Greg Allen

Associate Professor
Educational Psychology
School Psychology

Office: SZB 254A

Phone: (512) 471-0218
Fax: (512) 475-7641
E-Mail: greg.allen@mail.utexas.edu

Mailing Address

The University of Texas at Austin
Educ Psychol Dept
1 University Station D5800
Austin, Texas 78712
UTMailCode: D5800

Office Hours

Thursday: 1:00 p.m to 3:00 p.m.
or by appointment

Profile

I received my Ph.D. from the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at San Diego State University and The University of California, San Diego, recently cited as the top clinical psychology doctoral program in the country by The Chronicle of Higher Education. I completed a pre-doctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and a postdoctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Following residency, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UT Southwestern before joining the faculty at UT Austin. As a licensed psychologist specializing in neuropsychological assessment, I have also received specialized training and certification in the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders. My research uses neuropsychological and neuroimaging tools to study the brain basis of autism. The current focus of this work is the investigation of cerebellar function and the contribution of cerebellar dysfunction to the behaviors and symptoms of autism.

Terminal Degree

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego

Representative Publications

Allen G, Buxton RB, Wong EC, & Courchesne E. (1997). Attentional activation of the cerebellum independent of motor involvement. Science, 275, 1940-1943.

Courchesne E & Allen G. (1997). Prediction and preparation, fundamental functions of the cerebellum. Learning and Memory, 4, 1-35.

Allen G & Courchesne E. (1998). The cerebellum and non-motor function: Clinical implications. Molecular Psychiatry, 3, 207-210.

Müller R-A, Courchesne E & Allen G. (1998). The cerebellum: So much more. Science, 282, 879-880.

Allen G & Courchesne E. (2001). Attention function and dysfunction in autism. Frontiers in Bioscience, 6, d105-119.

Müller R-A, Pierce K, Ambrose JB, Allen G & Courchesne E. (2001). Atypical patterns of cerebral motor activation in autism: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Biological Psychiatry, 49, 665-676.

Pierce K, Müller R-A, Ambrose J, Allen G, & Courchesne E. (2001). Face processing occurs outside the fusiform 'face area' in autism: Evidence from fMRI. Brain, 124, 2059-2073.

Allen G & Courchesne E. (2003). Differential effects of developmental cerebellar abnormality on cognitive and motor functions in the cerebellum: An fMRI study of autism. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 160 (2), 262-273.

Allen G, Müller R-A, & Courchesne E. (2004). Cerebellar function in autism: Functional magnetic resonance image activation during a simple motor task. Biological Psychiatry, 56, 269-278.

Belmonte MK, Allen G, Beckel-Mitchener A, Boulanger LM, Carper RA, & Webb SJ. (2004). Autism and abnormal development of brain connectivity. The Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 9228-9231.

Allen G, McColl RW, Barnard HD, Ringe WK, Fleckenstein J, & Cullum CM. (2005). Magnetic resonance imaging of cerebellar-prefrontal and cerebellar-parietal functional connectivity. NeuroImage, 28, 39-48.

Allen G. (2005). The cerebellum in autism. Clinical Neuropsychiatry (special issue, “Theories of Autism: Relevance to Treatment”), 2 (6), 321-337

Allen G. (2006). Cerebellar contributions to autism spectrum disorders. Clinical Neuroscience Research (“Recent Advances in Autism and Related Disorders”), 6 (3-4), 195-207.

Allen G, Barnard H, McColl RW, Hester AL, Fields JA, Weiner MF, Ringe WK, Lipton AM, Brooker M, McDonald E, Rubin CD, & Cullum CM. (2007). Reduced hippocampal functional connectivity in Alzheimer disease. Archives of Neurology, 64 (10), 1482-1487.

Current Research Projects and Grants

Cerebellar Anatomic and Functional Connectivity in Autism Spectrum Disorders (NIH R01 MH077147)

Functional Connectivity of the Cerebellum in Autism (Autism Speaks)

Full Vita (download)

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/vitae/edp/AllenCV.pdf

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