Michael Brook, PhD

Bio

Michael Brook, PhD, is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He received his doctorate degree in clinical psychology from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and completed an internship in clinical psychology and neuropsychology at Rush University Medical Center, and a fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. He is the director of the Isaac Ray Research Program in Behavioral Sciences and the Law, co-director of the Forensic Neuropsychology Laboratory, and associate director of the clinical neuropsychology fellowship training program. His research investigates the interaction between neurocognition, emotion processing, personality traits, and socioecological factors in the genesis of violent behavior. He has published on topics including risk assessment, forensic mental health, laboratory measures of emotion processing, and neuropsychological outcomes in psychiatric and medical disease. As an educator, Dr. Brook teaches graduate-level courses in neuropsychology and behavioral neuroscience and conducts clinical supervision of students, residents, and fellows.

As a clinician, Dr. Brook is an attending neuropsychologist at Northwestern Medicine and serves as a consultant for the intercollegiate sports medicine concussion program, the comprehensive epilepsy center, and the brain tumor institute. Dr. Brook’s clinical practice in the area of forensic psychology and neuropsychology involves expert work in cases involving postconviction mitigation, fitness, legal competence, risk assessment, medical malpractice and negligence, disability and workers’ compensation, fitness for duty, and traumatic brain injury.