CURRICULUM VITAE

(revised 9/20/99)

 

ELLIOTT D. ROSS, M.D.

Professor, Department of Neurology

University of Oklahoma Health Science Center

Oklahoma City, OK

Director, Center for Alzheimer's Disease and Neurodegenerative Disorders

VA Medical Center (11AZ)

921 N.E. 13th Street

Oklahoma City, OK 73104

(405) 270-0501 ext. 5797

(405) 290-1665 (FAX)

elliott-ross@ouhsc.edu (e-mail)

 

Born: March 1, l945; Queens, New York, USA

Marital Status: Married to Stephanie N. (7/70)

Education:

1962 - 1968 B.A. - Boston University Six Year Medical Program

1964 - 1968 M.D. - Boston University School of Medicine

Post Doctoral Education:

1968 - 1969 Intern in Medicine, University Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston,

MA.

1969 - 1970 Resident in Medicine, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO.

1972 - 1975 Resident in Neurology, Boston City Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Military Service (U.S. Navy):

1970 - 1971 General Medical Officer, in-charge of Respiratory Care, USS Sanctuary (Hospital Ship

AH-17), Da Nang, Viet Nam.

1971 - 1972 General Medical Officer, Acting Internist and Clinic Director, Naval Dispensary, Seattle,

WA.

1972 - 1982 Lieutenant-Commander, USNR (retired)

Academic Appointments:

1972 - 1975 Clinical Fellow in Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

1975 - 1981 Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at

Dallas (UTSMCD).

1979 - 1981 Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UTSMCD.

1981 - 1988 Associate Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry (with tenure), UTSMCD.

1982 - 1988 Adjunct Associate Professor of Communication Disorders, School of Human Development,

University of Texas at Dallas.

1985 - 1988 Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics, Department of Foreign Languages and

Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington.

1988 - 1996 Professor (with tenure) and Chairman of Neurology, Department of Neuroscience,

University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Fargo.

1988 - 1996 Director and Senior Research Scientist, Clinical Research Program, Neuropsychiatric

Research Institute, Fargo, ND.

1996 - present Professor (with tenure), Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma Health Science

Center, Oklahoma City, OK.

1996 - present Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of

Oklahoma Health Science Center, Oklahoma City, OK.

1998 - present Adjunct Professor, Department of Geriatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Science

Center, Oklahoma City, OK.

Certifications:

1969 Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners

1978 Certified in Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Board Examiner in Neurology, April 12-14, 1981; Houston, TX.

Board Examiner in Neurology, April 17-19, 1983; New Orleans, LA.

Awards and Honors:

1961 First Award, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National/International Science

Fair, Kansas City, MO.

1961 First Award, United States Navy, National/International Science Fair, Kansas City, MO.

1962 Westinghouse Science Honors Group.

1985 Gralnick Distinguished Academic Lecturer, Society for Biological Psychiatry, 40th Annual Convention

and Meeting, Dallas, TX.

1986 Plenary Lecturer, Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 9th Annual Meeting, Vancouver,

BC, Canada.

1986 Elected for membership, American Neurological Association.

1989 Elected as Secretary-Treasurer, Behavioral Neurology Society.

1990 Listed in Who's Who in America.

1991 Elected as President, Behavioral Neurology Society.

1993 Recognition Award for Outstanding Contributions to Knowledge about Stroke Care and

Rehabilitation, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital and Care Network, Chicago, IL.

1993 Outstanding Teacher Award; PGY1 and PGY2 Residents in Psychiatry, Department of

Neurosciences, University of North Dakota.

1993 Elected by Behavioral Neurology Society as Associate Editor, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology,

and Behavioral Neurology.

1994 Appreciation for Service Award, Behavioral Neurology Society.

1994 Listed in Men of Achievement, 16th Edition, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England

1994 Elected for membership, International Society for Research on Emotion.

1994 Listed in The Best Doctors in America, 2nd Edition, Woodward White.

1995 Selected as Director for the Annual Course on Behavioral Neurology, American Academy of

Neurology, 1996-2000 Meetings

1995 Sanford Meyerowitz Memorial Lecture, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY.

Society Memberships:

1968 - 1975 American Medical Association

1972 - 1978 American Academy of Neurology (junior member)

1976 - present American Association for the Advancement of Science

1976 - 1983 Society for Neuroscience

1976 - 1983 North Texas Chapter, Society for Neuroscience

President of Chapter (1978-1981).

1978 - present American Academy of Neurology (active member)

Member, S. Weir Mitchell Award Committee, (1980 - 1983).

Chairman, Session on Behavioral Neurology II, 1981 Scientific Program, Toronto,

Canada.

Secretary, Session on Behavioral Neurology II, 1983 Scientific Program, San Diego, CA

Secretary, Session on Aging and Dementia II, 1985 Scientific Program, Dallas, TX.

Abstract Reviewer for 1995 Behavioral Neurology Scientific Program, Seattle, WA.

Co-chairman, Session on Behavioral Neurology: Emotion and Mood, 1995 Scientific

Program, Seattle, WA.

Course Director: Behavioral Neurology - Emotional Cognition, 1996 Program, San

Francisco, CA.

Course Director: Behavioral Neurology - Motor Learning and Cognition, 1997 Program,

Boston, MA.

