Chief, Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Brigham and Womens Hospital

Neurology

Kirk Daffner is an expert in the field of Neurology. He researched medicine at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received awards:"Super Doctor". Kirk Daffner is also a published physician. He has 32 paper published. The most recent paper is: The impact of executive capacity and age on mechanisms underlying multidimensional feature selection. Kirk Daffner accepts Medicare payments and is listed with Medicare.gov.

Publications

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• The impact of executive capacity and age on mechanisms underlying multidimensional feature selection.
• Age-related differences in early novelty processing: Using PCA to parse the overlapping anterior P2 and N2 components.
• Age-related decline in differentiated neural responses to rare target versus frequent standard stimuli.
• Age-Related Decline in Bottom-up Processing and Selective Attention in the Very Old.
• Does the age-related "anterior shift" of the P3 reflect an inability to habituate the novelty response?
• Investigating the age-related "anterior shift" in the scalp distribution of the P3b component using principal component analysis.
• Age-related differences in the automatic processing of single letters: implications for selective attention.
• Age-related differences in enhancement and suppression of neural activity underlying selective attention in matched young and old adults.
• You don't say: dynamic aphasia, another variant of primary Progressive aphasia?
• The Impact of Visual Acuity on Age-Related Differences in Neural Markers of Early Visual Processing.
• Does modulation of selective attention to features reflect enhancement or suppression of neural activity?
• Mechanisms underlying age- and performance-related differences in working memory.
• Surprise? Early visual novelty processing is not modulated by attention.
• Does compensatory neural activity survive old-old age?
• Promoting Successful Cognitive Aging: A Comprehensive Review.
• Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 35-2008. A 65-year-old man with confusion and memory loss.
• To ignore or explore: top-down modulation of novelty processing.
• Compensatory neural activity distinguishes different patterns of Normal cognitive aging.
• NSAIDs in the prevention of Dementia: a Cache-22?
• Cognitive status impacts age-related changes in attention to novel and target events in Normal adults.
• Increased responsiveness to novelty is associated with successful cognitive aging.
• Age-related differences in novelty and target processing among cognitively high performing adults.
• Electrophysiological dissociation of picture versus word encoding: the distinctiveness heuristic as a retrieval orientation.
• Metacognition and false recognition in Alzheimer's Disease: further exploration of the distinctiveness heuristic.
• Associative recognition in Alzheimer's Disease: evidence for impaired recall-to-reject.
• Memory and emotions for the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in patients with Alzheimer's Disease, patients with mild cognitive impairment, and healthy older adults.
• Use of IQ-adjusted norms to predict Progressive cognitive decline in highly intelligent older individuals.
• Semantic versus phonological false recognition in aging and Alzheimer's Disease.
• False recognition in Alzheimer Disease: evidence from categorized pictures.
• False recognition of pictures versus words in Alzheimer's Disease: the distinctiveness heuristic.
• Use of a false recognition paradigm in an Alzheimer's Disease clinical trial: a pilot study.

Schools

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• Harvard Medical School

• Beth Israel Hospital

• Harvard Longwood Program

Conditions Treated

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• Alzheimer's Disease
• Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
• Brain Aneurysm
• Brain Injury
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Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Super Doctor

Education

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
• Harvard Medical School

Hospital

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital

Drug Facts

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NPI NUMBER		1922081553
NPPES Provider LastName		DAFFNER
NPPES Provider FirstName		KIRK
NPPES Provider ZIPCode		021155804
NPPES Provider State		MA
Specialty Description		Neurology
Total Claim Count		394.0
Distinct Opioid Count		0.0
Opioid Claim Count		0.0
Percent Opioid Claims		0.0

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Medicare Facts

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National Provider Identifier [NPI]	1922081553
Last Name Of The Provider	DAFFNER
First Name Of The Provider	KIRK
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