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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: Diplomate in Behavioral Neurology and NeuroPsychiatry, United Council for Neurologic Subspecialities, October 2007; Maintenance of Certification in Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, April 2007; Diplomate 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 Street
P.O. Box 3059
Edison, NJ 08818
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, MD, MPH, May 1992; University of California, Berkeley, BA, 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- June 1993, 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, Doctors without Borders, INSAR, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Human Rights, Society for Neuroscience
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:
Fishbein, D., Hyde, C., Eldreth, D., London, E.D., Matochik, J., Ernst, M., Isenberg, N., Steckley, S., Schech, B., and Kimes, A. (2006) 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., and Silbersweig, D. (2006) Functional neuroanatomy of non-verbal semantic sound processing in humans. J Neural Transmission 2006 May;113(5):599-608. Epub 2005 Aug 3
Fishbein, D., Hyde, C., Londo, E, Matochik, J., Ernst, M., Isenberg, N., Schech, B., Steckley, S., and Kimes A. Cognitive Performance and Skin Conductance in Drug Abusers and Nonusers. Neuropsychopharmacology, in press. 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.
Engelien, A., Stern, E., Isenberg, N., Engelien, W., Frith, C., and Silbersweig, D. The Parahippocampal Region and Auditory-Mnemonic Processing. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 2000 in press
Isenberg N, Silbersweig D, Engelien A, Emmerich S, Malavade K, Beattie B, Leon AC, Stern E. Linguistic threat activates the human amygdala. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 1999; 96, 10,456-10,459.
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