Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Peter Kochunov is an Assocaite Professor in the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center and an active collaborator on projects within the Neurobehavioral Research Division as well. Dr. Kochunov is also Head of the Human MRI group for the RII and a staff scientist at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research. He is a board certified medical physicist with an active research program in genetic imaging. Besides his research, Dr. Kochunov has directed a variety graduate courses on medical imaging and fMRI techniques. He also is the developer of the BrainVisa Morphological extensions.
- Dr. Kochunov's lab
Research Interests
• Identification of genetic factors that control the course of cerebral aging and inter-subject morphological variability in cerebral structure
and function.
• Development of quantitative multi-modal imaging and data analysis protocols for quantifying development, aging, disorders and genetics.
Education
| 1995 | MSSE | Electronics and Radiophysics | The University of Perm, Russia |
| 1997 | M.S. | High-energy physics | University of Louisville, KY |
| 2001 | Ph.D. | Diagnostic Imaging | The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio |
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