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Christopher Benjamin, PhD

Associate Professor Adjunct
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Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Assistant Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

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Titles

Associate Professor Adjunct

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery; Assistant Professor of Psychology; Assistant Professor, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Biography

Dr. Benjamin is a clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology. He completed his PhD training in neuropsychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia; research fellowship training at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Boston; and his clinical fellowship at the Semel Institute, University of California Los Angeles where he was the epilepsy fellow and Chief Fellow in neuropsychology. As a clinician he is a member of Yale's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and he also sees adults with a range of neurological disorders. As a researcher his work focuses on how we can improve surgical planning to treat epilepsy and brain tumors.

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Other Departments & Organizations

Education & Training

Clinical Fellow, Neuropsychology
Semel Institute, UCLA (2014)
MA
University of Melbourne, Clinical Neuropsychology (2012)
PhD
University of Melbourne (2012)
Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School (2012)
Research Fellow
Boston Children's Hospital (2012)
Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School (2011)
Research Fellow
Boston Children's Hospital (2011)
BA
University of Melbourne, Biological Psychology (2002)

Research

Overview

• Validity of cognitive testing for identifying seizure focus, and surgical outcome.

• Validity of fMRI methods for predicting language change after surgery.

• Comparison of fMRI and intracranial language mapping for predicting language change after surgery.

Medical Research Interests

Epilepsy; Language; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Memory; Neurology; Neurosurgery; Vision, Ocular

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Christopher Benjamin's published research.

Publications

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2018

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Clinical Research Training Scholarship

  • honor

    Sweblius Foundation Award

  • honor

    KL2 Junior Scholar's Award

  • honor

    Clinical Research Award

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