Mitchell J.M. Cohen, MD
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Director, Pain Medicine Program
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Contact Dr. Cohen

833 Chestnut Street, Suite 210
Philadelphia, PA 19107

(215) 955-6592
(215) 503-2853 (fax)

Medical School
The Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (1984)

Residency
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD (1988)

Board Certification
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Certified in Psychiatry
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Subspecialty Certification in Pain Medicine
American Board of Pain Medicine

University Appointment
Vice Chair for Education, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Research and Clinical Interests
Diagnosis and Treatment of chronic and neuropathic pain, quality of life in chronic pain, role of opioids in treatment of chronic pain, sleep disorders and addiction in chronic pain, ethical decision-making in chronic pain management, attitudinal and cultural barriers to treatment of chronic pain, undergraduate and graduate medical education; Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain, Functional Restoration in Chronic Pain, Treatment of Neuropathic Pain, Mood Disorders, Anxiety Disorders

Publications

1. Contextual interference and augmented feedback: Is there an additive effect for motor learning?
2. Cortical activation during foot movements: II Effect of movement rate and side
3. Cortical activation during executed, imagined, and observed foot movements
4. Effects of motor imagery training after chronic, complete spinal cord injury
5. Brain motor system function after chronic, complete spinal cord injury
6. Brain activation during execution and motor imagery of novel and skilled sequential hand movements
7. Cerebral and cerebellar sensorimotor plasticity following motor imagery-based mental practice of a sequential movement
8. An fMRI investigation of hand representation in paraplegic humans
9. Somatotopy of the motor cortex after long-term spinal cord injury or amputation
10. Event-related potentials as a function of movement parameter variations during motor imagery and isometric action
11. Cortical potentials during imagined movements in individuals with chronic spinal cord injuries
12. Alcohol induced changes in regional cerebral glucose metabolic rate during divided attention
13. Visuospatial information processing in intoxicated, recently detoxified, and long-term abstinent alcoholics
14. Changes in the P300 component of the tactile event-related potential following spinal cord injury
15. Sensory detection and pain thresholds in spinal cord injury patients with and without dysesthetic pain, and in chronic low back pain patients
16. Problem solving and coping strategies in persons with spinal cord injury who have and do not have a family history of alcoholism
17. Changes in the P300 component of the tactile event-related potential following spinal cord injury
18. Spatial learning deficits in preschool children of alcoholics
19. Auditory P3 event related potentials (ERP) and brainstem auditory evoked responses (BAER) after spinal cord injury in humans.
20. Incidence and characteristics of spinal cord injured patients with a family history of alcoholism

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