Jonathan Young

Jonathan Robert Young, MD is Assistant Consulting Professor at Duke Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Staff Psychiatrist at Durham VA Health Care System, Treatment Refractory Disorders Clinic. He is a member of the Division of Behavioral Medicine & Neurosciences where he has served as an attending physician in the Duke electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) clinic. His research interests focus on clinical applications of non-invasive neuromodulation technologies such as repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for the treatment of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Currently, Dr. Young is developing a multimodal smoking cessation intervention for Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) who smoke utilizing functional-connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fc-MRI) to guide a personalized and accelerated rTMS course in addition to cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT).