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Vinod Menon

Vinod Menon

· Rachel L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and, Professor, by courtesy, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Education

Stanford University · Symbolic Systems

Active 1990–2026

h-index127
Citations93.2k
Papers473170 last 5y
Funding$43.4M3 active

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Vinod Menon is the Rachel L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Education. He is the director of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, which aims to advance fundamental knowledge of human brain function and dysfunction, and to apply this knowledge to help children and adults with psychiatric and neurological disorders. His research emphasizes a highly interdisciplinary approach, integrating cognitive, behavioral, neuroscience, and computational methodologies, with students and researchers coming from diverse disciplines including psychiatry, neurology, psychology, neuroscience, electrical and biomedical engineering, and computer science. Dr. Menon received his BSc (Honors) in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology and his PhD in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurophysiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined Stanford University as a Sinclair Foundation Research Fellow and has been on the faculty since 2000. Over the past two decades, his research has led to major breakthroughs in understanding the architecture, function, and development of large-scale distributed human brain networks. He and his team were among the first to discover that the human brain is organized into specialized and interacting networks of brain regions, which…

Research topics

  • Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Computer Science
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive science
  • Genetics
  • Linguistics
  • Clinical psychology

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Education

  • Ph.D., Neuroscience

    Stanford University

    1998

  • M.D., Medicine

    Stanford University

    1994

  • B.A., Human Biology

    Stanford University

    1990

Awards & honors

  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher - Cross-Field Impact, Thomson Re…
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher - Cross-Field Impact, Thomson Re…
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher - Neuroscience & Behavior, Thoms…
  • NIH MERIT Award (R37) for Outstanding Research, NIH (2018)
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher - Neuroscience & Behavior, Thoms…

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