UMass Boston

Clinical Neuropsychology; Forensic Psychology; Attention in Schizophrenia; Violence and Psychosis

PhD, Catholic University of America

• 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.

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.