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Training and Education:

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry                                   Columbia University Medical Center

  • Schizophrenia Research Fellowship                               Columbia University Medical Center

  • Psychiatry Residency                                                        Weill Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Neuroscience   University of Pennsylvania

  • Medical Doctorate                                                            University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

  • Neuroscience Doctorate                                                 University of Pennsylvania

  • Bachelors of Science in Biological Engineering           Cornell University

  • Junior Year Abroad in Physiology                                   Oxford Univeristy

Honors and Awards

  • NIH K23 Career Development Award to study treatment of hallucinations (2019-2024)

  • Pisetsky Young Investigator For Clinical Research in Serious Mental Illness (2019) 

  • Weill Cornell Psychiatry Residency Medical Student Teaching Award (2016)

  • New York County Psychiatric Society Resident Research Paper First Prize (2016)

  • American Psychiatric Association Junior Investigators Research Colloquium Participant (2016)

  • American Psychiatric Association Research Scholar (2015)

  • National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative Scholar (2015)

  • James C. Saunders Medical Research Prize in Otolaryngology (2005, 2007)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • Donde C, Avissar M, Weber MM, Javitt DC (2019) A century of sensory processing deficits in schizophrenia. European Psychiatry

  • Kantrowitz JT, Sehatpour P, Avissar M, Horga G, Gwak A, Hoptman MJ, Beggel O, Girgis RR, Vail B, Silipo G, Carlson M, Javitt DC. (2019) Significant improvement in treatment resistant auditory verbal hallucinations after 5 days of double-blind, randomized, sham controlled inhibitory (cathodal) transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to left temporo-parietal-occipital junction (TPOJ): a replication/extension study.  Brain Stimulation. DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2019.03.003.

  • Avissar M, Javitt DC. (2018) Mismatch negativity: a simple and useful biomarker of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-type glutamate dysfunction in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research

  • Avissar M, Xie S, Vail B, Lopez-Calderon J, Wang Y, Javitt DC (2018) Meta-analysis of mismatch negativity to simple versus complex deviants in schizophrenia.  Schizophrenia Research. 

  • Avissar M, Powell F, Ilieva I, Respino M, Gunning FM, Liston C, Dubin M (2017) Functional connectivity of the left DLPFC to striatum predicts treatment response of depression to TMS.  Brain Stimulation.

  • Dubin MJ, Liston C, Avissar M, Ilieva I, Gunning FM. (2017) Network-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression.  Curr Behav Neurosci Rep.

  • Avissar M, Arbuckle M (2016) Auditory-Verbal Hallucination.  National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative.  www.nncionline.org/course/auditory-verbal-hallucination

  • Avissar M, Wittig Jr JH, Saunders JC, Parsons TD (2013)  Refractoriness enhances temporal coding by auditory nerve fibers.  Journal of Neuroscience.

  • Avissar M, Furman AC, Saunders JC, Parsons TD (2007)  Adaptation reduces spike-count reliability, but not spike-timing precision, of auditory nerve responses.  Journal of Neuroscience.

  • Furman AC, Avissar M, Saunders JC (2006) The effects of intense sound exposure on phase locking in the chick (Gallus domesticus) cochlear nerve.  European Journal of Neuroscience.

  • Spassova MA, Avissar M, Furman AC, Crumling MA, Saunders JC, Parsons TD (2004)  Evidence that rapid vesicle replenishment of the synaptic ribbon mediates recovery from short-term adaptation at the hair cell afferent synapse.  Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology.

  • Rose MM, Avissar M, Hartley DEH, Moore DR (2001)  Perceptual learning in nonsimultaneous masking.  British Journal of Audiology.

  • Paige GD, Avissar M, Macuga KL, Giffi JT (2000) Eye movement responses to auditory, visual, vestibular, and combined motion.  Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

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