Course Director: Behavioral Neurology - Faces, 1998 Program, Minneapolis, MN.

Chair, Subcommittee for 1999 Norman S. Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology

1981 - present Behavioral Neurology Society

a) Secretary-Treasurer, 1989 - 1991

b) President, 1991 - 1993

1981 - 1986 Central Society for Neurologic Research.

1982 - present International Neuropsychological Society

1983 - 1993 The New York Academy of Sciences

1986 - present American Neurological Association

1988 - 1996 American Association of University Professors of Neurology

1994 - present International Society for Research on Emotion

Hospital Staff Appointments:

1975 - 1988 Parkland Memorial Hospital, Staff Neurologist, Dallas, TX.

1975 - 1988 VA Medical Center, Consultant in Neurology, Dallas, TX.

1982 - 1988 Dallas Rehabilitation Institute, Consultant in Neurology, Dallas, TX.

1985 - 1988 Terrell State Hospital, Consultant in Neurology, Terrell, TX.

1988 - 1996 VA Medical Center, Staff Neurologist, Fargo, ND.

1996 - present VA Medical Center, Staff Neurologist, Oklahoma City, OK.

1996 - present University Hospital, Staff Neurologist, Oklahoma City, OK.

1996 - present Presbyterian Hospital, Staff Neurologist, Oklahoma City, OK.

Administrative Positions:

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (UTSMCD):

1979 - 1984 Member, Curriculum Committee

Chairman, Subcommittee on Medical Ethics, 1979

1979 - 1982 Member, Bioethics Curriculum Committee

1982 - 1988 Member, Student Promotions Committee

Department of Neurology, UTSMCD:

1975 - 1988 Director, Behavioral Neurology Services at Parkland Memorial Hospital and the VA

Hospital, Dallas

1976 - 1982 Director, Senior Neurology Clerkship

1977 - 1981 Co-Director, Resident Training Program in Neurology

1982 - 1987 Director, Resident Training Program in Neurology.

Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX:

1975 - 1980 Member, Utilization Review Committee

1977 - 1979 Member, Emergency Room Subcommittee

1980 - 1984 Member, Ambulatory Care/Emergency Room Committee

1985 - 1988 Member, Emergency Services Committee

University of North Dakota School of Medicine (UNDSM), Fargo:

1992 - 1996 Member, Research and Space Allocation Committee

1993 - 1996 Member, Committee for Academic and Professional Qualifications (promotion and tenure)

1994 - 1996 Member, Research Committee

Department of Neuroscience, UNDSM, Fargo:

1988 - 1996 Chairman, Division of Neurology

1988 - 1996 Member, Appointment, Promotion, Tenure and Evaluation Committee

1988 - 1996 Member, Psychiatry Administrative Group

VA Medical Center, Fargo, ND:

1988 - 1991 Member, Research and Development Committee

1989 - 1990 Acting Chief, Neurology Service

1990 - 1996 Chief, Neurology Service

1990 - 1996 Member, Clinical Executive Board

1990 - 1996 Member, House Staff Review Committee

1992 - 1994 Member, Resource Management Committee

1992 - 1993 Chairman, Search Committee for Chief of Staff

1993 - 1995 Chairman, Utilization Management Committee

Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND

1988 - 1996 Director, Clinical Research Program; Senior Research Scientist

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK:

1996 - present Member, Medical Neurosciences Course Committee

Coordinator, Clinical Correlations Section

1997 - 1999 Member, Executive Committee, Oklahoma Center for Neurosciences

1999 - present Member, Advisory Committee, Oklahoma Center for Neurosciences VA Medical Center,

Oklahoma City, OK:

1996 - present Director, Center for Alzheimer and Neurodegenerative Disorders State of Oklahoma,

Oklahoma City, OK:

1996 - 1998 Member, Alzheimer's Research Advisory Council

 

Research Experience and Funding:

1975 - present Clinical evaluation of disorders of higher cortical functions in brain damaged and psychiatric

patients; elucidating the neurological basis of language, prosody, emotions, affect and

memory; acoustical analysis of speech in brain damaged and neuropsychiatric patients

using quantitative computer-assisted techniques (see PUBLICATIONS).

1977 - 1983 Co-Principal Investigator, Co-operative Study of Extracranial/Intracranial Anastomosis (at

UTHSCD); H.J.M. Barnett, MD (PI); NINCDS, Bethesda, MD.

1982 - 1983 Co-Investigator, Interdisciplinary Studies on Localization of Brain Functions; F. Bonte, MD

(PI); Biological Humanics Foundation, Dallas, TX.

1986 - 1991 Consultant, Treatment of Affective Deficits in Stroke Rehabilitation; W. A. Gordon, PhD

(PI), #NS22471, NINCDS, Bethesda, MD; $2,003,831.

1987 - 1988 Co-Principal Investigator, North American Cooperative Study of Carotid Endarterectomy

for Symptomatic Carotid Disease (at UTSMCD); H.J.M. Barnett, MD and S.J.

Peerless, MD (PIs), NINCDS, Bethesda, MD.

1989 - 1990 Principal Investigator, Organization and Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain;

Research Advisory Group, Veterans Administration, Washington, DC; $32,300.

