RESEARCH SUMMARY

My research interests are broadly defined by behavioral and cognitive neuroscience in neurological and psychiatric populations. I am interested in the functional neuroanatomy of higher cognitive functions, including language, memory, and creativity, and I approach my research using behavioral investigations in addition to structural and functional neuroimaging techniques including MRI, near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). My current research interests include DBS-induced changes in emotional processing, laterality and localization of memory and language in epilepsy, alternatives to the Wada procedure, and the evolutionary psychology of creative thinking.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Folley, B. S. & Park, S. (in press). Relative food preference and hedonic judgments in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research.

Allen, A.J., Griss, M.E., Folley, B.S., Hawkins, K.A., Pearlson, G.D. (2009). Endophenotypes in schizophrenia: A selective review. Schizophrenia Research, 109 (1-3), 24-37.

Gibson, C., Folley, B.S., & Park, S. (2009). Enhanced divergent thinking and creativity in musicians; a behavioral and near-infrared spectroscopy study. Brain and Cognition, 69 (1), 162-169.

Pearlson, G.D. & Folley, B.S. (2008). Schizophrenia, psychiatric genetics, and Darwinian psychiatry: an evolutionary framework. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 34 (4), 722-733.

Pearlson G.D. & Folley B.S. (2008). Endophenotypes, dimensions, risks: is psychosis analogous to common medical illnesses? Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, 39 (2), 73-77.

Lee, J., Folley, B.S., Gore, J., & Park, S. (2008). Origins of spatial working memory deficits in schizophrenia: an event-related fMRI and near-infrared spectroscopy study. PLoS ONE 3(3), e1760-e1769.

Folley, B.S. & Park, S. (2005). Verbal creativity and schizotypal personality in relation to prefrontal hemispheric laterality: A behavioral and near-infrared optical imaging study. Schizophrenia Research, 80 (2-3), 271-282.

Kates, W.R., Burnette, C.P., Bessette, B., Folley, B.S., Strunge, L., Jabs, E.W., & Pearlson, G.D. (2004). Frontal and caudate alterations in velocardiofacial syndrome (deletion 22q11.2). Journal of Child Neurology, 19 (5), 337-42.

Folley, B.S., Doop, M.L., & Park, S. (2003). Psychoses and creativity: is the missing link a biological mechanism related to phospholipids turnover? Prostaglandins, Leukotrienes & Essential Fatty Acids, 69 (6), 467-476.

Park, S., Lee, J., Folley, B., & Kim, J. (2003). Schizophrenia: putting context in context. Commentary on “Convergence of biological and psychological perspectives on cognitive coordination in schizophrenia”, Phillips, W.A. & Silverstein, S.M. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26 (1), 98-99.

Kates, W.R., Frederikse, M., Mostofsky, S., Folley, B., Cooper, K., Mazur-Hopkins, P., Kofman, O., Singer, H., Denckla, M.B., Pearlson, G.D., & Kaufmann, W.E. (2002). MRI parcellation of the frontal lobe in children with attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome or Tourette syndrome. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 116 (1-2), 63-81.

Kates, W.R., Folley, B.S., Lanham, D C., Capone, G.T., & Kaufmann, W.E. (2002). Cerebral growth in Fragile X syndrome: review and comparison with Down syndrome. Microscopy Research and Technique, 57 (3), 159-67.

Zald, D.H., Curtis, C., Folley, B.S., & Pardo, J.V. (2002). Prefrontal contributions to delayed spatial and object alternation: a positron emission tomography study. Neuropsychology, 16(2), 182-189.

Schmidt, M.E., Oshinsky, R.J., Kim, H.G., Schouten, J.L., Folley, B.S., & Potter, W.Z. (1999). Cerebral glucose metabolic and catecholamine responses to the a2 adrenoceptor antagonist ethoxyidazoxan given to healthy volunteers. Psychopharmacology, 146 (2), 119-27.

     
 
     

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Brad Folley, Ph.D.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. Folley earned his B.S. degree from the University of Maryland in 1994. Following college, he was a trainee at the National Institute of Mental Health, and then in the Developmental Cognitive Neurology Section at the Kennedy Krieger Institute of Johns Hopkins University where he continued his research interests in structural and functional neuroimaging of adult neuropsychiatric and pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders. He earned an M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2002, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2006 as an NIMH predoctoral trainee. He went on to complete an APA-approved residency in Neuropsychology in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Neuropsychiatric Institute. Following his residency, he completed a one year, APA-Accredited clinical/research fellowship at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center in Hartford, CT, and went on to complete an additional two-year NIMH postdoctoral fellowship in Developmental Psychopathology at Vanderbilt University where he specialized in perioperative assessments of epilepsy patients and the cognitive and emotional sequelae of deep brain stimulation in movement disorders.

Dr. Folley is a licensed clinical psychologist in Tennessee, and he is a member of the American Psychological Association in addition to several subspecialty organizations. His clinical interests include perioperative assessments of neurosurgical patients, language and memory assessments including intracarotid amobarbitol procedures, epilepsy, dementia, stroke, and movement disorders.


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