Stephen E. Nadeau, MD

Steve Nadeau is a Professor of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Chief of the Neurology Service at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, and Medical Director of the VA RR&D funded Brain Rehabilitation Research Center in Gainesville, Florida. He completed his undergraduate work at the MIT, obtained his medical degree and residency training at the University of Florida, and pursued a fellowship in behavioral neurology with Kenneth Heilman. He has been a member of INS since the 1980s and an associate editor of JINS since 2006. His major research interests have been the neurological basis of language function and cognitive and motoric rehabilitation after stroke. A paper on subcortical aphasia, published in 1997, has become a landmark in that field. The Neural Architecture of Grammar (MIT Press, 2012), explicates a comprehensive theory of language function based on neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, cognitive neuropsychology, and cognitive psychology. The unifying principle is neurally inspired: population encoding of representations and parallel distributed processing (PDP). He has created a theoretical framework for generalization in language therapy for aphasia following stroke and with colleagues, has developed a phonologically based treatment, derived from the PDP model, that, uniquely, generalizes to untrained stimuli and produces effects that grow with time post-treatment. He has strong interests in neurologically motivated approaches to rehabilitation of motor impairment after stroke and has extensive phase II and NIH funded phase III trial experience in this area. Mentorship has been a major theme of both his research and his editorial work with JINS.