معرفی
Julie Spicer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, affiliated with the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute, Center for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, and Friedman Brain Institute. Her research focuses on women's mental health, brain imaging, neurodevelopmental disorders, and mitochondrial biology, with a particular emphasis on hormonal influences and prenatal factors.
Research Interests:
- Women's Mental Health: Hormonal psychiatry, menopause-related mental health, and FSH mechanisms.
- Neuroimaging: Functional MRI, frontostriatal circuits, and nucleus accumbens studies.
- Developmental Disorders: Schizophrenia risk factors, prenatal environmental exposure (temperature, maternal stress), and fetal memory.
- Mitochondrial Psychobiology: Mind-mitochondria connections, epigenetics, and neurodegenerative hallmarks.
Publications highlight her interdisciplinary work bridging neuroscience, endocrinology, and psychiatry, with recent studies on follicle-stimulating hormone (2025), mitochondrial psychobiology (2024), and prenatal schizophrenia risk (2022).
Labs & Collaborations: Active in translational research with the Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute and Friedman Brain Institute, collaborating with experts in neuroimaging, epigenetics, and maternal-fetal health.
