Jacob Moussai, MD
Psychiatrist
Specialties:
Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Depression Treatment, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Trauma Therapy
Honors & Awards
Certificate of Excellence for outstanding work in the emergency room, West Los Angeles VA Medical Center
Recognized for 9 consecutive years as a California Super Doctor
Certificate of Appreciation by director of West Los Angeles VA Healthcare System for acting as the chair on a root cause analysis study
5-star rating on Yelp and RateMDs.com
Expertise
Jacob Moussai, MD is a distinguished board-certified psychiatrist with a deep commitment to mental health, providing compassionate and evidence-based care for over a decade. As a psychiatrist in Los Angeles and Bespoke Treatment’s Santa Monica office, he specializes in outpatient psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychotherapy, with a particular focus on ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety spectrum disorders. His career includes significant roles such as the West Region Behavioral Health Medical Director at Anthem Blue Cross/Elevance Health and a staff psychiatrist at USC Engemann Student Counseling Services.
Dr. Moussai’s extensive experience is complemented by his academic contributions as a former Assistant Clinical Professor at the Keck USC School of Medicine and the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine. He has received multiple accolades, including a Certificate of Excellence from the VA for his outstanding work as an emergency room consultant. With a background that includes research in neuroimaging and innovative treatment modalities, Dr. Moussai remains dedicated to individualized patient care, ensuring each patient receives tailored, empathetic, and effective treatment.
Dr. Moussai joined the Bespoke Treatment team in 2023 and has multiple certifications in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) and has been trained in Prism neurofeedback for PTSD. He has been featured in the Los Angeles media multiple times over the years, presenting on issues ranging from the science of mood, anxiety, and motivation to coping with change in the age of COVID-19. In 2021, he was invited to speak with the Los Angeles Sparks regarding healthy habits and alternative treatments for depression.
Dr. Moussai completed medical school at the UC Davis School of Medicine and psychiatry residency at Yale University School of Medicine. We are thrilled to have him as a key member of our treatment team.
Publications and Presentations
- Mega MS, Dinov ID, Mazziotta JC, Manese M, Thompson PM, Lindshield C, Moussai J, Tran N, Olsen K, Zoumalan CI, Woods RP, Toga AW: Automated brain tissue assessment in the elderly and demented population: construction and validation of a sub-volume probabilistic brain atlas. Neuroimage. 2005 Jul 15;26(4):1009-18.
- Narr KL, Thompson PM, Sharma T, Moussai J, Blanton R, Anvar B, Edris A, Krupp R, Rayman J, Khaledy M, Toga AW: Three-dimensional mapping of temporo-limbic regions and the lateral ventricles in schizophrenia: gender effects. Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Jul 15;50(2):84-97.
- Narr K, Thompson P, Sharma T, Moussai J, Zoumalan C, Rayman J, Toga A: Three dimensional mapping of gyral shape and cortical surface asymmetries in schizophrenia: gender effects. Am J Psychiatry. 2001 Feb;158(2):244-55.
- Thompson PM, Mega MS, Woods RP, Zoumalan CI, Lindshield CJ, Blanton RE, Moussai J, Holmes CJ, Cummings JL, Toga AW: Cortical change in Alzheimer’s disease detected with a disease-specific population-based brain atlas. Cereb Cortex. 2001 Jan;11(1):1-16.
- Narr KL, Thompson PM, Sharma T, Moussai J, Cannestra AF, Toga AW: Mapping morphology of the corpus callosum in schizophrenia. Cereb Cortex. 2000 Jan;10(1):40
- Thompson PM, Moussai J, Zohoori S, Goldkorn A, Khan AA, Mega MS, Small GW, Cummings JL, Toga AW: Cortical variability and asymmetry in normal aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Cereb Cortex. 1998 Sep;8(6):492-509.
- Mega MS, Thompson PM, Cummings JL, Back CL, Xu ML, Zohoori S, Goldkorn A, Moussai J, Fairbanks L, Small GW, Toga AW: Sulcal variability in the Alzheimer’s brain: correlations with cognition. Neurology. 1998 Jan;50(1):145-51.
- Mega, M.S., Thompson, P.M., Mazziotta, J.C., Moussai, J., Xu, L.Q., Toga, A.W: The Specific Pattern of Sulcal Deformation in the Alzheimer’s Brain: Implications for Functional Imaging in Aging and Dementia, Brain, [submitted].
- Narr, K.L., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Cannestra, A.F., Thompson, P.M., Toga, A.W: 3D Maps of Cortical Surface Variability and Sulcal Asymmetries in Schizophrenic and Normal Populations, 5th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 1999.
