Peter A. Kirk, MD

Instructor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Peter A. Kirk, MD practices Emergency Medicine and is an Instructor of Medical Sciences & Education at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He completed a residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. He currently practices at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital and is affiliated with Roger Williams Medical Center.

Publications

  • Published 3/1/2025

    Kirk PA, Qamar P, Zugman A, Abend R, Frank S, Ringlein GV, Jett L, DeLap GAL, Harrewijn A, Pine DS, Kircanski K. The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and in-Scanner Motion. Hum Brain Mapp. 2025 Mar; 46(4):e70163. PMID: 40042099.

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  • Published 1/8/2025

    Kirk PA, Pine DS, Kircanski K. Extending insights from LeDoux: using movies to study subjective, clinically meaningful experiences in neuroscience. Cereb Cortex. 2025 Jan 08; 35(1):58-64. PMID: 39422490.

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  • Published 10/4/2024

    Lukow PB, Lowther M, Pike AC, Yamamori Y, Chavanne AV, Gormley S, Aylward J, McCloud T, Goble T, Rodriguez-Sanchez J, Tuominen EW, Buehler SK, Kirk P, Robinson OJ. Amygdala activity after subchronic escitalopram administration in healthy volunteers: A pharmaco-functional magnetic resonance imaging study. J Psychopharmacol. 2024 Dec; 38(12):1071-1082. PMID: 39364684.

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  • Published 8/24/2024

    Buehler SK, Lowther M, Lukow PB, Kirk PA, Pike AC, Yamamori Y, Chavanne AV, Gormley S, Goble T, Tuominen EW, Aylward J, McCloud T, Rodriguez-Sanchez J, Robinson OJ. Independent replications reveal anterior and posterior cingulate cortex activation underlying state anxiety-attenuated face encoding. Commun Psychol. 2024; 2:80. PMID: 39184223.

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  • Published 5/2/2024

    Kirk PA, Robinson OJ. Preliminary evidence for altered brain-heart coherence during anxiogenic movies. Imaging Neurosci (Camb). 2024; 2. PMID: 40800271.

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Education

  • St. George’s University, MD
  • University of Colorado Boulder, BS

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