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I feel like on the few interviews I've been on, I've been told that the person I am applying to work with or another professor is a leader in neuropsych. I don't know how much of that is the program trying to sell itself and how much is truth. How would I go about finding out the important people in this subspecialty area? Or does anyone want to start throwing out names they recognize?
 
TiptoeConqueror said:
I feel like on the few interviews I've been on, I've been told that the person I am applying to work with or another professor is a leader in neuropsych. I don't know how much of that is the program trying to sell itself and how much is truth. How would I go about finding out the important people in this subspecialty area? Or does anyone want to start throwing out names they recognize?
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Muriel Lezak 😀
 
It's tough to really answer but I can think of a few prominent names. Jerry Goldstein, Russ Adams, Cecil Reynolds, Dean Delis, Muriel Lezak, Russell Bauer, Bob Bilder, Jacobus Donders...all extremely established. Sweet, Prigatano, Duff, Pliskin, Tranel, Hilsabeck, Perry...also all well known. But there's so many more I'm neglecting.
 
Are you asking about pediatric or adult neuropsych?
 
Some of the most well known aren't currently in academia, but they still publish enough (or have in the past) to be known for their subject/niche specific. NeutroTrope hit quite a few that I would mention if no niche was specified.

At first I thought this thread was going to be about something completely different (SVT related).
 
Puente for his CPT work. Myron Goldberg at UoW. Jim Scott and Mike Schoenberg. Daniel Allen and Drane (NAN presidents). DeLuca. Daryl Fujii and Tony Wong (RIP the latter). Kathleen Haaland. Bowers at Uof Florida (don't mistake her for Bauer!) Good ol' Chuck Golden. Jim Gold and Michael Green, two of the best schizophrenia researchers out there representing both the coasts. McCaffrey of course.. Mac Horton, Deborah Wolfson, Jim Hom, and the rest of the Reitan crowd. Rao at the Cleveland Clinic.

You might love, hate, or have never heard of some of these folks, but you can't claim they aren't some of the Neuro "VIPS." 😀
 
Also let's not forget some of the late greats like Edith Kaplan, Paul Satz, Nelson Butters, and Byron Rourke...if anyone else can think of others, please post!
 
Jon Snow said:
That's interesting. I know most of the folks on that list. I wouldn't have included the non-academics, but you're right, at least, within the field, they are well known.
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You are just a rockstar JS. 😀

I would have loved to work with Edith Kaplan, Muriel Lezak, Aleksandr Luria (if I was fluent in Russian), etc. Their work is obviously very well known, but it helped me realize how much I enjoy the minutiae of the field. I still flip through "The Working Brain" every once in awhile. I check Lezak's "Neuropsychological Assessment" at least a couple of times per week since it really is a great source for so many topics.
 
What level of traiining are you at? Applying to grad programs? If so make sure said big name is still invested in training/mentoring students. Also make sure they still maintain an active research program.
 
NeuroTrope said:
It's tough to really answer but I can think of a few prominent names. Jerry Goldstein, Russ Adams, Cecil Reynolds, Dean Delis, Muriel Lezak, Russell Bauer, Bob Bilder, Jacobus Donders...all extremely established. Sweet, Prigatano, Duff, Pliskin, Tranel, Hilsabeck, Perry...also all well known. But there's so many more I'm neglecting.
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Very good list. I know a handful of these people.

I have to admit though, aside from these more prominent names (and the late greats you also posted), I haven't heard of some people mentioned in this thread. It's probably in part because I am early-career and had a different research focus in graduate school, but I also think neuropsychologists tend to become more well-known clinically (I only said tend!).

I'd actually really like to see a supervision tree for the field - I tried looking but there doesn't appear to be anything publicly available.
 
Pragma said:
Very good list. I know a handful of these people.

I have to admit though, aside from these more prominent names (and the late greats you also posted), I haven't heard of some people mentioned in this thread. It's probably in part because I am early-career and had a different research focus in graduate school, but I also think neuropsychologists tend to become more well-known clinically (I only said tend!).

I'd actually really like to see a supervision tree for the field - I tried looking but there doesn't appear to be anything publicly available.
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Our field's not large but I'm sure there's some others I've missed...who hopefully are too busy changing the world to be looking through this message board. :laugh: Looking again, I think I've overrepresented one neuro group in particular, which can clue you in to where I'd be on the supervision tree. 🙄
 
Brad Axelrod is one of the more personable, big-name, neuropsych guys I've met. At least in the VA world.
 
IT514 said:
Brad Axelrod is one of the more personable, big-name, neuropsych guys I've met. At least in the VA world.
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Off topic, but I have found Marty Rohling (DCT at Southern Alabama) to be a hoot, and everything he post on that list-serve, I tend to agree with. Him and David Hartman (a forenic PP in Chicago).
 
Ken Heilman
David Loring
Bruce Crosson
Julia Hannay
Bob Heaton
 
Jon Snow said:
It's interesting that you bring up Luria, a neurologist.
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Indeed. I think his neuroanatomy/neurophysiology work really brought a lot to the foundation of the field. I feel like the neuroanatomy tends to be the weakest link on the chain for most clinician, though that is partly my own bias working in rehabilitation because it really can help better understand a case and provide more applicable functional recommendations.

NeuroTrope said:
I think I've overrepresented one neuro group in particular, which can clue you in to where I'd be on the supervision tree. 🙄
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It is a good tree to be on, so I think you are fine. :laugh:
 
NeuroTrope said:
Well, something tells me you're probably a distant cousin or something. 😀
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A couple of trees & a gnarly shrub....since fellowship training and afterwards is mostly a re-shuffling of people you either trained with/by or trained your mentors. This is why conferences tend to be part work and part tree/shrub reunion! :laugh:
 
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