Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
USF Health

Maria T. Caserta, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Director, Geriatric Psychiatry
Program Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Training Program
Medical Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic
Contact Information USF Department of Psychiatry
3515 E. Fletcher Avenue
Tampa, FL 33613
Email: mcaserta@health.usf.edu

Education Ph.D., Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1975
M.D., Medical College of PA , 1978

Professional Training Internship, University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital,1988
Fellowship, Medical College of PA, 1981
Fellowship, NIH, 1985

Interests 1. Dementia
2. Clinical Neurosciences
3. Imaging in Psychiatry

Patient Care USF Department of Psychiatry
3515 E. Fletcher Avenue
Tampa, FL 33613 - More Info

Call for Appointment: (813) 974-8900

Publications (Selected)


  1. Caserta, M. T. (1994)
    Neuropeptide Y (NPY) immunoreactive neurons in murine trisomy 16 cortical cultures: plasticity of expression and differentiation.
    Molecular and Chemical Neuropathology 22:197-210
  2. Caserta, M. T. and J. L. Barker.(1994)
    GABAergic neurons in mouse spinal cord - dorsal root ganglion cultures: development of GABA uptake, GAD activity and immunoreactivity.
    Int. J. Dev. Neuroscience, 12: 753-765
  3. Caserta, M.T., Cacioppo, D., Lapin, G.D., Ragin, A., and D. R. Groothuis. (1998)
    Integrity of the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer's disease and elderly controls.
    J. of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 10:78-84
  4. Yao, F., Caserta, M.T., A. Wyrwicz .( 1999)
    In vitro proton and phosphorus NMR spectroscopic analysis of murine( C57Bl/6J) brain development
    NMR in Biomedicine: 12(7): 463-470
  5. Yao, F., Caserta, M.T., A. Wyrwicz,( 2000).
    In vitro H1 and P 31 NMR spectroscopic evidence multiple aberrant biochemical pathways in murine trisomy 16 brain development.
    Int. J. of Dev.. Neurosci. 18(8): 833-841
  6. Caserta, M.T., Ragin, A, Hermida, A., Ahrens, RJ A Wise.
    Single voxel MR spectroscopy at 3T in a memory disorders clinic : a preliminary evaluation of bilateral hippocampal areas.
    Psychiatry Res: Neuroimage : in press
  7. Sullivan E and Caserta MT
    Huntington's Disease in a 77 yo man with Norrnal Pressure Hydopcephalus.
    J. of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences : in press
  8. Caserta, MT, Masana, M, Dubocovich, M.
    Melatonin augmentation of fluoxetine treatment in major depression.
    J. Clin. Psychopharm. submitted