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Jonathan Robert Young, MD, is an Assistant Consulting Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University and a Staff Psychiatrist at the Durham VA Health Care System, where he focuses on Treatment Refractory Disorders. Dr. Young has extensive experience in the Division of Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences and has served as an attending physician at the Duke electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) clinic. His research interests center around the clinical applications of non-invasive neuromodulation technologies, particularly repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), aimed at treating psychiatric and substance use disorders. Currently, he is developing a multimodal smoking cessation intervention for Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), utilizing functional-connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fc-MRI) to guide a personalized, accelerated rTMS course alongside cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)