
Ariel Gildengers
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry · UPMC Medical Education
Credentials: · · · ·
History
- Present
- Present
- 2002–2003
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
- 1997–2001
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC
- 1993–1997
Research
Maintenance treatment of major depression in old age
New England Journal of Medicine · 2006 · 287 citations
Review · Bipolar Disorders · 2015 · 179 citations
Physical activity and brain plasticity in late adulthood
Review · Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience · 2013 · 140 citations
- BM
55 papers

39 papers
- MB
36 papers

33 papers

16 papers
- HB
15 papers
- BF
14 papers
- RY
14 papers
Grants
- 2017–2025
National Institute on Aging · R01
Contact PI · $5.4M · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- 2010–2015
The Effects of Bipolar Disorder and Its Comorbidities on Cognition in Older Adult
National Institute of Mental Health · R01
Contact PI · $1.8M · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
- 2005–2011
Cognition in Euthymic Older Adults with Bipolar Disorder
National Institute of Mental Health · K23
Contact PI · $875.7K · University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh
Clinical trials
- 2018–2024
Lithium As a Treatment to Prevent Impairment of Cognition in Elders
Principal investigator · Completed · Phase 4
Ariel Gildengers, MD
- 2011–2016
Retaining Cognition While Avoiding Late-Life Depression
Principal investigator · Completed
University of Pittsburgh
- 2009–2013
Enhancing Rehabilitation After Stroke
Sub-investigator · Unknown · Phase 3
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)


