Brendon Watson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Medical School
Biomedical Science Research Building
109 Zina Pitcher Pl Rm 5059
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5720
[email protected]

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Brendon Watson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
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    Qualifications
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      New York University, Neurobiology, 2017
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      Weill Cornell Medical College, Psychiatry/Neurobiology, 2013
    • Resident
      Weill Cornell Medical College, Pychiatry, 2013
    • PhD
      Columbia University, 2009
    • MD
      Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 2009
    • BA (Summa Cum Laude)
      Cornell University, 2000
    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics
    • Center Member
      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
    • Center Member
      Taubman Institute
    Research Overview

    Impact of chronic stress on brain circuits
    Mechanisms of depression
    Role of sleep in regulation of cortical circuits.
    Role of Antidepressant treatments and their effects on neural circuits and behavior
    (animals) or symptoms (patients).
    Mechanisms of cerebral cortical function and regulation.

    Clinical interests:
    Major depressive disorder – treatment refractory depression
    Anxiety Disorders
    Chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    Chronic Stress
    Emergency psychiatry

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    • Journal Article
      Quantifying social roles in multi-animal videos using subject-aware deep-learning
      Goss K, Bueno-Junior LS, Stangis K, Ardoin T, Carmon H, Zhou J, Satapathy R, Baker I, Jones-Tinsley CE, Lim MM, Watson BO, Sueur C, Ferrario CR, Murphy GG, Ye B, Hu Y. bioRxiv, 2024 Sep 30; DOI:10.1101/2024.07.07.602350
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Learning and arousal dynamics from motoric and neurophysiologic metrics during a somatosensory task in mice
      Bueno-Junior LS, Ghimire A, Ding M, Watson BO. 2024 May 22;
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Learning and arousal dynamics from motoric and neurophysiologic metrics during a somatosensory task in mice
      Bueno-Junior LS, Ghimire A, Ding M, Watson BO. 2024 May 13;
    • Journal Article
      Three-Dimensional-Printed Headcap with Embedded Microdrive (THEM) System for Customizable Multi-Region Brain Recordings with Neural Probes
      Hartner JP, Yi D, Zhu HL, Watson BO, Chen L. Frontiers in Neuroscience: Neural Technology, 2024 Oct 2;
    • Presentation
      Electrophysiology of wake, sleep and spiking homeostasis in neural circuits
      2023 Mar 3;
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Alertness and learning interact to produce brief periods of optimal cognition in mice
      Saravanan A, Ghimire A, Ding M, Bueno-Junior LS, Watson BO. 2023 Nov 11;
    • Proceeding / Abstract / Poster
      Multi-animal pose estimation in prairie voles during social behavior using SLEAP
      Milman NEP, Bueno-Junior LS, Jones-Tinsley CE, Loeung J, Watson BO, Lim MM. 2023 Nov 11;
    • Dataset
      Early-life sleep disruption impairs subtle social behaviours in prairie voles: a pose-estimation study
      Bueno-Junior LS, Jones-Tinsley CE, Milman NEP, Wickham PT, Watson B, Lim MM. 2024 Aug 21; DOI:10.5061/dryad.15dv41p1n