Ronald Salomon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Ron.Salomon@Vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Ronald Salomon has been a member of the faculty since 1995. He directs the Psychiatry Clerkship for the Medical School, the Grand Rounds Program, and the Adult Division. He is also a member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Scientific Advisory Committee, and investigator in the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development and also in the Department of Psychiatry’s Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program. He has served also as a peer reviewer for numerous national and international journals, and as a grant reviewer for NARSAD and NIMH (NCCAM).
Education
M.D., University of Liege, Belgium
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Postgraduate Training
Intern and Resident in Adult Psychiatry, University of Connecticut
Areas of Clinical Expertise
Mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, psychosomatic medicine, sleep disorders, adult residual attention deficit disorder
Research interests
Chronobiology in mood disorders, at an ultradian scale, is studied as a means of understanding the intrinsic oscillatory mechanisms that regulate groups of neurobiological phenomena. Mathematical modeling of time series data from spinal fluid neurochemistries, regional metabolic activity in fMRI, and prosody variability from speech samples (similar to voice prints) and other measures offer new insights into the neural dynamics. The major focus of all of these studies is to understand how time series data can be used to classify disease subtypes and discover and test new treatment approaches for depression and other mental disorders. (see website for Dr. Salomon).
Representative publications
1. Salomon, R.M., Blackford, J.U., Rogers, B.P., Wilkes, M., Shiavi, R.G.: Filter methods for Functional Connectivity: Wavelet Filters. Submitted to IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP), March 2008.
2. Riccardi, P., Baldwin, R., Salomon, R., Anderson, S., Ansari, M.S., Li, R., Dawant, B., Bauernfeind, A., Schmidt, D., Kessler, R.: Estimation of Baseline Dopamine D(2) Receptor Occupancy in Striatum and Extrastriatal Regions in Humans With Positron Emission Tomography With [(18)F] Fallypride. Biol Psychiatry. 2008 Jan 15;63(2):241-4.
3. Salomon, R.M., Johnson, B.W., Schmidt, D.E. (2006) Central Neurochemical Ultradian Variability in Depression. Disease Markers; 22(1-2): 273-280.
4. Salomon, R.M., Kennedy, J.S., Johnson, B.W., Blackford, J.U., Schmidt, D.E., Kwentus, J., Gwirtsman, H.E., Gouda, J.F., Shiavi, R.G. (2005) Treatment Enhances Ultradian Rhythms of CSF Monoamine Metabolites in Patients with Major Depressive Episodes. Neuropsychopharmacology Nov; 30(11): 2082-91.
5. Salomon, R.M., Kennedy, J.S., Johnson, B., Schmidt, D.E., Kwentus, J.E., Gwirtsman, H.E., Ebert, M.H. (2003) Association of a Critical CSF Tryptophan Threshold Level with Depressive Relapse. Neuropsychopharmacology May;28(5): 956-60.
