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Michael D. Horner, Ph.D.
[VAMC Neuropsychology Clinic]

Dr. Horner received his A.B. summa cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Emory University. He completed a neuropsychology specialty internship at the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at UCLA. In 1994 he joined the MUSC faculty, where he is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He serves as Director of the Neuropsychology Clinic, and Clinical Co-Director of the Memory Disorders Clinic, at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.

Research interests: Neuropsychological functioning in substance abuse and other disorders; validity in neuropsychological assessment.

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Select Publications:

• McCarthy, M. L., Dikmen, S. S., Langlois, J. A., Selassie, A. W., Gu, J. K., & Horner, M. D. (in press).  Self-reported psychosocial health among adults with traumatic brain injury.  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
• Risch, S. C., Horner, M. D., McGurk, S. R., Palecko, S., Markowitz, J. S., Nahas, Z., & DeVane, C. L. (in press).  Donepezil effects on mood in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder.  International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology.
• Horner, M. D., Bedwell, J. S., & Duong, A. (in press).  An abbreviated form of the Test of Memory Malingering.  International Journal of Neuroscience.
• Bedwell, J. S., Horner, M. D., Yamanaka, K., Li, X., Myrick, H., Nahas, Z., & George, M.S. (2005).  Functional neuroanatomy of subcomponent cognitive processes involved in verbal working memory.  International Journal of Neuroscience, 115, 1017-1032.
• Mackin, R. S., & Horner, M. D. (2005).  Relationship of the Wender Utah Rating Scale to objective measures of attention.  Comprehensive Psychiatry, 46,468-471.
• Mackin, R. S., Horner, M. D., Harvey, R. T., & Stevens, L. A. (2005).  The relationship between neuropsychological measures and employment problems in outpatients with substance abuse.  Rehabilitation Psychology, 50, 158-163.
• Horner, M. D., Ferguson, P. S., Selassie, A. W., Labbate, L. A., Kniele, K., & Corrigan, J. D. (2005).  Patterns of alcohol use one year after traumatic brain injury: A population-based, epidemiological study.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 322-330.
• Mu, Q., Nahas, Z., Johnson, K. A., Yamanaka, K., Mishory, A., Koola, J., Hill, S., Horner, M. D., Bohning, D. E., & George, M. S. (2005).  Decreased cortical response to verbal working memory following sleep deprivation.  Sleep, 28, 55-67.
• Johnson,  K. A., Mu, Q., Yamanaka, K., Mishory, A., Koola, J., Hill, S., Horner,M. D., Nahas, Z., Bohning, D. E., & George, M. S.  (2005).  Repeatability of within-individual blood oxygen level-dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging maps of a working memory task for transcranial magnetic stimulation targeting.  Neuroscience Imaging, 1, 95-111.
• Temple, R. O., Horner, M. D., & Taylor, R. M. (2004).  Relationship of MMPI-II anxiety and defensiveness to neuropsychological test performance and psychotropic medication use. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 989-998.
• Kozel, F. A., Revell, L. J., Lorberbaum, J. P., Shastri, A., Elhai, J. D.,Horner, M. D., Smith, A., Nahas, Z., Bohning, D. E., & George, M.S. (2004). Regional brain correlates of deception:A proof of concept, functional magnetic resonance imaging study in healthy young men. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 16, 295-305.
• Temple, R. O., McBride, A. M., Horner, M. D., & Taylor, R. M. (2003). Personality characteristics of patients showing suboptimal cognitive effort. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 17, 402-09.
• Nahas, Z., George, M. S., Horner, M. D., Markowitz, J. S., Li, X., Lorberbaum, J. P., Owens, S. D., McGurk, S., DeVane, L, & Risch, S. C. (2003).  Augmenting atypical antipsychotics with a cognitive enhancer (donepezil) improves regional brain activity in chizophrenia patients: A pilot double-blind, placebo-controlled BOLD fMRI study.  Neurocase, 9, 274-282.
• Teichner, G., Horner, M. D., Roitzsch, J. C., Herron, J., & Thevos, A. (2002). Substance abuse treatment outcomes for cognitively impaired and intact outpatients.  Addictive Behaviors,27, 751-763.
• Horner, M. D. & Hamner, M. B. (2002).  Neurocognitive functioning in posttraumatic stress disorder.  Neuropsychology Review, 12, 15-30.
• Kortte, K. B., Horner, M. D., & Windham, W. K. (2002).  The Trail Making Test, Part B: Cognitive flexibility or ability to maintain set?  Applied Neuropsychology, 9, 106-109.
• Horner, M. D., Teichner, G., Kortte, K. B., & Harvey, R. T. (2002).  Construct validity of the abcock Story Recall Test.  Applied Neuropsychology, 9, 114-116.

Select Presentations: 

• Carlozzi, N. & Horner, M. D. (in press).  Factor Analysis of the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
• Carlozzi, N. & Horner, M. D. (2005). Convergent and divergent validity of the Gordon Diagnostic System in a heterogeneous, adult clinical sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20, 830-831.
• Tweedy, K., Horner, M. D., & Holbrook, L. (2005). Use of the California Verbal Learning Test Second Edition (CVLT-II) Forced Choice Recognition subtest in detecting suboptimal effort on neuropsychological evaluation. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11 (S1), 82.
• Tweedy, K., Horner, M. D., & Holbrook, L. (2004). Demographic and clinical predictors of performance on the Test of Memory Malingering. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 19, 867.
• Horner, M. D., Ferguson, P. L., Selassie, A. W., Labbate., L. A., Tweedy, K., & Corrigan, J. D. (2004). Patterns of alcohol use one year after traumatic brain injury: A population-based, epidemiological study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10 (S1), 173-174.
• Horner, M. D., Bedwell, J. S., & Duong, A. (2004). An abbreviated form of the Test of Memory Malingering. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10 (S1), 81.
• Temple, R. O, McBride, A., Taylor, R. M., & Horner, M. D. (2003). The role of attention and executive functioning CVLT-II performance. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 247.
• Temple, R. O, McBride, A., Taylor, R. M., & Horner, M. D. (2003). Personality characteristics of patients showing suboptimal cognitive effort. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 282.
• Horner, M. D., Labbate, L. A., Ferguson, P. L., Tweedy, K., & Selassie, A. (2003). Predictors of psychological symptoms and treatment one year after traumatic brain injury: A population-based, epidemiological study. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.

Curriculum Vitae   (09/2006)  (Requires Adobe® Reader to view)

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