Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor
Departments of Neurology and Cognitive Science
and Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience

An author of two books – Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Everyday Life, Intelligent Memory, and Memory: A Guide to Understanding and Improvement – Dr. Barry Gordon is a behavioral neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in experimental and neuropsychology. He directs the Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology group in the Department of Neurology, had been the founder of The Memory Clinic at Johns Hopkins, is a founding member of Johns Hopkins’ Mind/Brain Institute.

Former president of the Behavioral Neurology Society and Division of the American Academy of Neurology, Dr. Gordon has authored more than 150 papers and book chapters. His interests are in improving aspects of language, memory and thought, particularly the deficits in communication, learning and cognition in autism, the speech and language deficits in aphasia, and the memory deficits and other problems that can occur in Alzheimer’s disease, head injury, and other acquired and developmental brain problems.

Dr. Gordon received his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from The Johns Hopkins University. He is the inaugural holder of the Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professorship, and professor of Neurology, with a Joint Appointment in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins.

He will discuss Cultivating Creativityat A Woman's Journey in Session I, 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.