Booil Jo

About

Booil Jo is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, specializing in Interdisciplinary Brain Science Research. His research focuses on latent variable modeling, causal inference, longitudinal data analysis, missing data analysis, mixture and growth mixture modeling, and prevention science methodology. He has contributed to understanding heterogeneity among unobserved subpopulations in mental health research and has been involved in various courses related to research methodology in behavioral sciences. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from UCLA, obtained in 1998. Dr. Jo has been actively engaged in research that explores complex statistical methods to improve mental health and behavioral science studies. His work has been recognized through awards such as the R01 grant from NIMH for studying heterogeneity in mental health populations. He also serves as a doctoral dissertation reader and faculty sponsor for postdoctoral researchers, contributing to the development of future scholars in his field.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Psychiatry
• Internal medicine
• Psychology
• Neuroscience
• Pediatrics
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Endocrinology
• Audiology

Selected publications

• Impact of Type 1 Diabetes in the Developing Brain in Children: A Longitudinal Study

  Diabetes Care · 2021 · 98 citations

  OBJECTIVE: To assess whether previously observed brain and cognitive differences between children with type 1 diabetes and control subjects without diabetes persist, worsen, or improve as children grow into puberty and whether differences are associated with hyperglycemia. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: and continuous glucose monitoring were done quarterly. FreeSurfer-derived brain volumes and cognitive metrics assessed longitudinally were compared between groups using mixed-effects models at 6, 8…

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• Thalamocortical connectivity is associated with autism symptoms in high-functioning adults with autism and typically developing adults

  Translational Psychiatry · 2021 · 71 citations

  Alterations in sensorimotor functions are common in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Such aberrations suggest the involvement of the thalamus due to its key role in modulating sensorimotor signaling in the cortex. Although previous research has linked atypical thalamocortical connectivity with ASD, investigations of this association in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder (HFASD) are lacking. Here, for the first time, we investigated the resting-state functional…

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• Thalamic and prefrontal GABA concentrations but not GABAA receptor densities are altered in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder

  Molecular Psychiatry · 2020 · 64 citations

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• Long-term cognitive training enhances fluid cognition and brain connectivity in individuals with MCI

  Translational Psychiatry · 2024-10-23 · 13 citations

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  Amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) is a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD). Multi-domain cognitive training (CT) may slow cognitive decline and delay AD onset. However, most work involves short interventions, targeting single cognitive domains or lacking active controls. We conducted a single-blind randomized controlled trial to investigate the effect of a 6-month, multi-domain CT on Fluid Cognition, functional connectivity in memory and executive functioning networks (primary outco…

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• A data-driven latent variable approach to validating the research domain criteria framework

  Nature Communications · 2025-01-18 · 11 citations

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  Despite the widespread use of the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) framework in psychiatry and neuroscience, recent studies suggest that the RDoC is insufficiently specific or excessively broad relative to the underlying brain circuitry it seeks to elucidate. To address these concerns, we employ a latent variable approach using bifactor analysis. We examine 84 whole-brain task-based fMRI (tfMRI) activation maps from 19 studies with 6192 participants. A curated subset of 37 maps with a balanced re…

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01DA031698

  NIH · $652k · 2017

• NIH Grant R01MH066319

  NIH · $620k · 2008

Frequent coauthors

• Amit Etkin

  112 shared

• Gregory A. Fonzo

  Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

  110 shared

• Sanno Zack

  Stanford University

  109 shared

• Meredith Harvey

  109 shared

• Kathy Peng

  Stanford University

  109 shared

• Steven E. Lindley

  Stanford University

  108 shared

• Madeleine S. Goodkind

  University of New Mexico

  107 shared

• Bruce A. Arnow

  107 shared

Labs

• Booil Jo LabPI

Education

• Ph.D., Applied Statistics

  UCLA

  1998

Awards & honors

• R01: Heterogeneity among unobserved (underlying) subpopulati…

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