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Tallie Z. Baram, M.D., Ph.D.
Shelley Bose, MBBS, MRCP
Joseph H. Donnelly, M.D.
Pauline A. Filipek, M.D.
Glenn W. Fowler, M.D.
Richard Haier, Ph.D.
Ira Lott, M.D.
Paul E. Touchette, Ed.D.
Anne Tournay, M.D.

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• Position:
• Professor in Residence
• - Pediatric Neurology Division


• EDUCATION


• Graduate Education:
• Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University


• RESEARCH


• Interests:


• My main research projects use brain imaging techniques to study higher cognitive processes including intelligence and consciousness.


• SELECTED PUBLICATIONS


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• Selected Papers:


• 25. Haier RJ, Robinson DL, Braden W, Williams D. Electrical potential of the cerebral cortex and psychometric intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 4(6): 591-599, 1983.
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• 37. Haier RJ, Siegel BV Jr., Nuechterlein KH, Hazlett E, Wu JC, Paek J, Browning HL, Buchsbaum MS. Cortical glucose metabolic rate correlates of abstract reasoning and attention studied with positron emission tomography. Intelligence, 12: 199-217, 1988.
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• 47. Haier RJ. The end of intelligence research. Intelligence, 14: 371-374, 1990.
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• 50. Haier RJ, Siegel BV, MacLachlan A, Soderling E, Lottenberg S, Buschsbaum MS. Regional glucose metabolic changes after learning a complex visuospatial/motor task: A positron emission tomographic study. Brain Research, 570: 134-143, 1992.
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• 51. Haier RJ, Siegel BV, Tang C, Abel L, Buschsbaum MS. Intelligence and changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate following learning. Intelligence, 16: 415-425, 1992.
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• 56. Alkire M, Haier RJ, Barker S, Shah K, Wu J, Kao J. Cerebral metabolism during propofol anesthesia in human volunteers studied with positron emission tomography. Anesthesiology, 82: 393-210, 1995.


• 57. Haier RJ, Chueh D, Touchette P, Lott I, MacMillan D, Sandman C, Lacasse L, Sosa E. Brain size and glucose metabolic rate in mental retardation and Down Syndrome. Intelligence, 20:191-210, 1995.
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• 59. Haier RJ, Benbow C. Gender differences and lateralization in temporal lobe glucose metabolism during mathematical reasoning. Developmental Neuropsychology, 11: 405-414, 1995
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• 60. Larson G, Haier RJ, Lacasse L, Hazen K. Evaluation of a "Mental Effort" hypothesis for correlations between cortical metabolism and intelligence. Intelligence, 21(3), 1996.
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• 61. Mansour, CS, Haier RJ, Buchsbaum MS. Gender comparisons of cerebral glucose metabolism during a cognitive task. Personality and Individual Differences, 20(2): 182-191, 1996.
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• 65. Cahill L, Haier RJ, Fallon J, Akire M, Tang C, Keator D, Wu J, McGaugh J. Amaygdala activity at encoding correlated with long-term, free recall of emotional information. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93: 8016-8321, 1996.
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• 66. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, Fallon J, Barker SJ. PET imaging of conscious and unconscious memory. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 3(5-6): 338-462, 1996.


• 70. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, Shah NK, Anderson CT. A positron tomography study of regional cerebral metabolism in humans during isoflurane anesthesia. Anesthesiology, 86(3): 549-557, 1997.


• 71. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, Fallon JH, Cahill L. Hippocampal, but not amygdala, activity at encoding correlates with long-term, free recall of non-emotional information. Proc National Acad Science, 95: 14506-14510, 1998.
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• 72. Haier RJ, Schandler SL, MacLachlan A, Soderling E, Buchsbaum MS, Cohen MJ. Alcohol induced changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate during divided attention. Personality & Individual Difference, 26: 425-439, 1999.
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• 74. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, Fallon JH. Toward a unified theory of narcosis: brain imaging evidence for a thalamocortical switch in the neurophysiologic basis of anesthetic-induced unconsciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9(3): 370-386, 2000.
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• 75. Alkire MT, Haier RJ. Correlating In Vivo anesthetic effects with ex vivo receptor density data supports a GABAergic mechanism of action for Propofol, but no Isoflurane. British Journal of Anesthesia, 86(5), 618-626, 2001.
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• 76. Cahill L, Haier RJ, White NS, Fallon J, Kilpatrick L, Lawrence C, Potkin S, Alkire MT. Sex difference in amygdala activity during emotionally influenced memory storage. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 75: 1-9, 2001.
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• 77. Haier RJ, White NS, Akire MT. Individual difference in general intelligence correlate to brain function during non-reasoning tasks. Intelligence, 31(5), 429-441, 2003.
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• 79. White NS, Alkire MT, Haier RJ. A voxel-based morphometric study of non-demented adults with Down syndrome. NeuroImage, 20(1), 393-403, 2003.
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• 80. Haier RJ, Alkire MT, White NS, Uncapher M, Lott IT, Head E, Cotman CW. Temporal cortex hyper-metabolism in Down syndrome prior to the onset of dementia. Neurology, 61, 1673-1679, 2003.
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• 82. Haier RJ, Jung R, Yeo R, Head K, Alkire MT. Structural brain variation and general intelligence. NeuroImage, 23(1): 425-433, 2004.
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• 83. Haier RJ, Jung R< Yeo R, Head K, Alkire MT. The neuroanatomy of general intelligence: sex matters. NeuroImage, 25(1): 320-327, 2005.
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• 84. Jung RE, Haier RJ, Yeo RA, Petropoulos H, Levine AS, Sibbitt WL, Brooks WM. Sex difference in neurochemical mechanisms of general intelligence. NeuroImage, 26(3): 965-972, 2005.
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• 85. Haier RJ, Jung R, Yeo R, Head K, Alkire MT. Structural brain variation, age and response time. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(2): 246-251, 2005.
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• 86. Colom R, Jung RE, Haier RJ. Finding the g factor of intelligence in brain structure using the method of correlated vectors. Intelligence, in press.


