Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center 330 Brookline Ave; KS-227
Boston, MA 02215
Advanced Degree And Training Info:
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Areas of Interest:
Imaging, Radiopharmacy
Neuroscience, Neurobiology, CNS
Major Research Theme:
My lab focuses on cognitive aspects of neurodegenerative disorders. Our research focuses on two seperate areas, executive function and motor skill learning. We study the neural basis for these types of learning in healthy controls and in patients with Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Press DZ. Parkinson’s Disease Dementia – a First Step? Editorial, New England Journal of
Medicine,351:2547-2549, 2004.
Press DZ, Casement MD, Pascual-Leone A, Robertson EM. The Time Course of Off-line Motor
Sequence Learning. Cognitive Brain Research 25:375-378, 200
Overduin SA, Richardson AG, Lane CE, Bizzi E, Press DZ. Intermittent practice facilitates stable motor
memories. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(46):11888-11892, 2006
Richardson AG, Overduin SA, Valero-Cabre A, Padoa-Schioppa C, Pascual-Leone A, Bizzi E, Press DZ.
Disruption of primary motor cortex prior to learning impairs memory of movement dynamics. in press,
J Neuroscience
External Recognition:
Presenting at PriMed course for primary care. Have presented yearly at CME course on Behavioral neurology. Teaching HMS course on the human nervous system.
Major Collaborative Activities:
Collaborating with David Alsop, PhD in radiology dept of bidmc.
Collaborating with Emilio Bizzi's lab at MIT to study procedural consolidation with TMS.
Collaborating with Bob Stickgold to look at role of sleep in procedural consolidation.
