, K. Yue, A. Huda, J. Curran, T. Venkatramam, L. Estanol, J. Mintz, M. Mega, and A. Toga. Frontal White Matter Biochemical Abnormalities in Late-Life Major Depression Detected Using Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy. American Journal of Psychiatry 154(9): 630-636, 2002.
Kumar, A., J. Mintz, W. Bilker, and G. Gottlieb. Autonomous Neurobiological Pathways to Late-Life Major Depressive Disorder: Clinical and pathophysiological implications. Neuropsychopharmacology 26(2): 229-236, 2002.
Kumar, A., Z. Jin, W. Bilker, J. Udupa, and G. Gottlieb. Late-onset Minor and Major Depression: Early evidence for common neuroanatomical substrates detected by Using MRI. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95: 7654-7658, 1998.
Kumar, A., E. Schweizer, Z. Jin, D. Miller, W. Bilker, L.L. Swan, and G. Gottlieb. Neuroanatomical Substrates of Late-Life Minor Depression: A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study. Archives of Neurology 54: 613-617, 1997.
Kumar, A., A. Newberg, A. Alavi, J. Berlin, R. Smith, and M. Reivich. Regional Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Late-Life Depression and Alzheimer Disease: A preliminary positron emission tomography study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90: 7019-7023, 1993.
Kumar, A., M.B. Schapiro, C.L. Grady, M.F. Matocha, J.V. Haxby, A.M. Moore, J.S. Luxenberg, P.H. George-Hyslop, C.D. Robinette, and M.J. Ball. Anatomic, Metabolic, Neuropsychological, and Molecular Genetic Studies of Three Pairs of Identical Twins Discordant for Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type. Archives of Neurology 48: 160-168, 1991.
Anand Kumar , MD
Department Head and lizzie gilman Professor
Anand Kumar, M.D., is Lizzie Gilman Professor and Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the
Interests:
Geriatric Psychiatry, and specifically late-life depression and dementia
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
American College of Psychiatrists
American Psychiatric Association
International College of Psychoneuropharmacology
International Psychogeriatric Association
New York Academy of Sciences
Society for Neuroscience
Society of Biological Psychiatry
Faculty