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 Lee X. Blonder, Ph.D.
(University of Pennsylvania, 1986)
Lee X. Blonder, Ph.D. Professor
Department of Behavioral Science and
Sanders-Brown Center on Aging
301 Charles T. Wethington Health Sciences Building
900 S. Limestone St.
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40536-0200
Phone: Phone: (859) 257-9223
Fax: (859) 323-2623
Email: lxblond@email.uky.edu
Research Description
Dr. Blonder's research focuses on the neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processing in humans. She has studied the effects of right hemisphere stroke and the concomitant "flat affect" that is typically observed in association with strokes to the right hemisphere, on social behavior and marital interaction. Dr. Blonder is also collaborating with colleagues in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center at the University of Kentucky to study cognitive and emotional processing using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Dr. Blonder serves as Director of the Communication and Emotion Research laboratory (CERL), a facility devoted to the analysis of communicative and emotional behavior in a variety of subject populations.
2010 Accomplishments
Dr. Blonder is the Principal Investigator on an NIH grant entitled “Neuroimaging Studies of Depression in Parkinson's Disease.” She is also a co-investigator on an R21/R33grant “A Comparative Developmental Study of Face Processing,” (Jane Joseph, PI). In addition to supervising graduate students, Dr. Blonder served as a preceptor in Introduction to Clinical Medicine in the Spring and Fall 2010. Dr. Blonder served as a reviewer on (1) the Alzheimer’s Disease Center Pilot Grant Review Committee (Sanders-Brown Center on Aging), (2) NIMH and (3) NIDA Loan repayment programs, and (4) NIMH Special Emphasis Panel . She was also a member of the search committee to recruit two new Sanders-Brown Center on Aging faculty members. Dr. Blonder served on the University Research Professorship Committee, (Vice President for Research Office) and the Faculty Committee of the Liaison Committee for Medical Education Review (College of Medicine). She is an elected member of the University Senate and the University Senate Council, and serves on the Senate Rules and Elections committee. She submitted an R21 grant and is consultant on a pending NSF grant.
Research Funding
Co-Investigator, "Detection of Presymptomatic Alzheimer Disease by fMRI," NINDS, 1997-2000.
Principal Investigator, "Neural Substrates of Facial and Lexical Emotion Using fMRI," NSF, 1997-2000.
Representative Publications
Langer, S.L., Pettigrew, L.C., Wilson, J.F., & Blonder, L.X. (2000). Channel-consistency following unilateral stroke: An examination of patient communication across verbal and non-verbal domains. Neuropsychologia, 38, 337-344.
Blonder, L.X., Hodes, J., Ranseen, J., & Schmitt, F. (1999). Neuropsychological outcome following gamma knife radiosurgery for arteriovenous malformations: A Preliminary Report. Applied Neuropsychology, 6(3), 181-186.
Blonder, L.X. (1999). Brain and emotion relations in culturally diverse populations. In A.L. Hinton (Ed.), Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 274-296.
Langer, S.L., Pettigrew, L.C., Wilson, J.F., & Blonder, L.X. (1998). Personality and social competency following unilateral stroke. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 4, 447-455.
Smith, C.D., Anderson, A.H., Chen, Q., Blonder, L.X., Kirsch, J.E., & Avison, M.J. (1996). Cortical activation in visual confrontation naming. Neuro Report, 7, 781-785.
Blonder, L.X., Kort, E.D., & Schmitt, F.A. (1994). Conversational discourse in patients with Alzheimer?s disease. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 4(1), 50-71.
Blonder, L.X., Bowers, D., & Heilman, K.M. (1991). The role of the right hemisphere in emotional communication. Brain, 114(3), 1115-1127.
Blonder, L.X., Gur, R.E., & Gur, R.C. (1989). The effects of right and left hemiparkinsonism on prosody. Brain and Language, 36(2), 193-207.
Communication and Emotion Research Laboratory
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