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MD · PhD · Psychiatry · Neuromodulation

Elliot Crooks.

Physician · Scientist · Interventionalist
About
"The brain is not a machine to fix — it is a person to understand."
MD/PhD
Dual Degree
2+
Active Projects
MGH*
Residency
Curiosity

I am a physician-scientist in training at Case Western Reserve University, completing a dual MD/PhD with a focus on neuroscience. My work sits at the intersection of psychiatry, neuromodulation, and the question of what it means to intervene in the human mind.

I am pursuing psychiatry residency at MGH–McLean Hospital with an emphasis on interventional approaches — TMS, ECT, and emerging neurostimulation modalities — alongside a deep commitment to psychoanalytic thinking and the relational dimensions of care.

My research examines how targeted electrical and magnetic stimulation can modify memory, mood, and cognition — and what the limits and ethics of those modifications might be.

PsychiatryNeuromodulationPsychoanalysis MemoryTMSECT DBSMGH · McLeanMD/PhD
Research

Interrogating the
modifiable brain

Featured Project
01 — Current · 2024
Neuromodulation & Memory: A Systematic Review
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Evaluating the evidence base for neurostimulation interventions — TMS, tDCS, DBS — in modifying declarative and episodic memory across neurological and psychiatric populations. Structured around MDS-UPDRS and RAVLT outcome measures, this review maps a rapidly evolving field at the frontier of therapeutic intervention.
02 — Clinical
Interventional Psychiatry: The Emerging Frontier
How neuromodulation is reshaping treatment-resistant depression, OCD, and PTSD — and what circuit-based therapies look like next.
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03 — Theory
The Relational Brain: Psychoanalysis Meets Neuroscience
How attachment theory and relational psychoanalysis interface with neurobiological accounts of interpersonal regulation and therapeutic change.
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Writing

Selected work
& thought

On minds,
methods &
the space between.
Contact

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Reach out for research collaboration, residency inquiries, or to exchange ideas at the edge of mind and medicine.

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