Associate Professor
Director of Clinical Training
Department of Psychology

Currently accepting students for Fall 2014

Phone: 617-305-6397
Fax: 617-367-2924
Email: dgansler@suffolk.edu
Office: Donahue Building, Rm. 620

Education

  • PhD, State University of New York at Albany
  • BS, State University of New York at Albany

Internship and Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Boston University’s Aphasia Research Center/Boston VAMC; Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology; Licensed Psychologist, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Specialty Areas

Neuropsychology - adult; functions of the frontal lobe; decision making; emotion processing; self-control and divergent thinking/creativity

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 involve functions of the sub-divisions of the pre-frontal cortex and its applications to neurologic and psychiatric symptoms such as aggression and impulsivity. 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, impulsivity, executive functioning, decision-making, and emotion processing.

Please click here to view the Brain Image Analysis Laboratory Web Page

Selected Publications

Gansler, D.A., Jerram, M.W., Vannorsdall, T., & Schretlen, D.J. (2011). Comparing alternative metrics to assess performance on the Iowa Gambling Task. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 33(9), 1040-1048.

Gansler, D.A., Moore, D.W., Susmaras, T.M., Jerram, M.W., Sousa, J., & Heilman, K.M. (2011). Cortical morphology of visual creativity. Neuropsychologia, 49(11), 2527-2532.

Gansler, D.A.., Lee, A.K.W., Emerton, B.C., D’Amato, C., Bhadelia, R., Jerram, M., & Fulwiler, C. (2011). Prefrontal regional correlates of self-control in male psychiatric patients. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 191, 16-23.

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., 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.

Courses Taught

PSYCH 101 - Introduction to Neuroscience
PSYCH 312 - Cognitive Neuroscience
PSYCH 717 - Adult Assessment
PSYCH 741 - Clinical Supervision and Consultation IIB
PSYCH 747 - Advanced Psychological Testing, Adult Neuropsychological Testing