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Rex Eugene Jung, Ph.D. ADDRESS CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: Rex Eugene Jung, Ph.D. ADDRESS: Two Woodward Center 700 Lomas Boulevard NE Suite #102 Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 TELEPHONE: (505) 243-0335 FAX: (505) 216-2623 WEBSITES: http://www.rexjung.com http://www.brainandbehavioral.com Education 1986 B.S. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (Cum Laude) 1994 – 2001 Ph.D. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Specialization: Clinical Neuropsychology 2001 Internship Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas Departments: Neurosurgery and Behavioral Medicine 2001 – 2003 Post Doc Department of Psychiatry Research, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM Licensure 2002 New Mexico Clinical Psychology (#0880) Academic and Research Positions 2003 – 2006 Assistant Research Professor, Department of Neurology, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque 2006 – 2008 Research Scientist, The Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery (MIND) Institute, Domenici Hall, Albuquerque, NM 2008 – 2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque 2015 – Present Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurosurgery & Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico Awards and Honors 1993 National Institutes of Health - Student Summer Internship Program Biomedical Research 1998 Lupus Foundation of America - Gina Finzi Memorial Student Summer Fellowship 2000 Mensa Education and Research Foundation – Award for Excellence in Research 2009 Williamson Family Endowment, Kansas University, CLEOS Laboratory – New Voice in Intelligence and Creativity 2013 1st Festival of Imagination, Creativity, and Innovation – Presented key to City of Barrancabermeja, Colombia Patents 3/04 #6708053 Brooks WM, Jung RE, et al., Biochemical Markers of Brain Function Membership in Scientific and Professional Societies 1994 – American Psychological Association – Division 40 (Neuropsychology) 2003 – International Society for Intelligence Research (ISIR) 2005 – Society for Neuroscience (SfN) 2015 – Founding Member – Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SNC) November 28, 2015 Editorial Boards 2013 – Intelligence – Associate Editor 2013 – Frontiers in Neuropsychiatric Imaging and Stimulation – Review Editor 2014 – Public Library of Science – ONE – Academic Editor 2014 – International Journal of Personality Psychology – Associate Editor Selected Editorial and Reviewer Positions (Ad Hoc) American Journal of Psychiatry, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Biological Psychiatry, BMC Neuroscience, Brain Imaging and Behavior, Brain Research, Brain Stimulation, Brain Structure and Function, British Journal of Psychology, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cortex, Experimental Neurology, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, Human Brain Mapping, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Journal of Creative Behavior, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Protocols, Neurobiology of Aging, NeuroImage, Neuropsychologia, Neuropsychopharmacology, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuroscience Letters, Public Library of Science ONE, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Scientific Reports, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Social Neuroscience Scientific Review (Ad Hoc) Austrian Science Fund Israel Science Foundation Lupus Foundation of America John Templeton Foundation National Science Foundation Committee, Leadership, and Board Membership 2009 – 2010 Member – Advanced Concepts Group, Sandia National Laboratory 2009 – Distinguished Senior Advisor – Positive Neuroscience Project; University of Pennsylvania & John Templeton Foundation 2010 Member Review Group - WHO International Advisory Group for the Revision of ICD-10 Mental and Behavioral Disorders: Working Group on the Classification of Intellectual Disabilities 2011 – 2012 Secretary – Psychiatric MR Spectroscopy and Imaging Study Group: International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2013 Nominations and Elections Committee – International Society for Intelligence Research 2014 – Advisory Board Member – Imagination Institute; University of Pennsylvania and John Templeton Foundation 2015 Co Host – International Society for Intelligence Research: 16th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Hotel Andaluz Artistic Collaborations 2006 Thinking Machine, 2006 – Min Kim Park, Masumi Shibata, Mary Tsongas; The Art and Artifice of Science, Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, February 9 – May 20, 2007. November 28, 2015 Supervisory and Advisory Roles Dissertation Committee: Rebecca England, Ph.D. Psychology, University of New Mexico Mathew