Bruce K Schefft

Professor of Psychology and Neurology; Director, Neuropsychology
401B Dyer Hall
513-556-5562
bruce.schefft@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Select Representative Publications:

Schefft, B.K., Dulay, M. & Fargo, J.D. (in press). The use of a self-generation memory encoding strategy to improve verbal memory and learning in patients with traumatic brain injury. Applied Neuropsychology.

Kent, G. P., Schefft, B. K., Szaflarski, J. P., Howe, S. R., Yeh, H. S. & Privitera, M.D. (in press). The effects of duration of intractable epilepsy on memory function. Epilepsy & Behavior.

Testa, S. M., Schefft, B. K., Szaflarski, J. P., Yeh, H. S. & Privitera, M. P. (in press). Mood, personality, and health-related quality of life in epileptic and psychogenic seizure disorders. Epilepsia.

Lebowitz, B., Schefft, B.K., Testa, S. M., Patton, J.A. & Yeh, H.S. (in press) Cognitive sequelae of a giant arachnoid cyst: a case study. Neurocase.

Fargo, J.D., Schefft, B.K., Kent, G.P., Szaflarski, J.P., Privitera, M.D., & Yeh, H.S. (in press). The prevalence of seizure types among individuals referred for phase I neuropsychological assessment: Demographic and neuropsychological characteristics. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Schefft, B. K. (2005). Psychotherapy for psychogenic seizure disorders? Not just a fantasy. Review of the book Psychodynamics and psychotherapy of pseudoseizures. PsycCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 50, Article 15.

Fargo, J.D., Schefft, B.K., Dulay, M.F., Privitera, M.D., & Yeh, H.S.(2005). Confrontation naming in individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy: A Quantitative Analysis of Paraphasic Error Subtypes. Neuropsychology, 19, 603-611.

Basso, M., Schefft, B.K., & Hamsher, K. (2005). Aging and remote memory declines: Preliminary findings. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 12, 175 186.

Dulay, M. F., Schefft, B. K., Fargo, J. D., Privitera, M.D., Yeh, H. S. (2004). Severity of depressive symptoms, hippocampal sclerosis, auditory memory,and side of seizure focus in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior,5,522-531.

Testa, S.M., & Schefft, B.K., Privitera, M.D., & Yeh, H.S.(2004). Warrington's Recognition Memory for Faces: Interpretive strategy and diagnostic utility in temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior,5,236-243.

Fargo, J.D., Schefft, B.K., Szaflarski, J.P., Dulay, M.F., Testa, S.M., Privitera, M.D., & Yeh, H.S. (2004). Accuracy of self-reported neuropsychological functioning in individuals with epileptic or psychogenic no

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1983 (Clinical Psychology).

M.S., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1980 (Clinical Psychology).

Research Interests

My clinical area of expertise is in the assessment and treatment of patients with known or suspected brain disease, especially medically intractable epilepsy, traumatic brain-injury, and related disorders of the central nervous system. Neuropsychological assessment, diagnosis and therapeutic intervention with these patients is of special relevance to my clinical practice. My research blends my interest and specialty training in clinical neuropsychology with my background in behavior therapy and self-regulation procedures. One area of ongoing interest is the neuropsychology of self-regulation and emotion. Other related areas include the application of self-regulatory methods to patients with neurobehavioral disorders, memory and emotion in complex-partial seizure patients, and psychometric research on neuropsychological tests.

The neuropsychology of epilepsy; the application of self-regulatory methods to patients with neurobehavioral disorders; post-surgical outcome in temporal lobe epilepsy; neuropsychological diagnostic accuracy in classification of epilepsy; psychometric research on neuropsychological tests.