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 1/21/2026

    Kirk PA, Qamar P, Lentz J, Zugman A, Abend R, Kircanski K, Pine DS. Linking subjective experience of anxiety to brain function using natural language processing. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2026 Jan 21; 21(1). PMID: 41002215.

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  • Published 1/16/2026

    Qamar P, Díaz DE, Benson BE, Pine DS, Kirk PA, Michalska KJ. Children's state anxiety before MRI scanning and resting state functional connectivity in large scale brain networks. Sci Rep. 2026 Jan 16; 16(1):4383. PMID: 41545431.

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  • 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 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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Education

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

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