Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., the Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professor, is a behavioral neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in experimental and neuropsychology. He is a founding member of the Mind/Brain Institute and directs the Division of Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology and The Memory Clinic, which he also founded.

Former president of the Behavioral Neurology Society and Division of the American Academy of Neurology, Dr. Gordon has authored more than 100 papers and book chapters. His book, Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Everyday Life, was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club. His interests are in memory and language, particularly early detection and treatment of memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, communication and language deficits in autism, direct brain mapping of language and memory functions, aphasia, and head injury.

EDUCATION & TRAINING
• 1971 B.A., Pennsylvania State University, Five Year Cooperative Program in Medicine
• 1973 M.D., Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine (Amplissimis Honoribus)
• 1973-74 Medical Intern, New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center
• 1974-77 Neurology Resident, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
• 1976-77 Administrative Chief Resident in Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
• 1978-81 Doctoral Study, Department of Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University
• 1980 M.A., The Johns Hopkins University (Psychology)
• 1981 Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University (Psychology)

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

• Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professor
• Professor of Neurology with Joint Appointment in Cognitive Science
• Founder and Director, Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology
  and The Memory Clinic

HONORS & AWARDS

• 1970-73 Lange Award (twice), Roche Award, Phillips Prize, Hare Honor Society
• 1972 Alpha Omega Alpha (Junior year)
• 1982-87 NINCDS Teacher-Investigator Award
• 1993- Elected to Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives

CERTIFICATIONS

• 1979 Diplomate, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
• Principal Investigator:
  Generalization of Semantic Learning in Amnesia,NIH
  Assessment of Attention and Learning in Individuals with Autism, Cure Autism Now
• Investigator:
  MDMA Neurotoxicity in Humans: Occurrence & Consequences, NIH
  Evaluation of Auditory Processing in Low-Functioning Children with Autism, National Alliance for Autism Research
  Age, Lead Exposure, and Neurobehavioral Decline, NIH

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Gordon B and Berger L. Intelligent Memory. New York: Viking Press; Fall, 2003.
• Gordon B. Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Everyday Life. New York: Mastermedia Ltd/Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives; 1995.
• Gordon B: Models of naming. In Anomia: Neuroanatomical and Cognitive Correlates, Foundations of Neuropsychology. Goodglass H, Wingfield A (eds). San Diego, Academic Press, 1997, pp 31-64.
• Hart J, Jr., Crone NE, Lesser RP, Sieracki J, Miglioretti DL, Hall C, Sherman D, Gordon B: Temporal dynamics of verbal object comprehension. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998; 95(11):6498-503.
• Gordon B: Commentary: a neural systems perspective for improving behavioral treatments for autism. J Autism Dev Disord 2000; 30(5):503-8.
• Boatman D, Alidoost M, Bergey G, Gordon B, Crone N, Hart J, Lenz F: Right hemisphere language dominance in a right-handed patient with late-onset seizures. Epilepsy Behav 2000; 1:281-6.
• Hillis AE, Wang P, Beauchamp N, Barker P, Gordon B, Wityk R: Magnetic resonance perfusion imaging: a new method for localizing regions of brain dysfunction associated with specific lexical impairments? Aphasiology 2000; 14:471-83.
• Boatman D, Gordon B, Hart J, Selnes O, Miglioretti D, Lenz F: Transcortical sensory aphasia: revisited and revised. Brain 2000; 123(Pt 8):1634-1642.
• Crone NE, Boatman D, Gordon B, Hao L: Induced electrocorticographic gamma activity during auditory perception. Brazier Award-winning article, 2001. Clin Neurophysiol 2001; 112(4):565-82.
• Gordon B: Autism and autistic spectrum disorders. In Diseases of the Nervous System. Clinical Neuroscience and Therapeutic Principles, 3rd edition, Vol 1. Asbury AK, McKhann GM, McDonald WI, Goadsby PJ, McArthur JC (eds). Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp 406-21.
• Gordon B: Neurolinguistics. In The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, 2nd edition. Arbib MA (ed), Bradford Books/The MIT Press, 2002.
• Boser K, Higgins S, Fetherston A, Preissler MA, Gordon B: Semantic fields in low-functioning autism. Autism Dev Dis 2002, in press.

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