Additional Titles & Roles
- Neuropsychiatric consultations for movement disorders only
- Professor of Neurology
- Professor of Radiology
- Professor of Neuroscience
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1996
- Residency: Washington University & Barnes-Jewish Hospital, 1994
- M.D.: Duke University, 1990
- B.S.: Brigham Young University, 1986
Major Awards
- Invited keynote lecture, Tourette Association of America’s TIC-CON 2024 Research Symposium, 2024
- Certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties (UCNS), 2006, 2016
- member, NIMH Motor Systems Domain RDoC workshop, 2016
- Named a Fellow of CINP, the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2015
- 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
- Elected by peers for inclusion in Best Doctors in America®, 2005–2019
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) / Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award, 2001
- NARSAD Young Investigator Award (twice), 1996, 1999
Areas of Clinical Interest
Kevin Black, MD, is a movement disorders neuropsychiatrist, and has cared for patients at the Movement Disorders Center at Washington University in St. Louis for over 30 years. He has participated in many investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials on movement disorders. He has a particular interest in Tourette syndrome (TS) and other tic disorders, along with the neuropsychiatry of Parkinson’s disease and dystonia, Huntington’s disease, tardive dyskinesia, catatonia, and functional or atypical movement disorders.
Research Interests
I use innovative brain imaging methods to study movement disorders including Tourette syndrome and Parkinson disease. I have also developed methods related to structural imaging volumetry, analysis of brain images in nonhuman species, quantitative pharmacological fMRI (phMRI), and statistical analysis of function-anatomy relationships in deep brain stimulation (DBS). See also https://sites.wustl.edu/blacklab/.
Recent Publications
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Correction to: Treatment failure in persistent tic disorders: an expert clinicians’ consensus-based definition (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, (2023), 32, 5, (859-872), 10.1007/s00787-021-01920-5)
The Movement Disorders Society Tourette Syndrome Study Group, 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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Correlating clinical course with baseline subcortical shape in provisional tic disorder
Che, T., Kim, S., Greene, D. J., Heywood, A., Ding, J., Hershey, T., Schlaggar, B. L., Black, K. J. & Wang, L., Dec 1 2024, In: CNS Spectrums. 29, 6, p. 652-664 13 p.
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Diagnostic Criteria for Primary Tic Disorders: More Reappraisal
Black, K. J., Grossen, S. C., Arbuckle, A. L., Bihun, E. C., Song, D. Y., Reiersen, A. M., Greene, D. J. & Schlaggar, B. L., Oct 2024, In: Movement Disorders. 39, 10, p. 1902-1903 2 p.
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We’ve all been wrong about provisional tic disorder
Grossen, S. C., Arbuckle, A. L., Bihun, E. C., Koller, J. M., Song, D. Y., Reiersen, A. M., Schlaggar, B. L., Greene, D. & Black, K., Oct 2024, In: Comprehensive Psychiatry. 134, 152510.
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Tourette syndrome research highlights from 2023
Hartmann, A., Andrén, P., Atkinson-Clement, C., Czernecki, V., Delorme, C., Mol Debes, N., Morand-Beaulieu, S., Müller-Vahl, K., Paschou, P., Szejko, N., Topaloudi, A. & Black, K. J., 2024, In: F1000Research. 13, 677.