Brent T. Mausbach, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry (0680)
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0680
Phone #: 858-822-5925
FAX #: 858-534-7723
E-mail: bmausbach@ucsd.edu

Biography 
Dr Mausbach obtained his bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. He completed his clinical psychology internship at the VA Black Hills Healthcare System, after which he received post-doctoral training at both Stanford University and UCSD with a specialization in Geropsychiatry. Dr Mausbach has been a faculty member at UCSD since July, 2007.

Research Focus 
Dr Mausbach's research focuses on bridging basic scientific research with clinical services in two domains. The first examines the links between stress/coping and health outcomes, with an emphasis on positive psychological states (e.g., mastery, self-efficacy) and their association with health outcomes and well-being. This research has led Dr Mausbach to test psychosocial interventions designed to improve emotional and physical well-being in chronically stressed populations (e.g., Alzheimer’s caregivers).

Dr Mausbach’s second research domain is the assessment and treatment of middle-aged and older adults with schizophrenia. He has sought novel methods of assessing functional capacity in this population, with coinciding development of treatments to improve functioning.

Clinical Focus 
Dr Mausbach is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in behavioral treatments for a) caregiver stress and b) improving functioning in patients with schizophrenia.

Selected Publications 

• Mausbach, B.T., Patterson, T.L., & Grant, I. (In Press). Is depression in Alzheimer’s caregivers really due to activity restriction? A preliminary mediational test of the activity restriction model. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry.
• Mausbach, B.T., Coon, D.W., Patterson, T.L., & Grant, I. (In Press). Engagement in activities is associated with affective arousal in Alzheimer’s caregivers: A preliminary examination of the temporal relations between activity and affect. Behavior Therapy.
• Mausbach, B.T., von Känel, R., Patterson, T.L., Dimsdale, J.E., Depp, C.A., Aschbacher, K., Mills, P.J., Ancoli-Israel, S., & Grant, I. (In Press). The moderating effect of personal mastery on the relations between stress and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) antigen. Health Psychology.
• Mausbach, B.T., Harvey, P.D., Goldman, S.R., Jeste, D.V., & Patterson, T.L. (2007). Development of a brief scale of everyday functioning in persons with serious mental illness. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(6), 1364-1372.
• Mausbach, B.T., von Känel, R., Aschbacher, K., Roepke, S.K., Dimsdale, J.E., Ziegler, M.G., Mills, P.J., Patterson, T.L., Ancoli-Israel, S., & Grant, I. (2007). Spousal caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients show longitudinal increases in plasma level of tissue-type Plasminogen Activator (t-PA) antigen. Psychosomatic Medicine, 69, 816-822.