Kenneth Adams, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, USALinas Bieliauskas,Ph.D.
University of Michigan, USAGianfranco Dalla Barba, M.D., Ph.D.
INSERM, Paris, FrancePramod Dash, Ph.D.
University of Texas-Houston Medical School, USAMarcel Kinsbourne, M.D.
New School University, USAJose Leon-Carrion, Ph.D.
University of Seville, SpainHans Markowitsch, Ph.D.
University of Bielefeld, GermanyMichael Petrides, Ph.D.
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Naftali Raz, Ph.D.
Wayne State University, USAMarina Tzakosta, M.A.
University of Leiden, Netherlands
Elizabeth Warrington, Ph.D.
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, England
Barbara Wilson, Ph.D.
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, EnglandFrank Wood, Ph.D.
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, USA
KENNETH ADAMS, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan and is Chief of Psychology at the Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Adams is a 1974 graduate in clinical psychology from Wayne State University and holds the American Board of Professional Psychology Diplomates in Clinical Neuropsychology as well as Clinical Psychology. He is past-president of the International Neuropsychological Society and the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association. He has served on numerous scientific review bodies for the National Institutes of Health, Department of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency, and the American Institute of Biological Sciences. He has served in seven national collaborative studies and trials as neuropsychology or methodology consultant. He served as co-editor of The Clinical Neuropsychologist from its inception through 2000, and has been an associate or consulting editor for a range of neuropsychological, medical, and methodological journals. He also is co-editor of Neuropsychological Assessment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, published by Oxford University Press. Dr. Adams’ research has focused on the effects of substance abuse on neuropsychological functioning, neuroimaging correlates of neuropsychological disorders, and the effects of non-cerebral diseases and illnesses on neuropsychological performance and adaptation. He has also specialized in the methodology of clinical assessment and the treatment and inferences to be gained from neuropsychological test data. The integrated use of information regarding memory as it related to other cognitive, perceptual, and motor skills as well as personality and psychopathology have been teaching foci for Dr. Adams in his work with psychology interns, fellows, and advanced practice students. Evidence-based plans of assessment and case-based study represent central features of his teaching. E-mail: kmadams@umich.edu
LINAS BIELIAUSKAS, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Michigan, where he is also coordinator of postdoctoral training in the Neuropsychology Program, and staff psychologist at the Ann Arbor V.A. Medical Center. He is board certified in both Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a fellow of the Divisions of Clinical Health Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology (40) of APA, and a fellow of the Michigan Psychological Association. He is past president (1992-1993) of the International Neuropsychological Society and past president (1997-1998) of Division (40) of APA, and the Executive Director for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology. His primary research interests include cognitive and affective changes due to normal and abnormal aging and in measured predictors of treatment response in patients with chronic pain. He has published widely on the relationship between depression and cognitive change in dementing conditions, the implications of neuropsychological test performance for prediction of disease effects and critical daily functioning in the elderly, and on relationships between psychological factors and physical illness and disease. E-mail: linas@umich.edu
GIANFRANCO DALLA BARBA, M.D., Ph.D. received his MD from the University of Padua (1985) and later specialized in neurology. He received a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the university of Verona (1994). Since 1990 he has been at the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris, where he is a senior research fellow, and at the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Creteil where he is a Consultant Neurologist. His main research interest is the neuropsychology of memory, consciousness and confabulation. E-mail: dallabar@broca.inserm.fr
PROMAD DASH, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the departments of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Neurosurgery at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School. He is also the Director of Research for The Vivian L. Smith Center for Neurologic Research at the same university. Dr. Dash received his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Carnegie-Mellon University and his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Eric R. Kandel at Columbia University. Following the completion of his postdoctoral training, Dr. Dash joined the University of Texas Medical School in 1991. His main research interests focus on exploring molecular and cellular mechanisms for memory storage, and developing mechanism-based therapy to lessen cognitive deficits following brain injury. He teaches cellular, molecular and developmental neurobiology to graduate students, and neuroanatomy and neuroscience to medical students. E-mail: p.dash@uth.tmc.edu
