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Prof. José León-Carrión, Ph.D. Education/career: BA in Philosophy, Ph.D. in Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Professor of Neuropsychology & Director of Human Neuropsychology Laboratory at University of Seville, Spain. Director of R+D+I Department at the Center for Brain Injury Rehabilitation (C.RE.CER.), Seville. Membership/Distinction: Executive Committee Vice Chair,International Brain Injury Association (IBIA; founding member, World Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology; member, European Brain Injury Society and various journal editorial boards; reviewer and consultant,U.S. Department of Defense TBI Grant Program;recognized internationally for over two decades of work in rehabilitation and brain injury. Expertise:International expert, consciousness studies and rehabilitation of patients in coma, vegetative state, minimal conscious state, locked-in syndrome and severe neurocognitive disorders; investigator,studies on TBI rehabilitation; developed neuropsychological assessment tools: Computerized Sevilla Neuropsychological Test Battery, Luria’s Memory Words-Revised Test and Neurologically-related Changes of Personality Inventory (NECHAPI); developed rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities; author, textbooks and articles in neuroscientific journals and books. Recent books: “Neuropsychology and the Hispanic Patient”, “Behavioral Neurology in the Elderly”, “Brain Injury Treatments: Theory and Practices”, and “Evaluación Clínico Neuropsicológica de la Afasia Puebla-Sevilla”. Author and co-author,recent articles: The Infrascanner, a handheld device for screening in situ for the presence of brain haematomas. Brain Injury, 2010; Unresponsive wakefulness syndrome: a new name for the vegetative state or apallic syndrome. BMC Med. 2010; Accuracy of the S100ß Protein as a marker of brain damage in Traumatic Brain Injury. Brain Injury,In Press; Time and course of functional Rehabilitation after deep traumatic coma. JRMed, In Press.
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