1989 - 1992 Consultant, Emotional Processing in Brain-Damaged Patients; J.C. Borod, PhD (PI),

NIMH, Bethesda, MD; $604,215.

1991 - 1994 Principal Investigator, Organization and Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain;

Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; $108,000.

1994 - 1997 Principal Investigator, Emotional Expression and Communication in Schizophrenia; EJLB

Foundation, Montreal, Canada; Ross Buck, PhD (co-PI); $160,000.

1994 - 1997 Principal Investigator, Organization and Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain; Merit

Review (Neurology and Neurobiology), Department of Veteran Affairs, Washington,

DC; $172,190.

1994 - 1996 Principal Investigator, Interhemispheric Integration of Affective and Propositional

Language Functions; Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Fargo, ND; $26,625.

1998 - 2001 Principal Investigator, Processing of Emotional Stimuli by Alzheimer's Patients; OCAST

(Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology), Oklahoma City,

OK; $105,000.

1998 - 2001 Principal Investigator, Organization and Lateralization of Affective Prosody in Brain; Merit

Review (Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences), Department of Veteran Affairs,

Washington, DC; $297,700.

Journal Referee:

1979 - present Archives of Neurology

1981 - present Archives of General Psychiatry

1982 - present Annals of Neurology

1982 - present Neurology

1983 - present Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases

1986 - present Brain and Language

1987 - present Aphasiology

1987 - present Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology

-- Member, Editorial Board; 1987 - 1993

-- Associate Editor; July 1993 - present

1992 - present Neuropsychology

1994 - present New England Journal of Medicine

1994 - present Biological Psychiatry

1994 - present Journal of Psychiatric Research

1995 - present European Journal of Neurology

1995 - present Neuropsychologia

1996 - present Psychological Bulletin

 

Ad Hoc Grant Reviewer:

1983 - present National Institutes of Health

1999 - present VA Merit Review Board

1999 - present National Alzheimer's Association

 

INVITED LECTURES

(National and International Presentations)

1978

Baylor Medical College, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Houston, TX, June 20.

1980

University of Colorado Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Denver, CO, March 4.

Cornell Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Division of Cognitive Science, New York, NY, June 18.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium - The Neurobiology of Behavior, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, June 20 - Language and the Brain.

1981

University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Ann Arbor, MI, March 27.

Washington University, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Neural Sciences Program Symposium, St. Louis, MO, April 24 - The Aprosodias: Functional/Anatomical Organization of the Affective Components of Language in the Right Hemisphere.

American Academy of Neurology, 34th Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; Course on Behavioral Neurology, April 28 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Patients with Focal Brain Damage.

1982

International Linguistic Center; Linguistics Forum Series, Dallas, TX, and the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Texas at Arlington, February 3 and 10 - Language and the Brain: I-Left Hemisphere Contribution to Language; II- Right Hemisphere Contribution to Language.

American Academy of Neurology, 35th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC; Course on Behavioral Neurology, April 27 - Confusional States.

Society of Biological Psychiatry, 37th Annual Convention and Scientific Program, Symposium Session on Brain Laterality and Psychopathology, Toronto, Canada, May 13 - The Anatomy of Depression.

University of Michigan Medical School, Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Ann Arbor, MI, June 4.

Loyola University Medical Center, Neurology Grand Rounds, Maywood, IL, October 29.

1983

New York University Medical Center, Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, Grand Rounds, New York, NY, February 17.

American Academy of Neurology, 36th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA; Course on Behavioral Neurology, April 25 - Sensory Specific and Fractional Disorders of Recent Memory.

University of California a Los Angeles, Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, May 4.

Cornell Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, New York, NY, June 21.

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium - The Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology of Behavior, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, June 23 - Language Functions in the Human Brain and Their Location.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital, Behavioral Neurology Conference, Boston, MA, June 29.

Tufts-New England Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Boston, MA, June 30.

1984

American Academy of Neurology, 37th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA; Dinner Seminar on Depression, April 9 - Neurology of Depression; Annual Course on Behavioral Neurology, April 13 - Laterality of Memory Functions.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, May 11.

Biology of Music Making Conference 1984, Denver, CO, July 11 - Music and the Neurology of Language and Emotions.

 

1985

American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Symposium on Higher Cortical Function; Atlanta, GA, April 22 - Right Hemisphere's Role in Language, Emotions and Behavior: Implications for Neurosurgery.

American Academy of Neurology, 37th Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX; Breakfast Seminar, May 3 - Neurology of Depression.

Society of Biological Psychiatry; Academic Lecture, 40th Annual Convention and Scientific Program, Dallas, TX, May 17 - Neurology of Affect, Emotions and Experiential Phenomena: Implications for Understanding Psychiatric Diseases.

University of California at San Diego, Department of Neurosciences, Grand Rounds, San Diego, CA, October 25.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital; Symposium - The Neurology of Behavior, Boston, MA, December 9-13 - The Aprosodias; Anatomical Correlates of Selective Memory Disturbances; Neurology of Depression.

1986

New York Neuropsychology Group; 7th Annual Conference - Brain and Emotion: The Neuropsychology of Affect; New York, NY, March 15 - Neurology of Affective Behavior, Emotions and Experiential Phenomena.

