psychiatrist professor of Psychiatry
Cook graduated from Princeton University before going to the Yale University School of Medicine where he received his Doctor of Medicine degree. He completed his residency training in psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty and becoming ABPN certified in psychiatry.
He is an associate professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles"s David Geffen School of Medicine. He is also a research scientist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and the Brain Institute at University of California, Los Los Angeles He serves as director of the University of California, Los Angeles Depression Program and associate director of the University of California, Los Angeles Laboratory of Brain, Behavior, and Pharmacology. Cook holds the Joanne and George Miller & Family Chair in Depression degree.
Cook"s work has largely focused on the care of mental disorders and disorders of complex human behavior.
He is a co-inventor of the cordance method for studying regional brain activity with electroencephalograms. by Cook and his colleagues has shown that past use of antidepressants can influence the brain"s reaction to antidepressant placebos, that standard advice on diet and exercise for heart health can also lead to better brain health, that different types of advertisement evoke different types of brain activity, that electroencephalogram measurements could predict the outcome of antidepressant drug treatment on an individual patient long before the drugs make any observable changes to the patient"s moods, and that electrical stimulation of the trigeminal nerve can be an effective alternative to drug therapy for depression.
Cook was president of the West Coast College of Biological Psychiatry from 2007 to 2009 and is a member of the Executive Committee on Practice Guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association.
