The research behind the care
Clinical work and research inform each other. Dr. Paul studies how people with corpus callosum disorders, and those who had pediatric epilepsy surgery, develop and adapt across the lifespan.
RESEARCH
Corpus callosum disorders
Learning, memory, social understanding, emotion, and everyday functioning in agenesis and dysgenesis of the corpus callosum, from infancy into adulthood.
Life after hemispherectomy
Long-term thinking, emotional, and daily-life outcomes in adults who had one hemisphere removed or disconnected in childhood.
Brain connectivity
How communication within and between the hemispheres shapes the organization of the cortex, studied with brain imaging and eye-tracking.
Current studies
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Longitudinal, online study following children with dysgenesis of the corpus callosum from infancy through childhood.
Studying cognitive and psychosocial impacts of disrupted brain connectivity in agenesis of the corpus callosum and hemispherectomy.
Human Brain and Cognition Laboratory
Research leadership at Caltech
Over two decades at the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Paul led research programs and provided assessment services for Social Decision Neuroscience researchers
Senior Research Scientist: led the Corpus Callosum Disorders Research Program and a study of long-term outcomes after hemispherectomy
Senior investigator in Ralph Adolphs's Emotion and Social Cognition Lab
Co-Principal Investigator for ten years on an NIH P50 Conte Center grant, directing its Psychological Assessment for Research Laboratory
Director, Chen Participant Center, Chen Institute for Neuroscience
Participant assessment: oversaw recruitment and psychological assessment of research participants with autism, anxiety disorders, and acquired brain lesions, as well as community-based control participants, helping investigators use assessment results to understand individual differences
ADOS: research-reliable administrator of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule