Ruth Asch, Ph.D. - Faculty Profile

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Research Interest

Molecular Psychiatry
Positron Emission Tomography
Stress and Trauma
Translational Neuroimaging

Publications

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Neural Signatures of Bipolar Disorder and Psychotropic Medication Effects: A Multimodal PET-MRI Study.: Asch RH, Fan S, Cool R, Boster S, DellaGioia N, Naganawa M, Nabulsi N, Lacadie C, Pietrzak RH, Esterlis I, Biol Psychiatry 2025 Nov
In Vivo PET Imaging of Preynaptic Density Reveals Stress-Associated Synaptic Deficits Related to Behavioral and Molecular Alterations in Rats.: Asch RH, Hernandez Martin N, Garcia-Milian R, Fowles K, DiLeone RJ, Cai Z, Liston CM, Esterlis I, Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2025 Sep
Challenges and rewards of in vivo synaptic density imaging, and its application to the study of depression.: Asch RH, Abdallah CG, Carson RE, Esterlis I, Neuropsychopharmacology 2024 Nov 50 1 153-163
The metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 as a biomarker for psychiatric disorders.: Asch RH, Hillmer AT, Baldassarri SR, Esterlis I, Int Rev Neurobiol 2023 168 265-310
In vivo evidence for metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 dysregulation in chronic pain.: Davis MT, Weiss ER, DellaGioia N, Boster S, Asch RH, Moisieienko K, Esterlis I, Neuropsychopharmacology 2025 Dec
Exploring the influence of synaptic density and anxiety on pain perception: evidence from a [11C]UCB-J positron emission tomography imaging study.: Moisieienko K, Asch RH, Davis MT, Pietrzak RH, Esterlis I, Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2025 Jul 28 7
An In Vivo Examination of the Relationship Between Metabotropic Glutamate 5 Receptor and Suicide Attempts in People With Borderline Personality Disorder.: Davis MT, Asch RH, Weiss ER, Wagner A, Fineberg SK, Nabulsi N, Matuskey D, Carson RE, Esterlis I, Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging 2025 Mar 10 3 324-332
Venous blood sampling for less invasive in vivo quantification of synaptic density with constant infusion of [¹⁸F]SynVesT-1 and PET.: Asch RH, Naganawa M, Moisieienko K, Weed M, Kapinos M, Zheng MQ, Hillmer AT, Carson RE, Pietrzak RH, Esterlis I, EJNMMI Res 2025 Feb 15 1 8
Evaluation of radio-thin-layer chromatography as an alternative to radio-HPLC for [¹⁸F]SynVesT-1 metabolism analysis in rats.: Balayeva T, Asch RH, Tan PW, Mennie W, Tong J, Chen B, Zhuang Z, Zheng C, Zheng M, Toyonaga T, Cai Z, Nucl Med Biol 2025 146-147 109029
Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor 5 as a Potential Biomarker of the Intersection of Trauma and Cannabis Use.: Weiss ER, Davis MT, Asch RH, D'Souza DC, Cool R, Esterlis I, Int J Neuropsychopharmacol 2024 Oct 27 10