Dr. Talin Babikian is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 20 years of experience in private practice working with a broad spectrum of children, teens, young adults, and their families. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Associate Director of the UCLA BrainSPORT Program, an inter-departmental and multi-disciplinary program for identifying and treating brain injuries — including concussions — in youth and professional athletes, where she oversees the Sports Neuropsychology Fellowship training program.
Educational background
Dr. Babikian earned a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Neuropsychology from Loma Linda University in 2005. She completed a combined research/clinical postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric neuropsychology at the UCLA School of Medicine, specializing in general pediatric neuropsychology and a research focus in brain injuries in youth. Dr. Babikian is actively involved in clinical research using novel neuroimaging and other techniques to understand neurocognitive outcomes and the course of repair and recovery following a brain injury in childhood. She has authored and presented several publications on this topic in journals, book chapters, and professional seminars nationally and internationally. Click here for CV and publications.
Neuropsychologist, Associate Clinical Professor,
Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, UCLA
Associate Director, UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program
