Dean F. Salisbury received his Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from the State University of New York. He received his Postdoctoral training in Neuropsychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is a Professor in the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he is the Director of the Clinical Neurophysiology Research Laboratory. He is also a member of the Society of Biological Psychiatry, the Society for Research in Psychopathology, and the Electroencephalography and Clinical Neuroscience Society, and is Editor-in-Chief of Clinical EEG and Neuroscience. His research is mainly focused on first-episode and early course psychosis, and uses multimodal imaging to investigate brain changes proximal to psychosis onset. He work has included themes like auditory hallucinations, auditory system physiology, and related brain structural changes, verbal memory and performance, thought disorder and related brain changes, and using the mismatch negativity event-related potential as a biomarker of schizophrenia.
