Argye Hillis

Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, United States of America

Research interests:
Professor Hillis' research aims to improve understanding how language functions and spatial maps are represented in the brain, and how understanding these processes can contribute to evaluation and treatment of stroke and dementia. The primary methodology she uses to localize cognitive processes and representations combines detailed cognitive testing with magnetic resonance perfusion imaging and diffusion imaging in hyperacute stroke, to determine areas of the brain essential for specific cognitive functions before reorganization or recovery. This research has provided insights into neural substrates underlying reading, naming, spelling, speech articulation, and spatial attention.

Associations:
American Neurological Association, American Academy of Neurology, Academy of Aphasia, World Federation of Neurology Researh Group on Aphasia and Cognitive Disorders (chair).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Neurological Disorders > Cognitive Neurology & Dementia (since 11 November 2005)

Links

http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/profiles/hillis.html

All recent recommendations

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  Anterior temporal lobes mediate semantic representation: mimicking semantic dementia by using rTMS in normal participants.
  Recommended by Argye Hillis with Jennifer Crinion
  
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  Left-hand somatosensory stimulation combined with visual scanning training in rehabilitation for post-stroke hemineglect: A randomised, double-blind study.
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  Conceptual Knowledge Is Underpinned by the Temporal Pole Bilaterally: Convergent Evidence from rTMS.
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  Alzheimer and frontotemporal pathology in subsets of primary progressive aphasia.
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  Social mind representation: where does it fail in frontotemporal dementia?
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  The reign of typicality in semantic memory.
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  Frontotemporal dementia.
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  Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) supplementation for cognitive function in healthy elderly people.
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  Heterogeneity of ubiquitin pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration: classification and relation to clinical phenotype.
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  Complement activation in the Parkinson's disease substantia nigra: an immunocytochemical study.
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  Anterior-medial thalamic lesions in dementia: frequent, and volume dependently associated with sudden cognitive decline.
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  Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in frontotemporal dementia.
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  Visuo-spatial neglect: a systematic review of current interventions and their effectiveness.
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  The cognitive profile of posterior cortical atrophy.
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  The pathological basis of semantic dementia.
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  Visuospatial reorienting signals in the human temporo-parietal junction are independent of response selection.
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