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Frank P
MacMaster
Research Assistant
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Mailing Address:
University Health Center, 9B-13
4201 St. Antoine Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48201
E-Mail: fmacmast@med.wayne.edu
Phone: (313) 577 9819
Fax: (313) 577 5900
EDUCATION
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Wayne State University
Detroit, MI |
Research Assistant/Post-Doctoral work in Brain Imaging in Child Psychiatry | 2004-Present |
| Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | Doctoral (PhD) Candidate in Anatomy and Neurobiology | 2002-Present |
| Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia | Master of Science (MSc) in Anatomy and Neurobiology (Neuroscience) | 2000-2002 |
Awards and Achievements
New Investigator Award- New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU - NIH) (2005)
Travel Award - Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion (2005)
BrainStar Award - Canadian Institutes for Health Research (INMHA - CIHR) (2004)
Travel Award - Wisconsin Symposium on Emotion (2004)
Graduate Student Award - Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University (2004)
Graduate Student Science Award - Nova Scotian Institute of Science (2004)
PhD Studentship Award - Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (2002-2004)
MSc Studentship Award - Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (2000-2002)
Best Poster Award - Psychiatry Research Day, Dalhousie University (2002)
Publications
Rosenberg DR, Keshavan MS, Dick EL, Bagwell WW, MacMaster FP, Seymour AB, Birmaher B: Corpus callosal morphology in treatment-naive pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (1997) 21: 1269-1283.
Moore G, MacMaster FP, Stewart C, Rosenberg DR: Case study: caudate glutamatergic changes with paroxetine therapy for pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1998) 27(6): 663-667
MacMaster FP, Dick EL, Keshavan MS, Rosenberg DR: Corpus callosal signal intensity in treatment-naive pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry (1999) 23(4): 601-612.
Gilbert AR, Moore GJ, Paulson LD, Keshavan MS, Paulson LD, Narula V, MacMaster FP, Stewart CM, Rosenberg DR: Decrease in thalamic volumes of pediatric patients with obsessive compulsive disorder who are taking paroxetine. Archives of General Psychiatry (2000) 57: 449-456.
Rosenberg DR, MacMaster FP, Keshavan MS, Dimond K, Stewart C, Moore GJ: Striatal glutamate and treatment response in pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2000) 39 (9): 1096-1103. Won the Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Award for Scientific Achievement.
MacMaster FP, Khan SC, Gates L, Kutcher SP, Kusumakar V. Prefrontal Modulation of Limbic Activation During an Emotional Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Task. Brain and Cognition (2001) 47 (1/2): 100-103.
Kusumakar V, MacMaster FP, Gates L, Sparkes SJ, Khan S. Left Medial Temporal Cytosolic Choline in Early Onset Depression Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (2001) 46: 825-829.
Carrey N, Dursun S, Clements R, Renton K, Waschbusch D, MacMaster FP: Noradrenergic and serotonergic neuroendocrine responses in prepubertal, peripubertal, and postpubertal rats pretreated with desipramine and sertraline. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2002) 41 (8): 999-1006.
Carrey N, MacMaster FP, Sparkes S, Khan S and Kusumakar V. Glutamatergic changes with treatment in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a preliminary case series. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology (2002) 12(4): 331-336.
MacMaster FP, Carrey N, Sparkes S, Khan S, Kusumakar V. Proton Spectroscopy in Medication Free Pediatric Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Biological Psychiatry (2003) 53: 184-187.
Carrey NJ, MacMaster FP, Fogel J, Sparkes SJ, Waschbusch D, Sullivan S, Schmidt M. Metabolite changes due to treatment in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: A 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Clinical Neuropharmacology (2003) 26(4): 218-221.
MacMaster FP, Kusumakar V. Hippocampal volume in early onset depression. BMC Medicine (2004) 2(1): 1- 6.
MacMaster FP, Kusumakar V. MRI study of the pituitary gland in adolescent depression. Journal of Psychiatric Research (2004) 38(3): 231-6.
Sparkes SJ, MacMaster FP, Carrey NJ. Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Cognitive Function in Pediatric Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Brain and Cognition (2004) 54(2): 173-5.
Rosenberg DR, MacMaster FP, Mirza YK, Smith J, Easter P, Banerjee SP, Bhandari R, Boyd C, Lynch M, Rose M, Ivey J, Villafuerte RA, Moore GJ, Renshaw P. Reduced Anterior Cingulate Glutamate in Pediatric Major Depression: A Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study. Biological Psychiatry (In Press)
MacMaster FP, Russell A, Mirza YK, Keshavan MS, Banerjee SP, Bhandari R, Boyd C, Lynch M, Rose M, Ivey J, Moore GJ, Rosenberg DR. Pituitary Volume in Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Biological Psychiatry (In Press)
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