Medical College of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, Richmond, VA, April 25.

American Academy of Neurology, 38th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA; Course - Frontal Lobes and Behavior, April 27 - The Neuropharmacology and Neurophysiology of Drive and Attention; Breakfast Seminar on The Borderland of Neurology and Psychiatry, May 3 - Neurology of Affect, Emotions, Experiential Phenomenon and Depression.

Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 9th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 23, Plenary Lecture - Neurology of Affect, Emotions and Depression.

Tohoku University, Department of Neurology, Institute of Brain Diseases; 3rd Sendai Forum on Clinical Neurology - Limbic System: Mind Emotion and Innate Behavior, Sendai, Japan, June 1 - Temporal-Limbic Disconnection Syndromes: Sensory Specific and Fractional Losses of Recent Memory and Emotional Reactivity Following Focal Brain Lesions.

Behavioural Neurosciences Symposium - Neurobehavioural Studies of Human Emotions: Clinical Perspectives; Departments of Psychology, Medicine - Division of Neurology, and Rehabilitation Medicine, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; October 16 - Neural Basis of Affective Behaviour in Humans; October 17 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in the Brain Damaged.

63rd American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine - Session on Post-Stroke Depression; Baltimore, MD, October 20 - The Neurology of Affect, Emotions, and Experiential Phenomena: Implications for Diagnosing Depression in Brain Damaged Patients.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Baltimore, MD, Guest Lecture, October 20.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Hospital; Symposium - The Neurology of Behavior, Boston, MA, December 8-12.

1987

International Conference of the Association for Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities; Session on Neurosciences of Social/Emotional Learning Disabilities, San Antonio, TX, February 27 - The Right Hemisphere's Role in Affect, Emotion and Socialization.

McGill University, Department of Psychiatry, Allan Memorial Institute, Montreal, Canada, March 5, Grand Rounds and Round Table Presentation.

McGill University, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Canada, March 8.

University of Montreal, Centre de Recherche du Centre hospitalier Cotes-des-Neiges, Montreal Canada, March 8.

Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Neurology, Taipei, Taiwan; June 23-26 - Introduction to The Mental Status Examination and Behavioral Neurology; Aprosodia in Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers with Right Hemispheric Damage;** Sensory-Specific and Fractional Disorders of Memory: Is there a Neurology for Subconscious Memory?; Neurology of Depression: Implications for Rehabilitation of Brain-Injured Patients; What is an Agnosia? (**co-sponsored by the Speech-Langauge-Hearing Association of Taiwan, ROC)

Neurological Society of Taiwan (ROC); Veterans General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25 - Aprosodia in Tone and Non-Tone Language Speakers: Right Hemisphere's Contribution to Language.

Chinese Academy of Social Science, Institute of Linguistics, Department of Phonetics, Beijing, China (PRC), June 30 - Brain Organization of Prosody and Tones in Speakers of Tone and Non-Tone Languages: Right Hemisphere's Role in Language.

Central Institute of Nationalities, Beijing, China (PRC), July 2 - Interaction of Tones and Affective Prosody in Tone Languages: Implications for a Universal Organization of Brain-Language Functions.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 9-11.

Harvard Medical School, Behavioral Neurology Rounds, Beth Israel Hospital, December 11.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 9.

1988

Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Durham, NC, March 9.

Duke University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds; Durham, NC, March 10.

Art Institute of Chicago, Symposium - Art and the Brain, organized by Department of Neurology, Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, IL, May 13-14.

University of Michigan Medical School, Special Combined Grand Rounds, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, June 15 - The Neurology of Conscious and Unconscious Memories.

Henry Ford Hospital, Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, June 16 and Department of Psychiatry, June 17.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 14-16.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 14.

1989

International Neuropsychology Society, 17th Annual Meeting, Workshop Presentation, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 8 - The Organization of Affect, Emotion and Experiential Phenomena in the Brain.

Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Department de psychologie, Neuropsychology Seminar, Montreal, Canada, March 15.

Conference on Rehabilitation, Organized by the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital, Montreal, Canada, March 16 - The Neurological Basis of Affect, Emotion and Experiential Phenomena; Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Brain Damaged Patients.

McGill University, Department of Neurology, Montreal Neurologic Institute, Special Epilepsy Rounds, March 16.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 13-15; Behavioral Neurology Rounds, Beth Israel Hospital, December 15.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 13.

1990

University of Manitoba School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Winnipeg, Canada; January 24, 1990.

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, November 16 - Hemispheric Specialization.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 12-14; Behavioral Neurology Rounds, Beth Israel Hospital, December 14.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 12.

1991

Humana Medical City, Grand Rounds, Department of Neurology, Dallas, TX; February 22.

University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, Austin, TX; Interdisciplinary Colloquim - Affect and Communication, April 19 - Behavioral Neurology of Affective Communication.

American Academy of Neurology Meeting, Boston, MA; Speaker, Seminar on Emotional Disorders Induced by Neurological Diseases, April 26.

National Student Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Spring Seminar, Minot, ND; May 10 - Right Hemisphere's Role in Language, Affect and Emotional Behaviors.

Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA; Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, November 7.

