Barry E. Kosofsky, M.D., Ph.D.Barry E. Kosofsky, M.D., Ph.D.Current MGH Appointment: Associate Neurologist
Current HMS Appointment: Associate Professor of Neurology
Current MGH Address: CNY, MGH-East, 2nd Floor, Laboratory of Molecular and Developmental Neuroscience
Current MGH Phone #: 617-724-9603
E-Mail: kosofsky@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
FAX #: 617-724-9610
Undergraduate Education: B.A., M.A., Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University
Graduate and/or Medical School: M.D., Ph.D., Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residencies and Fellowships:
Pediatrics Intern/Assistant Resident, Children's Hospital, Boston, 7/85-6/87
Neurology Assistant/Senior Resident, Mass. General Hospital, 7/87-6/90
Molecular Neuro. Research Fellowship, MGH-East, 7/90-6/92
Foreign Languages Spoken: none
Certification by an American Specialty Board: Neurology (with special competence in Child Neurology) #877
Primary Specialty: Child Neurology
Other Specialties: Substance of abuse exposure - Follow-up (SAEF Clinic)
Research Interests: Brain development, molecular neurobiology, drugs of abuse, prenatal drug exposure, gestational toxins and mechanisms of altered gene expression, neuroanatomy, fMRI.
Clinical Interests: The effects of environmental toxins on brain growth and development (e.g., cocaine, alcohol, lead)
Representative Publications:
1) Kosofsky BE, Benova LM, Hyman SE. Postnatal age defines specificity of IEG induction by cocaine in developing rat brain. J Comp Neurol 1995;351:27-40.
2) Kosofsky BE. Cocaine-induced alterations in neuro-development. In: Seminars in Speech and Language (Mentis M, ed.)New York: Thieme Medical Publishers, 1998:109-121.
3) Wilkins AS, Genova LM, Posten W, Kosofsky BE. Tranplacental cocaine exposure 1: A rodent model. Neurotoxicology and Teratology 20, 1998. (in press).