- Depressed mood
- Depression
Katherine Wilson Scangos, MD, PhD
Psychiatry
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
My education and training
- Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency: UC Davis Medical Center
- Fellowship: University of California San Francisco
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
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- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Psychiatry, 2017
- American Board for Psychiatry and Neurology, National
- Brain Stimulation Subspecialty Summit, National
- Glioma Connectome Project, National
- Johnson & Johnson, National
- National Institute of Health: Brain Initiative. Brain-behavior quantification and synchronization – transformative and integrative models of behavior at the organismal level NIH/NIDA. SRO Caitlin Moyer, National
- National Institute of Health: Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior study section. NIH/CSR. SRO Janita Turchi, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Siddiqi SH, Chen L, Trapp NT, Bukhari-Parlakturk N, Taylor JJ, Boes AD, Brown JC, Barbour T, Camprodon JA, Fox MD, Kopell BH, MacMillan C, Fasano A, Fisher RS, Nahas Z, Revuelta GJ, Riva-Posse P, Rolston JD, Scangos K, Shafi MM, Smith AH, Wong J, Halpern CH, Mayberg HS, Williams NR. Towards accredited clinical training in brain stimulation: Proceedings from the brain stimulation subspecialty summits , Brain Stimulation, 18(2): 2025,298-305
Liming Qiu, Young-Hoon Nho, Robert Seilheimer, Min Jae Kim, Altona Tufanoglu, Nolan R. Williams, Anna Wexler, David W. Oslin, Bruno Millet, Katherine W. Scangos, Bijan Pesaran, A. Eden Evins, R. Mark Richardson, Anna-Rose Childress, Casey H. Halpern Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder , BioRXiv: 2025
Starkweather CK, Sugrue LP, Cajigas I, Speidel B, Krystal AD, Scangos K, Chang EF Stereoelectroencephalography Electrode Implantation for Inpatient Workup of Treatment-Resistant Depression , Neurosurgery, 95(4): 2024,941-948
Robert Seilheimer, Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Gustavo Campos, Wonkyung Choi, Kristie Bauman, Taneeta Ganguly, Mario Cristancho, Michael Jensen, Kai Miller, Desmond Oathes, Lily Brown, Katherine Scangos, Nolan Williams, Dan Barbosa, Casey Halpern Stereo-Electroencephalography-Guided Multi-Lead Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder , NYC Neuromodulation Conference: 2024
Scangos, K.W, Sugrue, L.P. From sweet spots to causal circuits: navigating deep brain stimulation targeting through anatomic, connectomic, and personalized approaches. , Biol. Psych , 96(2): 2024,82-84
Johnson, K.A., Okun, M.S., Scangos, K.W., Mayberg H.S., de Hemptinne C. Deep brain stimulation for refractory major depressive disorder: a comprehensive review. , Mol Psychiatry, 29(4): 2024,1075-87
Gustavo Campos, Liming Qiu, Robert Seilheimer, Harvey Huang, Min Jae Kim, Zhengjia Wang, Younghoon Nho, Katherine W. Scangos, Dora Hermes, Kai J. Miller, Daniel A.N. Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Combining tractography and electrophysiological connectivity for hypothesis-driven network probing in stereo-electroencephalography (sEEG)-guided deep brain stimulation (DBS) for treatment-refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder (trOCD) , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Meeting: 2024
Younghoon Nho, Liming Qiu, Gustavo Campos, Rob Seilheimer, Camarin Rolle, Lily Brown, Desmond Oathes, Bijan Pesaran, Katherine Scangos, Daniel Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Circuit-based relevant electrophysiology modulation of personalized evocation was associated with amelioration in OCD-related distress , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting: 2024
Robert Seilheimer, Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Gustavo Campos, Neda Kaboodvand, Kristie Bauman, Taneeta M. Ganguly, Mario Cristancho, Michael Jensen, Kai J. Miller, Lily A. Brown, Desmond J. Oathes, Katherine W. Scangos, A. Moses Lee, Nolan Williams, Daniel A.N. Barbosa, Casey H. Halpern Stereo-electroencephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder , Brain Conference: 2024
Liming Qiu, Younghoon Nho, Robert Seilheimer, Altona Tufanoglu, David W Oslin, Katherine W Scangos, Anna Rose Childress, Casey H Halpern Personalized Evocation of Cue-hyperreactivity May Optimize Deep Brain Stimulation for Opioid Use Disorder , American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Biennial Meeting: 2024