University of Connecticut, Departments of Communication Sciences, Visiting Professor; Storrs, CT, November 8-9.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 11-13.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 11.

1992

American Academy of Neurology, 44th Annual Meeting, Course - Problems with Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients San Diego, CA, May 8 - Depression and the Stroke Patient.

Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, University of Toronto, Geust Lecturer, Canada, May 28.

University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre, Neurology Update, Toronto, Canada; May 29 - Affective Disorders in Neurological Diseases.

Kansas City Southwest Clinical Society, 70th Annual Fall Clinical Conference, Kansas City, MO; November 25 - Post Infarction Depression and the Clinical Neural Anatomy of Emotion and Emotional Communication.

University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Kansas City, KS; Visiting Professor, November 6.

University of Alabama School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Birmingham, AL; Visiting Professor, November 11.

Foundation for Human Potential, Music and the Brain: A Symposium, Art Institute, Chicago IL, November, 16 - Hemispheric Specialization and Lateralization: Implications for Artistic Realization.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA, November 19.

University of Connecticut, Departments of Communication Sciences, Visiting Professor; Storrs, CT, November 20-21.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 10.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 10-11.

1993

Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, and National Stroke Association Symposium - At the Frontiers of Stroke Rehabilitation, Plenary speaker, Chicago, IL; February 25 - New Insights into Mood and Cognitive Disorders after Stroke.

Chicago Medical School, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, First Annual Chicago Neuropsychiatric Conference, Chicago, IL; June 25 - Neurology of Emotions and Affect; Neurology of Depression.

Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Visiting Professor; Atlanta, VA, October 22.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA October 23 - Right Hemisphere and Emotion.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, MA; Course - The Neurology of Behavior, December 8-9.

Boston City Hospital, Guest Lecturer, Neurological Unit, December 8.

1994

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology; Vernon Haggerton and N. L. Douglas Alzheimer's Disease Symposium, Lubbock, TX; March 12 - Underlying Behavioral Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: The Neurology of Memory and Cognition.

University of Groningen, Lustrum Congress - Emotional Motor System; Schiermonnikoog, The Netherlands; April 24-29 - Hemispheric Specialization for Emotional Aspects of Language and Gestures and the Cognitive Control of Emotional Displays in Humans.

American Academy of Neurology, 46th Annual Meeting, Course - Therapy in Neurology, Washington, DC; May 7 - Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression in Neurologic Patients.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA; October 28 - Neurology of Language and Emotion.

Northwestern University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Course - The Neurology of Behavior and Cognition, Chicago, IL; December 15-16 - The Aprosodias and Neurology of Affect.

1995

Humana Medical City, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Dallas, TX; March 3 - Neurology of Primary and Social Emotions.

Foundation for Human Potential, Sports, Dance, Movement and the Brain: A Symposium, Art Institute, Chicago IL; April 21-22 - Neurology of Motor Learning and Cognition.

University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, Department of Neurology, Oklahoma City, OK; August 24, 1995 - Behavioral Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease: The Neurology of Memory, Cognition and Emotion.

American Neuropsychiatric Association, 7th Annual Meeting (in conjunction with the Behavioral Neurology Society), Pittsburgh, PA; October 14 - Hemispheric Lateralization of Primary and Social Memories.

Boston City Hospital, Neurological Unit, Guest Lecturer, October 26.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA; October 27 - Right Hemisphere, Language and Emotion.

University of Rochester Medical Center, Sanford Meyerowitz Memorial Lecture, Rochester, NY; November 2 - The Neurology of Social Emotions, Deception and Free Will.

University of Rochester Medical Center, Department of Neurology, Grand Rounds, Rochester, NY; November 3.

Northwestern University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Course - The Neurology of Behavior and Cognition, Chicago, IL; December 14-15 - The Aprosodias and Neurology of Affect.

1996

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology, Update in Neurology, Oklahoma City, OK; March 8 - Advances in the Understanding of Dementia.

World Federation of Neurology, Meeting of the Research Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders, Squaw Valley, CA; March 20 - Emotion and Language.

American Academy of Neurology, 48th Annual Meeting, San Fancisco, CA; Course on Behavioral Neurology: Emotional Cognition; March 24 - Introduction: Behavioral Anatomy, Definitions and Aims and Differential Lateralization of Emotional Memories.

International Society for Research on Emotions, 96 Conference, Victoria College, Toronto, Canada; August 17 - Lateralization of Emotional Memories.

Society for Experimental Neuropathology, Annual Symposium, Satelite Meeting - American Neurological Association, Miami, FL; October 13 - Neuroanatomical Basis of Emotion.

Northwestern University School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Course - The Neurology of Behavior and Cognition, Chicago, IL; October 31-November 1 - The Aprosodias and Neurology of Affect.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA; November 4 - Right Hemisphere, Language and Emotion.

 

1997

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology, Update in Neurology, Oklahoma City, OK; March 8 - Non-Alzheimer dementia: Diagnosis and Treatment.

American Academy of Neurology, 49th Annual Meeting, Boston, MA; Course on Behavioral Neurology: Motor Learning and Cognition; April 13 - Introduction: Anatomy, Definitions and Aims.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA; November 6 - Dominant Functions of the Right Hemisphere.

