Damien Fair, PhD, is a Professor in the Institute of Child Development, Department of Pediatrics, and University of Minnesota Medical School. He is also Redleaf Endowed Director of the Masonic Institute of the Developing Brain.

Dr. Fair’s research focuses on mechanisms and principles that underlie the developing brain. The majority of this work uses functional MRI and resting state functional connectivity MRI to assess typical and atypical populations. A second focus has become testing the feasibility of using various functional and structural MRI techniques in translational studies of developmental neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and autism). I am exploring ways to better characterize individual patients with these psychopathologies to help guide future diagnostic, therapeutic and genetic studies.