Avram Holmes is associate professor of psychiatry at Rutgers University. Trained in clinical psychology and systems neuroscience, he studies the fundamental organization of large-scale human brain networks, with a particular focus on the biological processes that underlie affective and psychotic illnesses such as unipolar depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
Avram Holmes
Associate professor of psychiatry
Rutgers University
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To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of its silo
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Avram Holmes
8 April 2025 | 6 min read
Selected articles
- “Local-global parcellation of the human cerebral cortex from intrinsic functional connectivity MRI” | Cerebral Cortex
- “Reduced caudate and nucleus accumbens response to rewards in unmedicated individuals with major depressive disorder” | American Journal of Psychiatry
- “Brain charts for the human lifespan” | Nature
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