Neurology

David S. Sabsevitz, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Specialty: Neuropsychology

Brief Clinical/Research Interest Statement:

Dr. Sabsevitz specializes in the evaluation and treatment of adults with neurological, behavioral, and developmental disorders. He is the director of the Neuropsychology Brain Tumor Clinic and specializes in the evaluation of patients with CNS and systemic cancer. His current research involves examining the effects of whole brain and focal radiation on cognition and brain morphometry in brain tumor patients using standard and advanced imaging methods (e.g., diffusion tensor imaging), and examining the clinical utility of fMRI in the presurgical evaluation of epilepsy patients.

Publications:

1. Binder J.R., Swanson, S.J., Sabsevitz, D.S., Hammeke, T.A., Raghavan, M., Mueller, W.M. (2010). A comparison of two fMRI methods for predicting verbal memory decline after left temporal lobectomy: Language lateralization versus hippocampal activation asymmetry, Epilepsia, 51, 618-626
2. Binder J.R., Sabsevitz, D.S., Swanson, S.J., Hammeke, T.A., Raghavan, M., Mueller, W.M. (2008). Use of preoperative functional MRI to predict verbal memory decline after temporal lobe epilepsy surgery, Epilepsia, 49, 1377-1394.
3. Binder J.R., Swanson S.J., Hammeke T.H., Sabsevitz D.S. (2008). A comparison of five fMRI protocols for mapping speech comprehension systems, Epilepsia, 49, 1980-1997.
4. Lee, D., Swanson, S.J., Sabsevitz, D.S., Hammeke, T.A., Winstanley, F.S., Possing, E.T., Binder, J.R. (2008). FMRI and Wada studies in patients with interhemispheric dissociation of language functions. Epilepsy and Behavior, 13, 350-356.
5. Swanson, S.J., Sabsevitz, D.S., Hammeke, T.A., Binder, J.R. (2007). Functional magnetic resonance imaging of language in epilepsy. Neuropsychological Review, 17, 491-504.
6. Ruff I. M., Swanson S. J., Hammeke T. A., Sabsevitz D., Mueller W. M., Morris G. L.  (2007) Predictors of naming decline after dominant temporal lobectomy: Age at onset of epilepsy and age of word acquisition. Epilepsy & Behavior, 10, 272-277.
7. Sabsevitz, D.S., Medler, D.A., Seidenberg, M., & Binder, J.R. (2005). Modulation of the semantic system by word imageability. NeuroImage, 27, 188-200.
8. Moran, M., Seidenberg, M., Sabsevitz, D., Swanson, S., Herman, B. (2005). The acquisition of face and person identity information following anterior temporal lobectomy. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 237-248.
9. Swanson, S.J., Sabsevitz, D.S., Hammeke, T.A., Binder, J. (2005). Functional magnetic resonance imaging in epilepsy. Division of Clinical Neuropsychology Newsletter, 23 (1), 19-22.
10. Sabsevitz, D., Swanson, S., Hammeke, T., Spanaki, M., Possing, E., Morris, G., Mueller, W., Binder, J. (2003). Use of preoperative functional neuroimaging to predict language deficits from epilepsy surgery, Neurology, 60, 1788-1792.
11. Seidenberg, M., Griffith, R., Sabsevitz, D., Moran, M., Haltiner, A., Bell, B., Swanson, S., Hammeke, T., Hermann, B. (2002). Recognition and identification of famous faces in patients with unilateral temporal lobe epilepsy. Neuropsychologia, 40 (4), 446-456.
12. Sabsevitz, D., Seidenberg, M., Swanson, S., Morris, G., Mueller, W. (2001). Memory outcome following left anterior temporal lobectomy in patients with expected and reversed Wada memory asymmetry scores, Epilepsia, 42 (11), 1408 - 1415.
13. Ray, W. J., Sabsevitz, D., De Pascalis, V., Quigley, K., Aikens, D., Tubbs, M. (2000). Cardiovascular reactivity during hypnosis and hypnotic susceptibility: Three studies of heart rate variability. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48 (1), 22-31.