Jerillyn Kent

Jerillyn Kent is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at Dallas, affiliated with the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Her research focuses on motor abnormalities in psychopathology, particularly cerebellar dysfunction in psychotic disorders. She holds a BS from the College of William and Mary and a PhD from Indiana University.

Her work explores neuromodulation interventions for psychopathology and investigates neural substrates of motor abnormalities using neuroimaging techniques. She leads the Action, Cognition & Translational Neuroscience Lab and has received grants including the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant and National Science Foundation support.

Awards include the Irving J. Saltzman Award and Smadar Levin Award. Current research emphasizes schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, with publications in NeuroImage, Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, and Human Brain Mapping.

Her grants include NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (Brain & Behavior Research Foundation), NIH Kirschstein Fellowship, and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.