- Lindshield, C.J., Mega, M.S., Narr, K.L., Moussai, J., Dinov, I.D., Sowell, E.R., Thompson, P.M., Woods. R.P., Sharma, T., Toga, A.W: Age-Related Frontal Gray Matter Loss: Volumetric Tissue Analysis in a Probabilistic Atlas using High-Order Non-linear Registration, 5th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 1999.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Cummings, J., MacDonald, D., Evans, A.C., Toga, A.W: Detecting 3D Patterns of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology with a Disease-Specific, Population-Based Probabilistic Brain Atlas, Proc. Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL, Oct. 1999.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Wang, W., Rayman, J., Toga, A.W: Cortical and Subcortical Asymmetries: Sex Effects in Schizophrenic and Normal Populations, Proc. Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL, Oct. 1999.
- Cannestra, A.F., Sharma, T., Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Moussai, J., Edris, A., Blanton, R.E., Toga, A.W: 3D Variability Maps of the Hippocampus and Amygdala in Schizophrenia, Proc. Society for Neuroscience, Miami, FL, Oct. 1999.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Khaledy, M., Eghbalieh, S., Toga, A.W: 3D Atlas of Sulcal Trajectories and Asymmetries in Schizophrenic and Normal Populations: Gender Effects, 6th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Moussai, J., Zohoori, S., Xu, L.Q., Goldkorn, A., Khan A.A., Coryell, J., Small, G., Cummings, J. and Toga, A.W: 3D Probabilistic Atlas and Average Surface Representation of the Alzheimer’s Brain, with Local Variability and Probability Maps of Ventricles and Deep Cortex, Proc. of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, USA, 26(2):1105, (438.2), November 1996.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Khan, A.A., Zohoori, S., Mogy, J., Aron, J., Goldkorn, A., Holmes, C.J., Small, G.W., Cummings, J.L., MacDonald, D., Evans, A.C., Collins, R.C., Toga, A.W: A Detection System for Mapping Abnormal Structure, Anatomic Variability, and Brain Asymmetry in Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging, with 3D Deformable Probabilistic Brain Atlases, Proc. Annual Symposium of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 27(2):2173, October 1997.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Khan, A.A., Zohoori, S., Goldkorn, A., Holmes, C.J., MacDonald, D., Small, G.W., Cummings, J.L., Toga, A.W: 3-Dimensional Patterns of Abnormal Brain Structure, Anatomic Variation & Asymmetry in Alzheimer’s Disease, Annual Conference of the American Neuropsychiatric Association (ANPA), Feb. 1-3 1998, Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 1998.
- Moussai, J., Anvar, B.A., Narr, K.L., Cannestra, A.F., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Toga, A.W. (1998). 3-Dimensional Analysis of Lateral Ventricles in Schizophrenia, 4th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, June 7-12, 1998, Montreal, Canada.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Dinov, I.D., Cummings, J., MacDonald, D., Evans, A.C., Toga, A.W: Detecting 3D Patterns of Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology with a Probabilistic Brain Atlas based on Continuum Mechanics, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Neurology, 1999. Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Aron, J., Cummings, J.L., Toga, A.W: A Probabilistic Atlas of the Human Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease: Emerging Patterns of Variability, Asymmetry and Degeneration, 5th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, Dusseldorf, Germany, June 1999.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Toga, A.W: Cortical Surface Asymmetries and Sulcal Shape Variability in Schizophrenia, International Congress onSchizophrenia Research, 2008.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Zoumalan, C.I., Lindshield, C.J., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Holmes, C.J., Dinov, I.D., Cummings, J., Toga, A.W: Early Cortical Change in Alzheimer’s Disease Detected with a Disease-Specific, Population-Based, Probabilistic Brain Atlas, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Neurology, 2005.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Zoumalan, C.I., Toga, A.W: 3D Mapping of Regional and Disease-Specific Morphometric Alterations in Schizophrenia, Annual Conference of the American Academy of Neurology, 2000.
- Thompson, P.M., Mega, M.S., Woods, R.P., Zoumalan, C.I., Lindshield, C.J., Blanton, R.E., Moussai, J., Holmes, C.J., Dinov, I.D., Cummings, J.L., Toga, A.W: Early Cortical Change in Alzheimer’s Disease Detected using Cortical Pattern Matching and a Disease-Specific Population-Based Brain Atlas, 6th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Moussai, J., Krupp, R., Jang, S., Khaledy, M., Toga, A.W: 3D Maps of Cortical Gray Matter Concentration in Schizophrenic and Normal Populations, 6th International Conference on Functional Mapping of the Human Brain, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000.
- Narr, K.L., Thompson, P.M., Sharma, T., Khaledy, M., Moussai, J., Toga, A.W: 3-Dimensional Mapping and Characterization of Differences in the Basal Ganglia in Schizophrenia, Proc. Society for Neuroscience, 2000.
