Pardo, Jose M.D., Ph.D.

Jose Pardo, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Dr. Pardo has medical school training and a Ph.D. in physiological chemistry from Johns Hopkins. After a medical internship at Duke, he completed psychiatry residency at Washington University, where he was also a McDonnel Fellow in brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience.

Dr. Pardo leads a research program which seeks to elucidate the functional architecture of the human brain with particular emphasis on how dysfunction within neural networks relates to psychiatric disorders. The multidisciplinary approach (in close collaboration with the Brain Sciences Center, Department of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, and GRECC) involves methods from cognitive neuroscience, including several imaging modalities, particularly PET. Brain systems under study in normal subjects include attention and its involvement in memory and affect; language processing and applications to preoperative neurosurgical assessment; and emotional processing through mood induction by cognitive and sensory stimuli. Clinical protocols currently underway seek to relate pathophysiology to the evolving neuroanatomy of the mind. Patient populations include those with mood disorders, schizophrenia, eating disorders, post traumatic stress disorder, and epilepsy.

He is prolific in research, writing and lecturing, and continues to submit numerous grants to support productive research activities. Additional information is available at http://james.psych.umn.edu/.

Email: pardo001@umn.edu