Specialties
- Concussion
- LGBTQ+ Mental Health Issues
- Neuropsychiatry
- Neuroscience
- Rare Disorders
- Traumatic Brain Injury
Dr. Margo Lauterbach is a subspecialty trained, board-certified neuropsychiatrist and recognized leader in the fields of brain injury, rare neuropsychiatric disorders, and medical education. With over two decades of clinical, academic, and research experience, she has led the Concussion Clinic at Sheppard Pratt and is now the Service Chief of the broader Hospital Outpatient Clinic/Neuropsychiatry at Sheppard Pratt. She has also facilitated clinical trials at Sheppard Pratt involving psilocybin and other novel therapeutics. A Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, Dr. Lauterbach has authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including work on neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury, the neuropsychiatric impact of environmental toxins, and neuropsychiatry education for trainees. A passionate educator, mentor, and clinician, she is dedicated to integrating neuroscience, empathy, and innovation to improve care and advance the field.
Medical School
Flinders University of South Australia
Residency
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Fellowship
Neuropsychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Board Certification
General Psychiatry
Neuropsychiatry
Professional Organizations
- Member, American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA)
- Member, American College of Psychiatrists
- Member, American Psychiatric Association
- Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association
- Fellow, American Neuropsychiatric Association
- Member, Neuropsychiatry Committee, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry
- Member, Maryland Psychiatric Society
Recent Publications
Lauterbach MD, Jones MB, Dzierzewski JM. Sleep Health Awareness: A Statement by the American Neuropsychiatric Association Sleep Special Interest Group and the National Sleep Foundation. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 2025 Feb; online ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.202402
Ryznar E, Haase E, Lauterbach M. The Plastics Crisis: A Neuropsychiatric Problem Hidden in Plain Sight. Psychiatric Times 2024 Sep; 41(9) 13-16.
Aaronson ST, van der Vaart A, Miller T, LaPratt J, Swartz K, Shoultz A, Lauterbach M, Suppes T, Sackeim HA. Single-dose Psilocybin for Depression with Severe Treatment Resistance: an Open-Label Trial. American Journal of Psychiatry 2025 Jan 1;182(1):104-113. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20231063. PMID: 39741440.
Schildkrout B, MacGillivray L, Raj S, Lauterbach M. Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex (D-MER): A Novel Neuroendocrine Condition with Psychiatric Manifestations. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2024 Jul; 32(4): 133-139.
Aaronson ST, van der Vaart A, Miller T, LaPratt J, Swartz K, Shoultz A, Lauterbach M, Sackeim HA, Suppes T. Single-Dose Synthetic Psilocybin With Psychotherapy for Treatment-Resistant Bipolar Type II Major Depressive Episodes: A Nonrandomized Open-Label Trial. JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Jun 1;81(6):555-562. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.4685. Erratum in: JAMA Psychiatry. 2024 Jun 1;81(6):634. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2024.0481. PMID: 38055270; PMCID: PMC10701666.
Benjamin S, Schildkrout B... Lauterbach M. Life-long deficits in social adaptation and the frontal lobes: New evidence, seventy-five years after Ackerly and Benton's landmark case report of JP. Cortex, Volume 158, 2023, pp. 4-23
Schildkrout B, MacGillivray L, Raj S, Lauterbach M. Photography’s Underappreciated Contributions to Neuropsychiatry. The Photographs of W. Eugene Smith in Minamata, Japan. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2020; 208(7):574-578.
Benjamin S, Lauterbach MD: The neurological examination for neuropsychiatric assessment, in Textbook of Medical Psychiatry. Edited by Summergrad P, Silbersweig DA, Muskin PR, Querques J. Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 2020, pp. 15-30.
Schildkrout B, MacGillivray L, Lauterbach M. Wilder Penfield and the Architecture of Collaboration. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2019; 31(4) 397-398.
Benjamin S, MacGillivray L, Schildkrout B, Cohen-Oram A, Lauterbach M, Levin LL. Six landmark case reports essential for neuropsychiatric literacy. The Journal of
Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2018; 30(4): 279-290. doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.18020027
Schildkrout, B., Macgillivray, L., & Lauterbach, M. (2019). Wilder Penfield and the Architecture of Collaboration. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 31(4), 397–398. doi: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.19020041
Lauterbach M, Benjamin S, Complementary and Alternative Therapies. In: Silver, McAllister and Arciniegas, Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury, 3rd Edition, Chapter 49, American Psychiatric Association Publishing, Washington, DC, 2019.
Benjamin S, Lauterbach M. The neurological examination adapted for neuropsychiatry. CNS Spectrums 2018; 1-9. doi:10.1017/S1092852918000925
Lauterbach M, Schildkrout B, Benjamin S, Gregory M. The importance of rare diseases for psychiatry. Lancet Psychiatry 2016; 3(12):1098-1100.
Lauterbach, M, Benjamin S. Clinical Neuropsychiatry. FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning In Psychiatry 2016; 14(4):409.
Lane K, St. Pierre M, Lauterbach M, Koliatsos V. Patient profiles of criminal behavior in the context of TBI. Journal of Forensic Sciences 2016; doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13289.
Schildkrout B, Benjamin S, Lauterbach M. Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge and Neuropsychiatric Skills into Psychiatry: The Way Forward. Academic Medicine. May 2016; 91(5):650-656.
Lauterbach M, Notarangelo P, Nichols S, Lane K, Koliatsos V, Diagnostic and Treatment Challenges in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients with Severe Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Insights into Psychiatric Practice, Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 11 (1601): 2015.
Lauterbach M, Notarangelo P, Lane K, Koliatsos V, Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Dyskinesia with Tetrabenazine: a Case Report, Psychosomatics, 56(5): 567-571, 2014.
Benjamin S, Lauterbach M, Stanislawski A, Congenital and Acquired Disorders Presenting as Psychosis in Children and Young Adults. In Frazier J and Dvir Y, Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2013.
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Sheppard Pratt’s Hospital Outpatient Clinic in Towson provides mental health therapy and medication management for people of all ages and needs in one convenient location. We specialize in general psychiatry needs, like depression and anxiety, as well as neuropsychiatric conditions including concussions and traumatic brain injuries, autism spectrum disorder, developmental and intellectual disabilities, psychotic disorders, and geriatric psychiatry.
People Cared For:Young Adults, Adults, Older AdultsProgram Location:Central Maryland