• Recent Book Reviews:


• A Universe of Consciousness, Gerald M. Eldelman and Guilio Tononi, Contemporary Psychology, 48(1): 92-94, February 2003.
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• Selected Book Chapters:


• 8. Haier RJ, Sokolski K, Katz M, Buchsbaum MS. The study of personality with positron emission tomography. In Arousal Theories of Personality, Ed. by J Streleau & H Hysenck, Plenum Press, 1987.


• 11. Haier RJ. Cerebral Glucose Metabolism and Intelligence. In Biological Approaches to the Study of Human Intelligence, Edited by PA Vernon, Ablex Publish, New Jersey, 1993.


• 12. Haier RJ, Siegel B, Cinnella F, Buchsbaum MS. Biological & Psychometric Intelligence: Testing an Animal Model and Human with Positron Emission Tomography. New Trends in Intelligence Research. Edited by D Detterman, Ablex Publishing, 1993.


• 13. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, Fallon JH, Baker Sj, Shah NK. Positron Emission Tomography Suggests the Functional Neuroanatomy of Implicit Memory During Propofol Anesthesia. In Memory and Awareness in Anesthesia. Edited by Bonke B, Bovill JG, Moerman N, Van Gorum Publishers, The Netherlands, 1996.


• 14. Haier RJ, Hazen K, Fallon J, Alkire M, Schell M, Lott I. Brain Imaging and Classification of Mental Retardation. Perspectives on Fundamental Processes in Intellectual Functioning. Edited by S Soraci & W McIlvane, Ablex Press, NJ, 1998.
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• 15. Alkire MT, Haier RJ, & Fallon J. Toward the Neurobiology of Consciousness: Using Brain Imaging and Anesthesia to Investigate the Anatomy of Consciousness. Tucson Conference on Consciousness, Edited by S Hameroff, 1998.


• 16. Haier RJ. Brain Scanning and Neuroimaging. Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Edited by HS Friedman, Academic Press, 1998. Reprinted in Assessment and Therapy: Specialty Articles from the Encyclopedia of Mental Health, Academic Press, 1998.


• 17. Haier RJ. PET Studies of Learning & Individual Differences. In Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives, The 29th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition, Edited by McClelland & Siegler, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
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• 18. Haier RJ. Brain Imaging Studies of Intelligence: Individual Differences and Neurobiology. In Model of Intelligence: International Perspectives, Edited by RJ Sternberg, J Lautrey, & TI Lubart, Washington DC: American Psychological Association, 2003.
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• 19. Haier RJ. PET Studies and the Neurobiology of Intelligence. In The Scientific Study of General Intelligence, Edited by H Nyborg, Elsevier Science/Pergamon Press, 2003.
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• 20. Haier RJ. PET Studies of Personality: The Slow Revolution. In On the Psychobiology of Personality: Essay in Honor of Marvin Zuckerman. Edited by R Stelmack, Elsevier Science/Pergamon Press, 2004.
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• 21. Lawrence C, Lott I, Haier RJ. Brain Studies of Autism, Mental Retardation and Down Syndrome: What Can We Learn about Intelligence? In Neurobiology of Exceptionality, Edited by Con Stough, Plenum Press, 2004.


• 22. Haier RJ. Biological Theories of Intelligence. In Introduction to the Psychology of Individual Differences, Edited by R Colom & C FLores-Mendoza, ArtMed Publishers, 2006.


• 23. Haier RJ. Brains, Bias, and Biology: Follow the Data. In Are Sex Differences in Cognition Responsible for the Under-representation of Women in Scientific Careers?, Edited by SJ Ceci * W Williams, APA Books, in press.
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• Comments in Science regarding brain structure and intelligence:


• Holden, 2005.
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