MEET DR. PAUL
Rooted in Rigorous Neuroscience, Guided by Lived Experience
Dr. Lynn K. Paul is a licensed clinical psychologist with postdoctoral training in neuropsychology and one of the world's leading experts on disorders of the corpus callosum. She has more than 30 years of experience studying rare developmental brain conditions from infancy into adulthood, including corpus callosum disorders and pediatric hemispherectomy.
At L.K. Paul & Associates, every neuropsychological assessment, psychotherapy session, and expert consultation is informed by Dr. Paul’s clinical and research expertise, as well as her decades of community engagement.
Community
Connecting research with families has been central to her career. She was founding president of the National Organization for Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (NODCC), and she serves as a scientific advisor to the Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery Alliance (PESA), Australian Disorders of the Corpus Callosum (AusDoCC) and Corpal.
She speaks frequently at family conferences in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Leadership
Dr. Paul is founding president of the International Research Consortium for the Corpus Callosum and Cerebral Connectivity (IRC5), an international transdisciplinary effort to understand the causes and consequences of developmental brain disorders and to find effective interventions.
Credentials
Licensed Psychologist, California PSY16791, since 2000
PhD, Clinical Psychology, Fuller, 1998
Postdoctoral fellowship, Epilepsy Clinic Department of Neurology, UCLA
Professor of Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
Visiting Associate, Caltech
Research
Dr. Paul’s research examines how communication within and between the brain's two hemispheres shapes learning, social understanding, emotion, creativity, and everyday life. She follows people with agenesis and dysgenesis of the corpus callosum, and adults who had a hemispherectomy as children, to learn how the brain adapts and which challenges remain. Her methods include cognitive and developmental assessment, long-term behavioral studies, brain imaging, and eye-tracking.
Her work appears in journals including Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Brain, Pediatrics, Cell Reports, Journal of Neuroscience, and PNAS.
Books
and coming in 2027…
Corpus Callosum Disorders Across the Lifespan: A Guide for Patients, Parents and Providers
