Faculty

Anna Manelis, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Contact Details

3811 O'Hara St.
Pittsburgh
 
PA
 
15213
Email
Website
ACE Lab

Education & Training

PhD
Psychology, Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health, St. Petersburg, Russia
PhD
Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Rutgers University
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Cognitive Neuroscience, Carnegie Mellon University

Professional Affiliations

Member, Society for Neuroscience
Member, Society of Biological Psychiatry
Member, Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Fellow, Psychonomic Society

Research Interests

Episodic and working memory; Visual imagery; Depression - obesity interaction
Selected Research Publications & Products
  1. Manelis A, Reder LM. He who is well prepared has half won the battle: an FMRI study of task preparation. Cereb Cortex. 2015 Mar;25(3):726-35. PubMed PMID: 24092642; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4318533.
  2. Manelis A, Reder LM. Effective connectivity among the working memory regions during preparation for and during performance of the n-back task. Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Aug 5;8:593. PubMed PMID: 25140143; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4122182.
  3. Manelis A, Reder LM. Procedural learning and associative memory mechanisms contribute to contextual cueing: Evidence from fMRI and eye-tracking. Learn Mem. 2012 Oct 16;19(11):527-34. PubMed PMID: 23073642; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3475156.
  4. Manelis A, Reder LM, Hanson SJ. Dynamic changes in the medial temporal lobe during incidental learning of object-location associations. Cereb Cortex. 2012 Apr;22(4):828-37. PubMed PMID: 21709179; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3450922.
  5. Manelis A, Hanson C, Hanson SJ. Implicit memory for object locations depends on reactivation of encoding-related brain regions. Hum Brain Mapp. 2011 Jan;32(1):32-50. PubMed PMID: 21157878; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3065329.

Clinical Interests

Selected Clinical Publications & Products
  1. Manelis A, Almeida JR, Stiffler R, Lockovich JC, Aslam HA, Phillips ML. Anticipation-related brain connectivity in bipolar and unipolar depression: a graph theory approach. Brain. 2016 Sep;139(Pt 9):2554-66. PubMed PMID: 27368345; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4995358.
  2. Manelis A, Ladouceur CD, Graur S, Monk K, Bonar LK, Hickey MB, Dwojak AC, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Goldstein TR, Bebko G, Bertocci MA, Gill MK, Birmaher B, Phillips ML. Altered functioning of reward circuitry in youth offspring of parents with bipolar disorder. Psychol Med. 2016 Jan;46(1):197-208. PubMed PMID: 26373895; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4674341.
  3. Manelis A, Ladouceur CD, Graur S, Monk K, Bonar LK, Hickey MB, Dwojak AC, Axelson D, Goldstein BI, Goldstein TR, Bebko G, Bertocci MA, Hafeman DM, Gill MK, Birmaher B, Phillips ML. Altered amygdala-prefrontal response to facial emotion in offspring of parents with bipolar disorder. Brain. 2015 Sep;138(Pt 9):2777-90. PubMed PMID: 26112339; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4643621.

Bertocci et al. Use Machine Learning to Identify Neuroimaging Markers that Predict the Development of Bipolar Disorder Symptoms in High-Risk Children

Dr. Michele Bertocci

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a highly heritable mental illness in which affected individuals experience alternating periods of mania and depression. For more than 15 years, Pitt Department of Psychiatry researchers have been conducting longitudinal assessments of families with BD aimed at identifying the earliest signs of the disorder. The latest analysis of this neuroimaging data, recently published in the journal...

Phillips and Colleagues Find New Risk Marker of Bipolar Disorder in Most Comprehensive Neuroimaging Study of High-Risk Children to Date

Dr. Mary Phillips and Heather Acuff

Mary Phillips, MD, MD (CANTAB), left, pictured with the publication's lead author, Heather Acuff. Bipolar disorder (BD), formerly known as manic depression, is a serious mental illness characterized by extreme changes in mood and energy levels that cycle between mania and depression. BD is highly heritable, so children of individuals with BD have an increased risk of also developing the disorder, which often first...