1998

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology, Update in Neurology, Oklahoma City, OK; March 5 - Motor Learning and Cognition.

American Academy of Neurology, 51st Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; Course on Behavioral Neurology: Faces; April 27 - Hemispheric Control of Facial Expression and Decitful Behaviors.

The Research Society of Neurological Surgeons, Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK; June 18 - The Right Hemisphere: Should We Give It More Respect?

The Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians, Meeting, Wichita Falls, TX, July 23 - Dementia: A Clinical Approach.

Marine Biological Laboratory and American Association of Neurological Surgeons: RUNN Course - Review and Update in Neurobiology for Neurosurgeons, Woods Hole, MA; October 29 - Dominant Functions of the Right Hemisphere.

Harvard Medical School, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: Course - Neurology of Behavior, Boston, MA; November 3 - Cortical Representation of Emotions and Related Behaviors.

1999

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Neurology, Update in Neurology, Oklahoma City, OK; March 5 - Vascular Dementias.

American Academy of Neurology, 51st Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada; Course on Behavioral Neurology: Neuropstchiatry; April 24 - Neurology of Depression.

Societa Italiana di Neurologia & Societa dei Neurologi, Neurochirurgh e Neuroradilogi Ospedalieri: Riunione Regionale Siciliana 1999, Catania, Italy; June 12 - Neurology of Emotion and Cognition; Cortical Representation of Emotions and Related Behaviors.

Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Pediatric Neurology: Special Seminar at Villaggio Litta, Castelli Romani, Italy; June 14 - Affective Prosody and the Aprosodias.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journals

Ross ED, Jossman PG, Bell B, Sabin T, Geschwind N: Musical hallucinations in deafness. JAMA 231:620-622, 1975.

Ross ED, Velez-Borras J, Rosman NP: The significance of the Babinski sign in the newborn - A reappraisal. Pediatrics 57:13-15, 1976.

Ross ED, Mesulam M-M: Dominant language functions of the right hemisphere?: Prosody and emotional gesturing. Archives of Neurology 36:144-148, 1979.

Ross ED, Kirkpatrick JB, Lastomisa ACB: Position and vibration sensations: Functions of the dorsal spinocerebellar tracts? Annals of Neurology 5:171-176, 1979.

Ross ED: Location of the pyramidal tract in the internal capsule by whole brain dissection. Neurology 30:59-64, 1980.

Ross ED: Left medial parietal lobe participation in receptive language functions: Mixed transcortical aphasia following Left anterior cerebral artery infarction. Neurology 30:144-151, 1980.

Ross ED: Sensory specific and fractional disorders of recent memory in man: I. Isolated loss of visual recent memory. Archives of Neurology 37:193-200, 1980.

Ross ED: Sensory specific and fractional disorders of recent memory in man: II. Unilateral loss of tactile recent memory. Archives of Neurology 37:267-272, 1980.

Ross ED: The aprosodias: Functional-anatomical organization of the affective components of language in the right hemisphere. Archives of Neurology 38:561-569, 1981.

Ross ED, Stewart RM: Akinetic mutism from hypothalamic damage: Successful treatment with dopamine agonists. Neurology 31:1435-1439, 1981.

Ross ED, Harney J, deLacoste-Utamsing C, Purdy P: How the brain integrates affective and propositional language into a unified behavioral function: Hypothesis based on clinicoanatomical evidence. Archives of Neurology 38:745-748, 1981.

Ross ED, Rush AJ: Diagnostic issues and neuroanatomical correlates of depression in brain damaged patients: Implications for a neurology of depression. Archives of General Psychiatry 38:1344-1354, 1981.

Homan RW, Criswell E, Wada JA, Ross ED: Hemispheric contributions to manual communication. Neurology, 32:1020-1022, 1982.

Ross ED, Muhlbauer, M.: Speed of movement, gravity and the neural coordination of muscular actions. Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology 23:385-392, 1983.

 

Saxton CR, Galiunas P, Helderman JH, Farkas RA, McCoy R, Diehl J, Sagalowsky A, Murphy FK, Ross ED, Silva FR and Walker DL: Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in a renal transplant recipient: Increased sensitivity of CT scanning by double dose contrast with delayed films. American Journal of Medicine 77:333-337, 1984.

Schaefer S, Freeman F, Finitzo T, Close L, Cannito M, Ross ED, Reisch J, Marvilla K: Magnetic resonance imaging findings and correlations in spasmodic dysphonia patients. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology 94:595-601, 1985.

de Lacoste-Utamsing C, Kirkpatrick JB, Ross ED: Topography of the human corpus callosum. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology 44:578-591, 1985.

Bonte FJ, Ross ED, Chehabi HH, Devous MD: Single-photon emission computerized tomographic study of regional cerebral blood flow in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography 10:579-583, 1986.

Ross ED, Edmondson J, Seibert GB: The effect of affect on various acoustic measures of prosody in tone and non-tone languages: A comparison based on computer analysis of voice. Journal of Phonetics 14:283-302, 1986.

Gorelick PB, Ross ED: The aprosodias: Further functional-anatomic evidence of the organization of affective language in the right hemisphere. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 50:553-560, 1987.

Ross ED, Stewart R: Pathological display of affect in patients with depression and right focal brain damage: An alternative mechanism. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 175:165-172, 1987.

