 Alejandro Meruelo
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| Title(s) | Assistant Adjunct Professor, Psychiatry |
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| School | Health Sciences |
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 Biography | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA | B.S. | 06/2006 | Physics | | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA | M.D., Ph.D. | 06/2014 | Medicine, Molecular and Structural Biology | | UCSD, San Diego, CA | Residency | 06/2018 | Psychiatry |
Overview Biography
Dr. Meruelo earned a B.S. with honors in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 2006, his Ph.D. in Molecular and Structural Biology from UCLA in 2012, and his M.D. from UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine in 2014. He completed Adult Psychiatry Residency training in 2018 and a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCSD in 2019. He received a 2016 NIMH Outstanding Resident Award, 2018 Judd Research Award, and 2019 Career Development Institute for Psychiatry Award during this time.
Research Interests
Dr. Meruelo’s laboratory focuses on integrating neuroimaging, computational methods, and advanced statistics to extricate the complex relationship between mood disorders and substance use. He has published papers on adolescent brain development and cognition, in addition to the impact of alcohol and cannabis use on the developing brain. His studies are currently funded through a K23 from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Clinical Focus
Dr. Meruelo provides Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to adults suffering from treatment-resistant depression, in addition to treating depressive, anxiety, psychotic, and bipolar disorders.
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Associations of developmental imbalance between sensation seeking and premeditation in adolescence and heavy episodic drinking in emerging adulthood. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2021 May 15.
McCabe CJ, Wall TL, Gonzalez MR, Meruelo AD, Eberson-Shumate SC, Clark DB, Nooner KB, Brown SA, Tapert SF. PMID: 33991389.
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Neuroimaging markers of adolescent depression in the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) study. J Affect Disord. 2021 Mar 31; 287:380-386.
Meruelo AD, Brumback T, Nagel BJ, Baker FC, Brown SA, Tapert SF. PMID: 33836366.
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Substance use initiation and the prediction of subsequent academic achievement. Brain Imaging Behav. 2020 Dec; 14(6):2679-2691.
Meruelo AD, Castro N, Nguyen-Louie T, Tapert SF. PMID: 31903528.
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Adolescent Cerebellar Development: An Underexplored Frontier. Biol Psychiatry. 2020 04 01; 87(7):e19-e20.
Meruelo AD. PMID: 32164919.
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Early adolescent brain markers of late adolescent academic functioning. Brain Imaging Behav. 2019 Aug; 13(4):945-952.
Meruelo AD, Jacobus J, Idy E, Nguyen-Louie T, Brown G, Tapert SF. PMID: 29911279.
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Cannabis and alcohol use, and the developing brain. Behav Brain Res. 2017 05 15; 325(Pt A):44-50.
Meruelo AD, Castro N, Cota CI, Tapert SF. PMID: 28223098.
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Neuropsychological performance in adolescent marijuana users with co-occurring alcohol use: A three-year longitudinal study. Neuropsychology. 2015 Nov; 29(6):829-843.
Jacobus J, Squeglia LM, Infante MA, Castro N, Brumback T, Meruelo AD, Tapert SF. PMID: 25938918.
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Cortical thickness in adolescent marijuana and alcohol users: A three-year prospective study from adolescence to young adulthood. Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2015 Dec; 16:101-109.
Jacobus J, Squeglia LM, Meruelo AD, Castro N, Brumback T, Giedd JN, Tapert SF. PMID: 25953106.
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Structural differences between thermophilic and mesophilic membrane proteins. Protein Sci. 2012 Nov; 21(11):1746-53.
Meruelo AD, Han SK, Kim S, Bowie JU. PMID: 23001966.
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TMKink: a method to predict transmembrane helix kinks. Protein Sci. 2011 Jul; 20(7):1256-64.
Meruelo AD, Samish I, Bowie JU. PMID: 21563225.
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Identifying polymer-forming SAM domains. Proteins. 2009 Jan; 74(1):1-5.
Meruelo AD, Bowie JU. PMID: 18831011.
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C. elegans EVI1 proto-oncogene, EGL-43, is necessary for Notch-mediated cell fate specification and regulates cell invasion. Development. 2007 Feb; 134(4):669-79.
Hwang BJ, Meruelo AD, Sternberg PW. PMID: 17215301.
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