Paul Croarkin, DO
Dr. Croarkin presents “Recent Brain Stimulation Adaptations and Innovations for Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders” as part of the Child Mind Institute Visiting Professor Lecture Series.
Paul Croarkin, DO is a Professor of Psychiatry at Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. He is focused on understanding the neurobiology, optimal treatment and classification of mood disorders in children and adolescents.
This includes studies of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for adolescent major depressive disorder; collaborative clinical trials; studies of neurophysiology with magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS); and novel, single and paired-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) paradigms. A central theme among Dr. Croarkin’s research is investigating the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate neurotransmitter systems in early-onset mood disorders with the goal of informing safer and more effective biologic treatments.