Dr. Reza Tadayon-Nejad, MD, PhD, is an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCLA. He earned his medical degree from Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences and a PhD in Neuroscience from Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Canada. He then completed a residency in psychiatry at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) followed by a NIMH T32 fellowship in Neuroscience of Mental Health with focus of psychiatric neuroimaging before coming to UCLA. His research focus during residency and fellowship was on structural and functional large scale brain networks dysfunction in depression and anxiety disorders by using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and EEG methods. More information at UCLA Semel Institute/NPI.

Reza writes about his experience on the training grant:

During my fellowship I was a research-track resident, devoting 80% time to research and 20% to clinical work. I had two major research projects (working with de- identified data) with Luan. Phan.I worked on large-scale network dysfunction in social anxiety using fMRI EEG-based network connectivity analysis in anxiety disorders. The BNTP allowed me to work with some very smart people who were doing a very different form of neuroscience than me.