The Distinguished Career Award has been established by the INS Board of Governors to recognize individuals who are at or near the ends of their careers, and who have made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology as well as to the INS.
| Eligible Period: | At/near end of career |
| Description: | The Distinguished Career Award has been established by the INS Board of Governors to recognize individuals who are at or near the ends of their careers, and who have made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology as well as to the INS. |
| INS Membership Required: | Yes |
| Requirements: | 1 nomination letter and 2 letters of support |
| Presentation Yes/No: | No |
| Annual/Mid-Year: | Both |
Application Materials: The application should consist of a nominating letter, a CV plus 1-2 letters of support (see criteria). The nominating statements should be written as relating to the specific award for which the member is being nominated (1-2 page max). Nominating statements should be written in English, letters of support may be written in other languages (although English is preferred). Anyone can nominate and write support letters, but we do not accept self-nominations. Please submit all application materials to ins@the-ins.org
Due Date: Nominations may be submitted at any time. Ideally, awards nominations will be received four months prior to the meeting where the award is to be given (either the Annual or Mid-Year Meeting). For an award to be considered for the INS Mid-Year Meeting, please submit nominations by March 31st. For an award to be considered for the INS Annual Meeting, please submit nominations by September 30th of the prior year. Nominations are typically kept under consideration for future meetings if not awarded at a certain meeting (unless the nomination is not eligible).
1 Terminal degree can be either a PhD degree, a master or a certified clinical degree (may vary across countries)
INS 2025 Mid-Year Meeting
Brisbane, Australia – July 2 – July 5, 2025
Professor Jennie Ponsford is the Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre which was created in 2000. Its aim is to conduct research in trauma rehabilitation, with a view to reducing long-term disability. Jennie Ponsford, BA (Hons, MA (Clin Neuropsych), PhD, is Professor of Neuropsychology and Director of Clinical Programs in the School of Psychological Sciences at Monash University and Director of the Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She has conducted clinical work and research into longitudinal outcomes and rehabilitation following traumatic brain injury over 35 years, publishing two books and over 240 journal articles.
INS 53rd Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA – February 12 – 15, 2025
Professor Robin Morris is a clinical-academic neuropsychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). He has conducted research mainly into consciousness, memory and executive functioning in a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders. His work has encompassed dementia, cerebrovascular disorder, epilepsy, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, psychosis and eating disorders. As part of his research, he developed the Cognitive Awareness Model (CAM), which provides explanations of lack of awareness of disability in patients with neurological disorder.
INS 52nd Annual Meeting
New York City, New York, USA – February 14 – 17, 2024
In the 1970s and 1980s, a multitude of cognitive rehabilitation programs proliferated to facilitate recovery after brain injury. However only a few programs provided a framework for ameliorating disturbances in the cognitive, psychological, and interpersonal spheres of the brain-injured patient. Greatly influenced by Leonard Diller and Yehuda Ben-Yishay’s ideas and methods, George P. Prigatano began, in early 1980, a holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation program at the Presbyterian Hospital in Oklahoma City. George P. Prigatano’s contributions to neuropsychological rehabilitation and clinical neuropsychology are essential to understanding the therapeutic approaches currently used in the treatment of brain-injured patients.
INS 2023 Mid-Year Meeting
Taipei, Taiwan – July 6 – 8, 2021
Dr. Hua has done his best to maximize a researcher-practitioner role in Neuropsychology. He is he ex-presidents of both Taiwan Psychological Association and Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychology. The exploration of neuropsychological function in aging, particularly seeking potential cognitive markers early detecting dementia with brain disease has been his research interest.Dr. Hua also positively participated in the reviewing issues of the periodical-journal articles, such as having been the former editor-in-chief of Archives of Clinical Psychology and the editorial board members of Chinese Journal of Psychology and Acta Neurologica Taiwanica, as well as the current editorial-board member of Epilepsy and Behavior.
INS 51st Annual Meeting
San Diego, California USA – February 1 – 4, 2023
For the past 30 years, Dr. Fletcher, a board-certified child neuropsychologist, has worked on issues related to child neuropsychology, including studies of children with spina bifida, traumatic brain injury, and other acquired disorders. In the area of developmental learning and attention disorders, Dr. Fletcher has addressed issues related to definition and classification, neurobiological correlates, and most recently, intervention. Dr. Fletcher directs a Learning Disability Research Center grant and a long-term study involving genetic, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological factors in spina bifida, both funded by the National Institute of Child health and Human Development. He served on the NICHD National Advisory Council, the Rand Reading Study Group, the National Research Council Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research, and the President’s Commission on Excellence in Special Education. The author of 3 books and over 350 papers.
