NJ Neuroscience Institute at JFK Medical Center

Nancy Isenberg, M.D., M.P.H.

Major research interests:

Social cognition and moral judgment in neurodevelopmental disorders
Social-emotional processing in frontotemporal dementia
Complex visual processing in simultanagnosia

Major methods:

High field strength fMRI
Autonomic measurement
Behavioral paradigms

Weblinks:
http://www.njneuro.org/bios/isenbrg.htm
http://www.csbmb.princeton.edu/per.html
http://www.autism.fm/

Professional Positions:

Attending in Neurology, October 2000-present
Muhlenberg Medical Center

Visiting Research Scientist September 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

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

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.

NIH Funded Five Year Project

Bibliography:

Maholtra H, Isenberg N. Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Presenting as Schizophrenia: A Case Report, Primary Psychiatry, in press.

Horowitz TL, Giacino JT, Isenberg N. Neurodegenerative biopercular disease: a rare case of Foix-Chavany-Marie syndrome.
Arch Clin Neuropsych. 17 (8): 724-724 Sp. SI Nov. 2002.

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, Silbersweig D. The Parahippocampal Region and Auditory-Mnemonic Processing. Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 2000 Jun., 911:477-85.

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., 1999; 96, 10,456-10,459.

Blumberg H, Stern E, Rickets S, De Asis J, White T, Epstein J, Isenberg N, Mc Bride A, Kemperman I, Emmerick S, Dhawan V, Eidelberg D, Kocsis J, Silbersweig D. Rostral and orbital prefrontal cortex dysfunction in the manic state of bipolar disorder. Am. J. Psychiatry, 1999; 156:1986-1988.

Isenberg N, Stern E, Smith T, Emmerich S, Malavade K, Beattie B, Blumberg H, Epstein J, McBride A, Silbersweig D. Abnormal mesotemporal activity in the paranoid state of schizophrenia: an 15O PET study of implicit threat processing. 37th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Las Croabas, Puerto Rico, December 14, 1998.

Isenberg N, Stern E, Smith T, Emmerich S, Malavade K, Beattie B, Blumberg H, Epstein J, McBride A, Silbersweig D. Paranoia, perceiving threat where there is none: an H215O PET study of mesotemporal function in schizophrenia. Neuroimage, 1998;7(4):S95.

Blumberg H, Silbersweig D, Martinez D, Ricketts S, DeAsis J, White T, McBride A, Kemperman I, Isenberg N, Emmerich S, Epstein J, Eidelberg D, Kocsis J, Stern E. Decreased orbitofrontal activation in maniaL an H215O PET activation study. Neuroimage, 1998;7(4):S896.

Blumberg H, Stern E, Ricketts S, Martinez D, McBride A, White T, Eidelberg D, DeAsis J, Kemperman I, Isenberg N, Emmerich S, Epstein J, Kocsis J, Silbersweig D. Distractibility and sensory overload in the manic state. Biological Psychiatry, 1998;43:97.

de Asis J, Silbersweig D, Khlar D, Blumberg H, Emmerich S, Isenberg N, Eidelberg D, Prasad D, Beattie B, Young R, Alexopoulos G and Stern E. Lateralized fronto-striatal dysfunction in geriatric depression : a PET study. 36th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 8, 1997.

Blumberg H, Stern E, Ricketts S, Martinez D, McBride A, White T, Eidelberg D, de Asis J, Kemperman I, Isenberg N, Emmerich S, Epstein J, Kocsis J and Silberswieg D. Decreased activity in the right orbitofrontal cortex in the manic state: a PET activation study. 36th Annual Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology in Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 8, 1997.

Engelein A, Stern E, Isenberg N, Hermans W, Emmerich S, Eidelberg D, White T, Blumberg H, Frith C, Frackowiak R and Silbersweig D. The neural correlates of non-verbal auditory semantics. 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in New Orleans, LS, October 25-30, 1997 Society for Neuroscience 1997;23(1):210.

Engelien A, Stern E, Hermans W, Isenberg N, White T, Emmerich S, Blumberg H, Eiderberg D, Dhawan V, Frith C, and Silbersweig D. Dissociable lateralized neural systems mediate semantic versus perceptual processing of complex non-verbal sounds. Neuroimage 1997;5(4):S186.

Chamorro A, Marshall R, Tatemichi, Ribalta T, Isenberg N, Mohr JP. Faciobrachiocrural paresis in anterior cerebral artery stroke. Annals of Neurology 1994;36,2:266.