Euler, Ph.D. Psychology, University of New Mexico April Brown, Ph.D. Psychology, University of New Mexico Research Advisor: Tiffany Love, Ph.D. University of Michigan Shirley Smith University of New Mexico Rosalind Arden, Ph.D. King’s College, London Robert Chavez Dartmouth College Rachael Grazioplene University of Minnesota Andrei Vakhtin University of New Mexico Clinical Advisor Lynette Silva University of New Mexico Brandon Kopald University of Wisconsin-Madison Sephira Ryman University of New Mexico Grants Received 2007 – 2010 John Templeton Foundation #12456, The Neuroscience of Creativity Role: Principle Investigator; $600,770 2008 Blue Planet Software, The Neuroscience of Tetris Role: Principle Investigator; $90,000 2009 – 2011 DARPA/DOD, Brain Stimulation to Accelerate Learning of Threat Detection Phase II, (Michael Weisend: PI) Role: Co-Investigator; $3,804,403 2009 – 2012 National Institute of Mental Health #1P20 RR021938-01A2: Fronto-subcortical Disconnection Underlying Neurocognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia Role: Principle Investigator; $920,937 2012 Johnson O’Connor Research Support Corporation: Neuroscience of Aptitude Role: Principle Investigator; $98,000 2012 – 2015 John Templeton Foundation #22156: The Neuroscience of Scientific Creativity Role: Principle Investigator; $1,014,842 2014 – 2015 National Endowment for the Arts #14-3800-7003– Transfer Effects of Music on Brain Structure and Function Role: Co-Principle Investigator; $15,000 2014 – 2016 Johnson O’Connor Research Support Corporation: A Twin Study of Aptitude Role: Principle Investigator; $300,000 2016 – 2018 United States Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI): Predicting Performance from Network Data (David Dunson: PI) Role: Co-Principle Investigator; $48,438 Peer Reviewed Publications – 87 publications Citation metrics: h – index = 37; i10 index = 60; Over 5000 citations (Google Scholar) *cited 100 – 199 times; **cited 200 – 299 times; ***cited 300 – 399 times; **** cited 400-499 times; ****** – cited 600+ times 1994 1. Giambra LM, Wise K, Rosenberg EH, Jung RE. (1994). The Influence of Caffeine Arousal on the Frequency of Task-Unrelated Image and Thought Intrusions. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality. 13(3): 215-223. 1995 November 28, 2015 2. Ciesielski KT, Waldorf AV, Jung RE. (1995). Anterior Brain Deficits in Chronic Alcoholism: Cause or Effect? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 183(12):756-61. 1996 3. Giambra LM, Jung RE, Grodsky, A. (1996). Age Changes in Dream Recall in Adulthood. Dreaming, 6(1):17-31. 1998 4. *Friedman SD, Brooks WM, Jung RE, Hart BL, & Yeo RA. (1998) Proton MR Spectroscopic Findings Correspond to Neuropsychological Function in Traumatic Brain Injury. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 19(10):1879-1885. 1999 5. Brooks WM, Jung RE, Ford CC, Greinel EJ, & Sibbitt WL. (1999). Relationship Between Neurometabolite Derangement & Neurocognitive Dysfunction in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Journal of Rheumatology. 26(1):81-85. 6. Sibbitt WL Jr., Jung RE, Brooks WM. (1999) Neuropsychiatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Comprehensive Therapy. 25(4):198-208. 7. *Friedman SD, Brooks WM, Jung RE, Chiulli SJ, Sloan JH, Montoya BT, Stidley CA, Hart BL, Yeo RA. (1999). Quantitative 1H-MRS Predicts Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurology. 52(7): 1384-1391. 8. *Jung RE, Brooks WM, Yeo RA, Chiulli SJ, Weers D, & Sibbitt WL. (1999). Biochemical Markers of Intelligence: A Proton MR Spectroscopy Study of Normal Human Brain. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London - Biological Sciences. 266(1426): 1375-1379. 9. Jung RE, Yeo RA, Chiulli SJ, Sibbitt WL, Weers DC, Hart BL, & Brooks WM. (1999). Biochemical Markers of Cognition: A Proton MR Spectroscopy Study of Normal Human Brain. Neuroreport. 10(6): 3327-3331. 2000 10. Jung RE, Yeo RA, Chiulli SJ, Sibbitt WL, & Brooks WM. (2000). Myths of Neuropsychology: Intelligence, Neurometabolism and Cognitive Ability. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 14(4): 535-545. 11. Jung RE, Yeo RA, Gangestad S. (2000). Developmental Instability Predicts Individual Variation in Verbal Memory Skill After Caffeine Ingestion. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology. 13(3):195-198. 12. *Brooks WM, Stidley CA, Petropoulos H, Jung RE, Weers DC, Friedman SD, Barlow MA, Sibbitt WL, & Yeo RA. (2000). Metabolic and cognitive response to human traumatic brain injury: a quantitative proton magnetic resonance study. Journal of Neurotrauma. 17(8): 629-640. 2001 13. Jung RE, Yeo RA, Sibbitt Jr. WL, Ford CC, Hart BL, & Brooks WM. (2001). Gerstmann Syndrome in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Neuropsychological, Neuroimaging
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