MGH Appointment: Neurology (Neuropsychology); Assistant Psychologist
HMS Appointment: Instructor
MGH Address: VBK 725
MGH Phone: 726-3647
Patient Office Phone: 726-3647
Patient Office Location: 5 Emerson, Suite 105.
E-Mail Address: sherman@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
FAX: 724-3726
Undergraduate Education: Clark University, BA
Graduate and/or Medical School: Cornell University, Ph.D.
Residencies and Fellowships: Post-doctoral fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Medical School; Sloan Post-doctoral fellow, MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Foreign Language Spoken:
Certification by an American Specialty Board:
Primary Specialty: Licensed psychologist
Other Specialties:
Research Interests: Aphasia, Cerebellum and cognition, developmental dyslexia, language acquisition, language impairments in Alzheimer's disease
Clinical Interests: Neuropsychological assessments of aphasic deficits, dementia, developmental delays in language and cognition. Relationship between cognition and cerebellum.
Representative Publications:
Sherman JC, Schweichert J.Syntactic and semantic contributions to sentence comprehension in agrammatism. Brain and Language, 1989, 37:419-439. Sherman JC, Lust B. Children are in control. Cognition, 1993, 46(1):1-31. Schmahmann JD, Sherman JC. The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome: Clinical features of a newly defined entity. Brain, 121:561-579, 1998.