For our January session, we will host Andrew Pines and Nicola Cascella.

Andrew Pines, MD, MA, is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pines is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on the causal brain circuits underlying psychosis, using lesion network mapping, neuroimaging, and neuromodulation approaches. His work aims to translate circuit-level insights into targeted, noninvasive treatments for schizophrenia and related disorders. The title of his talk will be “Convergent Functional Connections Across Lesions, TMS, DBS, and ECT Implicate Brain Regions Causally Involved in Schizophrenia.”

Nicola Cascella, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Cascella has extensive clinical and research expertise in severe mental illness, including treatment-resistant schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and neuropsychiatric disorders. His research spans the neurobiology of psychosis, brain–body interactions, and novel therapeutic approaches, with a growing focus on the role of deep brain stimulation in refractory psychiatric disease. The title of his talk will be “What Are We Learning from Deep Brain Stimulation in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia?”

Recording will be posted after!