Staff and faculty

Bruce Luber, Ph.D.

Dr. Bruce Luber is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation (BSTM), Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. He has been an investigator at NYSPI since 1989, and for most of the years since with Division BSTM. He earned his PhD in experimental psychology at New York University, focusing on studies in magneto-encephalography. Dr. Luber's research concerns using TMS to ameliorate problems of cognitive aging, and also using TMS to study the brain basis of self-awareness, among other projects. He directs the Non-invasive Neuromodulation Neuroscience (N3) Lab within the Division of Brain Stimulation and Therapeutic Modulation.

PUBLICATIONS:

• Luber B, Fisher C, Appelbaum PS, Ploesser M, Lisanby SH. Non-invasive brain stimulation in the detection of deception: scientific challenges and ethical consequences. Behav Sci Law. 2009;27(2):191-208.

• Luber B, Stanford AD, Bulow P, Nguyen T, Rakitin BC, Habeck C, Basner R, Stern Y, Lisanby SH. Remediation of Sleep-Deprivation-Induced Working Memory Impairment with fMRI-Guided Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Cereb Cortex. 2008 Jan 17. [Epub ahead of print]

• Luber B, Balsam P, Nguyen T, Gross M, Lisanby SH. Classical conditioned learning using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Exp Brain Res. 2007 Nov;183(3):361-9. Epub 2007 Jul 17.

• Luber B, Stanford AD, Malaspina D, Lisanby SH. Revisiting the backward masking deficit in schizophrenia: individual differences in performance and modeling with transcranial magnetic stimulation. Biol Psychiatry. 2007 Oct 1;62(7):793-9. Epub 2007 Jan 17.

• Luber B, Kinnunen LH, Rakitin BC, Ellsasser R, Stern Y, Lisanby SH. Facilitation of performance in a working memory task with rTMS stimulation of the precuneus: frequency- and time-dependent effects. Brain Res. 2007 Jan 12;1128(1):120-9. Epub 2006 Nov 20.