Faculty

Debby W. Tsuang

Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medicine - Medical Genetics

206-277-1333

Education

MD University of Iowa, 1988

Contact

206-277-1333

Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System
VAPSHCS (116-6E)
1660 S. Columbian Way
Mail Stop: GRECC-182
Seattle, WA 98108

Research Interests

  • Clinical-neuropathology of dementing disorders
  • Psychosis in dementia genetics
  • Endophenotypes of schizophrenia

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Identification of Rare Damaging Missense and Loss of Function Variants in GWAS Loci Using Genome Sequencing Data from Two Cohorts of Familial Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
(2023 Dec 18)
medRxiv
Gunasekaran TI, Reyes-Dumeyer D, Faber KM, Goate A, Boeve B, Cruchaga C, Pericak-Vance M, Haines JL, Rosenberg R, Tsuang D, Mejia DR, Medrano M, Lantigua RA, Sweet RA, Bennett DA, Wilson RS, Foroud T, Vardarajan BN, Mayeux R

Autonomic dysregulation during sleep in Parkinsonian spectrum disorders - A proof of concept.
(2023 Dec)
Parkinsonism Relat Disord 117(): 105905
Cho Y, Levendowski DJ, Walsh CM, Tsuang D, Lee-Iannotti JK, Berka C, Mazeika G, Salat D, Hamilton JM, Boeve BF, Neylan TC, St Louis EK

Proof-of-concept for characterization of neurodegenerative disorders utilizing two non-REM sleep biomarkers.
(2023)
Front Neurol 14(): 1272369
Levendowski DJ, Neylan TC, Walsh CM, Tsuang D, Salat D, Hamilton JM, Lee-Iannotti JK, Berka C, Mazeika G, Boeve BF, St Louis EK

Pimavanserin Treatment for Psychosis in Patients with Dementia with Lewy Bodies: A Case Series.
(2023 Sep 30)
Am J Case Rep 24(): e939806
Rothenberg KG, McRae SG, Dominguez-Colman LM, Shutes-David A, Tsuang DW

ATN cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies: Initial results from the United States Dementia with Lewy Bodies Consortium.
(2024 Jan)
Alzheimers Dement 20(1): 549-562
Jain L, Khrestian M, Formica S, Tuason ED, Pillai JA, Rao S, Oguh O, Lippa CF, Lopez OL, Berman SB, Tsuang DW, Zabetian CP, Irwin DJ, Galasko DR, Litvan I, Marder KS, Honig LS, Fleisher JE, Galvin JE, Bozoki AC, Taylor AS, Sabbagh MN, Leverenz JB, Bekris LM

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