Frank Balch Wood, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Specialties: Neuropsychology and neuroimaging of reading disability and ADHD
Graduate School: Duke University, 1974
EDUCATION:
Wake Forest University, Bachelor of Arts with Honors in the Arts and Sciences and Distinction in Psychology, 1964
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Master of Divinity with Languages, 1968
Wake Forest University, Master of Arts, Major field: Psychology, Thesis: Proactive Inhibition and Context Effects in Short Term Memory, Philippe Falkenberg, Ph.D., advisor, 1971
Duke University, Doctor of Philosophy, Major field: Psychology, Thesis: The Amnesic Syndrome as a Defect in Retrieval from Episodic Memory, Marcel Kinsbourne, M.D., Ph.D., advisor, 1974
PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE:
Ordained to the ministry by the University Baptist Church of Coral Gables, Florida, 1965.
Licensed as a practicing psychologist by the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Practicing Psychologists, license number 660.
Certified Provider for Traumatic Brain Injury by the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction.
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:
Theoretical neuropsychology
Methodology of functional brain mapping
Learning disabilities and developmental disorders
Memory
The neuropsychology of psychopathology
Computer-assisted neuropsychological assessment and remediation
Forensic neuropsychology
ACTIVE GRANT:
NICHD, 1999 to 2003, Principal Investigator: Genotypic and Phenotypic Heterogeneity in Dyslexia. P01 HD 21887, Principle Investigator
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Wood F, Taylor B, Penny R and Stump D. Regional cerebral blood flow response to recognition memory versus semantic classification tasks. Brain and Language 1980;9:113-122.
Wood F, Stump D, McKeehan A, Sheldon S and Proctor J. Patterns of regional cerebral blood flow during attempted reading aloud by stutterers both on and off haloperidol medication: evidence for inadequate left frontal activation during stuttering. Brain and Language 1980;9:141-144.
Wood FB. Laterality of cerebral function: its investigation by localized indicators of metabolism. In: Hellige J (ed). Cerebral function asymmetry: method, theory, and application. New York:Praeger, 1983:383-410.
Wood F and Felton R. Physiological specification of the phenotype in genetic language disorders:prospects for the use of localized indicators of localized brain metabolism. In: Ludlow CK, Cooper JA (eds). Genetic aspects of speech and language disorders. New York: Academic Press, 1983:53-69.
Wood F. Cortical and thalamic representation of the episodic and semantic memory systems: evidence from brain stimulation, localized indicators of brain metabolism, and human neuropsychology. Behav Brain Sci 1983;6:220-221.
Wood F. Focal and diffuse memory activation assessed by localized indicators of CNS metabolism:the semantic episodic memory distinction. Hum Neurobiol 1987;6:141-151.
Felton RH, Wood FB, Brown IS, Campbell SK, Harter MR. Separate verbal memory and naming deficits in attention deficit disorder and reading disability. Brain Lang 1987;31:171-184.
Harter MR, Diering S, Wood FB. Separate brain potential characteristics in children with reading disability and attention deficit disorder: relevance-independent effects. Brain Cognition 1988;7:54-86.
Harter MR, Anllo-Vento L, Wood FB, Schroeder MM. Separate brain potential characteristics in children with reading disability and attention deficit disorder: color and letter relevance effects. Brain Cognition 1988;7:115-140.
Wood FB, Felton RH, Brown IS. The dissociation of attention deficit disorder from reading disability: a reply to Share and Schwartz. Brain Lang 1988;34:353-358.
Felton RH, Wood FB. Cognitive deficits in reading disability and attention deficit disorder. J Learn Disabil 1989;22:3-13.
Wood FB, Brown IS, Felton RH. Long term follow-up of a childhood amnesic syndrome. Brain Cognition 1989 April;10:76-86.
Harter Mr, Anllo-Vento L, Wood FB. Event-related potential: spatial orienting and reading disabilities. Psychophysiology 1989;26:420-441.
Felton R, Naylor C, Wood F. Neuropsychological profile of adult dyslexics. Brain and Language 1990;39:485-497.
Wood F, Flowers DL, Naylor C. Cerebral laterality in functional neuroimaging. In Kitterle F (ed.), Cerebral laterality theory and research: The Toledo Symposium. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1990:103-116.
Wood FB, Felton RH, Flowers DL, Naylor CE. Neurobehavioral definition of dyslexia. In Duane DD, Gray DB (eds.), The Reading Brain. Parkton, Maryland: York Press, 1991;1:1-25.
Wood FB. Functional neuroimaging in neurobehavioral research. In: Boulton AA, Baker GB, Hiscock M, (eds.), Neuromethods: Vol. XVII. Clifton, NJ: Humana Press, 1990;17:107-125.
Wood FB, Flowers DL. Hyperfrontal versus hypo-Sylvian blood flow in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin 1990;16(3):413-424.
Flowers DL, Wood FB, Naylor CE. Regional cerebral blood flow correlates of language processes in reading disability. Archives of Neurology 1991;48:637-643.
Wood F, Flowers L, Buchsbaum M, Tallal P. Investigation of abnormal left temporal functioning in dyslexia through rCBF, auditory evoked potentials, and positron emission tomography. Read Writ: Interdis J 1991;4:81-95.
Felton RH, Wood FB. A reading level match study of nonword reading skills in poor readers with varying IQ. J Learn Disabil 1992;25:318-326.
Hagman JO, Wood FB, Buchsbaum MS, Tallal P, Flowers DL, Katz W. Cerebral brain metabolism in adult dyslexics assessed with positron emission tomography during performance of an auditory task. Archives of Neurology 1992;49:734-39.
Eden GF, Stein JF, Wood FB. Visuospatial ability and language processing in reading disabled and normal children. In Wright SF, Groner R, eds. Facets of Dyslexia and its Remediation. BV, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1993:321-335.
Eden GF, Stein JF, Wood HM, Wood FB. Differences in eye movements and reading problems in dyslexic and normal children. Vision Res 1994;34(10):1345-1358.
Wood F, Felton R. Separate linguistic and attentional factors in the development of reading. Topics in Lang and Lang Disorders 1994;14(4):42-57.
Eden GF, Stein JF, Wood HM, Wood FB. Verbal and visual problems in reading disabled and normal children. Journal of Learning Disabilities, May, 1995;28(5).
Naylor CE, Wood FB, Harter MR. Event related potentials in adults diagnosed as reading disabled in childhood. International Journal of Neuroscience 1995;80:339-352.
Eden GF, Stein JF, Wood HM, Wood FB. Temporal and spatial processing in reading disabled and normal children. Cortex 1995;31(3):451-468.
Garrett A, Wood FB. The use of glucose metabolic imaging to study central nervous system rehabilitation. In Toole J, Good D, eds. Imaging in Neurologic Rehabilitation. New York, NJ: Demos Vermande, 1996:57-66.
Wood FB, Garrett AS, Hart LA, Flowers DL, Absher, JR. Event related potential correlates of glucose metabolism in normal adults during a cognitive activation task. In RW Thatcher,GR Lyon, J Rumsey, N Krasnegor (eds.), Developmental Neuroimaging; Mapping the Development of Brain and Behavior, Academic Press; New York, NY, 1996:197-206.
Grigorenko EL, Wood FB, Meyer MS, Hart LA, Speed WC, Shuster A, Pauls DL. Susceptibility loci for distinct components of developmental dyslexia on chromosomes 6 and 15. American Journal of Human Genetics Jan 1997.
Fahey FH, Wood FB, Harkness B, Absher J. Quantitative evaluation of single state brain activation with FDG PET. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 1998.