Justin Baker is a faculty member in the Department of
Psychiatry at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Associate Director of the
Research Concentration Program for the MGH / McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Program.
His research focuses on brain imaging studies in psychotic disorders. Justin received
his undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Brown University, before obtaining his MD
and PhD degrees at Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied the neural
correlates of memory, attention, and oculomotor behavior in rhesus monkeys using
single-unit physiology and brain imaging. Since completing his Residency in Psychiatry
with the MGH/McLean program, he has received multiple fellowships (APA/Pfizer, Dupont-Warren,
Maria Lorenz Pope) to pursue research on the biology of psychotic disorders using high-throughput
functional and structural imaging and genetics, under the guidance of Dr. Dost Öngür
(McLean Hospital) and Dr. Randy Buckner (Harvard / MGH).
Shinn, A.K.,Baker, J.T.,
Cohen, B.M., & Öngür D. (2012) Functional connectivity of left Heschl's gyrus in vulnerability
to auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.
[medline abstract] Yüksel, C., McCarthy, J.M., Shinn, A.K.,Baker, J.T.
, Pfaff, D., Heckers, S., & Öngür, D. (2012) Gray matter volume
in volume in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychotic features. Schizophrenia
Research.
[medline abstract] Patel, G.H., Shulman, G.L.,Baker, J.T.
, Akbudak, E., Snyder, A.Z., Snyder, L.H., Corbetta, M. (2010)
Topographc organization of macaque area LIP. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
U.S.A.[medline abstract] Vincent, J.L., Patel, G.H., Fox, M.D., Snyder, A.Z.Baker, J.T.
, Van Essen, D.C., Snyder, L.H., Corbetta, M., Raichle,
M.E. (2007) Intrinsic functional architecture in the anesthetized monkey brain. Nature.
[medline abstract] Baker, J.T.,
Patel, G.H., Corbetta, M.C., Snyder, L.H. (2006) Distribution of activity across the
macaque cerebral cortical surface, thalamus, and midbrain during rapid, visually-guided
saccades. Cerebral Cortex.
[medline abstract] Baker, J.T.,
Harper, T.M., & Snyder, L.H. (2003) Spatial memory following shifts of gaze. I. Saccades
to memorized world-fixed and gaze-fixed targets. Journal of Neurophysiology 89: 2564-2576.
[medline abstract] Baker, J.T.,
Sanders, A.L., Maccotta, L., & Buckner, R.L. (2001) Neural correlates of verbal memory
encoding during semantic and structural orienting tasks. Neuroreport 12:1251-6.
[medline abstract] Baker, J.T.,
Donoghue, J.D., & Sanes, J.N. (1999) Gaze direction modulates finger movement activation
patterns in human motor cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 19:10044-52.
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