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Nancy Isenberg, M.D., M.P.H.
Area of Specialty: Behavioral Neurology
Professional Appointments: Director of Behavioral Neurology
at the New Jersey Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center
Academic Appointments: Associate Professor of Neuroscience,
Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South
Orange
Graduate Education: Intern in Medicine at the University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1992-1993; Neurology Resident at Columbia
University, Neurological Institute, New York City, 1993-1996; DeWitt-Wallace
Reader's Digest Research Fellow at Cornell University Medical College,
New York City, 1996-1998.
Medical School: Columbia University College of Physicians and
Surgeons, New York City.
Research Interest: Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Neurology
Professional Memberships: American Academy of Neurology; American
Neuropsychiatric Association; Behavioral Neurology Society; Association
of Research in Nervous and Mental Disorders; International Society
for Human Brain Mapping; Academy of Medicine of New Jersey.
Licensure and Certification: Diplomat in Neurology, American
Board of Psychiatry and Neurology , May 1997.
E-mail: : nisenberg@solarishs.org;
nisenber@princeton.edu
Address:
New Jersey Neuroscience Institute
JFK Medical Center
65 James St. PO Box 3059
Edison, NJ 08818
Phone: (732) 321-7000 X62869
Fax: (732) 632-1584
Weblinks:
http://www.njneuro.org/bios/isenbrg.htm
http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/people.html
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/autism
Education:
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NY
M.D., M.P.H., May 1992
University of California, Berkeley
B.A., Biophysics, May 1986
University de Sciences D'Aix a Marseilles, France
Physics, Organic chemistry, August 1984-May 1985
Professional History:
Attending in Neurology, October 2000-present
Muhlenberg Medical Center
Visiting Research Collaborator 1999-present
Princeton University
Department of Psychology
Attending in Neurology, October 1998-present
New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center
Assistant Professor in Neurology, October 1998-present
Director, Behavioral Neurology
Department of Neuroscience
Seton Hall University
DeWitt-Wallace Reader's Digest Research Fellow, July 1996-July 1998
Cornell University Medical College
Instructor of Neurology, Cornell University Medical College July 1996-July 1998
Clinical Affiliate in Neuropsychiatry, New York Hospital July 1996-July 1998
Attending Neurologist, Cornell Neuropsychiatry Program July 1996-July
1998
New York Hospital
Columbia University, Neurological Institute July 1993-June 1996
Resident in Neurology
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque June 1992- June1993
Intern in Medicine
Honors and Awards:
Reader's Digest Fellowship Award in Neuropsychiatry July 1996-June
1998
Annenberg Center, Education Award for Teaching in Neurology November
1995
American Academy of Neurology, Resident Teaching Award March 1995
Mellon Fellowship at National Academy of Engineering May- September
1986
Professional Memberships:
Academy of Medicine of New Jersey
American Academy of Neurology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Neuropsychiatric Association
Association of Research in Nervous and Mental Disorders
Behavioral Neurology Society
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Society for Neuroscience
Invited Lectures (selected):
Social Function and fMRI: an study of Implicit Interpersonal Threat,
Rosario Zapulla Research Day, New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, Edison,
NJ, June 4th, 2003.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, St. Francis Medical Center, Trenton, NJ January 9th 2003.
Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Behavioral Symptoms of the Patient with TBI, 14th annual Conference on Rebuilding Shattered Lives, JFK Medical Center, June 20th, 2002.
Emotional Stroop and fMRI, Imaging Meeting, Princeton University, NJ, February 12, 2002.
Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia. CME Grand Rounds, JFK Medical Center, NJ. January 11,2001.
Social Cognition and Autism. Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT. July 12, 2000.
Emotional Stroop and Neuroimaging. Neuroimaging Meeting, Department of Psychology, Princeton Unversity, Princeton, NJ. February 15, 2000.
Psychosis and Niemann-Pick Disease. CME Grand Rounds, Overlook Hospital, NJ. March 17, 2000.
Linguistic Threat and the Human Amygdala. CME Grand Rounds, JFK Medical Center, NJ. February 9, 2000.
Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia. CME Grand Rounds, Somerset Medical Center, NJ. January 11, 2000.
Clinical Findings in Dominant and Non-dominant Strokes. CME Grand Rounds, Somerset Medical Center, November 4, 1999.
