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About Dr. Pradeep Atluri

A versatile psychiatric medical professional, New York physician Dr. Pradeep Atluri holds both a doctorate of neurobiology from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a doctor of medicine from Harvard Medical School. He completed his dissertation for his PhD in neurobiology on the role of presynaptic calcium in short-term synaptic plasticity. Before beginning his career in psychiatry, Dr. Pradeep Atluri authored several peer-reviewed scholarly articles, published in the journals Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, and Biophysical Journal.

After working as a postdoctoral research associate at both the Weill Cornell Medical Center and Yale University, Dr. Atluri served as a resident in psychiatry at the Payne Whitney Clinic of New York Presbyterian Hospital. He then established a solo private practice in New York City. He used a psychodynamic approach to treat patients with conditions that ranged from obsessive-compulsive disorder and mood/anxiety disorder to ADHD and addiction. He is currently writing a book on the neurobiology of self-sabotage.