Psychiatry

The Department of Psychiatry has been at the forefront of psychiatric care for decades. Members of our faculty were among the first to champion the medical model of psychiatry and view psychiatric dysfunction as an interaction between genes and environment.

The department and its faculty continue to be in the vanguard of both the study and treatment of mental illness.

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John R. Pruett Jr., MD, PhD

Specialty Areas
Autism
Psychiatry
Child Psychiatry
Mood Disorders

Areas of Clinical Interest
Autism, general child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric epilepsy patients with mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder.

Areas of Research Interest
The neuroscience of autism and related disorder, social cognition, and comparative cognition. Psychological and neural mechanisms for social attention deficits in autism and ADHD.

Major or Recent Publications/Awards
Awards and Honors

Awarded Position at the 9th Annual Future Leaders in Psychiatry Meeting, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2007

Awarded The Eli Robins Award, Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry for Teaching and Research, Washington University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, 2003

Elected to membership in The Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society, 2003

NIMH Outstanding Resident Award winner, 2002

Publications

Tandon M, Pruett JR, Jr. An overview of the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents. Missouri Medicine 2008; 105(1):79-84

Pruett JR Jr, Constantino JN, Todd RD, Petersen S. Attention to eye gaze in autistic and non-autistic children. Poster, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 54th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, October 2007

Pruett JR, Jr. and Rizvi ST. A 16 year-old girl with excited catatonia treated with low-dose oral lorazepam. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 2005; 15:1005-1010

Pruett JR Jr., Luby JL. Recent advances in prepubertal mood disorders: phenomenology and treatment. Current Opinion in Psychiatry. 2004; 17:31-36

Pruett JR Jr., Sinclair RJ, Burton H. Neural correlates for roughness choice in monkey second somatosensory cortex (SII). Journal of Neurophysiology 2001; 86:2069-2080

Pruett JR Jr., Sinclair RJ, Burton H. Response patterns in monkey second somatosensory cortex (SII) during a passive touch roughness classification task. Journal of Neurophysiology 2000; 84:780-797

Burton H, Sinclair RJ, Hong S-Y, Pruett JR Jr., Whang KC. Tactile-spatial and cross-modal attention effects in the second somatosensory and 7b cortical areas of rhesus monkeys. Somatosensory and Motor Research 1997; 14:237-267

Sinclair RJ, Pruett JR Jr., Burton H. Responses in primary somatosensory cortex of rhesus monkey to controlled application of embossed grating and bar patterns. Somatosensory and Motor Research 1996; 13:287-306

Eisenman LM, Pruett JR Jr. Expression of the Purkinje cell specific zebrin antigens in the cerebellum of the meander tail mutant mouse. Brain Research 1992; 589:135-138

John R. Pruett Jr., MD, PhD