Implicit Processing of Semanto-linguistic Threat in the Human Amygdala: an H215O PET study of the modified stroop task. Special colloquium in Neuro-imaging, Rutgers University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, April 22, 1999.
Neurologic Manifestations of HIV, with special attention to HIV dementia.
SUNY, Downstate, April 21, 1997.
Research Support:
NINDS Mentored-Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award:
Functional MR Imaging of Social Cognition in Autism, April 03-March
08.
Cure Autism Now Foundation Grant, Functional and Diffusion Tensor MR Imaging in Autism, July 01-June 03.
Autism Society of America Foundation Grant, Functional MR Imaging in Autism, April 01- April 02.
"Nefiracetam and post-stroke depression" Phase II, Daiichi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd 20% effort, Principal Investigator. June 2000-present.
De-Witt Wallace Readers Digest Fellowship, July 1996-July 1998.
Representative Publications:
Isenberg N, Silbersweig D, Engelien A, Emmerich S, Malavade K, Beattie B, Leon AC, Stern E. (1999) Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 96, 10,456-10,459.
Blumberg HP, Stern E, Ricketts S, Martinez D, de Asis J, White T, Epstein J, Isenberg N, McBride PA, Kemperman I, Emmerich S, Dhawan V, Eidelberg D, Kocsis JH, Silbersweig DA. (1999) Rostral and orbital prefrontal cortex dysfunction in the manic state of bipolar disorder. Am. J. of Psychiatry. 156, 12, 1986-8.
Engelien A, Stern E, Isenberg N, Engelien W, Frith C, Silbersweig D. The Parahippocampal Region and Auditory-Mnemonic Processing. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 2000 Jun; 911:477-85.
Epstein J, Isenberg N, Stern E & Silbersweig D. Toward a neuroanatomical understanding of psychiatric illness: the role of functional imaging, in Defining Psychopathology in the 21st Century, J Helzer & J Hudziak, eds. Washington , DC , American Psychiatric Press, 57-70, 2002.
Wambacq, I.J.A., Shea-Miller, K., Abubakr, A., Isenberg, N.B. (2003) Implicit and Explicit Processing of Emotional Prosody: An ERP Study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 288.29. Poster
Montgomery , K.J., Isenberg, N., Lipke, R.A., Haxby, J.V. (2004). Imitation of social and instrumental gestures: an fMRI student of the mirror network. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 200.1 Poster
Isenberg, N., Montgomery , K.J., Lipke, R.A., Haxby, J.V. (2004). A Distributed Neural System for The Perception, Execution, and Imitation of Social Gesture. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. 376.4. Talk
Fishbein D, Hyde C, Eldreth D, London ED, Matochik J, Ernst M, Isenberg N, Steckley S, Schech B, Kimes A. (2005) Cognitive performance and autonomic reactivity in abstinent drug abusers and nonusers. Exp. Clin. Psychopharmacol. 13,1, 25-40.
Engelien A, Tuscher O, Hermans W, Isenberg N, Eidelberg D, Frith C, Stern E, Silbersweig D. (2005) Functional neuroanatomy of non-verbal semantic sound processing in humans. J Neural Transmission Aug. 3
Isenberg, N., Montgomery, K.J., Neuberger, I., Haxby, J.V. (2005). Mirror-Image Imitation Activates a Distributed System for Social Interaction. Organization for Human Brain Mapping 479. Poster
Isenberg, N. B., Montgomery , K. J., Neuberger, I. , Haxby, J. V.
A Distributed Neural System for the Perception, Execution, and Imitation of Social and Instrumental Gesture in Autism. International Meeting for Autism Research S9.5 2005 Talk
Montgomery , K.J., Isenberg, N., Neuberger, I. , Haxby, J.V. (2005). Differences in the mirror neuron network for social and instrumental gestures: an fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts. Program Number 469.3 talk
Isenberg, N., Montgomery , K.J., Neuberger, I. , Haxby, J.V. (2005)
A Distributed Neural System for the Perception, Execution, and Imitation of Social and Instrumental Gesture in Autism Society for Neuroscience 354.7 Talk.
Invited Talks:
Grand rounds: Social function in autism: an fMRI study of imitation Children's specialized hospital July 7 th 2005 .
Zappula Memorial Meeting Social function in autism: an fMRI study of imitation June 8 th 2005 .
NIH Funded Five Year Project
Publications in Refereed Journals: 2
Abstracts: 9