KEVIN M. COOK, Ph.D. Research Faculty, (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Tenure Track)

Prior to joining DBI in 2020, Kevin completed his BA in psychology at Skidmore College and MA in clinical psychology at the University of Hartford. He completed his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Georgetown University in 2020, where he predominantly worked with children diagnosed with autism. Focusing on the hippocampus, Kevin used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore the relationship between atypical brain activations during a flexible memory task and difficulties with real-world behavioral flexibility. He also conducted analyses of a large-scale resting state database to characterize broad differences in hippocampal connectivity in children diagnosed with autism.

Kevin then joined DBI as a postdoctoral research fellow to expand his research training into the exciting area of perinatal neuroscience, allowing him to adapt his research to focus on the earliest periods of fetal brain development. During this time, he has been able to identify sex differences in the early functional connectome, evaluate the impact of neighborhood disadvantage on the developing brain, and characterize the impact of early life exposure to pain in the neonatal intensive care unit on brain development and later risk for neurodevelopmental delays and disorders.

Address: 111 Michigan Ave. NW; Washington, D.C., 20010
Email: [email protected]
Department: MRI Lab