John Sweeney, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, works in the area of human neurophysiology, focusing on executive and attentional factors regulating the control of eye movements, as well as the basic cortical sensorimotor systems involved in eye movement control. He is involved in basic laboratory studies of eye movement control as well as functional neuroimaging studies of oculomotor systems. He is the Director of the Center for Cognitive Medicine, and interdisciplinary program devoted to investigating brain disorders using methods of cognitive neuroscience. His research work is primarily focused on psychiatric disorders including schizophrenia, autism and mood disorders. jsweeney@psych.uic.edu

Publications:

Sweeney J. A., Mintun, M. A., Kwee, S., Wiseman, M. B., Brown, D. L., Rosenberg, D. R., & Carl, J. R. (1996). Positron emission tomography study of voluntary saccadic eye movements and spatial working memory. Journal of Neurophysiology, 75, 454-468.

Sweeney, J. A., Luna, B., Berman, R. A., McCurtain, B. J., Voyvodic, J., Thulborn, K. R.(1996). Functional MRI studies of reflexive and voluntary saccadic eye movements. NeuroImage, 3, S420.

Sweeney J. A., Haas, G. L., Clementz, B. A., Escobar, M. D., Drake, K., & Francis, A. J. (1994). Eye tracking dysfunction in schizophrenia: Characterization of component eye movement abnormalities, diagnostic specificity and the role of attention. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 103, 222-230.