BRIAN GOLD, Ph.D.

UK Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology

Faculty Research BRIAN T. GOLD, Ph.D.

BRIAN T. GOLD, Ph.D.
Ph.D., York University (1999)
Postdoctoral training at University of Western Ontario and Washington University
Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology
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Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr. Gold’s research lies within the field of cognitive neuroscience, with emphasis on neural correlates of language and memory processes. Research is conducted with healthy participants and with various patient populations and involves standard behavioral protocols, neuropsychological testing, and structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging. Research conducted with healthy participants primarily focuses on characterization and dissociation of brain regions involved in domain preferential and domain general controlled operations. Research conducted with clinical populations primarily involves characterization of early neuropsychological and neuroanatomical markers differentiating semantic dementia from Dementia of the Alzheimer type. A second field of clinical investigation involves examination of functional neuroanatomical correlates of recovery patterns in aphasic populations.

Representative Publications

Gold BT, Balota DA, Jones SJ, Powell DK, Smith CD, & Andersen AH (2006). Dissociation of automatic and strategic lexical-semantics: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for differing roles of multiple frontotemporal regions. The Journal of Neuroscience 26: 6523-6532.

Gold BT, Balota DA, Cortese MJ, Sergent-Marshall SD, Snyder AZ, Salat DH, Fischl B, Dale AM, Morris JC, & Buckner RL (2005) Differing neuropsychological and neuroanatomical correlates of abnormal reading in early-stage semantic dementia and dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neuropsychologia 43: 833-846.

Gold BT, & Buckner RL (2002) Common prefrontal regions co-activate with dissociable posterior regions during controlled semantic and phonological tasks. Neuron 35: 803-812.

e-mail: Brian.Gold@uky.edu
phone: (859) 323-4813
fax: (859) 323-5946