INS 2021 Mid-Year Meeting
Melbourne, Australia – June 30 – July 3, 2021
It is my pleasure to nominate Professor Emerita Tate for the Distinguished Career Award. I believe she is a worthy recipient having made major, sustained contributions to the field of neuropsychology in its true interdisciplinary sense and forging new directions. Specifically, she is an internationally recognized leader in four inter-related areas of empirical research that have directly improved treatment and rehabilitation procedures for persons who must contend with the disabilities associated with acquired brain disorders: Her contributions can be summarized as leading major initiatives to improve (i) outcome instruments, (ii) evidence-based clinical practice, (iii) rehabilitation options, (iv) research methodology for single-case designs.
INS 48th Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA – February 5-8, 2020
INS 48th Annual Meeting
Denver, Colorado, USA – February 5-8, 2020
INS 2019 Mid-Year Meeting
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – July 10-12, 2019
Dr. Lucia Willadino Braga is a neuroscientist, neuropsychologist, researcher, clinician and author with over 35 years’ experience working with children, adolescents and adults with acquired brain injury. She developed and pioneered several neurorehabilitation programs, such as the Family Training Methodology, the MetaCognitive Dimension Program to develop executive functions and is currently working on the study of on the changes in structural and functional brain connectivity brought about by rehabilitation. She is engaged in neurorehabilitation studies with a number of European and American institutions, as well as neuroscientific research, using technology such as DTI, ERP and fMRI to explore brain function.
INS 2018 Mid-Year Meeting
Prague, Czech Republic – July 18-20, 2018
INS 2017 Mid-Year Meeting
Cape Town, South Africa – July 5-8, 2017
INS 2016 Mid-Year Meeting
London, England, UK – July 6-8, 2016
INS 2016 Mid-Year Meeting
London, England, UK – July 6-8, 2016
INS 44th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 3-6, 2016
Russell Adams is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). Dr. Adams received his Bachelor’s degree from Texas A & M University and his PhD in psychology from the University of Texas. He served as a Captain in the US Army Medical Service Corps from 1967 to 1969. Dr. Adams has been the Director of the Neuropsychological Assessment Laboratory and Psychology Internship Program at the OUHSC since 1978.
Dr. Linas Bieliauskas has played an instrumental role in Clinical Neuropsychology’s development and evolution as a professional discipline. During the course of his distinguished career, Linas has worked diligently in establishing and implementing models for training and in maintaining quality and integrity in professional practice. He has personally trained and served as a role model for a generation of neuropsychologists entering the field over the past 30 years.
Diane Howieson is an Associate Professor Emerita of Neurology at the Oregon Health & Science University, where she was a clinician and investigator in the Layton Aging and Alzheimer’s Research Center. Her principle research areas were aging and dementia. She was Head of the Neuropsychology Division at the Portland VA Medical Center for many years where she trained predoctoral and postdoctoral students. She is a co-author with Muriel Lezak, Erin Bigler, and Daniel Tranel on the fifth edition of Neuropsychological Assessment.
Jenni Ogden is an award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction, holds a PhD in psychology, further postgraduate qualifications in clinical psychology and neuropsychology. In the mid-1980s, during a postdoctoral research fellowship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she had the opportunity to work with the world’s most studied neurological case, the amnesiac HM; the man with no memory. As a university professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, for 22 years she taught clinical psychology and neuropsychology, supervised numerous postgraduate theses, and carried out research on a wide range of neuropsychological disorders, publishing 60 research papers. She also practiced as a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist in acute neurosurgical and neurology wards and rehabilitation centers.
Jason Brandt, PhD, ABPP is a gifted neuropsychologist whose contributions have shaped our field as a science and as a profession. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Jason received his formative undergraduate education at Brooklyn College. He then completed master’s and doctoral degrees in experimental and physiological psychology at Boston University. There, he trained with Allan Mirsky at the School of Medicine and Nelson Butters (and a host of other neuropsychology luminaries) at the Boston VA Medical Center.
Dean Delis is currently a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, where he has been on the faculty for the past 29 years. During this time, he also served as the Director of the Psychological Assessment Unit at the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University.
