J. John Mann is the Paul Janssen Professor of Translational Neuroscience (in Psychiatry and in Radiology) at Columbia University. He is Director of Molecular Imaging and the Neuropathology Division at the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Dr. Mann is trained in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine and has a Doctorate in Neurochemistry.
Research Focus
His research employs functional brain imaging, neurochemistry and molecular genetics to probe the causes of depression and suicide.
Dr. Mann is the Director of the NIMH Conte Center for the Neuroscience of Mental Disorders, and Past President of the Society of Biological Psychiatry and The International Academy of Suicide Research.
Dr. Mann has published over 500 papers and edited 11 books on the subjects of the biology and treatment of mood disorders, suicidal behavior and other psychiatric disorders. In private practice he specializes in the treatment of mood disorders.
Select Publications
1. Parsey, R.V., Hastings, R.S., Oquendo, M.A., Huang, Y., Simpson, N., Arcement, J., Huang, Y., Ogden, R.T., Van Heertum, R.L., Arango, V. Mann, J.J. Lower serotonin transporter binding potential in the human brain during major depressive episodes. Am. J. Psychiatry 163(1):52-58, 2006. PMID:16390889
2. Parsey, R.V., Oquendo, M.A., Ogden, R.T., Olvet, D.M., Simpson, N., Huang, Y., Van Heertum, R.L., Arango, V. Mann, J.J. Altered serotonin 1A binding in major depression: A [carbonyl-C-11]WAY100635 positron emission tomography study. Biol. Psychiatry 59(2):106-113, 2006. PMID:16154547
3. Bach-Mizrachi, H., Underwood, M.D., Kassir, S.A., Bakalian, M.J., Sibille, E., Tamir, H., Mann, J.J. Arango, V. Neuronal tryptophan hydroxylase mRNA expression in the human dorsal and median raphe nuclei: Major depression and suicide. Neuropsychopharmacology 31:814-824, 2006. PMID:16192985
4. Melhem, N.M., Brent, D.A., Ziegler, M., Iyengar, S., Kolko, D., Oquendo, M., Birmaher, B., Burke, A., Zelazny, J., Stanley, B. and Mann, J.J. Familial pathways to early-onset suicidal behavior: Familial and individual antecedents of suicidal behavior. Am. J. Psychiatry 164:1364-1370, 2007. PMID: 17728421
5. Wiste, A.K., Arango, V., Ellis, S.P., Mann, J.J. Underwood, M.D. Norepinephrine and serotonin imbalance in the locus coeruleus in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 10(3):349-359, 2008. PMID:18402623
6. Boldrini, M., Underwood, M.D., Mann, J.J. Arango, V. Serotonin-1A autoreceptor binding in the dorsal raphe nucleus of depressed suicides. J. Psychiatric Res., 42(6):433-442, 2008. PMID:17574270 PMCID: PMC2268626
7. Haghighi, F.G., Bach-Mizrachi H., Huang, Y.Y., Arango, V., Shi, S., Dwork, A.J., Rosoklija, G., Sheng, H.T., Morozova, U., Ju, J., Russo, J. J., Mann, J. J. Genetic architecture of the human tryptophan hydroxylase 2 Gene: existence of neural isoforms and relevance for major depression. Molecular Psychiatry, 13(8): 813-820, 2008. PMID:18180764
8. Bach-Mizrachi, H., Underwood, M.D., Mann, J.J. Arango, V. Elevated expression of tryptophan
hydroxylase 2 mRNA at the neuronal level in the dorsal and median raphe nuclei of depressed suicides, Molecular Psychiatry, 13(5):507-513, 2008. PMID:18180753 PMCID:PMC2361383
9. Sibille, E., Arango, V., Joeyen-Waldorf, J., Wang, Y., Leman, S., Surget, A., Belzung, C., Mann, J.J. and Lewis, D.A. Large-scale estimates of cellular origins of mRNAs: Enhancing the yield of transcriptome analyses. J. Neurosci. Meth., 167(2): 198-206, 2008. PMID: 17889939
10. Boldrini, M., Underwood, M.D., Hen, R., Rosoklija, G.B., Dwork, A.J., Mann, J.J., Arango, V.
Antidepressants increased neural progenitor cells in the human hippocampus. Neuropsychopharm
34(11):2376-2389, 2009. PMID:19606083 PMCID:PMC2743790
11. Freimer, N.B., Service, S.K., Ophoff, R.A., Jasinska, A.J., McKee, K., Villeneuve, A., Belisle, A., Bailey, J.N., Breidenthal, S.E., Jorgensen, M.J., Mann, J.J., Cantor, R.M., Dewar, K. and Fairbanks, L.A. A quantitative trait locus for variation in dopamine metabolism mapped in a primate model using reference sequences from related species. PNAS, 104(40)15811-15816, 2007. PMID: 17884980
12. Murthy R, Harris P, Simpson N, Van Heertum R, Leibel R, Mann JJ, Parsey R. Whole body [11C]-dihydrotetrabenazine imaging of baboons: biodistribution and human radiation dosimetry estimates. EurJ Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2008 Apr;35(4):790-797. PMID: 18060547
13. Palner M, Underwood MD, Kumar DJ, Arango V, Knudsen GM, Mann JJ, Parsey RV. Ex vivo evaluation of the serotonin 1A receptor partial agonist [3H]CUMI-101 in awake rats. Synapse. 2011 Aug;65(8):715-723. PMID: 21108237.
14. Kinnally EL, Capitanio JP, Leibel R, Deng L, LeDuc C, Haghighi F, Mann JJ. Epigenetic regulation of serotonin transporter expression and behavior in infant rhesus macaques. Genes Brain Behav 2010 Aug;9(6):575-582. PMID:20398062 PMC2921011
15. DeLorenzo C, Milak MS, Brennan KG, Kumar JS, Mann JJ, Parsey RV. In vivo positron emission tomography imaging with [(11)C]ABP688: binding variability and specificity for the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 5 in baboons. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011 Jun; 38(6):1083-1094. PMID:21279350 PMC3095762