Michele K. York, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Graduate School

Ph.D. (1998) Vanderbilt University

Clinical Interests

Neuropsychological evaluation of adults with movement disorders, including patients with deep brain stimulation; pre and post surgical evaluation of patients with epilepsy; language mapping during awake surgery for epilepsy and tumors, differential diagnosis of dementias.

Research Interests

Neuropsychological evaluation of deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease; neuroimaging of patients with movement disorders; outcome of temporal lobectomy.

Publications

York MK, Dulay M, Macias A, Levin H, Grossman R, Simpson R, Jankovic J. Cognitive declines following bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;:.
York MK, Lai EC, Jankovic J, Macias A, Atassi F, Levin HS, Grossman RG. Short and long-term motor and cognitive outcome of staged bilateral pallidotomy: a retrospective analysis. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2007;149:857-66; discussion 866.
Dulay MF, York MK, Soety EM, Hamilton WJ, Mizrahi EM, Goldsmith IL, Verma A, Grossman RG, Yoshor D, Armstrong DD, Levin HS. Memory, emotional and vocational impairments before and after anterior temporal lobectomy for complex partial seizures. Epilepsia 2006;47:1922-30.
McClure SM, York MK, Montague PR. The neural substrates of reward processing in humans: the modern role of FMRI. Neuroscientist 2004;10:260-8.
York MK, Levin HS, Grossman RG, Lai EC, Krauss JK. Clustering and switching in phonemic fluency following pallidotomy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2003;25:110-21.
York MK, Rettig GM, Grossman RG, Hamilton WJ, Armstrong DD, Levin HS, Mizrahi EM. Seizure control and cognitive outcome after temporal lobectomy: a comparison of classic Ammon's horn sclerosis, atypical mesial temporal sclerosis, and tumoral pathologies. Epilepsia 2003;44:387-98.
York MK, Franks JJ, Henry RR, Hamilton WJ. Verbal working memory storage and processing deficits in HIV-1 asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals. Psychol Med 2001;31:1279-91.
York MK, Levin HS, Grossman RG. Pallidotomy and psychological outcomes. J Neurosurg 2001;94:866-8.
Rettig GM, York MK, Lai EC, Jankovic J, Krauss JK, Grossman RG, Levin HS. Neuropsychological outcome after unilateral pallidotomy for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2000;69:326-36.
York MK, Levin HS, Grossman RG, Hamilton WJ. Neuropsychological outcome following unilateral pallidotomy. Brain 1999;:2209-20.