Wolfe GI, Ross ED: Sensory aprosodia with left hemiparesis from subcortical infarction: Right hemisphere analog of sensory-type aphasia with right hemiparesis? Archives of Neurology 44:668-671, 1987.

Edmondson JA, Chan JL, Seibert GB, Ross ED: The effect of right-brain damage on acoustical measures of affective prososdy in Taiwanese patients. Journal of Phonetics 15:219-233, 1987.

Finitzo T, Pool KD, Freeman FJ, Cannito MP, Schaefer SD, Ross ED, Devous MD: Spasmodic dysphonia subsequent to head trauma. Archives of Otolaryngology 113:1107-1110, 1987.

Chan J-L, Ross ED: Left-hand mirror writing following right anterior cerebral artery infarction: Evidence for non-mirror transformation of motor programs by right supplementary motor area. Neurology 38:59-63, 1988.

Ross ED, Edmondson JA, Seibert GB, Homan RW: Acoustical analysis of affective prosody during right-sided Wada test: A within subjects verification of the right hemisphere's role in language. Brain and Language 33:128-145, 1988.

Ross ED: Prosodic lateralization: Fact versus fancy or is it all just semantics. Archives of Neurology 45:338-339, 1988.

Ross ED, Anderson B, Morgan-Fisher A: Crossed aprosodia in strongly dextral patients. Archives of Neurology 46:206-209, 1989.

Bell WL, Davis DL, Morgan-Fisher A, Ross ED: Acquired aprosodias in children. Journal of Child Neurology 5:19-26, 1990.

Gordon WA, Hibbard MR, Egelko S, Riley E, Simon D, Diller L, Ross ED, Lieberman A: Issues in the diagnosis of post-stroke depression. Rehabilitation Psychology 36:71-86, 1991.

Ross ED, Edmondson JA, Seibert GB, Chan J-L: Affective exploitation of tone in Taiwanese: An acoustical study of "tone latitude". Journal of Phonetics 20:441-456, 1992.

Ross ED: Acute agitation and other behaviors associated with Wernicke aphasia and their possible neurological bases. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology 6:9-18, 1993.

 

Ross ED: Intellectual origins and theoretical framework of behavioral neurology: A response to Dr. Trimble. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology 6:65-67, 1993.

Harney J, Fulton C, Ross ED, Rush AJ: Dexamethasone suppression test and onset of poststroke depression in patients with ischemic infarction. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 54:343-348, 1993.

Ross ED, Homan RW, Buck R: Differential hemispheric lateralization of primary and social emotions: Implications for developing a comprehensive neurology for emotions, repression and the subconscious. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropschology, and Behavioral Neurology 7:1-19, 1994.

Ross ED: Hemispheric specialization for emotions, affective aspects of language and communication and the cognitive control of display behaviors in humans. Progress in Brain Research 107:583-594, 1996.

Ross ED, Stark RD, Yenkosky JP: Lateralization of affective prosody in brain and the callosal integration of hemispheric language functions. Brain and Language 56:27-54, 1997.

Chan J-L, Ross ED: Alien hand syndrome: Influence of neglect on the clinical presentation of frontal and callosal variants. Cortex 33:287-299, 1997.

Beatty WW, English S, Ross ED: Retrograde amnesia for medical and other knowledge in a physician with Alzheimer's disease. Neurocase 3:297-305, 1997.

Beatty WW, Rogers CL, Rogers RL, English S, Testa JA, Orbelo DM. Wilson DA, Ross ED: Piano playing in Alzheimer's disease: Longitudinal study of a single case. Neurocase (in press).

Invited Reviews

Ross ED: Disorders of recent memory in humans. Trends in NeuroScience 5:170-173, 1982.

Ross ED: The divided self. The Sciences 22:8-12, 1982.

Ross ED: Language and the right hemisphere. Weekly Update: Neurology Neurosurgery 3(#30), 1982.

Ross ED: Partial and distributed disorders of recent memory in humans. Seminars in Neurology 4:245-248, 1984.

Ross ED: Right hemisphere's role in language, affective behaviors and emotions: The aprosodias. Trends in NeuroScience 7:342-346, 1984.

Ross ED: Nonverbal aspects of language. Neurologic Clinics 11:9-23, 1993.

Book Chapters

Ross ED: Treatment of occlusive cerebrovascular disease. In Rosenberg RN (ed), Current Treatment of Neurological Disorders. Spectrum Publications: Holliswood, 1979, Chapter 2.

Ross ED: Disorders of higher cortical functions. In Dietschy J (ed), The Science and Practice of Clinical Medicine, Volume 5 : Neurology. Grune and Stratton, New York, 1980.

Ross ED: Right-hemisphere lesions in disorders of affective language. In Kertesz A (ed), Localization in Neuropsychology. Academic Press: New York, 1983, chapter 21.

Bonte FJ, Stokely EM, Devous MD, Ross ED: Tomographic study of regional blood flow in vascular disease and stroke. In Magistretti P (ed), Functional Radionuclides Imaging of the Brain. Raven Press: New York, 1983 pp 125-130.