MARCEL KINSBOURNE, M.D. is Professor of Psychology at the New School University in New York, and Research Professor of Cognitive Science at Tufts University in Boston. He obtained the M.D. degree at Oxford University and took postgraduate training to qualify as a pediatric neurologist. He holds a D.M. (comparable to Ph.D.) at Oxford University, where he served on the Psychology Faculty before moving the United States in 1967. He has held Professorships in Neurology and Psychology at Duke University and the University of Toronto, and directed the Behavioral Neurology Research Division at the Shriver Center in Boston. Dr. Kinsbourne is Past President of the International Neuropsychology Society and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Dr. Kinsbourne’s research spans numerous areas in cognitive neuroscience, including normal and deviant laterality, memory and amnesia, unilateral neglect, and topics in normal and deviant cognitive development, including ADHD and dyslexia. E-mail: KinsbouM@newschool.edu
JOSE LEON-CARRION, Ph.D. is a professor of Neuropsychology and director of the Human Neuropsychology Laboratory at the University of Seville, Spain. At the Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation (C.RE.CER.) in Seville, an interdisciplinary center for rehabilitation, he is responsible for the design of the rehabilitation programs and director of the Department of Research, Development and Innovation. He was vice-president of the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) and is currently Secretary General on the Board of Directors of IBIA. He also was president of the Academy for the Advancement of Brain Injury Rehabilitation. He is a member of the Euroacademy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology and the European Brain Injury Society. He was president and chair of the Second World Congress on Brain Injury. He has lectured all over the world. Professor Leon-Carrion is a member of severaleditorial boards of journals in his field and he is recognized for his international books and articles related to assessment and rehabilitation of brain injury and textbooks on Neuropsychology. He is also the Executive Director of the Revista Espanola de la Neuropsicologia. He has published extensively, his most recent books being: "Neuropsychological Rehabilitation" (St. Lucie Press, Delray Beach, Florida), "Neuropsychology and the Hispanic Patient" (Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey), and "Behavioral Neurology in the Elderly" (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida). He has also developed the Computerized Seville Neuropsychological Test Battery for the assessment of frontal patients, the Luria's Memory Words-Revised and The Neurologically-related Changes of Personality Inventory (NECHAPI). E-mail: leoncarrion@us.es
HANS MARKOWITSCH, Ph.D. is Chair of Physiological Psychology at the University of Bielefeld and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld. He studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz, had professorships for biopsychology and physiological psychology at the Universities of Konstanz, Bochum, and Bielefeld. He co-operates with scientists from Universities and Max-Planck-Institutes in Germany and North and South America and South Africa. His research centers on the neural and psychic bases of memory and memory disorders as well as on interactions between memory and emotion. He works with non-brain damaged subjects and neruological and psychiatric patients, using neuropsychological and neruoradiological methods - including functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. He is author, co-author or editor of about a dozen books and has written more than 350 scientific articles and book chapters. Click here to view Dr. Markowitsch's home page. E-mail: hjmarkowitsch@uni-bielefeld.de.
MICHAEL PETRIDES, Ph.D. is Director of the Neuropsychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University and Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Psychology at McGill University. He holds a James McGill Research Chair and is a Montreal Neurological Institute Killam Scholar. Dr. Petrides obtained a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Montreal Neurological Institute and as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School. The major aspect of Dr. Petrides= research work has been concerned with understanding the functional organization of the primate prefrontal cortex and related cortical and subcortical structures. This work is pursued by means of studies of patients who had excisions from the frontal cortex for the treatment of epilepsy, as well as in studies with monkeys in which selective lesions are placed in particular parts of the frontal cortex. In addition, he has carried out functional neuroimaging studies with positron emission tomography (PET) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in which changes in cerebral blood flow as a result of cognitive processing are measured. An additional line of research is the investigation of the anatomical connections of the different cortical areas of the prefrontal cortex and an examination of the architecture of the human and macaque monkey cerebral cortex in a comparative context so that correspondences can be established. Some of the recent areas of research are: the role of the different prefrontal areas in working memory, in retrieval from short and long-term memory, in the learning and performance of conditional associations, and in the encoding of new information. E-mail: petrides@ego.psych.mcgill.ca