Professor Dan Hoofien is one of the senior rehabilitation psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists in Israel and has had a tremendous impact on the development and quality of these professions during the last four decades. He received his academic education in psychology at Tel-Aviv University (Ph.D., 1994). His involvement in neuropsychological rehabilitation began relatively early, during his graduate studies at TAU, when he served as the clinical coordinator of an experimental trial in the behavioral rehabilitation of young patients with severe TBI.
Ida Sue Baron is a pioneer in pediatric neuropsychology. She received her doctorate from the University of Maryland in school psychology (Psychological Services in the Schools) with a minor in neuropsychology. Her dissertation work, a study of normal pressure hydrocephalus in children, arose from collaboration with pediatric neurosurgery. She established an active neuropsychology service at Children’s National Medical Center, breaking new ground in the neurobehavioral assessment of children with medical and neurological disorders
INS 42nd Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington, USA – February 12-15, 2014
Robert J Ivnik, PhD, ABPP-CN is Professor of Psychology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and a Consultant in the Division of Neurocognitive Disorders at Mayo Clinic. A native of Joliet, IL he completed his undergraduate degree at Yale in 1971, and his PhD at Washington University in 1975. He interned at the University of Colorado Medical Center and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Wisconsin Health Science Center. In 1977, he was recruited to Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN to establish a neuropsychology practice.
INS 42nd Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington, USA – February 12-15, 2014
Dr. Catherine Mateer is well known internationally for her work in the clinical assessment and management of cognitive and emotional difficulties following neurological injury. She began her career with a Master of Science degree in Communication Disorders from the University of Wisconsin, and then pursued a PhD in Psychology from the University of Western Ontario, and postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington. In the 1980’s, she began pioneering work in the area of cognitive rehabilitation as Clinical Director of the Good Samaritan Hospital Neuropsychology Service in Washington.
INS 42nd Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington, USA – February 12-15, 2014
Edith V. Sullivan, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine. She received her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Connecticut. Following graduate school, she was a research scientist in the Graybiel Spatial Orientation Laboratory at Brandeis University and the Department of Psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Edie is a neuropsychologist who has championed putting the “neuro” back into neuropsychology and has done so in her research and through her editorship of Neuropsychology Review.
INS 2013 Mid-Year Meeting
Amsterdam, the Netherlands – July 10-13, 2013
Michael Kopelman is an internationally recognised authority on memory disorders. For over 30 years, his seminar neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric work on the subject has shaped the development of cognitive neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry in Britain and beyond. Mike’s first degree was in Psychology before he completed his medical degree at the University of London in 1978 and received his PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry ten years later. In 1998, he became a Professor of Neuropsychiatry at Guy’s King’s & St Thomas’s School of Medicine, now part of the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. He has authored around 200 scientific articles and four seminal books on memory, including The Handbook of Memory Disorders, a major reference volume in the field.
INS 41st Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Michael Corballis was one of the world’s leading psychologists. He was born in New Zealand in 1936, and completed undergraduate and masters degrees there in psychology and mathematics. His PhD in psychology was from McGill University, where he taught from 1968 until 1977. He then returned to the University of Auckland, where he was emeritus professor of psychology. He published widely on aspects of cognitive neuroscience, including memory, brain asymmetry, language and evolution, and enjoyed writing in an accessible way for a general audience. His books have been translated into numerous languages, and include The Lopsided Ape, From Hand to Mouth, A Very Short Tour of the Mind and The Wandering Mind.
INS 41st Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Dr. Hannay is a clinical neuropsychologist and also a pioneer in the field of experimental neuropsychology, deriving paradigms for studying cerebral specialization and assessing cognitive functions in normally developing children and adults and in clinical populations, such as spina bifida, stroke and traumatic brain injury. She continues to work on issues pertaining to assessment of acute status in brain injury and long-term outcome hoping to spend time on rehabilitation research.
INS 41st Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
Dr. Levin is Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Baylor College of Medicine. He is also a Research Scientist at the Michael E. De Bakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston. Dr. Levin is a partnering principal investigator (PI) with Dr. Randy Scheibel on a VA Merit Review grant concerning functional MRI in Veterans who sustained mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) which is frequently complicated by post traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Levin is also a partnering PI with Dr. Summer Ott and Dr. Pramod Dash on an NIH grant concerning biomarkers and brain imaging in high school athletes who have been cleared to return to play following a concussion. Other relevant experience includes his DoD funded research on the chronic effects of neurotrauma mild TBI.
