Prof. David J Libon

David J. Libon, PhD is Professor of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Psychology at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, School of Osteopathic Medicine, Rowan University.

Prof. Libon obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1985 and then went on to receive training in clinical neuropsychology at the Boston VA Medical Center under the supervision of Edith Kaplan, PhD.

Prof. Libon was an early pioneer in conducting research regarding neuropsychological syndromes associated with MRI evidence of white matter alterations and subcortical vascular dementia. For this research Prof. Libon was honored in 1998 with the Nelson Butters Award by the National Academy of Neuropsychology.

More recently the Libon lab has used statistical modeling techniques to elucidate phenotypic syndromes in both dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Prof. Libon has recently co-edited a book on Edith Kaplan and the Boston Process Approach as related to clinical neuropsychological assessment.

In 2015 Prof. Libon was honored by the International Neuropsychological Society with the Paul Satz Teaching Career Mentorship Award for his teaching and mentorship activities.

On August, 2017 Prof. Libon was presented with the TUMS Distinguished Visiting Professor Title for the duration of 2017-2020 by Head of Speech Therapy Department.

• Dementia

• MCI

• Executive control

• Emrani, S, Libon, D.J., Lamar, M., Price, C.C., Jefferson, A.L., Gifford, K.A., Hohman, T.J., Nation, D.A., Delano-Wood, L., Jak, A., Bangen, K.J., Bondi, M.W., Brickman, A.M., Manly, J., Swenson, R., and Rhoda, A. Assessing working memory in mild cognitive impairment with serial order recall. Journal Of Alzheimer’s Disease (submitted).

• Libon, D.J., Eppig, J., Drabick, D., Erwin, K., Annibali, C., Durmala, L., Bloch, A., Donohue, J., Swenson, R., Alexander, G.M., Aradillas, E., Peterlin, B.L., and Schwartzman, R.J. Neuropsychological and Related Clinical Features Associated with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome: A Latent Class Analysis (2016). British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research 18(12): 1-12, 2016; Article no.BJMMR.29713

• Price, C.C., Tanner, J.T., Schmalfuss, I., Heilman, K.M. and Libon, D.J. (2015). Dissociating statistically– determined Alzheimer/ Vascular dementia neuropsychological syndromes using white and gray neuroradiological parameters. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 48, 833-847.

• Libon, D.J., Preis, S.R., Beiser, A.S., Devine, S., Seshadri, S., Wolf, P.A., DeCarli, C., and Au, R. (2015). Verbal memory and brain aging: An exploratory analysis of the role of error responses in the Framingham Study. American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias, 30, 622-628.

• Edmonds, E.C., Delano-Wood, L., Clark, L.R., Jak, A.J., Nation, D.A., McDonald, C.R., Libon, D.J., Au, R., Salmon, D.P., and Bondi, M.W. for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (2015). Susceptibility of the conventional criteria for Mild Cognitive Impairment to false positive diagnostic errors: Evidence from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Alzheimer’s and Dementia, 11, 415-424.

• Libon, D.J., Rascovsky, K., Powers, J., Irwin, D., Boller, A., Weinberg, D., McMillan, C.T., and Grossman, M. (2013). Comparative semantic profiles In Semantic Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Brain, 136, 2497-2509.

• Libon, D.J., Swenson, R., Ashendorf, L., Bauer, R.M., and Bowers, D. (2013). Edith Kaplan and the Boston Process Approach. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 27, 1223-1233. 

• Irwin, D. J., McMillan, C.T., Brettschneider, J., Libon, D.J., Boller, A., Powers, J., Chandrasekaran, K., Wood, E.M., Toledo, J.B., Shaw, L., Wolk, D., Arnold, S.E., Van Deerlin, V., McCluskey, L.F., Elman, L., M.-Y. Lee, V., Trojanowski, J.Q., and Grossman, M. (2013). Accelerated cognitive decline in C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion-positive ALS and FTLD. Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery, 84, 163-169.

• Price, C. C., Brumback, B., Mitchell, S., Towler, S., Tanner, J., Schmalfuss, I., Lamar, M., Giovannetti, T., Heilman, K.M., and Libon, D. J. (2012). MRI-Leukoaraiosis Thresholds and the Phenotypic Expression of Dementia. Neurology, 79, 734-740.

• Libon, D.J., McMillan, C.T., Avants, B., Boller, A., Morgan, B., Burkholder, L., Chandrasekaran, K., Elman, L., McCluskey, L., and Grossman, M. (2012). Deficits in concept formation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Neuropsychology 26, 422-429.

   

During his presence at TUMS, he has visited the School of Rehabilitation.