Lee X. Blonder Ph.D., Professor of Behavioral Science, Neurology, and Anthropology, received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. She did postdoctoral training in the Department of Neurology at the University of Florida and joined the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and the Department of Behavioral Science at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 1989. She is also a Faculty Associate of the Morris K. Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence at the University of Kentucky . Her research focuses on emotion and communication in patients with Parkinson’s disease and stroke. 

Principal Investigator: 7/01/06- 6/30/10   National Institutes of Health (National Institute of Mental Health/National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke). Neuroimaging Studies of Depression in Parkinson's Disease.

                                    Subcontract Principal Investigator: 6/01/00 - 5/31/05    NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders/University of Florida .  Treatment of Aphasia and Related Disorders.

Principal Investigator, "Neural Substrates of Facial and Lexical Emotion Using fMRI," NSF, 1997-2000.

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

Tel: 859-257-9223

Fax: 859-323-2623

Email: lxblond@email.uky.edu

http://www.mc.uky.edu/parkinson_imaging/

            Representative Pubs:

            Raymer, A.M., Ciampitti, M., Holliway, B., Singletary, F., Blonder, L.X., Ketterson, T., Heilman, K.M., and Rothi, L.J.G. (2007).  Lexical-semantic treatment for noun and verb retrieval impairments in aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. 17(2):244-270. 

            Blonder, L.X,  Heilman, K.M., Ketterson, T., Rosenbek, J., Crosson, B., Raymer, S., Maher, L., Glueckauf, R., and Rothi, L.G. (2005) Affective facial and lexical expression in aprosodic versus aphasic stroke patients.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 11(6):677-85. 

             Smith, C.D, , Kryscio, R.J., Schmitt, F.A., Lovell, M.A., Blonder, L.X., Rayens, W.S.,        Andersen A.H. Longitudinal functional alterations in asymptomatic women at risk for Alzheimer's disease.               J Neuroimaging. 2005, 15(3):271-7. 

            Blonder, L.X,  Heilman, K.M., Ketterson, T., Rosenbek, J., Crosson, B., Raymer, S., Maher, L., Glueckauf, R., and Rothi, L.G. (2005) Affective facial and lexical expression in aprosodic versus aphasic stroke patients.  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 11(6):677-85. 

             Heath, R.L. and Blonder, L.X.  Spontaneous humor among right hemisphere stroke survivors.  Brain and Language. 2005, 93:267-276. 

             Blonder, L.X., Smith, C.D., Davis, C.E., Kesler/West, M. L., Garrity, T.F., Avison, M.J., Andersen, A.H., Regional Brain Response to Faces of Humans and Dogs.  Cognitive Brain Research, 2004, 20 (3): 384-394. 

             Kesler/West, M. L., Andersen, A.H., Smith, C.D., Avison, M.J., Davis , C.E.,  Kryscio, R.J., and Blonder, L.X.  Neural substrates of facial emotion processing using fMRI.  Cognitive Brain Research, 2001, 11(2):213-226.

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., 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.