Heather Wishart, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Neuropsychology Program and Brain Imaging Laboratory at Dartmouth. She completed doctoral training at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York. She holds a K23 career development award (2005-2010) from the National Institutes of Health for the study of brain structure and function in multiple sclerosis.

Selected publications:

Wishart, H. A., Strauss, E., Hunter, M., & Moll, A. (1995). Interhemispheric transfer in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 17, 937 - 940.

Wishart, H., & Sharpe, D. (1997). Neuropsychological aspects of multiple sclerosis: A quantitative review. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 19, 810-824.

Wishart, H. A. (1999). Cognition and emotion in multiple sclerosis. Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, 5, 303-311.

Greene, Y.M., Tariot, P.N., Wishart, H., Cox, C., Holt, C.J., Schwid, S., Noviasky, J. A. (2000). 12 week open trial of donepezil HCL in multiple sclerosis patients with associated cognitive impairment. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20, 350-6.

Schwidt, S.R. , Weinstein, A.M., Wishart, H.A., & Schiffer, R.B. (2000). Psychiatric management of multiple sclerosis. In E. Lauterbach (Ed.), Psychiatric management of neurological disease. Washington, DC: APA Press.

Wishart, H. A., Flashman, L. A., & Saykin, A. J. (2001). The neuropsychology of multiple sclerosis: Contributions of neuroimaging research. Current Psychiatry Reports, 3, 373-378.

Wishart, H. A., Saykin, A. J., & McAllister, T.W. (2002). Functional magnetic resonance imaging: Emerging clinical applications. Current Psychiatry Reports, 4, 338-345.

Baxter, L. C., Saykin, A. J., Flashman, L., Johnson, S. C., Guerin, S., Babcock, D. R., Wishart, H. A. (2003). Sex differences in semantic language processing: A functional MRI study. Brain and Language.

Wishart, H.A., Roberts, D.W., Roth, R.M., McDonald, B.C., Coffey, D.J., Mamourian, A.C., Hartley, C., Flashman, L.A., Fadul, C.E., Saykin, A.J. (2003). Chronic deep brain stimulation for the treatment of tremor in multiple sclerosis: Literature review and case reports. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 74, 1392-1397.

Flashman, L.A., Wishart, H.A., Oxman, T.E. & Saykin, A. J. (2003). Boundaries between normal aging and dementia: Perspectives from neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations. In: V.O.B. Emory & T.E. Oxman (Eds.), Dementia: Presentations, Differential Diagnosis and Nosology (2nd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 3-30.

Pekala, J.S., Mamourian, A.C., Raque, J.D., Hickey, W.F., Wishart, H.A. (2003). Focal lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum on FLAIR MR: A common finding with aging and following brain radiation therapy. AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology, 24, 855-861.

Saykin, A. J. & Wishart, H.A. (2004). Mild Cognitive Impairment: Conceptual Issues and Structural and Functional Brain Correlates. In F. Ovsiew (Ed.), Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry.

Wishart, H. A., Saykin, A.J., McDonald, B.C., Mamourian, A. C., Flashman, L. A., Ryan, K. A., Schuschu, K. R., Fadul, C. E., & Kasper, L. H. (2004). Brain activation patterns associated with working memory in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Neurology, 62, 234-238.

Saykin, A.J., Wishart, H.A., Rabin, L.A., Flashman, L. A., McHugh, T.L., Mamourian, A.C., Santulli, R.B. (2004). Cholinergic enhancement of frontal lobe activity in Mild Cognitive Impairment. Brain, 127, 1574-1583.

Randolph, J.J., Wishart, H.A., Saykin, A.J., McDonald, B.C., Schuschu, K.R., MacDonald, J., Mamourian, A.C., Fadul, C.E., & Kasper, L. (2005). FLAIR lesion volume in MS: Relationship with processing speed and verbal memory. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11(2), 205-209.

Goldman Consensus Group (2005). The Goldman consensus statement on depression in multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis, 11 (3), 328-337.

Saykin, A.J., & Wishart, H.A. (in press). Functional MRI research on memory in aging and dementia. In S. H. Faro & F. B. Mohamed (Eds.), Functional MRI. Springer-Verlag.

Rabin, L.A., Wishart, H.A., Fields, R.B., & Saykin, A.J. (2005). The dementias. In P. J. Snyder, P. D. Nussbaum, & D. L. Robins (Eds.), Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment (2nd ed., pp. 210-239). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Wishart, H.A., Saykin, A.J., Rabin, L.A., Santulli, R.B., Flashman, L.A., Guerin, S., Mamourian, A.C., Belloni, D., Rhodes, C.H., McAllister, T.W. (2006). Increased brain activation during working memory in cognitively intact adults with the APOE π4 allele. American Journal of Psychiatry.

Wishart, H.A., Benedict, R.H. B., & Rao, S.M. (in press). Neuropsychological aspects of multiple sclerosis. In C.S. Raine, H.F. McFarland, & R. Hohlfeld (Eds.), Multiple Sclerosis: A Comprehensive Text. Elsevier: Oxford, UK.

Saykin, A.J., Wishart, H.A., Rabin, L.A., Santulli, R.B., Flashman, L.A., West, J.D., McHugh, T.L., & Mamourian, A.C. (2006). Older adults with cognitive complaints show brain atrophy similar to that of amnestic MCI. Neurology.

Wishart, H.A., Saykin, A.J., McAllister, T.W., Rabin, L.A., McDonald, B.C., Flashman, L.A., Roth, R.M., Mamourian, A.C., Tsongalis, G.J., Rhodes, C.H. (2006, in press). Regional brain atrophy in cognitively intact adults with a single APOE π4 allele. Neurology.