Sahib S. Khalsa
Affiliations: | 2002-2009 | Neurology | University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
2009-2014 | Psychiatry | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA | |
2015- | Laureate Institute for Brain Research |
Area:
Interoception, Emotion and Biological PsychiatryWebsite:
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"Sahib Khalsa"Bio:
Dr. Khalsa received a B.S. in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook in 2002. He graduated from the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Iowa, receiving M.D. and Ph.D. (neuroscience) degrees in 2009. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry at UCLA in 2013, serving as the program Chief Resident and Chief Resident in the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic. At that time, he joined the department as a faculty member in the Division of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, becoming an Assistant Professor in Residence in 2014.
Dr. Khalsa’s research examines how people feel their heartbeat, how the human brain maps cardiac sensation, and whether there is dysfunctional cross talk between the heart and brain in psychiatric and cardiovascular illnesses. To approach these questions, his studies have examined the effects of aging, focal brain injury, cardiac dysfunction, and long-term meditation practice on awareness of the heartbeat. Ongoing projects examine the neural basis of cardiac sensation, the neural basis of dysfunctional heart-brain communication in anorexia nervosa, and the impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) on awareness of the heartbeat. These studies aim to ultimately answer the question “How can we develop new treatments that re-establish a functional dialogue between the heart and brain?”
Dr. Khalsa’s clinical expertise focuses on the assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders. As a faculty member Dr. Khalsa served as Associate Director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic, supervising resident physicians in the treatment of anxiety disorders. As founding Director of the Healthy Hearts Behavioral Medicine Program, an interdisciplinary endeavor started with the UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, he specializes in treating anxiety and mood disorders in individuals with cardiovascular disease and who have received ICDs. He also worked as an attending psychiatrist in the UCLA OCD Intensive Outpatient Program.
In February 2015, Dr. Khalsa joined the Laureate Institute for Brain Research in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as the Director of Clinical Studies, and as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) on the Faculty of Community Medicine at the University of Tulsa.
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorDaniel Tranel | grad student | 2009 | University of Iowa | |
(The effect of meditation on awareness and regulation of internal body states.) |
Children
Sign in to add traineeRachel Lapidus | grad student | 2015- | Laureate Institute for Brain Research |
Mahlega Samira Hassanpour | post-doc | Laureate Institute for Brain Research |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorDavid Rudrauf | collaborator | University of Iowa | |
Justin Feinstein | collaborator | 2006- | Laureate Institute for Brain Research |
Publications
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Verdonk C, Teed AR, White EJ, et al. (2024) Heartbeat-evoked neural response abnormalities in generalized anxiety disorder during peripheral adrenergic stimulation. Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology |
Choquette EM, Flux MC, Moseman SE, et al. (2023) The impact of floatation therapy on body image and anxiety in anorexia nervosa: a randomised clinical efficacy trial. Eclinicalmedicine. 64: 102173 |
Bischoff H, Kovach C, Kumar S, et al. (2023) Sensing, Feeling, and Regulating: Investigating the Association of Focal Brain Damage with Voluntary Respiratory and Motor Control. Biorxiv : the Preprint Server For Biology |
Garland MM, Wilson R, Thompson WK, et al. (2023) A randomized controlled safety and feasibility trial of floatation-REST in anxious and depressed individuals. Medrxiv : the Preprint Server For Health Sciences |
Mayeli A, Al Zoubi O, White EJ, et al. (2023) Parieto-occipital ERP indicators of gut mechanosensation in humans. Nature Communications. 14: 3398 |
De la Cruz F, Teed AR, Lapidus RC, et al. (2022) Central Autonomic Network Alterations in Anorexia Nervosa Following Peripheral Adrenergic Stimulation. Biological Psychiatry. Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging |
Smits JAJ, Monfils MH, Otto MW, et al. (2022) CO reactivity as a biomarker of exposure-based therapy non-response: study protocol. Bmc Psychiatry. 22: 831 |
Flux MC, Fine TH, Poplin T, et al. (2022) Exploring the acute cardiovascular effects of Floatation-REST. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16: 995594 |
Feinstein JS, Gould D, Khalsa SS. (2022) Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety. Biological Psychology. 170: 108305 |
Teed AR, Feinstein JS, Puhl M, et al. (2022) Association of Generalized Anxiety Disorder With Autonomic Hypersensitivity and Blunted Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Activity During Peripheral Adrenergic Stimulation: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Jama Psychiatry |