Career
He has been a reviewer and recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Institutes of Health and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is or has been on the editorial boards of leading journals in his field He has written 11 books, edited 4 others, and about 200 articles Premedical studies at the University of California in Los Angeles, graduation from Berkeley in 1959.
Medical school at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, with Doctor of Medicine in 1963, internship at Saint Elizabeth"s Hospital in Washington, District of Columbia He returned to Los Angeles for a residency in neurology at University of California, Los Los Angeles 1967–1969 in the Army, in of Korea and San Francisco.
In 1969, he took a post-doctoral fellowship at the Boston Veteran"s Hospital. In 1972, he published his first book, Aphasia, Apraxia, and Agnosia.
In 1976, he received a fellowship from the Foundations Fund for Research in Psychiatry to spend a year at the Centre Neuropsychologique et Neurolinguistique in Paris. On his return, he joined the staff of New York University Medical Center, eventually as Clinical Professor in neurology.
The academic year 1978-1979 was spent as Visiting Associate Professor at Rockefeller University.
The Center for Cognition and Communication (Commodity Credit Corporation) was established to provide treatment for clients with head injury, stroke, and other acquired and developmental disorders of cognition.
