Dr. Talin Babikian is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with over 20 years of experience working with a broad spectrum of children, teens, young adults, and their families. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She also serves as the Training Director for the UCLA Neuropsychology Fellowship Program and is 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.

Educational background

Dr. Babikian earned a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Loma Linda University in 2005. She completed a combined research/clinical postdoctoral fellowship in 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 identifying biopsychosocial markers of repair, recovery, and outcomes following a brain injury in childhood. She has authored and presented several works on this topic in academic journals and at professional seminars nationally and internationally. Click here for CV and publications.