Dr. Vani Rao is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the Section Head of the Bayview Geriatric Psychiatry & Neuropsychiatry program and Director of the Behavioral Neurology & Neuropsychiatry fellowship program. She has focused her clinical & research work on mood and behavioral problems associated with traumatic brain injury. Dr.Rao is also the Secretary of the IndoAmerican Psychiatric Association (IAPA) and the President of the MD/DC Chapter of the IAPA.
Her hobbies include traveling and reading.
They have two children: a daughter and a son.
Selected Publications: Rao V and Lyketsos CG : Delusions in Alzheimer’s Disease - A Review. J Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosciences 1998: 10: 373-382 Rao V and Lyketsos CG : Neuropsychiatric Sequelae in Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychosomatics 2000: 41(2): 95-103 Rao V and Lyketsos CG: The Benefits and Risks of ECT for Patients with Dementia who also suffer from Depression. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 2000: 15: (8) 729-735 Rao V and Rollings P: Sleep Disturbances in Traumatic Brain Injury. Current treatment options in Neurology 2002: 4 (1) 77-87 Rao V and Lyketsos CG: Psychiatric aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 2002: 25 (1) 43-69. Rao, V and Lyketsos CG : Psychiatric Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury: New Solutions to an Old Problem. Int Rev Psychiatry 2003: 15 (4), 299-301 Rao V, Spiro JR, Seamus Q, Rosenblatt A, Steele C, Baker A, Harper M, Brandt J, Mayer L, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG: Sleep Disturbances in the Elderly Residing in Assisted Living: Findings from the Maryland Assisted Living Study. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 20:956-966,2005 Rao V, Spiro JR, Rosenburg PB, Lee HB, Rosenblatt A, Lyketsos CG : An Open Label Study of Escitalopram (Lexapro) for the Treatment of Depression in Alzheimer’s Disease (dAD). Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2006 Mar;21(3):273-4. Rao V, Spiro J, Degoankar M, Horska A, Rosenberg PB, Yousem DM, Barker PB. Lesion location in depression post traumatic brain injury using magnetic resonance spectroscopy: preliminary results from a pilot study. Eur J Psy. 20(2): 65-73, 2006
Rao V, Spiro JS, Schretlen DJ and Cascella NG. Apathy syndrome after TBI and deficit syndrome of schizophrenia. Are they the same? Psychosomatics. 2007 May- Jun;48(3):217-22. Rao V, Spiro J, Samus QM, Steele C, Baker A, Brandt J, Mayer L, Lyketsos CG, Rosenblatt A. Insomnia and daytime sleepiness in people with dementia residing in assisted living: findings from the Maryland Assisted Living Study. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23(2):199-206, 2008. Handel S, Ovitt L, Spiro JR and Rao V. Affective Disorder and Personality Change in a Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Report and Review. Psychosomatics. 2007; 48(1):67-70. Rao V, Handel S, Vaishnavi S, Keach S, Robbins B, Spiro J, Ward J and Berlin F: Psychiatric sequelae of traumatic brain injury: A case report. Am J Psychiatry 2007 164: 728-735. Ovitt L, Robbins B, Rao V: Donepezil induced hypomania: J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2008 Winter;20(1):107 Rao V, Spiro J, Handel S and Onyike C. Clinical Correlates of Personality Changes Associated with Traumatic brain injury. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2008 Winter;20(1):118-9 Rao, V. Psychiatric Aspects of TBI in Psychiatric Aspects of Neurologic Disease. Practical Approaches to Patient Care. Eds. Lyketsos CG, Rabins PV, Lipsey JR, Slavney PR. 2008. Oxford University Press; New York; pp 83-100. Vaishnavi S, Lyketsos CG, Rao V: Depression in Neurological diseases. Mind and Body 2008;4(1):6-140 Rao V, Spiro J, Vaishnavi S, Rastogi P, Mielke M, Noll K, Cornwell E, Schretlen D, Makley: Prevalence and Types of Sleep Disturbances Acutely After Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Inj. 2008 May;22(5):381-6. Vaishnavi S, Rosenblatt A, Rabins P, Lyketsos CG, Crone N, Rao V: Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry Fellowship Training: The Johns Hopkins Model. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2009 21(3):335-41. Vaishnavi S, Rao V, Fann JR: Neuropsychiatric Problems after Traumatic Brain Injury: Unraveling the Silent Epidemic. Psychosomatics. May-Jun;50(3):198-205, 2009. Rao V, Rosenberg P, Bertrand M, Salehinia S, Spiro J, Vaishnavi S, Rastogi P, Kathy Noll, David J Schretlen, Brandt J, Cornwell E, Makley M and Miles QS. Aggression after Traumatic Brain Injury: Prevalence & Correlates. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2009 21: 420-429 Rao V, Bertrand M, Rosenberg P, Makley M, David J Schretlen, Brandt J, Mielke, M. Predictors of New-Onset Depression after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2010 ;22(1):100-4.
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