Department of Neurology

Faculty Members
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Steven E. Arnold, M.D.

Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Director, Alzheimer Disease Core Center
Associate Director, Institute on Aging
Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Section
Director, Penn Memory Center
Department: Psychiatry

Contact information
2213 Translational Research Laboratories
123 South 31st Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: (215) 573-2840
Fax: (215) 573-2041
Graduate Group Affiliations
Education:
M.D. (Medicine)
Boston University, 1983.
B.A. (Medical Science, Philosophy)
Boston University, Summa cum laude , 1983.
Post-Graduate Training
Intern in Internal Medicine, St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY, 1983-1984.
Resident in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute / Columbia - Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY, 1984-1987.
Resident in Neurology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 1987-1990.
Postgraduate Associate, Neuroanatomy (with Gary W. Van Hoesen, Ph.D.), University of Iowa, 1987-1990.
Behavioral Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience (with Antonio. R. Damasio, M.D., Ph.D.), University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, 1989-1990.
Certifications
Psychiatry - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology , 1988.
Neurology - American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology , 1991.
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Description of Research Expertise

schizophrenia; neuropsychiatry; cognition in aging and neurodegenerative dementias; clinicopathological correlation studies; postmortem research; cellular and molecular neuropathology; quantitative microscopy.

Description of Clinical Expertise

Evaluation, diagnosis and medical management of complex neuropsychiatric disorders; Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative dementias;traumatic brain injury; cognitive, mood, and behavioral complications of neurological illness and injury.

Selected Publications

Berretini, W., Buono, R., Overhauser, J., Ballas, C., Thomes, J, Arnold, S.E., Sacdeva, U., Yang, F., McNabb, L., Friedlander, J., Vuoristo, J., Detera-Wadleigh, S., Henn, F., Ala-Kokko, Ferraro, T.N., Wildenauer, D.: A novel 18p11.2 candidate gene for susceptibility to psychotic disorders. Submitted. 2004.

Wilson RS, Schneider JA, Bienias JL, Arnold SE, Evans DA, Bennett DA.: Depressive symptoms, clinical AD, and AD pathology in older persons. In review. 2004.

Moberg, P.J., Doty, R.L., Gur, R.E. Arnold, S.E., Balderston, C.C., Gur, R.C., Kohler, C.G., Kanes, S.J., Siegel, S.J., Turetsky, B.I.: Olfactory functioning in schizophrenia: Relationship to clnical, neuropsychological and volumetric MRI measures. In review. 2004.

Hahn, C.-G., Han, L.-Y., Rawson, N.E., Mirza, N, Borgmann-Winter, K., Lenox, R.H., Arnold, S.E.: In vivo and in vitro neurogenesis in olfactory epithelium. Journal of Comparative Neurology, in press pending revisions. 2004.

Talbot, K., Eidem, W.L., Tinsley, C.L., Benson, M.A., Smith, R.J., Torjanowski, J.Q., Gur, R.E., Blake, D.J., Arnold, S.E.: Hippocampal formation dysbindin is reduced in schizophrenia. In review. 2004.

Nishioka, N., Arnold, S.E.: Evidence for oxidative DNA damage in the hippocampus of elderly patients with chronic schizophrenia. In review. 2004.

Arnold, S.E., Weinryb, J.: Geriatric Secrets (3rd edition), in press. Stroke. Lavizzo-Mourey, R. (eds.). New York, Hanley & Belfus, 2004.

Bennett, D.A., Wilson, R.S., Schneider, J.A., Evans, D.A., Aggarwal, N.T., Arnold, S.E., Cochran, E.J., Berry-Kravis, E., Bienias, J.L.: Apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele, AD pathology, and the clinical expression of Alzheimer's disease. Neurology 60(2): 246-52, 2003.

Bennett, D.A., Wilson, R.S., Schneider, J.A., Evans, D.A., Mendes De Leon, C.F., Arnold, S.E., Barnes, L.L., Bienias, J.L.: Education modifies the relation of AD pathology to level of cognitive function in older persons. Neurology 60(12): 1909-1915, 2003.

Falke, E., Nissanov, J., Mitchell, T.W., Bennett, D.A., Trojanowski, J.Q., Arnold, S.E.: Subicular dendritic arborization in Alzheimer's disease correlates with neurofibrillary tangle density. Am J Pathol 163(4): 1615-21, 2003.

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