Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation (CNBS)
Optimizing and applying noninvasive brain stimulation to health care and research

Faculty

Daniel Press, MD
Principal Investigator

• 1991-1992 Howard Hughes Medical Institute-NIH research scholar, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, NIMH

• 1993-1994 Intern in Medicine, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, CT
  
• 1994-1997 Neurology Resident, Harvard Longwood Neurology Training Program, Boston, MA
  
• 1997-1999 Fellow in Behavioral Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  
• 1997-1999 Clinical Investigator Training Program:BIDMC-Harvard/MIT Health Sciences and Technology, in collaboration with Pfizer, inc.
• 1999-2000 Movement Disorders Fellow, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
  
• 1999-2004 Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• 2001-present Attending Staff Physician, Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center
• 2004-present Assistant Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Interests / Research Focus

• The cognitive aspects of Parkinson's disease
• Woring memory and procedural learning in neurodegenerative conditions
• Skill acquisition and procedural consolidation of motor skills

Relevant Publications

• Press DZ, Mechanic DJ, Tarsy D, Manoach DS. Cognitive slowing in PD resolves after Practice. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 73:524-528,2002.

• Barton JJ, Cherkasova MV, Press DZ, Intriligator JM, O’Connor M. Developmental Prosopagnosia: A Study of Three Patients. Brain and Cognition. 51:12-30, 2003.
  

• Robertson EM, Pascual-Leone A, Press DZ. Awareness Modifies the Skill-Learning Benefits of Sleep. Current Biology 14:1-5, 2004.
  

• Barton JS, Cherkasova MV, Press DZ, Intrilligator JM, O’Connor M. Perceptual Functions in Prosopagnosia. Perception 33:939-956, 2004.
  

• Press DZ. Parkinson’s Disease Dementia – a First Step? Editorial, New England Journal of Medicine,351:2547-2549, 2004.
  

• Press DZ, Casement MD, Pascual-Leone A, Robertson EM. The Time Course of Off-line Motor Sequence Learning. Cognitive Brain Research 25:375-378, 2005.
  

• Robertson EM, Press DZ, Pascual-Leone A. Off-line Learning and the Primary Motor Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 25:6372-6378, 2005.
  

• Cohen, DC, Pascual-Leone A, Press DZ, Robertson EM. Off-line Learning of Motor Skill Memory: a Double Dissociation of Goal and Movement. in press, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
  

• Casement MD, Broussard JL, Mullington JM, Press DZ. Effects of Chronic Sleep Restriction on Working Memory Scanning Speed. in press, Biological Psychology.
  

Link to NIH Formatted CV