Stephen Rao

Biography

Stephen M. Rao, PhD, ABPP-Cn, is the Ralph and Luci Schey Chair and Director of the Schey Center for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Cleveland Clinic. He obtained his PhD in clinical psychology from Wayne State University, Detroit, and completed a predoctoral internship at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Prior to joining the Cleveland Clinic in 2007, he was Director of the Functional Imaging Research Center and Professor of Neurology (Neuropsychology) at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has authored over 150 scientific papers/book chapters and edited three books. Dr. Rao has two primary research areas: 1) the application of functional magnetic resonance imaging to study motor control; temporal information processing; working, episodic and semantic memory; and conceptual reasoning in healthy young and older participants, individuals in the preclinical stage of Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and patients with traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson’s disease; and 2) investigations of cognitive, personality and neuroimaging changes associated with multiple sclerosis. He has been a recipient of a National Institutes of Health Research Career Development Award and has received funding from National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Aging, US Department of Defense, CHDI Foundation, Charles A. Dana Foundation and National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Dr. Rao is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS), published by Cambridge University Press . He is the former Editor-in-Chief of Neuropsychology, published by the American Psychological Association.   He has served as Associate Editor of JINS and has been a member of the editorial boards of eight other journals. He has served as the President and a member of the Board of Governors of the International Neuropsychological Society, Board of Directors of the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology, and Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee for the International Neuropsychological Society annual meeting.

Research Interest

Alzheimer's and Dementia Huntington's Disease Parkinson's Disease Traumatic Brain Injury