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Jamie Feusner

Professor

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Orcid identifier0000-0002-0391-345X
  • Professor
    Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
  • CAMH, 250 College St., Toronto, Ontario, M5T1R8, Canada

BIO

Dr. Feusner's research program seeks to understand perceptual and emotional processing phenotypes across conditions involving body image and obsessions/compulsions, including body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), eating disorders, and OCD. He also studies gender identity, own body perception, and the effects of hormone treatments in individuals with gender dysphoria. Dr. Feusner published the first functional neuroimaging studies in BDD and the first studies to directly compare the neurobiology of BDD to anorexia nervosa. He has also investigated neurometabolites and brain connectivity in OCD, including predictors of acute and long-term treatment response to cognitive-behavioral therapy. Dr. Feusner's neuroscience research utilizes functional (fMRI and EEG), structural neuroimaging (sMRI and DTI), and psychophysical testing to understand the brain. He has also created novel digital applications to assess and quantify perceptual distortions of appearance, and affective and interoceptive experiences, to be used across mobile and other platforms for research and clinical purposes.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Senior Scientist
    Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada2023 - present
  • Clinician Scientist
    CAMH, Toronto, Canada2021 - 2023
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2021 - present
  • Foreign Adjunct Professor
    Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden2021 - present
  • Professor-in-Residence
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2015 - 2021
  • Associate Professor-in-Residence
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2011 - 2015
  • Assistant Professor-in-Residence
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2006 - 2011

DEGREES

  • B.S.
    University of California, San Diego, San Diego, United States1990 - 1994
  • M.D.
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States1995 - 1999

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Psychiatrist
    College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Toronto, Canada2021 - present

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Psychiatry Internship and Residency Training Program
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States1999 - 2003
    Residency
  • Psychopharmacology Postgraduate Year 5 Fellowship
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2003 - 2004
    Clinical Fellowship
  • Psychobiology Research Fellowship in Neuroimaging
    University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States2004 - 2006
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS

  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health