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Tracy D. Gunter Associate Professor Clinical Psychiatry, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine Adjunct Professor, IU Robert H. McKinney School of Law Phone: (317) 963-7300 E-Mail: tdgunter@iupui.edu

Education

Baccalauerus Artium et Scientiae, 1985, University of South Carolina
M.D., 1990, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Courses

Neuroscience and Law

Bio

Dr. Gunter is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in Indiana University’s Department of Psychiatry, and Adjunct Professor at the Indiana University McKinney School of Law where she teaches Neuroscience and Law. She is board-certified in general and forensic psychiatry. She earned her medical degree from the University of South Carolina, where she also completed forensic psychiatry training. She was Director of the Forensic Evaluation Service for the SC Department of Mental Health. She received the University of South Carolina Neuropsychiatry Department Chairman’s Excellence Award for her work in forensic psychiatry.

She then became Director of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine in 2003 and was a frequent national and international speaker in mental health and law. During her time at Saint Louis University, as Associate Professor of Psychiatry in Law, she developed a mental health law curriculum for the St. Louis University School of Law and participated in Health Law Scholars Workshops. Her interest in problem solving courts resulted in interdisciplinary collaborations with professors of social work, criminal justice, and law working on a grant examining mental health courts in Missouri.

As a clinician, Dr. Gunter has been named in “Best Doctors in America” for several years. She has consulted on over 1500 cases in criminal and civil litigation, including probate and employment matters. Her long-term goal is to develop a multidisciplinary center devoted to education, research, and service in the area of mental health and neuro law. ("Knowledge of Neuroscience Practices Can Help Lawyers Better Advocate for Clients," July 2012)

Publications

Law Review and Journal Articles

*Gunter, T.D., Chibnall, J., Antoniak, S.K., Philibert, R.A., Black, D.W. (2013): Childhood trauma, traumatic brain injury, and mental health disorders associated with suicidal ideation and suicide related behavior in a community corrections sample. Journal American Academy Psychiatry and Law 41(2)

*Gunter, T.D., Chibnall, J., Antoniak, S.K., McCormick, B., Black, D.W. (2012): Relative contributions of gender and traumatic life experience in the prediction of mental disorders in a sample of incarcerated offenders. Behavioral Sciences & the Law 30 (5); 615–630

*Gunter, T.D., Chibnall, J., Antoniak, S.K. (2011): Predictors of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and non lethal self harm in a community corrections sample. Journal of Criminal Justice 39(3); 238-245

*Beach, S.R., Brody, G., Todorov, A.A., Gunter, T.D., Philibert, R.A. (2010): Methylation at SLC6A4 is linked to family history of child abuse: An examination of the Iowa adoptee sample. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics 153B(2); 710-713

*Beach, S.R.H., Brody, G.H. Todorov, A.A., Gunter, T.D., Philibert, R.A. (2010). Methylation at 5HTT mediates the Impact of child sex abuse on women’s antisocial behavior: An examination of the Iowa adoptee sample. Psychosomatic Medicine 73(1); 83-87

*Gunter, T.D., Philibert, R.A., Vaughn, M. (2010): Behavioral genetics and psychopathy: A review of the recent literature, Behavioral Sciences & the Law 28(2); 148-173

*Kaustubh, J., Frierson, R., Gunter, T.D. (2006): Shared psychotic disorder and criminal responsibility: a review and case report of folie à trois. Journal American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law 34(4); 511-518