John C. Friel Psy.D.
Areas of Specialty: Neuropsychology; Clinical psychology
Professional Appointment: Staff Neuropsychologist, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute & New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, JFK Medical Center, Edison, New Jersey.
Academic Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Seton Hall University School of Graduate Medical Education, South Orange, New Jersey.
Graduate Education: Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Neuropsychology, Department of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology, JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute & New Jersey Neuroscience Institute, Edison, New Jersey, 1995-1997; Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, Argosy University/American School of Professional Psychology, Honolulu, Hawai'i, 1996.
Professional Interests: Memory and movement disorders; Neuropsychological rehabilitation of executive functions, self-regulation, and social cognition; Intensive holistic (milieu-oriented) cognitive rehabilitation; Mindfulness/acceptance-commitment based therapies.
Current Research: Co-Investigator, Prospective controlled study of intensive cognitive-psychosocial rehabilitation with “standard neurorehabilitation” for persons with TBI. TBI Model Systems Program: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.
http://www.njrehab.org/tbims/about.asp
Professional Memberships: International Neuropsychological Society; National Academy of Neuropsychology; United Nations NGO Health Committee.
Licensure/ Certification: Licensed Psychologist, New Jersey & California.
E-mail: jfriel@solarishs.org
Representative Publications:
Cicerone, K., Mott, T., Azulay, J., and Friel, J. (2004). Community integration and satisfaction with functioning after intensive cognitive rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85, 943-950.
Tanenbaum, L., Johnson, B., Drayer, B., Friel, J., Verro, P., Hoffman, J. (1997). Comparison of diffusion weighted single shot EPI and fast FLAIR in the evaluation of patients with subacute ischemic symptoms. Paper presented at the Eastern Society of Neuroradiology, Annual Meeting. Tarrytown , NY .
Friel, J., Anderson, R., and Fujii, D. (1996). Constructional strategy and encoding operations on the Rey Complex Figure. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 12 (4), p. 319.