San Diego Veterans Affairs Health Care System. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and regularly sees patients in the San Diego VA. His clinical care focuses on working with individuals with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder returning from Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. His research focus is on using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to identify dysfunctional brain processes in individuals with anxiety disorders and with substance use disorders. In particular, Dr. Paulus is interested in developing fMRI as a practical tool to make clinically useful predictions. Dr. Paulus has published over 180 peerreviewed scientific articles. He studied Medicine at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1979 to 1985. Dr. Paulus completed his residency training at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center/ Zucker Hillside Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD.
Neuroimaging techniques have provided a unique and unprecedented insight into the functioning human brain. The emergence of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) [1] made a tool available that enabled psychiatric researchers to examine with great anatomical detail the relationship between psychological phenomena and brain physiology. Yet, 20 years later, it is important to take a step back and examine how this tool has helped to elucidate physiological and pathological anxiety-related processes and to specifically address the challenges that lay ahead.