Paul Nestor

Dr. Nestor has two programmatic areas of research interests:

Social, cognitive, and affective neurosciences of attention, memory, decision-making and intelligence as applied to healthy functioning as well as clinical disorders, particularly schizophrenia and substance abuse.

Interpersonal violence in relation to mental disorder, personality, neuropsychology, cognition, and beliefs.

Selected Publications

Nestor, P.G., Kubicki, M., Spencer, K.M., Niznikiewicz, M., McCarley, R.W. & Shenton, M.E. (in press). Attentional networks and cingulum bundle in chronic schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.
Han, S.D., Nestor, P.G., Hale-Spencer, M., Cohen, A., Niznikiewicz, M., McCarley, R.W, & Wible, C.W. (in press). Functional neuroimaging of word priming in males with chronic schizophrenia. NeuroImage.
Nestor, P.G., Onitsuka, T, Gurrera, R., Niznikiewicz, M., Shenton, M.E., & McCarley, R.W., (in press). Dissociable contributions of MRI reductions of Superior Temporal and Fusiform Gyri to symptoms and neuropsychology in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research.
Nestor, P.G., Valdman, O., Niznikiewicz, M., Spencer, K., McCarley, R.W., & Shenton, M.E. (2006). Word priming in schizophrenia: Associational and semantic influences. Schizophrenia Research, 82, 139-142.
Nestor, P.G., Piech, R., Allen, C., Niznikiewicz, M., Shenton, M.E., & McCarley, R.W. (2005). Retrieval-induced forgetting in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 75, 2-3, 199-209.
Onitsuaka, T., Nestor, P.G., Gurrera, R.J., Shenton, M.E., Kasai, K., Frumin, M., Niznikiewicz, M., & McCarley, R.W. (2005). Association between reduced extraversion and right posterior fusiform gyrus gray matter reduction in chronic schizophrenia. American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 599-601.
Nestor, P. G., Kubicki, M., Gurrera, R.J., Niznikiewicz, M., Frumin, M., McCarley, R.W., & Shenton, M.E. (2004). Neuropsychological correlates of diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology, 18, 629-637
Nestor, P.G. (2002). Mental disorder and violence: Personality dimensions and clinical features. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159, 973-1978.
Nestor, P.G., Kimble, M., Berman, I. Haycock, J. (2002). Psychosis, psychopathy, and homicide: A preliminary neuropsychological inquiry. American Journal of Psychiatry, 159,138-140.

Phone: 617-287-6387
Email: paul.nestor@umb.edu

Office Hours: M 1:00-1:30, 5:00-6:00; F 12:00-2:00