People - Thomas E. Nordahl

Thomas E. Nordahl, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
916-734-3387

Education
1970 B.S., Mathematics, University of California, Davis
1972 M.A., Mathematics, University of California, Davis
1974 Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Davis
1982 M.D., Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston

Research Interests
Dr. Nordahl was initially trained as a mathematician and taught for two years at the University of South Carolina. His field of expertise includes chronic schizophrenia, aging and gerontology, and positron emission tomography. His research focuses on pharmacologic treatment trials and PET imaging studies.

Representative Publications

Ruth Salo, Thomas E. Nordahl, Charles Moore, Christy Waters, Yutaka Natsuaki, Gantt P. Galloway, Shawn Kile, and Edith V. Sullivan (2005). A dissociation in attentional control: evidence from methamphetamine dependence. Biological Psychiatry, 57(3):310-3. pdf

Nordahl TE, Salo R, Natsuaki Y, Galloway GP, Waters C, Moore CD, Kile S, Buonocore MH (2005). Methamphetamine users in sustained abstinence: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62(4):444-52. pdf

Nordahl TE, Salo R & Leamon MH (2003). Neuropsychological effects of chronic methamphetamine use on neurotransmitters and cognition: a review. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 15(3):317-25. pdf

Nordahl TE, Salo R, Possin K, Gibson DR, Flynn N, Leamon M, Galloway GP, Pfefferbaum A, Spielman, Adalsteinsson E, Sullivan EV. (2002). Low N-acetyl-aspartate and high choline in the anterior cingulum of recently abstinent methamphetamine-dependent subjects: a preliminary proton MRS study. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging, 116, 43-52. pdf

Salo, R., Henik, A., Nordahl, TE & Robertson, LC. (2002). Immediate versus sustained processing in schizophrenia. Jnl of Intl Neuropsychological Society, 8, 794-803. pdf

Salo R, Nordahl TE, Sullivan EV, Possin K, Boitor I, Leamon MH, Gibson DR, Galloway G, Flynn NM, Henik A, Pfefferbaum A. (2002). Preliminary evidence of reduced cognitive inhibition in methamphetamine-dependent individuals. Psychiatry Research, 111, 65-74. pdf

Henik A, Carter CS, Salo R, Chaderjian MR., Kraft, LW, Nordahl, TE. & Robertson, LC. (2002) Attentional control and word inhibition in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 110, 137-149. pdf

Nordahl TE., Carter CS., Salo RS., Kraft LW., Baldo JB., Salamat S., Robertson LC, Kusubov N. (2001). Anterior cingulate metabolism correlates with stroop errors in paranoid schizophrenia patients. Neuropsychopharmacology 25, 139-148. pdf

Salo R, Henik A, Kremen WS, Nordahl TE (2000). Inhibitory deficits in state hospital schizophrenia patients. Biological Psychiatry 47:22S-23S

Hoff AL, Nordahl TE, Kremen WS, Reisman B, Espinoza S, Liu W, Lim Ko, Sullivan E, Pfefferbaum A (2000). Sex differences in the corpus callosum of chronically ill schizophrenic patients. Biological Psychiatry 47:39S

Nordahl TE, Carter CS, Kraft L, Baldo J, Salamat S, Salo R, Kusubov, N (2000). Right anterior cingulate metabolic abnormality in chronic paranoid schizophrenia. Biological Psychiatry 47:45S

Cohen RM, Nordahl TE, Semple WE, Pickar D (1999). The brain metabolic patterns of clozapine- and fluphenazine-treated female patients with schizophrenia: evidence of a sex effect. Neuropsychopharmacology 21(5):632-40.

Cohen RM, Gross M, Semple WE, Nordahl TE, Sunderland T (1994). The metabolic brain pattern of young subjects given scopolamine. Experimental Brain Research, 100:133-143.

Carter C, Robertson LC, Nordahl TE, Chaderjian M, Celaya L (1993). A cognitive neuropsychological approach to the neurobiology of symptoms of schizophrenia. Actualities Psychiatriques, 24:5-8.

Carter CS, Robertson LC, Chaderjian MR, Nordahl TE (1993). Covert orienting of attention abnormalities in schizophrenia: The role of illness subtype and phenomenology. Progress in Neurobiology and Biological Psychiatry, 18:661-683.

Jagust WJ, Eberling JL, Richardson BR, Reed BR, Baker MG, Nordahl TE, Budinger TF (1993). The cortical topography of temporal lobe hypometabolism in early Alzheimer's disease. Brain Research, 629:189-198.

Matthew, E., Nordahl TE, Schut L, Cohen RM (1993). Cerebral metabolic rates in autosomal dominant spinal cerebellar ataxia. J. Neurological Sciences, 119:134-140.

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