Carrie McAdams, M.D., Ph.D. Titles and Appointments Associate Professor Endowed Title Fisher Family Distinguished Professorship in Women's Mental Health Studies School Medical School Department Psychiatry Graduate Programs Clinical Psychology You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Download Curriculum Vitae Dr. Carrie McAdams is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with Tenure at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. McAdams received her BA, magna cum laude, with double majors in biochemistry and behavioral science from Rice University. She received a PhD in neuroscience from Baylor College of Medicine in 1998 and her MD with honors in 2000, then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. She has published extensively in the field of attention and visual neurophysiology. In 2006, Dr. McAdams shifted her research focus from basic animal models of cognition to the neuroscience of mental illness, beginning residency in psychiatry at UT Southwestern. Dr. McAdams began focusing on understanding the neurobiological features of eating disorders. Her primary expertise is in the utilization of cognitive neuroimaging to pinpoint neural circuits related to psychopathology, and applying this information to the care of patients with eating, somatic, and functional neurological disorders. A committed physician scientist, Dr. McAdams currently leads the Brain-Body Perceptions Team as well as the Eating Disorders Subspecialty Clinic. Her program focuses on determining how changes in the physical body relate to the neural circuits that process self-perception and impact social behaviors, and their relationship to women's mental health. Her current research program considers the whole person: genetic factors, gut microbiome, neural circuits, and every patients' lived experiences. She believes that a mechanistic understanding of psychopathology will lead to precise neural targets, improving treatment for patients with mental illness. Education Other Post Graduate Training Baylor College of Medicine (1998) Graduate School Baylor College of Medicine (1998), Neuroscience Medical School Baylor College of Medicine (2000) Fellowship Harvard University Medical School (2006), Neurobiology Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (2010), Psychiatry Research Interest Eating Disorders Functional Neuroimaging Neuroplasticity Social Cognition and Identity Visual Attention Publications Featured Publications Diminished Adaptation, Satisfaction, and Neural Responses to Advantageous Social Signals in Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Luo Y, Pluta D, Brodrick BB, Palka JM, McCoy J, Lohrenz T, Gu X, Vannucci M, Montague PR, McAdams CJ, Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2023 Nov Structural brain differences in recovering and weight-recovered adult outpatient women with anorexia nervosa. Brodrick BB, Adler-Neal AL, Palka JM, Mishra V, Aslan S, McAdams CJ, J Eat Disord 2021 Sep 9 1 108 Elevated Neurobehavioral Responses to Negative Social Interactions in Women With Bulimia Nervosa. Luo Y, Mendoza C, Pelfrey S, Lohrenz T, Gu X, Montague PR, McAdams CJ, Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2021 Feb Perspectives on Sexual Power, #MeToo. McAdams CJ, Acad Psychiatry 2019 Dec Novel and ultra-rare damaging variants in neuropeptide signaling are associated with disordered eating behaviors. Lutter M, Bahl E, Hannah C, Hofammann D, Acevedo S, Cui H, McAdams CJ, Michaelson JJ PLoS ONE 2017 12 8 e0181556 Interpersonal attribution bias and social evaluation in adolescent eating disorders. Harper JA, Palka JM, McAdams CJ, Eur Eat Disord Rev 2023 Mar 31 2 258-270 Psychosis in Anorexia Nervosa: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Brodrick BB, Jacobs MA, McAdams CJ, Psychosomatics 2019 Jun Treatment Utilization and Medical Problems in a Community Sample of Adult Women With Anorexia Nervosa. Brodrick B, Harper JA, Van Enkevort E, McAdams CJ, Front Psychol 2019 10 981 Mentalization and the left inferior frontal gyrus and insula. McAdams CJ, Harper JA, Van Enkevort E Eur Eat Disord Rev 2018 Feb Oxytocin Receptor Polymorphism Decreases Midline Neural Activations to Social Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa. Sala M, Han K, Acevedo S, Krawczyk DC, McAdams CJ Front Psychol 2018 9 2183 Results 1-10 of 28 1 2 3 Next Last Honors & Awards L.E.A.D, The Elisa ProjectLearn-Empower-Accept-Discover (2018) Klerman Prize Honorable Mention, Brain & Behavior FoundationExceptional Research in Clinical Brain and Behavior Science (2015) AED Research FellowshipAcademy of Eating Disorders Research Training Award (2011) American Psychiatric Association Research Colloquium FellowshipResearch Training Program for Residents and Fellows (2010) UTSW Psychiatry Chairman's Research AwardAwarded for research conducted in residency (2010) Professional Associations/Affiliations Academy for Eating Disorders (2009) American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2019) American Psychiatric Association (2006) Psychiatric Research Society (2015) Society for Neuroscience (1994) Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2006)
