Amanda M. Buch

Research Themes

Neural Engineering

Education

• Ph.D. Cornell University, 2022

Positions

• Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
• Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Publications

• Ashoori A, Buch AM, Eagleman DM, Jarskog LF. Time processing in schizophrenia: integrating behavioral, neurobiological, and clinical data. Translational Psychiatry. 2026 Sep 21;
• Buch AM, Liston C, Grosenick L. Simple and Scalable Algorithms for Cluster-Aware Precision Medicine. In: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research. 2024. p. 136u201344.
• Buch AM, Liston C. Gene-brain-behavior mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder: implications for precision psychiatry. Neuropsychopharmacologyu202f: official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2024 Jan;49(1):343u20134.
• Buch AM, Vu00e9rtes PE, Seidlitz J, Kim SH, Grosenick L, Liston C. Molecular and network-level mechanisms explaining individual differences in autism spectrum disorder. Nature neuroscience. 2023 Apr;26(4):650u201363.
• Babij R, Ferrer C, Donatelle A, Wacks S, Buch AM, Niemeyer JE, et al. Gabrb3 is required for the functional integration of pyramidal neuron subtypes in the somatosensory cortex. Neuron. 2023 Jan;111(2):256-274.e10.
• Buch AM, Liston C, Grosenick L. Simple and Scalable Algorithms for Cluster-Aware Precision Medicine. 2022.
• Buch AM, Eagleman DM, Grosenick L. Engineering Diplomacy: How AI and Human Augmentation Could Remake the Art of Foreign Relations. Science & Diplomacy. 2022;
• Buch AM, Liston C. Dissecting diagnostic heterogeneity in depression by integrating neuroimaging and genetics. Neuropsychopharmacologyu202f: official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2021 Jan;46(1):156u201375.
• Gerraty RT, Sharp ME, Buch A, Bassett DS, Shohamy D. Dopamine modulates learning-related changes in dynamic striatal-cortical connectivity in Parkinsonu2019s disease. openRxiv. 2019.
• Samiotaki G, Karakatsani ME, Buch A, Papadopoulos S, Wu SY, Jambawalikar S, et al. Pharmacokinetic analysis and drug delivery efficiency of the focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening in non-human primates. Magnetic resonance imaging. 2017 Apr;37:273u201381.
• Wang S, Kugelman T, Buch A, Herman M, Han Y, Karakatsani ME, et al. Non-invasive, Focused Ultrasound-Facilitated Gene Delivery for Optogenetics. Scientific reports. 2017 Jan;7:39955.
• Downs ME, Teichert T, Buch A, Karakatsani ME, Sierra C, Chen S, et al. Toward a Cognitive Neural Prosthesis Using Focused Ultrasound. Frontiers in neuroscience. 2017 Jan;11:607.
• Wu S-Y, Sanchez CS, Samiotaki G, Buch A, Ferrera VP, Konofagou EE. Characterizing Focused-Ultrasound Mediated Drug Delivery to the Heterogeneous Primate Brain In Vivo with Acoustic Monitoring. Scientific reports. 2016 Nov;6:37094.
• Downs ME, Buch A, Karakatsani ME, Konofagou EE, Ferrera VP. Blood-Brain Barrier Opening in Behaving Non-Human Primates via Focused Ultrasound with Systemically Administered Microbubbles. Scientific reports. 2015 Oct;5:15076.
• Wang S, Buch A, Hussaini SA, Acosta C, Konofagou E. Focused ultrasound facilitated adenoviral delivery for optogenetic stimulation. In: 2015 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE; 2015. p. 1u20134.
• Downs ME, Buch A, Sierra C, Karakatsani ME, Teichert T, Chen S, et al. Long-Term Safety of Repeated Blood-Brain Barrier Opening via Focused Ultrasound with Microbubbles in Non-Human Primates Performing a Cognitive Task. PloS one. 2015 Jan;10(5):e0125911.
• Wu S-Y, Downs M, Sanchez CS, Teichert T, Buch A, Samiotaki G, et al. Monitoring of focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening in non-human primates using transcranial cavitation detection in vivo and the primate skull effect. In: 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE; 2013. p. 1201u20134.
• Kriks S, Shim J-W, Piao J, Ganat YM, Wakeman DR, Xie Z, et al. Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson's disease. Nature. 2011 Nov;480(7378):547u201351.