Poster Presentations

Karmonik C, Grossman RG, York MK. Brain Activation in Parkinson's Disease during a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Set Shifting Task: Preliminary Findings. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 60th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 12-19, 2008).
Kuo SH, Strutt AM, York MK, Kass JS. Successful Treatment of Cognitive Decline in Sneddon Syndrome Associated with Hepatitis C with Cyclophosphamide. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 60th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 12-19, 2008).
Strutt AM, York MK, Jankovic J. Changes in Emotional versus Physical Symptoms of Depression following Sub-Thalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 60th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 12-19, 2008).
York MK, Karmonik C, Grossman RG, Wilde E. The Relationship between Cognitive Functioning and Whole Brain Diffusion Tensor Imaging Abnormalities in Parkinson's Disease. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 60th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 12-19, 2008).
York MK, Karmonik C, Yallampalli R, Chu Z, Grossman RG, Wilde E. The Relationship between Diffusion Tensor Tractography and Cognitive Functioning in Parkinson's Disease. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 60th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (April 12-19, 2008).
Salamone AR, Strutt AM, McDowell EJ, Ngo D, Coerver K, Ringholz G, York MK, Schulz PE. Gender Differences in the Clinical Presentation of Familial Frontotemporal Dementia. National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), 27th Annual Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona (Nov. 14-18, 2007).
York MK, Macias A, Schulz PE, Harati Y, Katz J, Woolley-Levine S. Preliminary Validation of the ALS Cognitive Behavioral Screen (ALS-CBS)T. 2nd International Frontotemporal Dementia in ALS Research Conference, London, Ontario Canada (June 10-13, 2007).
York MK, Wilde E, Simpson Jr RK, Jankovic J. Relationship of MRI Localization and Cognition in DBS. Movement Disorder Society (MDS), 10th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Kyoto, Japan (Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 2006).
Salamone AR, McDowell E, York MK, Macias A, Ngo D, Mosnik D, Patel P, Coerver K, Ringholz G, Schulz PE. Family with Female Predominant FTD. 5th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementia, San Francisco, California (Sept. 6-8, 2006).
York MK, Jankovic J, Lai EC, Dulay M. Frontostriatal Cognitive Functioning 6 Months Following Bilateral Subthalamic Nucleus Deep Brain Stimulation. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 58th Annual Meeting in San Diego, California (April 1-8, 2006).
Dulay MF, York MK, Jankovic J, Simpson Jr RK. Neuropsychological Outcome after Bilateral Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Advanced Parkinson's Disease: Base Rates Adjusted for Practice Effects, Test Unreliability, and Natural Disease Progression. International Neuropsychological Society (INS), 34th Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts (Feb. 1-4, 2006).
Dulay MF, Levin HS, York MK, Yoshor D, Grossman RG, Verma A, Goldsmith IL, Mizrahi EM. Verbal Memory Declines are Largest for Patients with Depression and Anxiety after Anterior Temporal Lobectomy. American Epilepsy Society (AES), 59th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (Dec. 2-6, 2005).
Schmolck H, York MK, Verma A, Goldsmith IL, Yoshor D, Levin HS, Foreman PJ, Mizrahi EM, Schulz PE. Impaired Semantic Memory in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy - What is the Role of Anterior Temporal Lobectomy?. American Epilepsy Society (AES), 59th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (Dec. 2-6, 2005).
Schmolck H, Foreman PJ, Verma A, Goldsmith IL, York MK, Levin HS, Yoshor D, Mizrahi EM, Schulz PE. Semantic Memory is More Impaired in Dominant than in Nondominant Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Society for Neuroscience (SFN), 35th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (Nov. 12-16, 2005).
Dulay MF, Levin HS, Jankovic J, Lai EC, York MK. Relationship among Psychiatric, Motor and Cognitive Functioning in Non-Demented Individuals with Parkinson's Disease. Movement Disorder Society (MDS), 9th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in New Orleans, Louisiana (March 5-8, 2005).
York MK, Silay YS, Chaytor N, Simpson Jr RK, Jankovic J. Is Depression a Predictor of Outcome after Bilateral Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation in Patients with Parkinson's Disease?. Movement Disorder Society (MDS), 8th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Rome, Italy (June 13-17, 2004).
York MK, Lai EC, Soety EM, Atassi F, Grossman RG, Simpson Jr RK. Temporal Course of the Motor Effects of Subthalamic DBS after Stopping Stimulation. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 56th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California (April 24 - May 1, 2004).
York MK, Levin HS, Soety EM, Lai EC, Jankovic J, Grossman RG. Information Processing Speed Influences the Component Processes of Verbal Working Memory in Parkinson's Disease Patients. International Neuropsychological Society (INS), 32nd Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland (Feb. 4-7, 2004).
York MK, Lai EC, Levin HS, Grossman RG. Dual-Task Functioning in Mild and Moderately Severe Parkinson's Disease Patients. American Academy of Neurology (AAN), 55th Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii (March 29 - April 5, 2003).
York MK, Lai EC, Levin HS, Grossman RG. Working Memory Functioning in Mild and Moderately Severe Parkinson's Disease Patients. Movement Disorder Society (MDS), 7th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders in Miami, Florida (Nov. 10-14, 2002).

Contact Information

Michele K. York, Ph.D.
Department of Neurology
Baylor College of Medicine
One Baylor Plaza, MS NB302
Houston, Texas 77030

Tel: 713-798-5365
Fax: 713-798-6070
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