INS 41st Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2013
After completing his medical studies, Walsh became interested in abnormal behaviour, and during his tenure as a Neuropsychiatric Medical Officer at the Mont Park Mental Hospital, he studied the complex behavioural alterations induced by prefrontal leucotomy, for which the degree of Master of Science was awarded in 1960. Working as a medical officer, he saw a clinical discipline that would unite psychological depth with neurology. Walsh taught a syndrome-oriented approach to neuropsychology, informed by an understanding of neuroanatomy, neurological and neuropsychological syndromes and psychometrics. He taught his students to listen to and observe the patient, talk to the family and to think logically, describing neuropsychology as ‘a body-contact sport. Walsh collaborated with his friend Peter Bladin, director of neurology at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne, to establish a postgraduate training program in Clinical Neuropsychology at the university and a Clinical Neuropsychology Unit at the hospital. One of his most influential works was Neuropsychology: A Clinical Approach, first published in 1978, intending it to be an introduction to the field. The book was published with David Darby in 1999, then published as Walsh’s Neuropsychology in 2005.
INS 2012 Mid-Year Meeting
Oslo, Norway – June 27-30, 2012
Twenty years ago, the scarcity of neuropsychological instruments for children led Marit Korkman, a pediatric neuropsychologist from Finland, to develop NEPS (Korkman, 1980), a brief assessment for children 5.0 to 6.11 years old. Various aspects of attention, language, sensorimotor functions, visuospatial functions, and memory and learning were each assessed with two to five tasks similar in content to the tasks in Luria’s assessment (Christensen, 1975).
INS 2012 Mid-Year Meeting
Oslo, Norway – June 27-30, 2012
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Dr. Arthur Benton, Kerry completed a postdoctoral residency in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was a Research Scientist in the Department of Neurology from 1977-78 where he was a major contributor to the Benton-Iowa Approach to neuropsychological assessment. He developed, standardized and published diagnostic tests including Multilingual Aphasia Examination, Facial Recognition Test, and Judgment of Line Orientation. He published over 40 scholarly articles, chapters and books including Contributions to Neuropsychological Assessment: A Clinical Manual (1983; 2nd Edition 1994), an acclaimed compendium of assessment tools that continues to be widely used today.
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
Dr. Berman holds joint appointments in the Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Neurology, and Psychiatry, and she directs the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (CAMED) and the Boston Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Healthcare System. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Neuroscience at Harvard University, and has taught at Clark University, Tufts University School of Medicine, Suffolk University, and the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her permanent teaching and research home since 1970 has been CAMED. She has worked to advance our understanding of brain mechanisms underlying the perceptual, emotional, and cognitive impairments associated with human brain damage. Since 1987, Dr. Berman has been using neurobehavioral tests and neuroimaging measures to examine dysfunction related to chronic Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Currently, Dr. Berman’s laboratory is examining the ways in which men and women differ with respect to AUD-related abnormalities in brain circuits that control emotion, motivation, and behavioral regulation.
INS 40th Annual Meeting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada – February 15-18, 2012
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
Ennio De Renzi pioneered the development of neuropsychology as a scientific discipline in Italy. Born in Cremona, Italy, he graduated in medicine at Pavia University with a thesis in neurology. He carried out his early work on hemispheric specialization, in patients with unilateral brain lesions, and made fundamental contributions to understanding the nature of virtually every neurological condition that affects higher functions—namely, aphasia, apraxia, agnosia, amnesia, disorders of spatial cognition, and frontal lobe syndromes. He founded the international journal Cortex and served as an editor for more than 25 years. He received the Carlo Riquier award for neurological studies.