NAFTALI RAZ, Ph. D. is a Professor of Psychology and Gerontology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and also the Associate Director for Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Research for the Institute of Gerontology. He is interested in the relationship between the age-related changes in the brain and cognition aging. The brain ages in an uneven manner: some regions undergo significant changes in cell number, size, composition and connectivity as well in blood supply and neurochemical properties. Others seem to fare better, and show little age-related alterations. In the realm of cognitive performance the pattern of aging is also complex. Some areas of mental activity such as verbal knowledge and reasoning or expert performance of complicated tasks such as surgical procedures or performance on musical instrument remain relatively intact in healthy elderly. Other facets of cognitive activity such as acquisition of new skills show age-related declines. The goal of this research is to understand how age-related changes in specific brain regions can explain the pattern of differential age-related preservation and declines of cognitive skills. To answer these questions, Dr. Raz uses noninvasive imaging tool - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He examines participants of a broad age range (18-85 years of age or older) and follows them for at least five years. The relationships between the changes in regional brain volume obtained of paper-and-pencil and computer tasks are evaluated using statistical models. Dr. Raz is currently working on applying the imaging techniques to examination of age-related differences in brain activation associated with learning and skill acquisition in older adults. E-mail: nraz@wayne.edu
MARINA TZAKOSTA, received her M.A. in General Linguistics at the University of Crete, Greece and is currently a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Leiden/Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, The Netherlands. E-mail: M.Tzakosta@let.leidenuniv.nl
YSBRAND VAN DER WERF, Ph.D., is a researcher at the Neuropsychology/ Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Graduate School for Neurosciences in Amsterdam. His work is primarily concerned with understanding the interactions between subcortical and cortical structures in memory and other cognitive functions. He has pursued this line of research through neuropsychological investigations in patients with lesions in the thalamus, neuroanatomical tract tracing studies in experimental animals, and volumetric approaches based on structural MR images. His work has led to a parcellation of the thalamus based on the involvement of the different nuclei in memory processes. More recently, he has used transcranial magnetic stimulation in combination with electroencephalography, electromyography and positron emission tomography to study cortico-cortical and subcortico-cortical interactions in healthy subjects and patients with subcortical lesions. E-mail: ysbrand@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
ELIZABETH WARRINGTON, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist who has been based at the Institute of Neurology and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London since 1955. In 1970 she established an independent department of clinical neuropsychology to provide a clinical service for neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuropsychiatrists. At the same time she pursued an active research career investigating disorders of memory, language, and perception and literacy skills. In particular she has been a proponent of the single case methodology. Her research contribution has been recognized by her election to the Royal Society. Since her formal retirement in 1996 she has been a member of the Dementia Research Group of the Institute of Neurology, where she is engaged in full time research. Dr. Warrington is also the current President-Elect for the International Neuropsychological Society. E-mail: e.warrington@dementia.ion.ucl.ac.ukBARBARA WILSON, Ph.D., qualified as a clinical psychologist in 1977. Since 1979 she has worked in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, first at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre in Oxford, then at Charing Cross Hospital, London and at the University of Southampton Medical School. Since 1990, Dr. Wilson has been employed as a senior scientist by The Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. Dr. Wilson established The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely in 1996. This is a partnership between local National Health Service Trust and The Medical Research Council. She is the director of research at the University of Southampton. She has held several grants that look at new assessment and treatment procedures for people with non-progressive brain injury. Dr. Wilson has published 13 books and over 200 journal articles and chapters mostly on rehabilitation. She is editor-in-chief of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. She sits on several national commitees and has been on the governing board of The International Neuropsychological Society. In 1985 Dr. Wilson was awarded The May Davidson award for outstanding contributions to Clinical Psychology within 10 year of qualification. She was awarded an O.B.E. in the Queen's New Years Honours List in 1998 for services to medical rehabilitation. In 2000 she was awarded a distinguished scientist award from the British Psychological Society and in 2002 awarded Professional of the Year by The Encephalitis Support Group. E-mail: barbara.wilson@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
FRANK WOOD, Ph.D., is Professor of Neurology and Associate in Radiology, and Section Head of Neuropsychology, at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He holds the B.A. and M.A from Wake Forest University and Ph.D. from Duke University. Since his Ph.D. dissertation on the amnesic syndrome, he has found memory to be the fundamental neurobehavioral concept that organizes and directs his research. He has a long record of federal funding in cerebrovascular disease, psychopathology, dyslexia, ADHD, and adult literacy. His current work concentrates on the neurogenetics of reading disability, functional and structural brain imaging in the developmental disorders, and the multicultural and multilingual issues surrounding adult literacy.
E-mail: fwood@wfubmc.edu
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