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)

Association of CSF α-Synuclein Seeding Amplification Assay Results With Clinical Features of Possible and Probable Dementia With Lewy Bodies.
(2024 Aug 13)
Neurology 103(3): e209656
Coughlin DG, MacLeod KR, Middleton JS, Bozoki AC, Galvin JE, Irwin DJ, Lippa CF, Litvan I, Lopez OL, Berman S, Tsuang DW, Zabetian CP, Honig LS, Marder KS, Fleisher JE, Sabbagh M, Wint D, Taylor AS, Bekris L, Leverenz JB, Galasko D

Missense and Loss of Function Variants at GWAS Loci in Familial Alzheimer's Disease.
(2024 Jul 9)
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, Alba C, Dalgard C, 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

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