Areas of Interest

  • Neurology
  • Psychiatry, mental/behavioral health

Publications (Select)

  • Mahajan GJ, Vallender EJ, Garrett MR, Challagundla L, Overholser JC, Jurjus G, Dieter L, Syed M, Romero DG, Benghuzzi H, Stockmeier CA. Altered neuro-inflammatory gene expression in hippocampus in major depressive disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2018 Mar 2;82:177-186. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.11.017. Epub 2017 Nov 22. PubMed PMID: 29175309; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5801125.
  • Mohamed S, Johnson GR, Chen P, Hicks PB, Davis LL, Yoon J, Gleason TC, Vertrees JE, Weingart K, Tal I, Scrymgeour A, Lawrence DD, Planeta B, Thase ME, Huang GD, Zisook S; and the VAST-D Investigators, Rao SD, Pilkinton PD, Wilcox JA, Iranmanesh A, Sapra M, Jurjus G, Michalets JP, Aslam M, Beresford T, Anderson KD, Fernando R, Ramaswamy S, Kasckow J, Westermeyer J, Yoon G, D’Souza DC, Larson G, Anderson WG, Klatt M, Fareed A, Thompson SI, Carrera CJ, Williams SS, Juergens TM, Albers LJ, Nasdahl CS, Villarreal G, Winston JL, Nogues CA, Connolly KR, Tapp A, Jones KA, Khatkhate G, Marri S, Suppes T, LaMotte J, Hurley R, Mayeda AR, Niculescu AB 3rd, Fischer BA, Loreck DJ, Rosenlicht N, Lieske S, Finkel MS, Little JT. Effect of Antidepressant Switching vs Augmentation on Remission Among Patients With Major Depressive Disorder Unresponsive to Antidepressant Treatment: The VAST-D Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2017 Jul 11;318(2):132-145. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.8036. PubMed PMID: 28697253.
  • Rubinow MJ, Mahajan G, May W, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ, Dieter L, Herbst N Steffens DC, Miguel-Hidalgo JJ, Rajkowska G, Stockmeier CA. Basolateral amygdala volume and cell numbers in major depressive disorder: a postmortem stereological study. Brain Struct Funct. 2016 Jan;221(1):171-84. doi: 10.1007/s00429-014-0900-z. Epub 2014 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 25287512; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4388764.
  • Miguel-Hidalgo JJ, Jiang W, Konick L, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ,Stockmeier CA, Steffens DC, Krishnan KRR, Rajkowska G. Morphometric analysis of vascular pathology in the orbitofrontal cortex of older subjects with major depression. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2013 Sep;28(9):959–970. doi: 10.1002/gps.3911 Pubmed PMID: 23208772
  • Cobb JA, Simpson J, Mahajan GJ, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ, Dieter L, Herbst N, May W, Rajkowska G, Stockmeier CA. Hippocampal volume and total cell numbers in major depressive disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2013 Mar;47(3):299–306. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.10.020 Pubmed PMID: 23201228
  • Duric V, Banasr M, Stockmeier CA, Simen AA, Newton SS, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ, Dieter L, Duman RS. Altered expression of synapse and glutamate related genes in post-mortem hippocampus of depressed subjects. Int J Neuropsychopharmacol. 2013 Feb;16(1):69–82. doi: 10.1017/S1461145712000016 Pubmed PMID: 22339950
  • Zhu H, Urban DJ, Blashka J, McPheeters MT, Kroeze WK, Mieczkowski P, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ, Dieter L, Mahajan GJ, Rajkowska G, Wang Z, Sullivan PF, Stockmeier CA, Roth BL.Quantitative analysis of focused a-to-I RNA editing sites by ultra-high-throughput sequencing in psychiatric disorders. PLoS ONE. 2012;7(8):e43227. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043227 Pubmed PMID: 22912834
  • Johnson S, Stockmeier CA, Meyer JH, Austin MC, Albert PR, Wang J, May WL, Rajkowska G, Overholser JC, Jurjus G, Dieter L, Johnson C, Sittman DB, Ou X-M. The reduction of R1, a novel repressor protein for monoamine oxidase A, in major depressive disorder.Neuropsychopharmacology. 2011 Sep;36(10):2139–2148. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.105 Pubmed PMID: 21654740
  • Miguel-Hidalgo JJ, Overholser JC, Jurjus GJ, Meltzer HY, Dieter L, Konick L, Stockmeier CA, Rajkowska G. Vascular and extravascular immunoreactivity for intercellular adhesion molecule 1 in the orbitofrontal cortex of subjects with major depression: age-dependent changes. J Affect Disord. 2011 Aug;132(3):422–431. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2011.03.052 Pubmed PMID: 21536333

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Investigator
Cleveland FES Center

Psychiatrist
Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Case Western Reserve University

CONTACT INFORMATION

Program Contact
George Jurjus

Contact Number
(216) 368-6814

Contact Email
george.jurjus@va.gov