Ross ED, Geschwind NG: Disorders of higher brain functions. In Rosenberg RN (ed), The Clinical Neurosciences. Churchill Livingstone: New York, 1983, Volume 2, Chapter 19.

Ross ED: Disturbance of emotional language with right hemisphere lesions. In Ardila A, Ostrosky-Solis F (eds), The Right Hemisphere: Neurology and Neuropsychology. Gordon and Breach: New York, 1984.

Ross ED: The modulation of affect and non-verbal communication by the right hemisphere. In Mesulam MM (ed), Principles of Behavioral Neurology. FA Davis: Philadelphia, 1985, Chapt. 6.

Ross ED: Language-related functions of the right cerebral hemisphere. In Rose FC, Whurr R, Wyke MA (eds), Aphasia. Whurr Publishers: London, 1988, Chapter 7, pp 188-209.

Ross ED: Right hemisphere's role in language, affective behaviors and emotions: Implications for diagnosing depression in brain damaged patients. In Gordon WG (ed), Advances in Stroke Rehabilitation. Andover Medical Publications: Andover, 1993, Chapter 3, pp 34-60.

Ross ED: Advisor. In Schacter SC, Devinsky O (eds), Behavioral Neurology and the Legacy of Norman Geschwind. Raven Press: New York, 1997.

Ross ED: Right hemisphere syndromes and the neurology of emotions. In Schacter SC, Devinsky O (eds), Behavioral Neurology and the Legacy of Norman Geschwind. Raven Press: New York, 1997.

Ross ED: The aprosodias. In Feinberg TE, Farah MJ (eds), Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychology. McGraw-Hill: New York, 1997, Chapter 56, pp 699-710.

Ross ED: Cortical representation of the emotions. In Trimble MR, Cummings JL (eds), Contemporary Behavioral Neurology. Butterworth-Heineman: Boston, 1997.

Ross ED: Affective prosody and the aprosodias. In Mesulam MM (ed), Principles of Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology. Oxford University Press: New York, Chapter 6 (in press).

Letters

Ross ED: Musical hallucinations in deafness revisited. JAMA 240:1716, 1978.

Ross ED: The anatomical basis of visual agnosia. Neurology 30:109-110, 1980.

Ross ED: Left medial parietal lobe and receptive language functions. Neurology 30:1137-1138, 1980.

Ross ED: Localization of the pyramidal tract in the internal capsule. Neurology 31:366-367, 1981.

Ross ED: Processing of nonverbal sounds and affective prosody by the right posterior temporal lobe. Neurology 35:442, 1985.

Ross ED, Gordon WA, Hibbard MR, Egelko S: Dexamethasone suppression test, post-stroke depression and validity of DSM-III based diagnostic criteria. American Journal of Psychiatry 143:1200-1201, 1986.

Abstracts

Ross ED: The aprosodias: The functional-anatomic organization of the prosodic elements of language in the right hemisphere. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 30:391, 1981.

Ross ED, Stewart M: Akinetic mutism secondary to hypothalamic damage: Successful treatment with dopamine agonists. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 31(part 2):61, 1981.

Ross ED, Holzapfel D, Freeman F: Assessment of affective behavior in brain damaged patients using quantitative acoustical-phonetic and gestural measurements. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 33(Suppl 2):219-220, 1983.

Ross ED, Edmondson JA, Seibert GB, Homan RW: Transient loss of affective prosody following right-sided Wada test. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 36(Suppl 1):319, 1986.

Ross ED, Homan RW: Evidence for differential hemispheric storage of affective and factual memories for an emotionally laden life event in patients undergoing right-sided Wada test. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 36(Suppl 1):168, 1986.

Ross ED, Morgan-Fisher A, Paulman RG, Judd CR, Raese JD: Affective-prosodic deficits in schizophrenia. Presented at Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Poster Session; Biological Psychiatry 25(Suppl):105a-106a, 1989.

Ross ED: Lateralization of affective prosody in brain. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 42(suppl 3):411, 1992.

Hibbard MR, Stein PN, Ross ED, Gordon WA: The neuronantomical basis for post-troke depression: Paradoxical findings. Presented at meeting of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, San Francisco, CA; November 14, 1992.

Ross ED, Burgard M, Hansel S, Swenson RA: Leukoaraiosis is not associated with loss of interhemispheric functions or dementia. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 48(suppl 2):A168, 1997.

Ross ED, Orbelo DM, Burgard M, Hansel S: Functional-anatomic correlates of aprosodic deficits in patients with right brain damage. Presented at meeting of American Academy of Neurology, Scientific Program; Neurology 50(suppl 4):A363, 1998.

Testa J, Hanisch C, Ross E, Beatty W: Alzheimer disease and visual emotional processing. Presented at meeting of International Neurpsychological Society. JINS 5:106, 1999.

Testa J, Orbelo D, Hanisch C, Beatty W, Ross E: Alzheimer diseae and impairments in affective prosody: Relation to emotional behaviors. Presented at meeting of International Neurpsychological Society. JINS 5:124, 1999.

Orbelo D, Testa J, Hansel S, Burgard M, Cartwright J, Buck R, Ross E: Profile of affective - prosodic deficits in schizophrenia. Presented at meeting of International Neurpsychological Society. JINS 5:124, 1999.



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