David A. Gansler, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN

Associate Professor of Psychology
B.S. (Psychology) Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology) State University of New York at Albany; Internship and Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Boston University’s Aphasia Research Center/Boston VAMC; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine; Former Chief Psychologist at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital; Former Director of Post-doctoral Fellowship Program in Clinical Neuropsychology at New England Medical Center.

Contact Information

Suffolk University
Department of Psychology
41 Temple Street
Boston, MA 02114
Donahue 616
617-305-6397 (Office)
367-2924 (Fax)
dgansler@suffolk.edu

Courses Taught

PSYCH 216 Research Methods
PSYCH 312 Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYCH 717 Adult Assessment
PSYCH 741 Clinical Supervision and Consultation IIB
PSYCH 747 Advanced Psychological Testing, Adult Neuropsychological Testing

Specialty Areas

Neuropsychology - adult, functions of the frontal lobe, emotion processing, and self-control.

My research career began with my introduction to and mentorship by Dr. Marlene Oscar-Berman, the well-known alcohol and frontal lobe researcher. This began a series of collaborations exploring frontal lobe dysfunction in traumatic brain injury and alcoholic populations using diverse methods such as delayed alternation and delayed response as well as regional cerebral blood flow defined by head SPECT. My own current interests involving functions of the sub-divisions of the pre-frontal cortex and its applications to neurologic and psychiatric symptoms such as aggression and impulsivity. Much of this work is done in collaboration with a multi-disciplinary team involving psychiatry (Carl Fulwiler, M.D., Ph.D.) and radiology (Rafeeque Bhadelia, M.D.). My research methods include image analysis of the brain (quantitative and voxel-based morphometry, DTI, and fMRI), neuropsychological assessment, and interview techniques.  Recent work in the lab includes the neural networks of aggression and impulsivity and emotion processing.

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Selected Publications

Moore, D.W., Bhadelia, R.A., Billings, R.L., Fubwiler, C., Heilman, K.M., Rood, K.M., & Gansler, D.A. (2009). Hemispheric connectivity and the visual-spatial divergent-thinking component of creativity. Brain and Cognition, 70 (3), 267-272.

Gansler, D.A., McLaughlin, N.C.R., Iguchi, L., Jerram, M., Moore, D.W., Bhadelia, R., et al. (2009). A multivariate approach to aggression and the orbital frontal cortex in psychiatric pateints. Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging, 171, 145-154.

Sheth-Antonucci, A., Gansler, D.A., Tan, S., Bhadelia, R., Patz, S., & Fulwiler, C. (2006). Orbitofrontal correlates of aggression and impulsivity in psychiatric patients. Psychiatric Research: Neuroimaging, 147 (2-3), 213-220.

Gansler, D.A., Harris, G.J., Oscar-Berman, M., Streeter, C., Lewis, R.F., Ahmed, I., & Achong, D. (2000). Hypoperfusion of inferior frontal brain regions in abstinent alcoholics: apilot SPECT study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 61 (1), 32-37.

Gansler, D.A., Fucetola, R., Krengel, M., Stetson, S., Zimering, R., Makary, C. (1998). Are there cognitive subtypes in adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186 (12), 776-781.