Shelli Kesler, PhD

Clinical Focus

• Psychology
• Psychiatry

Honors and Awards

• K07 Career Development Award, NCI (2009)
• Director's Innovator Award, NIH (2008)

Professional Education

Postdoctoral Advisees

Jennifer Bruno,  Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Psychiatry and Behavioral Science

Internet Links

• Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging Lab

Current Research Interests

Assessment and treatment of cognitive deficits related to medical problems, particularly cancer. Multi-level research involving neuropsychology, neuroimaging and genetics. Measurement and enhancement of neuroplasticity mechanisms through targeted interventions.

Clinical Trials

• Intellectual Impairment in Women With Breast Cancer Recruiting
• Phase II Early Behavioral Intervention in BMT w/ Sleep Disturbance-Assess QOL+Fatigue+Cognitive f(x) Recruiting

Publications

• Maternal history of reading difficulty is associated with reduced language-related gray matter in beginning readers. Black JM, Tanaka H, Stanley L, Nagamine M, Zakerani N, Thurston A, Kesler S, Hulme C, Lyytinen H, Glover GH, Serrone C, Raman MM, Reiss AL, Hoeft F. Neuroimage. 2012; 59 (3): 3021-32
• A pilot study of an online cognitive rehabilitation program for executive function skills in children with cancer-related brain injury. Kesler SR, Lacayo NJ, Jo B. Brain Inj. 2011; 25 (1): 101-12
• Changes in frontal-parietal activation and math skills performance following adaptive number sense training: preliminary results from a pilot study. Kesler SR, Sheau K, Koovakkattu D, Reiss AL. Neuropsychol Rehabil. 2011; 21 (4): 433-54
• Consequence of preterm birth in early adolescence: the role of language on auditory short-term memory. Fraello D, Maller-Kesselman J, Vohr B, Katz KH, Kesler S, Schneider K, Reiss A, Ment L, Spann MN. J Child Neurol. 2011; 26 (6): 738-42
• Prefrontal cortex and executive function impairments in primary breast cancer. Kesler SR, Kent JS, O'Hara R. Arch Neurol. 2011; 68 (11): 1447-53