kochunov@uthscsa.edu
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Kochunov Lab Website

Education

2001	UTHSCSA, San Antonio, TX	Ph.D. (Radiological Science/Diagnostic Imaging)
1997	University of Louisville, Louisville, KY	M.S. (High Energy/Statistical Physics)
1995	University of Perm, Perm, Russia	M.S. (Electrical Engineering)

Recent Publications

1. Cykowski MD, Coulon O, Kochunov PV, Amunts K, Lancaster JL, Laird AR, Glahn DC, Fox PT.The central sulcus: an observer-independent characterization of sulcal landmarks and depth asymmetry.Cereb Cortex. 2008 Sep;18(9):1999-2009.

2. Cykowski MD, Kochunov PV, Ingham RJ, Ingham JC, Mangin JF, Rivi ère D, Lancaster JL, Fox PT.Perisylvian sulcal morphology and cerebral asymmetry patterns in adults who stutter.Cereb Cortex. 2008 Mar;18(3):571-83. Epub 2007 Jun 21.PMID: 17584852

3. Rogers J, Kochunov P, Lancaster J, Shelledy W, Glahn D, Blangero J, Fox P.Heritability of brain volume, surface area and shape: an MRI study in an extended pedigree of baboons.

4. Kochunov P, Thompson PM, Lancaster JL, Bartzokis G, Smith S, Coyle T, Royall DR, Laird A, Fox PT.Relationship between white matter fractional anisotropy and other indices of cerebral health in normal aging: tract-based spatial statistics study of aging.Neuroimage. 2007 Apr 1;35(2):478-87.

5. Kochunov P, Thompson PM, Coyle TR, Lancaster JL, Kochunov V, Royall D, Mangin JF, Rivière D, Fox PT.Relationship among neuroimaging indices of cerebral health during normal aging.Hum Brain Mapp. 2008 Jan;29(1):36-45.

6. Coyle TR, Kochunov P, Patel RD, Nery FG, Lancaster JL, Mangin JF, Rivière D, Pillow DR, Davis GJ, Nicoletti MA, Serap Monkul E, Fox PT, Soares JC.Cortical sulci and bipolar disorder.Neuroreport. 2006 Nov 6;17(16):1739-42.

7. Kochunov P, Lancaster JL, Glahn DC, Purdy D, Laird AR, Gao F, Fox P.Retrospective motion correction protocol for high-resolution anatomical MRI.Hum Brain Mapp. 2006 Dec;27(12):957-62.

8. Kochunov P, Mangin JF, Coyle T, Lancaster J, Thompson P, Rivière D, Cointepas Y, Régis J, Schlosser A, Royall DR, Zilles K, Mazziotta J, Toga A, Fox PT.Age-related morphology trends of cortical sulci.Hum Brain Mapp. 2005 Nov;26(3):210-20.

9. Kochunov P, Mangin JF, Coyle T, Lancaster J, Thompson P, Rivi�re D, Cointepas Y, R�gis J, Schlosser A, Royall DR, Zilles K, Mazziotta J, Toga A, Fox PT. Age-related morphology trends of cortical sulci.. Hum Brain Mapp. 26(3), 210-220, Sept.2005

10. Fox PT, Narayana S, Tandon N, Fox SP, Sandoval H, Kochunov P, Capaday C, Lancaster JL. Intensity modulation of TMS-induced cortical excitation: Primary motor cortex. Hum Brain Mapp. Sept. 2005

11. Laird AR, Fox PM, Nichols TE, Glahn DC, Uecker AM, Lancaster JL, Turkeltaub PE, Kochunov P, Fox PT. ALE Meta-Analysis: Controlling the false discovery rate and performing statistical contrasts. Human Brain Mapping. 25(1), 155-164, May 2005

12. Laird AR, McMillan, KM, Lancaster JL, Kochunov P, Turkelaub, PE, Pardo, JV, Fox, PT. A Comparison of Label-Based Review and ALE Meta-Analysis in the Stroop Task. Human Brain Mapping. 25(1), 6-21, May 2005

13. Soares JC, Kochunov P, Monkul ES, Nicoletti MA, Brambilla P, Sassi RB, Mallinger AG, Kupfer DJ, Lancaster JL, Fox PT. Structural Brain Changes in Bipolar Disorder Using Deformation Field Morphometry. Neuroreport. 16(6), 541-544, Apr. 2005

14. Kochunov P, Lancaster J, Hardies J, Thompson PM, Woods RP, Cody JD, Hale DE, Laird A, Fox PT. Mapping structural differences of the corpus callosum in individuals with 18q deletions using targetless regional spatial normalization. Hum Brain Mapp. 24(4), 325-331, Apr. 2005

15. Fox PT, Narayana S, Tandon N, Sandoval H, Fox SP, Kochunov P, Lancaster JL. Column-based model of electric field excitation of cerebral cortex. Hum Brain Mapp. 22(1), 1-14, May 2004.

16. Lancaster JL, Kochunov PV, Thompson PM, Toga AW, Fox PT. Asymmetry of the brain surface from deformation field analysis. Hum Brain Mapp. 19(2) 79-89, Jun. 2003

17. Kochunov P, Fox PT, Lancaster JL, Tan LH, Amunts K, Zilles K, Mazziotta J, Gao J. Localized morphological brain differences between English-speaking Caucasians and Chinese-speaking Asians: new evidence of anatomical plasticity. Neuroreport. 14(7), 961-964, May 2003

18. Kochunov P, Hasnain M, Lancaster J, Grabowski T, Fox P. Improvement in variability of the horizontal meridian of the primary visual area following high-resolution spatial normalization. Hum Brain Mapp. 18(2), 123-134, Feb. 2003.

Recent Honors and Awards

1999	Exceptional graduate student - Radiological Science Program, UTHSCSA
1998	Young Investigator Award - SWAAPM Annual Meeting, Young Investigator Symposium

Funding
5 P01 EB001955/ NIH/NIBIB (Mazziotta)
7/01/93-6/30/08
“A Probabilistic Reference System for the Human Brain”
In this new proposal we add to our existing collection of human brain attributes the important features of white matter tracts, cerebral vasculature and chemoarchitecture, all collected both microscopically in post mortem specimens as well as in vivo using tomographic techniques.

3M01 RR001346/ NIH/GCRC Mundy (PI)
4/01/04-3/31/09
“General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) Imaging Core
The overall goal of this research proposal is to create a Frederick C. Bartter GCRC Imaging Core in order to bring technically advanced image acquisition, image analysis and image-data modeling resources to bear on important clinical research problems.

VA Merit Proposal Lovallo (PI)
10/01/05-9/30/09
“Neuroimaging in the Oklahoma Health Patterns Project”
The goal of this project is to develop a better understanding of central nervous system characteristics of persons at risk for alcoholism.

1 R01 MH078143-01/ NIH/NIMH (Collaborative R01) Glahn (PI)
8/01/06-7/31/11
“Genetics of Brain Structure and Function”
The overall goal of this project is to identify quantitative trait loci associated with variation in brain structure and function.

R01 MH074457-01A1/ NIH Fox (PI)
9/15/06-8/31/10
“Meta-analysis in Human Brain Mapping”
The overall goal of this project is to develop, evaluate, distribute, and apply tools for quantitative meta-analysis of the human functional brain mapping (HFBM) literature.