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Kevin J. Black, MD
Current
Position
Professor of Psychiatry,
Neurology, Neurobiology, and Radiology
Education and Training
B.S., mathematics: Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 1986
Medical Degree: Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, 1990
Residency: Psychiatry, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1994
Fellowship: Movement Disorders and Neuroimaging, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996
Major Awards
Listed in Castle Connolly's American's top Doctors, 2009-2010
Certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS), 2006
Named a Fellow of the American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2006
Hope Award from the St. Louis chapter of the HDSA (Huntington Disease Society of America), 2006
Listed in Americas Best Doctors, 2005-2011
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) / Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award, 2001
NARSAD Young Investigator Awards, 1996 and 1999
Upjohn Resident Research Award, Washington University Department of Psychiatry, 1994
Southern Psychiatric Association Annual Award for Psychiatrists in Training, 1993
Mead Johnson Fellow in Academic Psychiatry, Association for Academic Psychiatry, 1993
Areas of Clinical Interest
Tourette syndrome (TS), tic disorders, Huntington's disease, tardive dyskinesia, catatonia, neuropsychiatry of Parkinson's disease and dystonia, psychogenic or atypical movement disorders
Areas of Research Interests
Touretts Syndrome (TS and other tic disorders.
Neuroimaging and clinical studies in TS and other movement disorders in cluding Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.
Neuroimaging methods development including pharmacological fMRI.
Key Publications
Black KJ: Tics. Chapter 385 (vol. 3, pp. 231-236) in Kompoliti K, Verhagen L, Comella C, Goetz C, Goldman J, Kordower J, Shannon K (eds.), Encyclopedia of Movement Disorders. Oxford: Elsevier (Academic Press), 2010. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/product/cws_home/721402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374105-9.00385-3
Black KJ, Koller JM, Campbell MC, Gusnard DA, Bandak SI: Quantification of indirect pathway inhibition by the adenosine A2a antagonist SYN115 in Parkinson disease. J Neurosci 2010; 30(48):16284-16292
Black KJ, Hershey T, Hartlein JM, Carl JL, Perlmutter JS (2005 Mar). Levodopa challenge neuroimaging of levodopa-related mood fluctuations in Parkinson's disease. Neuropsychopharmacology. 30(3): 590-601. Full Article ->
Marsh L, McDonald WM, Cummings J, Ravina B, NINDS/NIMH Work Group on Depression and Parkinson's Disease (2006 Feb). Provisional diagnostic criteria for depression in Parkinson's disease: report of an NINDS/NIMH Work Group. Mov Disord. 21(2): 148-58. Full Article ->
Gordon M, Markham J, Hartlein JM, Koller JM, Loftin S, Black KJ (2007 Jan 30). Intravenous levodopa administration in humans based on a two-compartment kinetic model. J Neurosci Methods. 159(2): 300-7. Full Article ->
Black KJ (2008 Jan-Feb). "Stop doing that"! Recognizing and managing tics. Mo Med. 105(1): 53-6. Full Article ->
Funded Research Projects
NIMH(PI):Dopaminergic Effects on Cortical Function in Tourette's
NINDS(Key Personnel):Mapping Mood in the Subthalamic Nucleus in PD
NIDDK(Key Personnel):Glycemic Control, Brain Structure and Cognition in Youth with T1DM
NIMH(PI):Quantitative Dopamine Receptor Pharmacodynamics from fMRI
Synosia Therapeutics(PI):A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, two-way cross-over study to explore the effects of 7 days dosing with SYN115 20 mg p.o. BID or 60 mg p.o. BID on clinical and fMRI response to intravenous levodopa in patients with mild to moderate Parkinsons disease
NIMH(PI):Training New Investigators in Neuroimaging and in the Neuropsychiatry of Movement
NCRR(Key Personnel):Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences - Brain, Behavior and Performance Unit (Perlmutter, PI)
NIDDK(Key Personnel):Central Dopamine Receptors in Obesity
Tourette Syndrome Association(Key Personnel):Tourette Syndrome Association Neuroimaging Consortium Pilot