FranciscoXavierCastellanosMD

Psychiatry • New York, NY

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine

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Office
One Park Avenue
7th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Education & Training

National Institutes of Health Clinical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1991 - 1993
University of Kentucky College of MedicineResidency, Peds/Psych/Child-Adolescent Psych, 1986 - 1991
LSU School of Medicine in ShreveportClass of 1986
University of New OrleansMSc, Experimental Psychology, 1980
Vassar CollegeA.B., Linguistics, 1975

Certifications & Licensure

NY State Medical License 2002 - 2025
MD State Medical License 1991 - 2012
LA State Medical License 1986 - 1986
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child and Adolescent Research Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD), 2015
Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers, Neuroscience and Behavior 2017
Outstanding Mentor Award AACAP, 2015
Ruane Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Child & Adolescent Research 2015
Elaine Schlosser Lewis Journal Award for Research on Attention Deficit Disorder American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2014
Distinguished Overseas Visitor National University of Singapore, 2014
Honorary Professor The Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014
NeuroImage Editors' Award for Best Paper in Anatomy and Physiology 2010, 2012
Outstanding Mentor Award American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2008
Blanche F. Ittleson Award for Outstanding Research in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry American Psychiatric Association, 2006
Distinguished Investigator Award National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD), 2005
Teacher of the Year in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry NYU School of Medicine, 2004
Highly Cited Researchers, Neuroscience and Behavior Thomson Reuters, 2002, 2015-2016
Hall of Fame CHADD, 2000
Best Doctors Washingtonian Magazine, 1997
Award for Excellence in Clinical Care and Research National Institute of Mental Health, 1993
Fellow American Academy of Pediatrics, 1992
New Investigator's Award New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU), 1992
Alpha Omega Alpha 1985
Outstanding Psychology Graduate Student University of New Orleans, 1979
Sigma Xi (Honorary Psychology Society) 1979
Sigma Xi Award for Original Research in Psychology 1979
Departmental Honors Vassar College, 1975
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Clinical Trials

Brain Plasticity Underlying Acquisition of New Organizational Skills in Children-R61 Phase Start of enrollment: 2017 Sep 08
Completed
Not Applicable
Cannabidiol for ASD Open Trial Start of enrollment: 2019 Mar 12
Completed
Phase 2
Brain Plasticity Underlying Acquisition of New Organizational Skills in Children Start of enrollment: 2019 Oct 01
Completed
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

521 citations
The NKI-Rockland Sample: A Model for Accelerating the Pace of Discovery Science in Psychiatry.
Kate B. Nooner, Stanley J. Colcombe, Russell H. Tobe, Maarten Mennes, Melissa M. Benedict
Frontiers in Neuroscience. 2012-10-16
28 citations
Eight-week antidepressant treatment reduces functional connectivity in first-episode drug-naive patients with major depressive disorder
Le Li, Yun-Ai Su, Yan-Kun Wu, Francisco X. Castellanos, Ke Li
Human Brain Mapping. 2021-02-27
1062 citations
Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization
Daniel S. Margulies, Satrajit S. Ghosh, Alexandros Goulas, Marcel Falkiewicz, Julia M. Huntenburg
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2016-11-01

