Lisa McTeague, PhD

Lisa M. McTeague, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and an assistant professor in the Brain Stimulation Laboratory of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). She earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and her doctoral degree from University of Florida. Prior to joining the MUSC faculty in fall 2014, she was faculty in the UF Department of Clinical & Health Psychology and the Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention as well as the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Funded by a NIMH K23 award she is working to develop neurocircuit-informed treatment adjuncts for cognitive-behavioral approaches for PTSD, targeting deficits demonstrated in experimental affective neuroscience. While her current work is focused on PTSD, the aim is purposefully transdiagnostic – with implications for highly related anxiety and mood disorders and trauma exposure. Specifically, her work utilizes transcranial magnetic stimulation, concurrent with fMRI, as a casual probe of neural network integrity and susceptibility to perturbation in chronic and refractory anxiety and depression. The current focus is to garner pilot data and essential guidance on the feasibility of using TMS to modify neurocircuits. In the service of optimizing and personalizing care, the long-term aim is to “rescue” deficient emotion reactivity and regulation by exogenously targeting these circuits as a preamble to cognitive-behavioral treatment.

Reading List

Caulfield KA, Fleischmann HH, George MS, McTeague LM. A transdiagnostic review of safety, efficacy, and parameter space in accelerated transcranial magnetic stimulation. J Psychiatr Res. 2022 Aug;152:384-396. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.06.038. Epub 2022 Jun 28. PMID: 35816982; PMCID: PMC10029148.

George MS, Huffman S, Doose J, Sun X, Dancy M, Faller J, Li X, Yuan H, Goldman RI, Sajda P, Brown TR. EEG synchronized left prefrontal transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment resistant depression is feasible and produces an entrainment dependent clinical response: A randomized controlled double blind clinical trial. Brain Stimul. 2023 Nov-Dec;16(6):1753-1763. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2023.11.010. Epub 2023 Dec 2. PMID: 38043646; PMCID: PMC10872322.

He H, Sun X, Doose J, Faller J, McIntosh JR, Saber GT, Huffman S, Hong L, Pantazatos SP, Yuan H, McTeague LM, Goldman RI, Brown TR, George MS, Sajda P. TMS-induced modulation of brain networks and its associations to rTMS treatment for depression: a current fMRI-EEG-TMS study. Brain Stimul. 2025 Nov-Dec;18(6):1955-1965. doi: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.10.013. Epub 2025 Oct 16. PMID: 41109521; PMCID: PMC12716231.

McTeague LM, Huemer J, Carreon DM, Jiang Y, Eickhoff SB, Etkin A. Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Cognitive Control Across Psychiatric Disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2017 Jul 1;174(7):676-685. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.16040400. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PMID: 28320224; PMCID: PMC5543416.

McTeague LM, Rosenberg BM, Lopez JW, Carreon DM, Huemer J, Jiang Y, Chick CF, Eickhoff SB, Etkin A. Identification of Common Neural Circuit Disruptions in Emotional Processing Across Psychiatric Disorders. Am J Psychiatry. 2020 May 1;177(5):411-421. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2019.18111271. Epub 2020 Jan 22. PMID: 31964160; PMCID: PMC7280468.