EDUCATION

1956 Duke University, B.A. English Literature
1960 Oxford University, D.Phil. Experimental Pathology
1962 Harvard Medical School, MA
1969-1971      Special Research Fellow, NINCDS at Harvard Medical School
1969-1974 Research Scholar of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Fund

APPOINTMENTS

1972-1979 Director of Research in Neuropathology of Development,
Shriver Center, Waltham, MA           
1976-1982 Associate Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
1981- Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
1982- Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy Professor of Child Neurology
and Mental Retardation, Harvard Medical School
1983- Chief, Division of Child Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital
1988- Director, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts
General Hospital
1988- Director, Kennedy Laboratory for Developmental Neurobiology,
Mass General Hospital
1989-1994        Member, National Advisory Neurological Disorders
and Stroke Council of NIH
2001                  Member,Steering Committee, Mind Brain Behavior Institute,
Harvard University

EDITORIAL BOARDS

1978-1984 Experimental Brain Research
1980-present Developmental Brain Research
1982-1988 Journal of Neurogenetics
1983-1987 Journal of Comparative Neurology
1990-present Brain and Development
1991-present Pediatric Neurology
1991-present Cerebral Cortex

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)

• Mitsuhashi T, Aoki Y, Eksioglu YZ, Takahashi T, Bhide PG, Reeves SA, Caviness VS, Jr. (2001) Overexpression of p27Kip1 lengthens the G1 phase in a mouse model that targets inducible gene expression to central nervous system progenitor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:6435-6440.
  
• Laeng B, Caviness VS (2001) Prosopagnosia as a deficit in encoding curved surface. J Cogn Neurosci 13:556-576.
  
• Goldstein JM, Seidman LJ, Horton NJ, Makris N, Kennedy DN, Caviness VS, Jr., Faraone SV, Tsuang MT (2001) Normal sexual dimorphism of the adult human brain assessed by in vivo magnetic resonance imaging. Cereb Cortex 11:490- 497.
  
• Caviness V, Takahashi T, Nowakowski R (2000) Neuronogenesis and the early events of neocortical histogenesis. In: Development of the Neocortex (Goffinet A, Rakic P, eds), pp 107-143. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
  
• Caviness V, Takahashi T, Nowakowski R (2000) Neocortical malformation as consequence of non-adaptive regulation of neuronogenetic sequence. Ment Retard Develop Disabil Res Rev 6:22-33.
  
• Caviness VS, Jr., Makris N, Lange NT, Herbert M, Kennedy DN (2000) Advanced applications of MRI in human brain science. Keio J Med 49:66-73.
  
• Makris N, Meyer JW, Bates JF, Yeterian EH, Kennedy DN, Caviness VS (1999) MRI-Based topographic parcellation of human cerebral white matter and nuclei II. Rationale and applications with systematics of cerebral connectivity. Neuroimage 9:18-45.
  
• Goldstein JM, Goodman JM, Seidman LJ, Kennedy DN, Makris N, Lee H, Tourville J, Caviness VS, Jr., Faraone SV, Tsuang MT (1999) Cortical abnormalities in schizophrenia identified by structural magnetic resonance imaging. Arch Gen Psychiatry 56:537-547.
  
• Delalle I, Takahashi T, Nowakowski RS, Tsai LH, Caviness VS, Jr. (1999) Cyclin E-p27 opposition and regulation of the G1 phase of the cell cycle in the murine neocortical PVE: a quantitative analysis of mRNA in situ hybridization. Cereb Cortex 9:824-832.
  
• Kennedy DN, Lange N, Makris N, Bates J, Meyer J, Caviness VS, Jr. (1998) Gyri of the human neocortex: an MRI-based analysis of volume and variance. Cereb Cortex 8:372-384.
  
• Takahashi T, Nowakowski R, Caviness V (1996) The leaving or Q fraction of the murine cerebral proliferative epithelium: a general computational model of neocortical neuronogenesis. J Neurosci 16:6183-6196.
  
• Laeng B, Kosslyn SM, Bates J, Caviness V (1996) Can deficits in spatial indexing contribute to simultanagnosia. Cog Neuropsycho 16:81-114.
  
• Caviness V, Kennedy DN, Richelme C, Rademacher R, Filipek P (1996) The human brain age 7 - 11 years: a volumetric analysis based upon magnetic resonance images. Cereb Cortex 6:726-736.
  
• Caviness V, Kennedy DN, Bates J, Makris N (1996) The developing human brain: a morphometric profile. In: Developmental Neuroimaging: Mapping the Development of Brain and Behavior (Thatcher RW, Lyon GR, Rumsey J, Krasnegor N, eds), pp 3-14. New York: Academic Press.
  
• Caviness VS, Makris N, Meyer J, Kennedy D (1996) MRI-based parcellation of human neocortex: an anatomically specified method with estimate of reliability. J Cog Neurosci 8:566-588.
  
• Takahashi T, Nowakowski RS, Caviness VS, Jr. (1995) The cell cycle of the pseudostratified ventricular epithelium of the embryonic murine cerebral wall. J Neurosci 15:6046-6057.
  
• Caviness V, Takahashi T, Nowakowski R (1995) Numbers, time and neocortical neuronogenesis: A general developmental and evolutionary model. Trends Neurosci 18:379-383.
  
• Filipek P, Richelme C, Kennedy D, Caviness V (1994) The young adult human brain: an MRI-based morphometric analysis. Cerebr Cort 4:344-360.
  
• Mission JP, Takahashi T, Caviness VS, Jr. (1991) Ontogeny of radial and other astroglial cells in murine cerebral cortex. Glia 4:138-148.
  
• Caviness V, Crandall JE, Edwards MA (1988) The reeler malformation. In: Cerebral Cortex (Peters A, Jones EG, eds), pp 59-89. New York: Plenum.
  
• Caviness V, Frost DO (1980) Tangential organization of thalamic projections to the neocortex in the mouse. J Comp Neurol 194:335-367.
  
• Caviness V, Rakic P (1978) Mechanisms of cortical development: a view from mutations in mice. Annu Rev Neurosci 1:297-326.
  
• Caviness VS, Jr. (1975) Mechanical model of brain convolutional development. Science 189:18-21.