Taber Cloey Lightbourne, MD, MHS

Psychiatry
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Overview

With over six years of work experience in psychiatry, I am a passionate, dedicated psychiatrist and assistant professor at Columbia University Medical Center. I obtained my MD from Yale School of Medicine, and completed residency in adult psychiatry as well as a women's mental health fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Following residency, I completed a Community Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. I specialize in community psychiatry, women's mental health, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology.

Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at CUMC

Languages

  • English
  • Italian

Gender

  • Female

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Credentials & Experience

Education & Training

  • BA, 2008 Major: History, Minors: Italian, Psychology, Middlebury College
  • Post-Baccalaureate , 2011 Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies, Hunter College
  • MD, 2017 Yale University School of Medicine
  • MHS, 2017 Health Sciences, Yale School of Medicine
  • Residency: 2021 NewYork-Presbyterian /Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Fellowship: 2022 University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Board Certifications

  • Psychiatry

Honors & Awards

National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry (NCRP) Trainee Fellowship, 2021-2023

APA Diversity Leadership Fellowship, 2019-2021

American Psychoanalytic Association Fellowship, 2019-2020

Lidz Prize for outstanding thesis in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, 2017

Miriam Kathleen Daisy Award for strength of character, personal integrity and academic achievement promising of the ideal compassionate physician, Yale School of Medicine, 2017

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), Travel Awardee for Annual Conference, 2016

Research

Selected Publications

1. Lightbourne, T. C., & Arnsten, A. F. T. (2017). The cellular mechanisms of executive functions and working memory: Relevance to mental disorders. In E. Goldberg (Ed.), Executive functions in health and disease (pp. 21–40). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-803676-1.00002-7

2. Jin LE, Wang M, Galvin VC, Lightbourne TC, Conn PJ, Arnsten AFT, Paspalas CD. mGluR2 versus mGluR3 Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors in Primate Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex: Postsynaptic mGluR3 Strengthen Working Memory Networks. Cereb Cortex. 2018 Mar 1;28(3):974-987. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhx005. PMID: 28108498; PMCID: PMC5974790.

Pub med link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28108498/

3. Galvin VC, Yang ST, Paspalas CD, Yang Y, Jin LE, Datta D, Morozov YM, Lightbourne TC, Lowet AS, Rakic P, Arnsten AFT, Wang M. Muscarinic M1 Receptors Modulate Working Memory Performance and Activity via KCNQ Potassium Channels in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex. Neuron. 2020 May 20;106(4):649-661.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.02.030. Epub 2020 Mar 19. PMID: 32197063; PMCID: PMC7244366.

Pub Med link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32197063/