John Agnew, Ph. D.

John graduated from Haverford College in May 1996, with a BA in chemistry. In 2003 he earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Georgetown University. He conducted his dissertation research in the laboratory of Dr. Guinevere Eden, using behavioral and functional neuroimaging methods to identify and characterize the neural basis of motor control in both dyslexic and non-dyslexic individuals. John is currently a postdoctoral researcher with Dr. Robin Gabriels at The Children’s Hospital / The University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, where he is studying repetitive behaviors associated with autism. In addition to research, he has an adjunct faculty position at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he teaches biological psychology. John currently lives in Denver with his wife and two children.

Publications:

1. Moreau, R.A., Agnew, J., Powell, M.J., and Hicks, K.B. (1997). Modulation of lipoxygenase activity by bacterial hopanoids. Journal of Natural Products, 60, 397-8.
2. Moreau, R.A., Powell, M.J., Agnew, J., and Young, D.H. (1998). Chlorophyll-derived porphyrins co-chromatograph with phospholipids in HPLC separation of plant lipid classes. Phytochemical Analysis, 9, 1-4.
3. Parkash, J., Robblee, J. H., Agnew, J., Gibbs, E., Collings, P., Pasternack, R. F., & de Paula, J. C. (1998). Depolarized resonance light scattering by porphyrin and chlorophyll a aggregates. Biophysical Journal, 74(4), 2089-2099.
4. Agnew, J., Dorn, D., Eden, G.F. (2004). Effect of intensive training on rapid temporal processing. Brain and Language, 88 (1), 21-25.
5. Lin, F-H, A.R. McIntosh; J. Agnew, G.F. Eden, T.A. Zeffiro and J.W. Belliveau (2003) Multivariate analysis of neuronal interactions in the generalized partial least squares framework: Simulations and empirical studies. Neuroimage, 20(2):625-42.
6. J.A. Agnew, T.A. Zeffiro and G.F. Eden (2004). Left hemisphere specialization for the control of variable rate voluntary movement. NeuroImage, 22, (1) 289-303.
7. Eden, G. F., Jones, K.M., Cappell, K., Gareau, L., Wood, F.B., Zeffiro, T.A., Dietz, N.A.E., Agnew, J.A. and Flowers, D.L. (2004). Neural changes following remediation in adult developmental dyslexia, Neuron, 44 (3), 411-422.

Abstracts:

Agnew J., de Paula, J.C., Robblee, J., Pasternack,R.F., Collings, P.J., Gibbs, E.J., Keesey, T. and Blankenship, R. (1996). Resonance light Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference 13th Meeting. Woods Hole, MA.

Lin, F.-H., Agnew, J., Zeffiro, T. A., Eden, G. F., McIntosh, A. R., & Belliveau, J. W. (2000). Movement rate modulation of cortical motor systems investigated with partial least square analyis, NeuroImage (pp. S837). Human Brain Mapping 6th Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.

Agnew, J., Eden, G., Jones, K., & Zeffiro, T. (2000). Rate related activity in cortical motor systems during performance of dominant and non-dominant hand movement, NeuroImage (pp. S891). Human Brain Mapping 6th Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.

Lin, F.-H., McIntosh, A. R., Zeffiro, T. A., Agnew, J., & Belliveau, J. (2001). Comparison of orthogonal and independent component analysis on dimension-reduced fMRI data in partial least squares framework, Proceedings International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (pp. 1730). International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 9th Meeting. Glasgow, Scotland.

Flowers, L., Zeffiro, T., Jones, K., Cappell, K., Gareau, L., Dietz, N., Agnew, J., VanMeter, J. Wood, F. & Eden, G. (2001). Functional neuroanatomy of reading remediation in dyslexia. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. New York, New York.

Lin, F.-H., McIntosh, A. R., Agnew, J., Zeffiro, T. A., & Belliveau, J. W. (2001). Multiple subject effective connectivity analysis of voluntary movement, NeuroImage (pp. S1211). Human Brain Mapping 7th Meeting. Brighton, England.

Agnew, J., Zeffiro, T., Flowers, L., Cappell, K., Gareau, L., Wood, F., & Eden, G. (2001). Neural mechanisms of bimanual coordination in developmental dyslexia, NeuroImage (pp. S767). Human Brain Mapping 7th Meeting. Brighton, England.