Kelvin Lim
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Credentials
MD

Director for Adult Mental Health Research, Drs. T. J. and Ella M. Arneson Land-Grant Chair in Human Behavior, Professor
Biography

Bio

I hold the Drs. T. J. and Ella M. Arneson Land-Grant Chair in Human Behavior at the University of Minnesota where I am a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Adult Mental Health Research. I began my undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing my Bachelor's and MD degrees at Johns Hopkins University. I completed a psychiatry residency and fellowship in neuroimaging at Stanford University where I served on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry. I joined the University of Minnesota in 2001.

My research interest is in the use of neuroimaging approaches to identify circuit abnormalities in brain disorders such as schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, and addiction and then to use these circuits as treatment targets for noninvasive neuromodulation interventions.

In 2014, I received the CTSI Mentor of the Year Award.  In 2020, I was added to the Dean’s  “Wall of Scholarship” for reaching more than 1,000 citations of a 1994 paper that I was a senior author titled, A Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study of Changes in Brain Morphology from Infancy to Late Adulthood. The paper is cited as evidence that MRI can be used to measure the living human brain.

Within the university, I am a member of the Medical School Research Council and Director of the  KL2 Seminar for the Clinical and Translational Scientific Institute (CTSI).

Expertise

  • Schizophrenia
  • Neuroimaging
  • Non-invasive neuromodulation
  • PTSD
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
  • Substance abuse

Administrative Assistant

(for academic support only)
Shelly Slominski
slomi001@umn.edu

In the Media

Research Summary

Dr. Lim's research interest is in the use of neuroimaging approaches to identify circuit abnormalities in brain disorders such as schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury and addiction and then to use these circuits as treatment targets for noninvasive neuromodulation interventions.

Education

MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
BA, Johns Hopkins University
Major: Human Biology

Fellowships, Residencies, and Visiting Engagements

Fellowship,
VA Medical Center, Neuropsychiatric Imaging Lab of Physiological and Structural Brain Imaging
Internship and Residency,
Stanford University

Licensures and Certifications

Diplomat of American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology in Psychiatry

Honors and Recognition

Clinical Translational Science Institute Mentor of the Year Award, University of Minnesota
NARSAD Young Investigator Award (multiple)
NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (multiple)
Veterans Administration Psychiatric Research Fellowship (multiple)

Professional Memberships

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Gimbel, B. A., Roediger, D. J., Ernst, A. M., Anthony, M. E., de Water, E., Mueller, B. A., Rockhold, M. N., Schumacher, M. J., Mattson, S. N., Jones, K. L., Lim, K. O., Wozniak, J. R., 2023. Delayed cortical thinning in children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure. Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research, 00 1-15.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.15096 PubMed ID: 37132064.
Gimbel, B. A., Roediger, D. J., Ernst, A. M., Anthony, M. E., de Water, E., Rockhold, M. N., Mueller, B. A., Mattson, S. N., Jones, K. L., Riley, E. P., Lim, K. O., Wozniak, J. R., 2023. Atypical developmental trajectories of white matter microstructure in prenatal alcohol exposure: Preliminary evidence from neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17 1172010.
doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1172010 PubMed ID: 37168930.
Awan, S. N., Shaikh, M. A., Awan, J. A., Abdalla, I., Lim, K. O., Misono, S., 2023. Smartphone Recordings are Comparable to "Gold Standard" Recordings for Acoustic Measurements of Voice. Journal of Voice: official journal of the Voice Foundation,
Dall'Aglio, L., Estévez-López, F., López-Vicente, M., Xu, B., Agcaoglu, O., Boroda, E., Lim, K. O., Calhoun, V. D., Tiemeier, H., Muetzel, R. L., 2023. Exploring the longitudinal associations of functional network connectivity and psychiatric symptom changes in youth. NeuroImage, Clinical, 38 103382.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2023.103382 PubMed ID: 36965455.
Duda, M., Iraji, A., Ford, J. M., Lim, K. O., Mathalon, D. H., Mueller, B. A., Potkin, S. G., Preda, A., Van Erp TGM, Calhoun, V. D., 2023. Reliability and clinical utility of spatially constrained estimates of intrinsic functional networks from very short fMRI scans. Human Brain Mapping, 44 (6): 2620-2635.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.26234 PubMed ID: 36840728.
Cheon, E. J., Male, A. G., Gao, B., Adhikari, B. M., Edmond, J. T., Hare, S. M., Belger, A., Potkin, S. G., Bustillo, J. R., Mathalon, D. H., Ford, J. M., Lim, K. O., Mueller, B. A., Preda, A., O'Leary, D., Strauss, G. P., Ahmed, A. O., Thompson, et al., 2023. Five negative symptom domains are differentially associated with resting state amplitude of low frequency fluctuations in Schizophrenia. Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging, 329 111597.
Howlett, J. R., Larkin, F., Touthang, J., Kuplicki, R. T., Lim, K. O., Paulus, M. P., 2022. Rapid, reliable mobile assessment of affect-related motor processing. Behavior research methods,
doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-02015-y PubMed ID: 36526886.
Shapira, I., Richman, J., Pace TWW, Lim, K. O., Polusny, M. A., Hamner, M. B., Bremner, J. D., Mumba, M. N., Jacobs, M. L., Pilkinton, P., Davis, L. L., 2022. Biomarker Response to Mindfulness Intervention in Veterans Diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Mindfulness, 13 (10): 2448-2460.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-022-01969-6 PubMed ID: 36938380.
Moghimi, P., Dang, A. T., Do, Q., Netoff, T. I., Lim, K. O., Atluri, G., 2022. Evaluation of functional MRI-based human brain parcellation: a review. Journal of neurophysiology, 128 (1): 197-217.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00411.2021 PubMed ID: 35675446.
Landsteiner, A., Ullman, K., Sowerby, C., Kalinowski, C., Duan-Porter, W., Sponheim, S., Spoont, M., Lim, K. O., Pardo, J., Wilt, T. J., Neuroimaging and Neurophysiologic Biomarkers for Mental Health: An Evidence Map. Department of Veterans Affairs,
PubMed ID: 37192328.
Contact

Contact

Address

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, F282/2A West Building, 2450 Riverside Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454