Sean Coulborn, PhD, MSc

Postdoctoral Fellow
Fields of Interest: 

Sean Coulborn is a postdoctoral researcher at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center under the mentorship of Dr. David Perry. His research focuses on improving the certainty of clinical diagnosis and predicting the pathological diagnosis in neurodegenerative diseases.

Prior to UCSF, Sean undertook a postdoctoral position at UC Berkeley focussing on understanding the neural mechanisms involved with decision-making and relating abnormalities in these processes to dimensional measures of psychopathology. He received his PhD degree in Psychology from the University of Birmingham, UK, investigating the neural correlates of consciousness using multimodal imaging methods.

Publications: 

Therapeutic Use of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in the Rehabilitation of Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness.

Frontiers in neurology

Aloi D, Della Rocchetta AI, Ditchfield A, Coulborn S, Fernández-Espejo D

Sleep disorders in rare genetic syndromes: a meta-analysis of prevalence and profile.

Molecular autism

Agar G, Brown C, Sutherland D, Coulborn S, Oliver C, Richards C

Effect of tDCS Over the Right Inferior Parietal Lobule on Mind-Wandering Propensity.

Frontiers in human neuroscience

Coulborn S, Bowman H, Miall RC, Fernández-Espejo D