Tuesday, July 14, 2026, 2:00 pm EDT
Neuroimaging has taught us a tremendous amount about the brain, but it has been difficult to show that imaging can directly improve patient care in psychiatry. This talk will explore whether functional brain imaging can personalize accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation and improve outcomes for depression.
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Presented by
Joseph J. Taylor, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical Director of TMS and Director of Clinical Trials, BWH Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics
Assistant Program Director and Research Track Co-Director, BWH/HMS Psychiatry Residency Program
Director, BWH Interventional Psychiatry Research Program
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
2025 Klerman Prize for Exceptional Clinical Research
2022 Young Investigator Grant
Dr. Taylor is a neuroscientist and board-certified psychiatrist with expertise in brain stimulation and interventional psychiatry. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Jonathan F. Borus, MD Endowed Chair in Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham (MGB). He also serves as Medical Director of TMS in the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at MGB, Director of Noninvasive Neuromodulation Clinical Trials at MGB, Director of the Interventional Psychiatry Research Program at MGB, and Associate Program Director and Research Track Co-Director of the Psychiatry Residency Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Taylor’s research focuses on developing and testing brain circuit interventions for neuropsychiatric illness. His work identifies candidate treatment targets through connectome-based network mapping and tests these targets prospectively in clinical trials. Throughout his career, Dr. Taylor has received research funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Sidney R. Baer, Jr. Foundation, the Baszucki Group, the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Home Base Foundation, Harvard Medical School, and Mass General Brigham.
Moderated by
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
Jeffrey Borenstein, M.D., serves as the President & CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the largest private funder of mental health research grants. Dr. Borenstein developed the Emmy-nominated public television program “Healthy Minds,” and serves as host and executive producer of the series. The program, broadcast nationwide, is available online, and focuses on topics in psychiatry in order to educate the public, reduce stigma and offer a message of hope. Dr. Borenstein served as Editor-in-Chief of Psychiatric News, the newspaper of the American Psychiatric Association from 2012 - 2023.
Dr. Borenstein is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and serves as the Chair of the Section of Psychiatry at the Academy. He also has served as the President of the New York State Psychiatric Association. Dr. Borenstein earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard and his medical degree at New York University.
