John E. Desmond

Title:
Assistant Professor (Research)

Department
Radiology

Research Interests
Contributions of the cerebellum, and cerebro-cerebellar circuits, to cognition. Integration of transcranial magnetic stimulation with functional MRI. Clinical applications of functional MRI. Methodological aspects of functional MRI.

Email:
jdesmond@stanford.edu

Phone
(650)498-5368

Fax
(650)723-5795

Address
Lucas MRS Center, Room P020b
Mail Code: 5488

Faculty Research Description
My research focuses broadly on neuroimaging and, more recently, transcranial magnetic stimulation methods to investigate neural correlates of behavior. Some specific areas of interest are: The contributions of the cerebellum, and cerebro-cerebellar circuits, to cognition. Integration of transcranial magnetic stimulation with functional MRI to assess which sites of activation are necessary to performance. Clinical applications of functional MRI, including characterization of altered brain activation due to disease, surgical planning, and diagnosis. Methodological aspects of functional MRI, such as estimating statistical power for group analyses.

Brewer, J. B., Zhao, Z., Desmond, J. E., Glover, G. H., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (1998). Making memories: Brain activity that predicts how well visual experience will be remembered. Science, 281, 1185-1187.

Desmond, J. E., & Fiez, J. A. (1998). Neuroimaging studies of the cerebellum: Language, learning and memory. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2, 355-362.

Desmond, J. E., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Glover, G. H. (1998). Dissociation of frontal and cerebellar activity in a cognitive task: Evidence for a distinction between selection and search. Neuroimage, 7, 368-376.

Desmond, J. E., & Glover, G. H. (submitted). Estimating sample size in functional MRI (fMRI) neuroimaging studies: Statistical power analyses.

Pfefferbaum, A., Desmond, J.E., Galloway, C., Menon, V., Glover, G.H., and Sullivan, E.V. (2001). Reorganization of frontal systems used by alcoholics for spatial working memory: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 14, 7-20.

Areas of Study
SBRC
Neurosciences PhD Program
Systems/Behavioral Neuroscience