Tony Simon

Dr. Simon is a pediatric cognitive neuroscientist. His research focuses on the interactions between neural, cognitive, affective and stress biology differences in young people with genetic disorders that produce learning difficulties, behavioral dysregulation and psychopathology.

Dr. Simon has spent over a decade and a half investigating how dysfunction in specific neurocognitive processing systems, such as attention, and spatial or temporal processing generates cognitive impairments in thinking about space, time, numbers as was as real world challenges like math, using money and navigation.

He has developed and is testing a digital neurotherapeutic intervention (in the form a video game) to minimize such disability. Dr. Simon's current main project is a National Institute of Mental Health funded longitudinal study on risk and protective factors for psychosis proneness in chromosome 22q11.2 deletion (Velocardiofacial/DiGeorge) syndrome based on the interaction of neurocognitive and affective processing and stress reactivity.

Besides experimental cognitive processing analyses, Dr. Simon uses cutting edge neuroimaging methods, such as resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI), Diffusion Tensor Fiber Tracking as well as Event-Related Potential (ERP) components of electrophysiological studies in order to study the structure, function and connective patterns in the developing brain.

Education

• Graduate School of Management University of California, Davis (2016 — 2016)
• Postdoc Carnegie Mellon University (1988 — 1991)
• Ph.D. The University of Sheffield (1981 — 1985)

Companies

• Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of California, Davis - School of Medicine (2021)
• Co-Founder, CEO/Chief Science Officer Cognivive, Inc. (2017)
• Editorial Board Member Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2012)
• MIND Institute Associate Director for Behavioral Sciences UC Davis Health (2016 — 2021)
• Associate Director UC Davis Health MIND Institute Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (2013 — 2021)
• Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences UC Davis Health - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sceinces (2005 — 2021)
• Review Editor - Frontiers in Genetic Disorders Frontiers (2013 — 2019)
• Review Editor - Frontiers in Child and Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Frontiers (2010 — 2018)
• Associate Editor American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (2008 — 2014)

Skills

• Public Speaking
• Experimentation
• Statistics

Other

Grant Writing, Treatment, Scientific Writing, Psychology, Teaching, Cognitive Psychology, Genetics, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, Research, Cognition, Clinical Research, Science