Journal Articles

Large-Scale Brain Functional Network Topology Disruptions Underlie Symptom Heterogeneity in Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder
Francisco Castellanos, MD, ScienceDirect
Distinct Effects of Childhood ADHD and Cannabis Use on Brain Functional Architecture in Young Adults
Jeffery N Epstein, Leanne Tamm, F Xavier Castellanos, Laurence L Greenhill, Terry Jernigan, ScienceDirect
Computerized cognitive training for children with neurofibromatosis type 1: A pilot resting-state fMRI study
Yoncheva YN, Hardy KK, Lurie DJ, Somandepalli K, Yang L, Vezina G, Kadom N, Packer RJ, Milham MP, Castellanos FX, Acosta MT, Psychiatry Res, 1/1/2017
Aberrant development of intrinsic brain activity in a rat model of caregiver maltreatment of offspring
Yan CG, Rincon-Cortes M, Raineki C, Sarro E, Colcombe S, Guilfoyle DN, Yang Z, Gerum S, Biswal BB, Milham MP, Sullivan RM, Castellanos FX, Transl Psychiatry, 1/1/2017
Altered intrinsic functional connectivity of the cingulate cortex in children with severe temper outbursts
Roy AK, Bennett R, Posner J, Hulvershorn L, Castellanos FX, Klein RG, Dev Psychopathol, 1/1/2017
Clinical decision support systems in child and adolescent psychiatry: a systematic review
Koposov R, Fossum S, Frodl T, Nytro O, Leventhal B, Sourander A, Quaglini S, Molteni M, de la Iglesia-Vaya M, Prokosch HU, Barbarini N, Milham MP, Castellanos FX, Skok..., Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 1/1/2017
Subcortical brain volume differences in participants with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: a cross-sectional mega-analysis
Hoogman M, Bralten J, Hibar DP, Mennes M, Zwiers MP, Schweren LS, van Hulzen KJ et al, Lancet Psychiatry, 1/1/2017
Enhancing studies of the connectome in autism using the autism brain imaging data exchange II
Di Martino A, O'Connor D, Chen B, Alaerts K, Anderson JS, Assaf M, Balsters JH, Baxter L, Beggiato A, Bernaerts S, Blanken LM, Bookheimer SY, Braden BB, Byrge L, Caste..., Sci Data, 1/1/2017
Top-down dysregulation-from ADHD to emotional instability
Petrovic P, Castellanos FX, Front Behav Neurosci, 1/1/2016
Intrinsic functional connectivity in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A science in development
Castellanos FX, Aoki Y, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 1/1/2016
Functional decoding and meta-analytic connectivity modeling in adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Cortese S, Castellanos FX, Eickhoff CR, D'Acunto G, Masi G, Fox PT, Laird AR, Eickhoff SB, Biol Psychiatry, 1/1/2016
Situating the default-mode network along a principal gradient of macroscale cortical organization
Margulies DS, Ghosh SS, Goulas A, Falkiewicz M, Huntenburg JM, Langs G, Bezgin G, Eickhoff SB, Castellanos FX, Petrides M, Jefferies E, Smallwood J, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 1/1/2016
Linkage and association analysis of ADHD endophenotypes in extended and multigenerational pedigrees from a genetic isolate
Mastronardi CA, Pillai E, Pineda DA, Martinez AF, Lopera F, Velez JI, Palacio JD, Patel H, Easteal S, Acosta MT, Castellanos FX, Muenke M, Arcos-Burgos M, Mol Psychiatry, 1/1/2016
APOE*E2 allele delays age of onset in PSEN1 E280A Alzheimer's disease
Velez JI, Lopera F, Sepulveda-Falla D, Patel HR, Johar AS, Chuah A, Tobon C, Rivera D, Villegas A, Cai Y, Peng K, Arkell R, Castellanos FX, Andrews SJ, Silva Lara MF, ..., Mol Psychiatry, 1/1/2016
Genetic and environmental contributions to functional connectivity architecture of the human brain
Yang Z, Zuo XN, McMahon KL, Craddock RC, Kelly C, de Zubicaray GI, Hickie I, Bandettini PA, Castellanos FX, Milham MP, Wright MJ, Cereb Cortex, 1/1/2016
Annual research review: Discovery science strategies in studies of the pathophysiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: promises and limitations
Zhao Y, Castellanos FX, J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 1/1/2016
Short-term test-retest reliability of resting state fMRI metrics in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Somandepalli K, Kelly C, Reiss PT, Zuo XN, Craddock RC, Yan CG, Petkova E, Castellanos FX, Milham MP, Di Martino A, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 1/1/2015
Stimulants, cognition and ADHD
Baroni A, Castellanos FX, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 1/1/2015
Locomotor activity measures in the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Meta-analyses and new findings
Garcia Murillo L, Cortese S, Anderson D, Di MA, Castellanos FX, J Neurosci Methods, 1/1/2015
Neuroanatomic and cognitive abnormalities in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in the era of 'high definition' neuroimaging
Baroni A, Castellanos FX, Curr Opin Neurobiol, 1/1/2015
Commentary: The best and worst of times--the prospects for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of developmental psychopathologies--a commentary on Horga et al (2014)
Castellanos FX, Yoncheva Y, J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 1/1/2014
Functional connectivity and temporal variability of brain connections in adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder
Barttfeld P, Petroni A, Baez S, Urquina H, Sigman M, Cetkovich M, Torralva T, Torrente F, Lischinsky A, Castellanos X, Manes F, Ibanez A, Neuropsychobiology, 1/1/2014
Entrainment of neural oscillations as a modifiable substrate of attention
Calderone DJ, Lakatos P, Butler PD, Castellanos FX, Trends Cogn Sci, 1/1/2014
he relationship between ADHD and obesity: implications for therapy
Cortese S, Castellanos FX, Expert Rev Neurother, 1/1/2014
The autism brain imaging data exchange: towards large-scale evaluation of the intrinsic brain in autism
Di Martino A, Yan CG, Li Q, Denio E, Castellanos FX, Adolphs R, Alaerts K, et al, Mol Psychiatry, 1/1/2014
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Abstracts/Posters

Olfaction in Tourette's syndrome +/- ADHD & controls.
Castellanos FX, Harnett NE, Klein WE, DeMayo M, New Research, 149th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, 1/1/1996
Olfactory thresholds in boys with Tourette's syndrome and ADHD.
Castellanos FX, Harnett NE, Klein WE, New Research, 148th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, 1/1/1995

Other

Attention deficit disorders and gifted students: What do we really know
Kaufmann FA, Kalbfleisch ML, Castellanos FX, The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, Senior Scholars Series
1/1/2000

Press Mentions

Cannabis in the Time of Coronavirus Disease 2019: The Yin and Yang of the Endocannabinoid System in ImmunocompetenceMay 7th, 2020
Researchers Report Association Between Nature-Based Greenness at Schools and ADHDDecember 20th, 2019
Emerging Insights into the Association Between Nature Exposure and Healthy Neuronal DevelopmentDecember 2nd, 2019
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Grant Support

Development Of Cortical-Amygdala InteractionsNational Institute Of Mental Health2012
Research Training In Translational Developmental NeuroscienceNational Institute Of Mental Health2009–2011
Functional And Structural Connectivity In Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DNational Institute Of Mental Health2009–2011
Development Of Cortical-Amygdala InteractionsNational Institute Of Mental Health2009–2011
Neural Dissection Of Hyperactivity/Inattention In AutismEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of Child Health &Human Development2009–2010
Neural Substrates Of Variability In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (AdhNational Institute Of Mental Health2008–2010
Childhood Stimulant Exposure Impact On Later Drug AbuseNational Institute On Drug Abuse2003–2008
Research Training In Child And Adolescent Mental HealthNational Institute Of Mental Health2003–2007
Cerebellar-Striatal-Prefrontal Dysfunction In ADHDNational Institute Of Mental Health2002–2004