Alzheimer's Disease and Cognitive Neurology Faculty Team

AM Barrett, MD, is a cognitive neurologist and neurorehabilitationist, and her research is focused on spatial cognition, right brain rehabilitation, and unawareness of deficits.

Barrett, MD, and her collaborators are pioneers and US leaders in spatial neglect rehabilitation. Her work demonstrates that when powerful right brain systems are damaged, hidden disabilities occur affecting functional vision, strength, and mobility as well as adaptive navigation. These problems devastate daily activities and can be dramatically improved with spatial retraining while wearing off-the-shelf optical prisms.

Dr. Barrett has trained hundreds of clinicians and led the treatment of thousands of patients, many of whom are relieved of spatial neglect symptoms, even years after stroke. The goal of her current, multisite, Veteran Administration-funded research is to identify a brain-based biomarker that can be used to personalize and facilitate spatial neglect care. 

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Education:
- fellowship training at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, University of Western Ontario
- residency training in neurology at UMass Chan Medical School
- medical degree from McGill University in Montreal Canada