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Kathleen Bechtold Kortte, PhD

Kortte, Kathleen Bechtold, PhD
Title(s):
Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Appointment Phone:
410-502-5357

Primary Location:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

Expertise:
Adjustment to Chronic Illness, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Brain Tumors, Cancer Rehabilitation, Cognitive Rehabilitation, Cognitive Testing, Disorders of Executive Function, Disorders of Social Cognition, Medical Psychology, Memory Disorders, Neurologic Rehabilitation, Neurology, Neuropsychology, Neurosurgery, Rehabilitation Psychology, Stroke, Stroke Rehabilitation, Traumatic Brain Injury

Education and Experience

Training
  • Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (Carbondale IL) - Graduate Education (2000)
Fellowships
  • Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore MD)/ Neuropsychology & Rehab Psychology (2002)

Locations

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 N. Wolfe Street
Phipps Room 174
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-502-5357
Appointment Phone: 410-502-5357
Fax: 443-769-1243
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Department / Division
  • Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology

Centers/Institutes

Bio

Awards and Honors
Southern Illinois University Janet E. Rafferty Scientist-Practitioner Award 2007

The Johns Hopkins Leadership Program for Women Faculty 2009-2010
Expertise
  • Adjustment to Chronic Illness
  • Brain Injury Rehabilitation
  • Brain Tumors
  • Cancer Rehabilitation
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Cognitive Testing
  • Disorders of Executive Function
  • Disorders of Social Cognition
  • Medical Psychology
  • Memory Disorders
  • Neurologic Rehabilitation
  • Neurology
  • Neuropsychology
  • Neurosurgery
  • Rehabilitation Psychology
  • Stroke
  • Stroke Rehabilitation
  • Traumatic Brain Injury

Research

Research and Publications
Kortte KB, Hillis, AE (in press). Recent trends in rehabilitation interventions for visual neglect and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right hemisphere stroke. Future Neurology.

Budd, MA, Kortte, KB, Cloutman L, Newhart M, Gottesman RF, Davis C, Heidler-Gary J, Seay, MW, Hillis AE. (2010). The nature of naming errors in primary progressive aphasia versus acute post-stroke aphasia. Neuropsychology, 24(5), 581-589.

Helmick K, Kortte, KB, et al (2010). Cognitive Rehabilitation for mild traumatic brain injury: Results of April 2009 Consensus Conference. NeuroRehabilitation, 26, 239-255

Lequerica AH, Kortte, KB (2010). Therapeutic engagement: A proposed model of engagement in medical rehabilitation. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 89(5), 415-422.

Kortte, KB, Gilbert, M, Gorman, P, Wegener, ST (2010). Positive psychological variables in the prediction of life satisfaction following spinal cord injury. Rehabilitation Psychology, 55, 40-47.

Kortte, KB & Hillis, AE (2009). Recent advances in the understanding of neglect and anosognosia following right hemisphere stroke. Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports, 9, 459-465. PMID: 19818233

Kortte, KB, Veiel, L., Batten, SV, Wegener, ST (2009). Measuring avoidance in medical rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Psychology, 54 (1), 91-98. PMID: 19618708

Kortte, KB, Falk, LD, Castillo, RC, Johnson-Greene, D. & Wegener, ST (2007). The Hopkins Rehabilitation Engagement Rating Scale: Development and psychometric properties, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 88(7), 877. PMID: 17601468

Kortte, KB, & Wegener, ST (2004). Denial of illness in medical rehabilitation populations: Theory, research, and definition. Rehabilitation Psychology, 49(3), 187-199.

Kortte, KB, Wegener, ST, & Chwalisz, K (2003). Anosognosia and denial: Their relationship to coping and depression in acquired brain injury. Rehabilitation Psychology, 48(3), 131-136.

Kortte, KB, Horner, M.D, & Windham, WK. (2002). The Trail Making Test Part B: Cognitive flexibility or ability to maintain set? Applied Neuropsychology, 9, 106-109. PMID: 12214820

Horner, MD, Teichner, G, Kortte, KB, Harvey, RT. (2002). Construct validity of the Babcock Story Recall Test. Applied Neuropsychology, 9, 114-116. PMID: 12214822

Johnson-Greene, D & Bechtold, KT. (2002). Ethical considerations for peer review in forensic neuropsychology. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 16 (1), 97-104.

Bailey, JM, Bechtold, KT, & Berenbaum, SA. (2002). Who are tomboys and why should we study them? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 31, 333-341.

Bechtold, KT, Horner, MD, Labbate, LA, & Windham, WK. (2001). The construct validity and clinical utility of the Frank Jones Story as a brief screen of cognitive dysfunction. Psychosomatics, 42, 146-149.
Research Interests
  • Awareness Syndromes
  • Anosognosia
  • Rehabilitation Outcomes
  • Fatigue
  • Brain Injury Rehabilitation
  • Recovery after brain trauma

More Info

Languages
  • English
Memberships
American Psychological Association (APA): Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology), Division 40 (Neuropsychology)

International Neuropsychological Society (INS)

National Academy of Neuropsychology

Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society

American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
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