Cecil R. Reynolds, PhD - Professor Emeritus Texas A&M University

Cecil R. Reynolds earned his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia under the tutelage of Dr. Alan S. Kaufman with a major in School Psychology and minors in Statistics and Clinical Neuropsychology. He is the author of more than 300 scholarly publications and the author or editor of more than 50 books including The Energetic Brain and the Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology. He has authored more than 40 commercially published tests including the Behavior Assessment System for Children, the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales, and the Test of Memory and Learning. Dr. Reynolds is a diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Neuropsychology and in Pediatric Neuropsychology from the American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology. He has served as president of both boards. He was elected a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow of the National Academies of Practice in 2012 and served as Chief of the Neuropsychology Service at Sandstone Psychiatric Hospital before retiring from clinical work to extend his forensic practice and publishing work. In 2021, he was noted in Stanford’s list of the top 2% of scientists in the world, based on quantitative analyses of the impact of published works. He is an Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, Professor of Neuroscience, and a Distinguished Research Scholar at Texas A&M University. He continues to write and to practice forensic neuroscience in Austin, Texas.