Peter Turkeltaub, Ph.D.

Peter completed a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the George Washington University in 1997. In 2005, he graduated from the MD/PhD Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University. Under the mentorship of Dr. Eden, Peter wrote his PhD dissertation on the functional neuroanatomy of reading acquisition. His thesis included a meta-analysis of previous imaging studies on single word reading in adults, a cross sectional study on the neural basis of reading acquisition in healthy children, and an fMRI case study of a hyperlexic boy who attained extremely advanced reading ability despite a pervasive developmental disorder. Peter is currently completing his internship in the Department of Internal Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital. In June 2006, he will begin a residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications:

1. Turkeltaub P., Eden G., Jones K., Zeffiro T. (2002) Meta-analysis of the functional neuroanatomy of single-word reading: method and validation. Neuroimage 16(3 Pt 1): p. 765-780.
2. Turkeltaub, P. E., Gareau, L., Flowers, D. L., Zeffiro, T. A., Eden, G. F. (2003) Development of neural mechanisms for reading. Nature Neuroscience, 6(7):767-73.
3. Turkeltaub, P.E., D. L. Flowers, A. Verbalis, M. Miranda, L.Gareau and G.F. Eden (2004). The neural basis of hyperlexic reading: an fMRI case study. Neuron, 41, pp 1-20
4. Turkeltaub, P.E., Weisberg, J., Flowers, D.L. Basu, D and Eden, G.F. (2004) The Neurobiological Basis of Reading: A Special Case of Skill Acquisition, In: Developmental Language Disorders: from Phenotypes to Etiologies. Rice and Catts (Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum.
5. Laird A.R., McMillan K.M., Lancaster J.L., Kochunov P., Turkeltaub P.E., Pardo J.V., & Fox P.T. (2005). A comparison of label-based meta-analysis and activation likelihood estimation in the Stroop task. Human Brain Mapping
6. P.M., Nichols, T.E., Glahn, D.C., Uecker, A.M., Lancaster, J.L., Price, C.J., Turkeltaub, P.E., Kochunov, P., & Fox, P.T. (2005) Voxel-based meta-analysis: controlling the false discovery rate and performing statistical contrasts. Human Brain Mapping.

Abstracts:

Turkeltaub P., Dyer S., Varma V., Goodenough D. (1996) The utility of Simultaneous Transmission Emission Protocol for improved cardiac imaging. Radiological Society of North America. Abstract.

Turkeltaub P., Eden G., Jones K., Zeffiro T., (2001) A Novel Meta-Analysis Technique Applied to Single Word Reading. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Abstract.

Turkeltaub P.E., Gareau L., Flowers D.L., Zeffiro T.A., Eden G.E. (2002) The functional neuroanatomy of reading acquisition. Organization for Human Brain Mapping. Abstract.