Manpreet Singh

Manpreet K. Singh, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine 

Research Description: Dr. Singh’s clinical research program over the past 13 years has made important contributions to our understanding of the neurobiological basis of impairments in reward processing that can lead to major mood disorders as well as other medical morbidities such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She has innovated methods for studying mechanisms and risk factors underlying these conditions using monetary and food reward paradigms, and discovered important environmental and familial risk factors for developing mood disorders while understanding factors that contribute to treatment response and treatment-related adverse events. Her group has productive collaborations with multiple members of SDRC.

Selected relevant publications (Stanford DRC members in BOLD):

  1. Singh MK, Leslie SM, Packer MM, Zaiko YV, Phillips OR, Weisman EF, Wall DM, Jo B, Rasgon N. Brain and behavioral correlates of insulin resistance in youth with depression and obesity. Horm Behav. 2019 Feb;108:73-83. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.03.009. PMID: 29596854; PMCID: PMC6173667. 

  2. Sun KL, Watson KT, Angal S, Bakkila BF, Gorelik AJ, Leslie SM, Rasgon NL, Singh MK. Neural and Endocrine Correlates of Early Life Abuse in Youth With Depression and Obesity. Front Psychiatry. 2018 Dec 21;9:721. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00721. PMID: 30622489; PMCID: PMC6308296. 

  3. Watson KT, Wroolie TE, Tong G, Foland-Ross LC, Frangou S, Singh M, McIntyre RS, Roat-Shumway S, Myoraku A, Reiss AL, Rasgon NL. Neural correlates of liraglutide effects in persons at risk for Alzheimer's disease. Behav Brain Res. 2019 Jan 1;356:271-278. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2018.08.006. PMID: 30099030. 

  4. Phillips OR, Onopa AK, Zaiko YV, Singh MK. Insulin resistance is associated with smaller brain volumes in a preliminary study of depressed and obese children. Pediatr Diabetes. 2018 Aug;19(5):892-897. doi: 10.1111/pedi.12672. PMID: 29569318; PMCID: PMC6030449.