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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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