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
INS 39th Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts, USA – February 2-5, 2011
An internation-ally renowned pediatric neuropsychologist, Dr. Wilson dedicated her professional life to children with developmental disabilities. She was a pioneer in the field of pediatric neuro-psychology and will be remembered first and foremost as a pioneering researcher and educator committed to enriching the lives of children. Her professional life included an appointment of Chief of Neuropsychology at North Shore University Hospital-Long Island Jewish Health System and tenure as a President of the International Neuropsychological Society. Brookville Center for Children’s Services Board of Directors Terrence Ullrich, President Michael Mascari, Executive Director.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Dirk Bakker has been a true pioneer in the Netherlands within the field of neuropsychology, especially child neuropsychology. His research career spanning about forty years of work has specifically focused on dyslexia related to the hemispheric specialization of functions. Dirk started his intriguing research by developing a neuropsychological model of the process of normal and abnormal reading. He validated his model of developmental dyslexia with electrophysiological (ERP) measures in longitudinal studies of normal children as well as of children with different subtypes of dyslexia.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Alexandre Castro Caldas was a Full Professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon and Director of the Neurology Service at Hospital de Santa Maria in Lisbon. In 2004, he became director of the Institute of Health Sciences, where he laid the foundations for the creation of the Integrated Master in Medicine, now in activity. He is currently the Coordinator of the National Council for the Health Sciences of the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. His current research interests include several topics in Cognitive Neurosciences and in particular, the modulatory effect of environmental stimulation in the human brain.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Dr. Denckla is an internationally known researcher and clinician in the area of developmental cognitive neurology. Her recent research studies have examined reading disabilities present in children grades 3-8, including classification, identification, treatment, prevalence, neurocognitive characteristics, as well as the influence of comorbidities (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; ADHD) on reading. She started at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University in 1987, where she served as Director of the Development of Cognitive Neurology Clinic. and held the Batza Family Endowed Chair until 2017. The krieger Instituted is a world-renowned center dedicated to improving the lives of children and adolescents with pediatric developmental disabilities.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Dr. Goldstein was known for his research and service contributions to the field of neuropsychology. In 1962, he earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas. He came to Pittsburgh in 1975, joining the Veterans Administration Medical Center here as chief of neuropsychology research and the Pitt faculty first as an assistant professor then associate professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine. In 1988, he was named a professor of psychiatry. Goldstein published more than 350 refereed articles, books and other scholarly publications. Goldstein was best known for his seminal research contributions to the neuropsychology of alcoholism
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Kenneth M. Heilman, M.D., a founder of the field of behavioral neurology impacted generations of young neurologists worldwide and served the University of Florida College of Medicine for over 50 years. Behavioral neurology is a subspecialty focused on memory and cognitive disorders, and under Heilman’s leadership, UF developed one of the earliest fellowship programs in the field. To date, nearly 100 trainees have completed UF’s fellowship program and then spread across the world to practice and pass on the lessons to up-and-coming physicians. He was a researcher in disorders involving attention, emotion, motor programming, language, and memory.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Dr. Mirsky was involved in multiple neuropsychological studies going on at the Yale Psychology Department and Medical School. In studying WWII veterans with brain injuries, Dr. Mirsky helped to create the Continuous Performance Test (CPT), which remains the standard method to assess sustained attention. Allan was then recruited to the National Institute of Mental Health, where he continued to pursue a lifelong interest in the neural bases and behavioral effects of seizure disorders. After eight years, he moved to Boston University as Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neurology. In his 19 years there, he continued his research on epilepsy and other attention disorders. He then returned to the National Institute of Mental Health as Chief of the Laboratory of Psychology and Psychopathology. In his 70-year career, Allan made major contributions to studies of attention in numerous clinical disorders. He is particularly well known in the field for his emphasis on brainstem structures and their role in attention, and for partitioning attention into five distinct processes, with each measured by different tests and supported by different brain structures. This model provides a taxonomy of attention that is now standard in the field of neuropsychology.
INS 37th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia, USA – February 11-14, 2009
Sara S. Sparrow was a renowned psychologist who developed the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales, including its second and third editions. The Vineland has since become the world’s leading measure of adaptive behavior. Dr. Sparrow graduated from the University of Florida with a master’s degree in Speech Pathology and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology. From 1975 to 2002, Dr. Sparrow was the Chief of Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. She would remain at Yale as Professor Emerita and Senior Research Scientist until her passing in 2010. Dr. Sparrow also held a professorship in the Department of Psychology at the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of more than 120 articles and book chapters in the fields of psychological assessment and developmental disabilities, and she is also co-editor (along with Drs. Ami Klin and Fred Volkmar) of a book on Asperger syndrome.
INS 36th Annual Meeting
Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA – February 6-9, 2008
Elizabeth Warrington is a neuropsychologist who studies memory, dementia and the neural networks that underpin our cognitive abilities. Her work has led to the creation of many tests for the diagnosis and monitoring of a number of degenerative brain conditions. Her work on memory — and the difference between how we remember knowledge and events — led to the identification of semantic dementia in 1975. In addition, her research into memory has contributed to the identification of implicit memory — the unconscious memory of past experiences, which helps us to perform tasks. Elizabeth was also amongst the first to distinguish short- and long-term memory as being distinct processes.
