Assistant Professor
Director, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Program
Co-Director, Frontotemporal Dementia and Young-Onset Dementias Clinic
Main Office Address
Meyer 279
Johns Hopkins Hospital
600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21287
Phone: 410-955-6736
Fax: 410-614-1094
E-mail: bappleb1@jhmi.edu
Education
1999 | B.A. | Goucher College |
2003 | M.D. | Georgetown University School of Medicine |
2003-2004 | Psychiatry Internship | Georgetown University |
2004-2007 | Psychiatry Residency | Johns Hopkins University |
2007-2008 | Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University |
Professional Interests
- Human prion diseases (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, Gerstmanns-Straüssler-Scheinker Syndrome)
- Young-onset and familial dementia
- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (e.g. frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, corticobasilar ganglionic degeneration, progressive supranuclear palsy)
- Neuropsychiatry
Selected Publications
Appleby BS, Appleby KK, Rabins PV. Does the Presentation of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Vary by Age or Presumed Etiology? A Meta-Analysis of the Past Ten Years. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 2007; 19(4):428-435.
Appleby BS, Onyike C. Early Detection of Periodic Sharp Wave Complexes on EEG by Independent Component Analysis in Patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. J Clin Neurophysiol 2008; 25(4):239.
Appleby BS, Appleby KK, Rabins PV. Predictors of Depression and Anxiety in Patients with Intracranial Neoplasms. [J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci, In Press].
Lee HB, Hanner J, Yokley J, Appleby BS, Hurowitz L, Lyketsos CG. Clozapine for Treatment Resistant Agitation in Dementia. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 2007; 20: 178-182
