Ian Ainsworth Cook (born May 1, 1960) is an American

psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry. Psychiatrists are physicians who evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments or strictly ...

. He is an

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Psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

and Biobehavioral Sciences at the

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. He is also a research scientist at the

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and the Brain Research Institute at UCLA. He serves as director of the UCLA Depression Research Program and associate director of the UCLA Laboratory of Brain, Behavior, and Pharmacology. Cook holds the Joanne and George Miller & Family Chair in Depression Research.Faculty profile
UCLA School of Medicine. Retrieved November 17, 2018.

Education and training

Cook received

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Bachelor's of Science degree from

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and

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in 1982. In 1987 he graduated from

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with an

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degree in Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis. He began his residency training in

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of deleterious mental disorder, mental conditions. These include matters related to cognition, perceptions, Mood (psychology), mood, emotion, and behavior. ...

at the

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in 1988. A year later, he became a postdoctoral fellow at the Bioelectric Research Center, Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons and two years later became a research fellow at the Quantitative EEG Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Institute, a division of UCLA. He completed his training in 1994 at the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute before joining the faculty and becoming ABPN certified in psychiatry.

Professional activities

Cook was president of the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry from 2007 to 2009 and is a member of the Executive Committee on Practice Guidelines of the

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. Dr. Cook is also chief medical advisor to HeartCloud.io. Cook's work has largely focused on the care of

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s and disorders of complex human behavior. He is a co-inventor of the cordance method for studying regional brain activity with

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s. Research by Cook and his colleagues has shown that past use of

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s can influence the brain's reaction to antidepressant

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s, that standard advice on diet and exercise for heart health can also lead to better brain health, that different types of

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evoke different types of brain activity, that

measurements could predict the outcome of antidepressant drug treatment on an individual patient long before the drugs make any observable changes to the patient's moods, and that electrical stimulation of the

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can be an effective alternative to drug therapy for depression.

Fellowships

*2009 - Distinguished Fellow of the

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Ian 1960 births Living people American psychiatrists Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni Yale School of Medicine alumni David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty