Conor Liston, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine. The long-term goals of his research are to define basic mechanisms by which prefrontal cortical brain circuits support learning, memory, and motivation, and to understand how these functions are disrupted in depression, OCD, and other neuropsychiatric disorders. His team is also developing neuroimaging technologies for informing psychiatric diagnosis in human populations and predicting treatment response to transcranial magnetic stimulation and other forms of therapeutic neuromodulation.
He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 2002, and received his PhD and MD from The Rockefeller University and Weill Cornell Medicine in 2007 and 2008, respectively. He subsequently completed his residency in psychiatry at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital and postdoctoral training at Stanford University. He returned to Weill Cornell as an Assistant Professor in 2014. His research has been recognized with awards from the Klingenstein-Simons Foundation Fund, the Rita Allen Foundation, the Dana Foundation, the One Mind Institute, the Pritzker Neuropsychiatric Disorders Consortium, the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, the Wellcome Leap Foundation, the Jeanne and Herbert Siegel Award for Outstanding Medical Research, the Thomas W. Salmon Award from the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Eva King Killam Award from the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He is also a clinically active psychiatrist specializing in the management of treatment-resistant mood disorders.
