Associate Professor In-Residence
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
2825 50th St.
Sacramento, CA 95817
Office phone:  (916) 703-0407
E-mail:  tjsimon@ucdavis.edu

Dr. Simon is a pediatric cognitive neuroscientist. His research focuses on the neural basis of cognitive impairments seen in genetic disorders that produce mental retardation, developmental disability and psychopathology. Building on his influential theory of the foundations of numerical competence, Dr. Simon investigates how dysfunction in specific neurocognitive processing systems, such as attention, and spatial or temporal processing can generate a range of cognitive and behavioral impairments. His goal is to develop remedial intervention programs that will minimize such disability. Dr. Simon's current projects center on studies of spatiotemporal and numerical cognition in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, also known as DiGeorge and VeloCardioFacial syndrome. He is also engaged in similar studies of girls with Turner syndrome. As part of the new NeuroTherapeutics Institute, Dr. Simon leads a grant with Dr. Susan Rivera on the neurocognitive basis of functional impairments in children and adults with the full range of fragile X gene mutations. Besides experimental cognitive processing analyses, Dr. Simon uses cutting edge neuroimaging methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Voxel Based Morphometrics, and Diffusion Tensor Fiber Imaging in order to study the structure, function and connective patterns in the developing brain.

B.A., Psychology, Lancashshire Polytechnic, UK, 1981
Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, Sheffield University, UK, 1985

Click here for a list of Dr. Simon's publications and academic activities from July 2008 through June 2009.