Elena Ivleva, M.D., Ph.D.

Elena Ivleva, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry’s Division of Translational Neuroscience Research in Schizophrenia at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She serves as the department’s Communities Foundation Chair in Psychiatry and Director of the Early Psychosis Clinical and Research Program. She specializes in the treatment of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders.

Dr. Ivleva earned her medical degree and her doctoral degree in neuroscience at Voronezh State Medical Academy in Russia. She completed a residency in psychiatry at Voronezh State Medical Academy, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship conducting neurobiological research in schizophrenia at UT Southwestern, where she also performed a research-track residency in psychiatry.

Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Ivleva joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2012.

In addition to her clinical practice, Dr. Ivleva is a dedicated physician-scientist in the field of neurobiological psychosis research. Her investigations are focused on understanding neurobiological mechanisms of schizophrenia and related disorders and developing human in vivo biomarkers for psychotic disorders, primarily using cognition and multimodal brain imaging measures.

Dr. Ivleva has delivered scores of presentations at national and international conferences, contributed to several psychiatry textbooks (including Kaplan & Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry and Neurobiology of Mental Illness), and published more than 50 academic articles. She is a recipient of research awards and funding from the National Institute of Mental Health, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the American Psychiatric Association, and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.

She is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Schizophrenia International Research Society, the American Psychiatric Association, the Early Intervention in Mental Health Society, and the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, among other professional organizations.

Medical School

Voronezh State Medical Academy (1998)

Residency

Voronezh State Medical Academy (2000), Psychiatry

Other Post Graduate Training

Voronezh State Medical Academy (2001)

Graduate School

Voronezh State Medical Academy (2001), Neuroscience

Postdoctoral Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2008), Neurobiology of Psychotic Disorders

Residency

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2012), Psychiatry

Featured Publications

Imaging-Based Subtyping for Psychiatric Syndromes.

Ivleva EI, Turkozer HB, Sweeney JA, Neuroimaging Clin. N. Am. 2020 Feb 30 1 35-44

Associations between adolescent cannabis use and brain structure in psychosis.

Abush H, Ghose S, Van Enkevort EA, Clementz BA, Pearlson GD, Sweeney JA, Keshavan MS, Tamminga CA, Ivleva EI Psychiatry Res 2018 Mar

Brain Structure Biomarkers in the Psychosis Biotypes: Findings From the Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network for Intermediate Phenotypes.

Ivleva EI, Clementz BA, Dutcher AM, Arnold SJ, Jeon-Slaughter H, Aslan S, Witte B, Poudyal G, Lu H, Meda SA, Pearlson GD, Sweeney JA, Keshavan MS, Tamminga CA Biol. Psychiatry 2016 Aug

Identification of Distinct Psychosis Biotypes Using Brain-Based Biomarkers.

Clementz BA, Sweeney JA, Hamm JP, Ivleva EI, Ethridge LE, Pearlson GD, Keshavan MS, Tamminga CA Am J Psychiatry 2015 Dec appiajp201514091200

Alterations in hippocampal connectivity across the psychosis dimension.

Samudra N, Ivleva EI, Hubbard NA, Rypma B, Sweeney JA, Clementz BA, Keshavan MS, Pearlson GD, Tamminga CA Psychiatry Res 2015 Jun

Loss of pattern separation performance in schizophrenia suggests dentate gyrus dysfunction.

Das T, Ivleva EI, Wagner AD, Stark CE, Tamminga CA Schizophr. Res. 2014 Oct 159 1 193-7

Hippocampal Volume Is Reduced in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective Disorder But Not in Psychotic Bipolar I Disorder Demonstrated by Both Manual Tracing and Automated Parcellation (FreeSurfer).

Arnold SJ, Ivleva EI, Gopal TA, Reddy AP, Jeon-Slaughter H, Sacco CB, Francis AN, Tandon N, Bidesi AS, Witte B, Poudyal G, Pearlson GD, Sweeney JA, Clementz BA, Keshavan MS, Tamminga CA Schizophr Bull 2014 Feb

Gray Matter Volume as an Intermediate Phenotype for Psychosis: Bipolar-Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP).

Ivleva EI, Bidesi AS, Keshavan MS, Pearlson GD, Meda SA, Dodig D, Moates AF, Lu H, Francis AN, Tandon N, Schretlen DJ, Sweeney JA, Clementz BA, Tamminga CA Am J Psychiatry 2013 Nov 170 11 1285-96

Clinical Phenotypes of Psychosis in the Bipolar and Schizophrenia Network on Intermediate Phenotypes (B-SNIP).

Tamminga CA, Ivleva EI, Keshavan MS, Pearlson GD, Clementz BA, Witte B, Morris DW, Bishop J, Thaker GK, Sweeney JA Am J Psychiatry 2013 Jul

Smooth Pursuit Eye Movement, Prepulse Inhibition, and Auditory Paired Stimuli Processing Endophenotypes Across the Schizophrenia-Bipolar Disorder Psychosis Dimension.

Ivleva EI, Moates AF, Hamm JP, Bernstein IH, O'Neill HB, Cole D, Clementz BA, Thaker GK, Tamminga CA Schizophr Bull 2013 Apr

 Featured Books

Psychosis as a defining dimension in schizophrenia. In Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 10th Edition

Ivleva EI, Tamminga C (2017). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Psychosis as a defining dimension in schizophrenia. In Kaplan & Sadock's Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, 9th Edition

Ivleva EI, Tamminga C (2009). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Psychotic Disorders: Neurochemistry and pharmacotherapy. In Neurobiology of Mental Illness

Tamminga CA, Ivleva EI (2013). New York, Oxford University Press

Toward a Dimensional Understanding of Psychosis and Its Treatment. In Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

Tamminga CA, Ivleva EI (2014). Washington DC, American Psychiatry Association Publishing

Psychotic Disorders: Comprehensive Conceptualization and Treatments

Tamminga CA, van Os J, Reininghaus U, Ivleva E (Ed.) (2020). New York, Oxford University Press

• American Psychiatric Association (2008)
• Schizophrenia International Research Society (2007)
• Society for Neuroscience (2011)
• Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (2008)