Brian Mickey MD, PhD

Brian James Mickey, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry. He studied physics and biology at the University of Washington, Seattle, then completed his MD and PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. After psychiatry residency and postdoctoral fellowship at the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2015, he moved to the University of Utah, where he is a faculty member in Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Anesthesiology.

Dr. Mickey is board-certified in Psychiatry. His clinical focus is treatment-resistant mood disorders. He provides pharmacologic treatments and brain stimulation interventions in the Treatment Resistant Mood Disorders Clinic at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute.

The overall objectives of Dr. Mickey's lab are to understand how limbic and prefrontal brain circuits give rise to psychiatric problems such as depression, anxiety, and addiction, and to develop new circuit-targeted interventions that return the brain to a healthy state.