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Timothy Todd Brown (scientist) is an American systems neuroscientist and cognitive neurophysiologist who studies childhood brain and psychological development. He is a researcher and professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where he directs the Sentia Laboratory for Childhood Systems Neuroscience.

Education and Professional Training

T. T. Brown graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree before attending doctoral programs at Johns Hopkins University and Washington University in St. Louis, where his doctoral dissertation focused on developmental changes in human functional brain organization. Brown's graduate research was supervised by professors Marie Balaban and Steve Yantis at Johns Hopkins University and by professors Steven Petersen and Bradley Schlaggar at Washington University in St. Louis. He also completed clinical doctoral training in the area of pediatric neuropsychology and completed an internship in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego Hillcrest and Thornton hospitals and at the Veterans Affairs Health Care San Diego medical center. His postdoctoral training was in human cognitive neurophysiology with professor Eric Halgren.

Before attending graduate school, Brown was a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning, working with professors Mel Levine and Stephen Hooper. He was also a Research Psychologist in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch of the intramural research program at the NIMH, NIH, working with Drs. Karen Berman and Daniel Weinberger. As a graduate student, Brown made money as a professional mystery shopper pizza photographer for Corporate Research International, and during high school and college he was a busboy and waiter at Sir George's Royal Buffet and Harbor House Restaurant in Mesa, Arizona.

Scientific Career

Brown has studied many aspects of human brain anatomy, physiology, and cognitive development from infancy through young adulthood focusing on language development and disorders, cognitive control, Williams syndrome, perinatal stroke, education and learning, and developing musical abilities. His research with children has combined behavioral, experimental, and brain imaging technologies, including positron emission tomography, electroencephalography, event-related potentials, near-infrared spectroscopy, structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalography, and autonomic nervous system recording. Brown's research has been published in a wide variety of scientific journals, including Science, Nature, Current Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuropsychology Review, Cerebral Cortex, Neurology, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Clinical Neurophysiology, Genes, Brain, and Behavior, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Laterality, Neuropsychologia, Scientific Studies of Reading, Developmental Science, and the International Journal of Music in Early Childhood.