Dr. Michael Edward Behen PHD

Expert Publications

• Local brain functional activity following early deprivation: a study of postinstitutionalized Romanian orphans.
• Abnormal brain connectivity in children after early severe socioemotional deprivation: a diffusion tensor imaging study.
• Transient hypermetabolism of the basal ganglia following perinatal hypoxia.
• Autism with facial port-wine stain: a new syndrome?
• Diffusion tensor imaging of brain plasticity after occipital lobectomy.
• Multimodality neuroimaging in Tourette syndrome: alpha-[11C] methyl-L-tryptophan positron emission tomography and diffusion tensor imaging studies.
• Focal white matter abnormalities related to neurocognitive dysfunction: an objective diffusion tensor imaging study of children with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
• Clinical outcomes in bilateral Sturge-Weber syndrome.
• Neurocognitive and behavioral correlates of non-right-handedness in internationally adopted children.
• Quantitative Assessment of Brain Networks in Children With Sturge-Weber Syndrome Using Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

Media Releases

Leading Clinical Psychologist, Michael E. Behen, PhD is Currently Practicing with The Imagine Center for Psychological Care

Michael E. Behen, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist and Director, Chief Executive Officer with The Imagine Center for Psychological Care, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at Wayne State University, and is affiliated with DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan.

Dr. Michael E. Behen is a highly respected and experienced Psychologist, having been in practice for over two decades. His career in medicine began in when he graduated with his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in clinical psychology from Wayne State University in Michigan. After medical school, Dr. Behen completed his clinical internship with Children’s Center of Wayne County, in Michigan. Driven to further his expertise and knowledge, he undertook his fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Michigan, PET Center.

Dr. Behen has dedicated his life to delivering compassionate care. He is determined to enhance his patients’ quality of life, providing high quality, individualized care in order to ensure the most optimal results. With a passion for his work, Dr. Behen is noted for his expertise in Comprehensive neurocognitive and behavioral evaluations and advanced multimodal brain imaging tools in order to identify the functional and structural neural correlates of various developmental (autism spectrum disorder, social communication problems, language disorder, motor problems), neurologic (Sturge-Weber Syndrome, Tuberous Sclerosis), and psychiatric (Tourette’s Disorder, depression, attention deficit problems) disorders.

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