Titles and Contact Information
Director, Ataxia Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Cognitive/Behavioral Neurology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Neurology Clerkship, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Scholar, The Academy at Harvard Medical School
Appointments: (617) 726-3216
Fax Number: (617) 726-2353
Affiliations and Profiles
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The Partners Program of Excellence in Alzheimer's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases
Clinical Interests
- Stroke
- Cognitive/Behavioral Neurology
- Ataxia
- Cerebellar Disorders
Clinical Background
1980 |
MD Degree
|
University of Cape Town School of Medicine |
1985 |
Residency
|
Boston City Hospital Neurology |
1987 |
Board Certification
|
Psychiatry and Neurology |
1988 |
Fellowship
|
Boston University School of Medicine Neuroanatomy and Neurobiology |
1988 |
Board Certification
|
Electrodiagnosis in Medicine |
Articles
Borsook
D, Moulton
EA, Tully
S, Schmahmann
JD, Becerra
L
Human cerebellar responses to brush and heat stimuli in healthy and neuropathic pain subjects.
Cerebellum.
2007
Jun
22;
():
1-21
Schmahmann
JD, Weilburg
JB, Sherman
JC
The neuropsychiatry of the cerebellum - insights from the clinic.
Cerebellum.
2007
;
6
(3):
254-67
Schmahmann
JD, Pandya
DN
Cerebral white matter--historical evolution of facts and notions concerning the organization of the fiber pathways of the brain.
J Hist Neurosci.
;
16
(3):
237-67
Schmahmann
JD, Pandya
DN, Wang
R, Dai
G, D'Arceuil
HE, de Crespigny
AJ, Wedeen
VJ
Association fibre pathways of the brain: parallel observations from diffusion spectrum imaging and autoradiography.
Brain.
2007
Mar
;
130
(Pt 3):
630-53
Parvizi
J, Joseph
J, Press
DZ, Schmahmann
JD
Pathological laughter and crying in patients with multiple system atrophy-cerebellar type.
Mov Disord.
2007
Apr
30;
22
(6):
798-803
Gregory
SA, MacRae
CA, Aziz
K, Sims
KB, Schmahmann
JD, Kardan
A, Morss
AM, Ellinor
PT, Tawakol
A, Fischman
AJ, Gewirtz
H
Myocardial blood flow and oxygen consumption in patients with Friedreich's ataxia prior to the onset of cardiomyopathy.
Coron Artery Dis.
2007
Feb
;
18
(1):
15-22
Parvizi
J, Arciniegas
DB, Bernardini
GL, Hoffmann
MW, Mohr
JP, Rapoport
MJ, Schmahmann
JD, Silver
JM, Tuhrim
S
Diagnosis and management of pathological laughter and crying.
Mayo Clin Proc.
2006
Nov
;
81
(11):
1482-6
Keuthen
NJ, Makris
N, Schlerf
JE, Martis
B, Savage
CR, McMullin
K, Seidman
LJ, Schmahmann
JD, Kennedy
DN, Hodge
SM, Rauch
SL
Evidence for reduced cerebellar volumes in trichotillomania.
Biol Psychiatry.
2007
Feb
1;
61
(3):
374-81
Schmahmann
JD, Caplan
D
Cognition, emotion and the cerebellum.
Brain.
2006
Feb
;
129
(Pt 2):
290-2
Cochrane
T, Schmahmann
JD
Compressive myelopathy presenting as cervical cord neurapraxia: a differential diagnosis of TIA.
Neurology.
2005
Oct
11;
65
(7):
1140-1
Makris
N, Schlerf
JE, Hodge
SM, Haselgrove
C, Albaugh
MD, Seidman
LJ, Rauch
SL, Harris
G, Biederman
J, Caviness
VS, Kennedy
DN, Schmahmann
JD
MRI-based surface-assisted parcellation of human cerebellar cortex: an anatomically specified method with estimate of reliability.
Neuroimage.
2005
May
1;
25
(4):
1146-60
Schmahmann
JD
Disorders of the cerebellum: ataxia, dysmetria of thought, and the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome.
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci.
2004
;
16
(3):
367-78
Schmahmann
JD, Rosene
DL, Pandya
DN
Motor projections to the basis pontis in rhesus monkey.
J Comp Neurol.
2004
Oct
18;
478
(3):
248-68
Schmahmann
JD, Ko
R, MacMore
J
The human basis pontis: motor syndromes and topographic organization.
Brain.
2004
Jun
;
127
(Pt 6):
1269-91
Schmahmann
JD
Plasmapheresis improves outcome in postinfectious cerebellitis induced by Epstein-Barr virus.
Neurology.
2004
Apr
27;
62
(8):
1443
Schmahmann
JD, Rosene
DL, Pandya
DN
Ataxia after pontine stroke: insights from pontocerebellar fibers in monkey.
Ann Neurol.
2004
Apr
;
55
(4):
585-9
Schmahmann
JD
Vascular syndromes of the thalamus.
Stroke.
2003
Sep
;
34
(9):
2264-78
Makris
N, Hodge
SM, Haselgrove
C, Kennedy
DN, Dale
A, Fischl
B, Rosen
BR, Harris
G, Caviness
VS, Schmahmann
JD
Human cerebellum: surface-assisted cortical parcellation and volumetry with magnetic resonance imaging.
J Cogn Neurosci.
2003
May
15;
15
(4):
584-99
Levisohn
L, Cronin-Golomb
A, Schmahmann
JD
Neuropsychological consequences of cerebellar tumour resection in children: cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome in a paediatric population.
Brain.
2000
May
;
123 ( Pt 5)
():
1041-50
Schmahmann
JD, Doyon
J, McDonald
D, Holmes
C, Lavoie
K, Hurwitz
AS, Kabani
N, Toga
A, Evans
A, Petrides
M
Three-dimensional MRI atlas of the human cerebellum in proportional stereotaxic space.
Neuroimage.
1999
Sep
;
10
(3 Pt 1):
233-60