Iraqi-Afghan Head Injury Study
Cognitive Neuroscience Position Available
Cognitive Neuroscience Section
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Bethesda, Maryland
Starting Date: Fall, 2007
We are recruiting a full-time cognitive neuroscientist to help implement the Iraqi-Afghan Head
Injury study, a multidisciplinary research project focusing on planning, reasoning, social cognition,
and other “executive functions” and their breakdown in patients with penetrating head injuries to
the prefrontal cortex and related cortical and subcortical structures. Functional neuroplasticity
will also be a topic of investigation. The operating framework to study these processes and their
disorders is based on cognitive science theory although we combine this approach with state-of-
the-art clinical neuroscience neuroimaging methods. The Iraqi-Afghan Head Injury Study will be
conducted at the Cognitive Neuroscience Section of the National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke - located in Bethesda, Maryland. The position is designed as a 3-4 year
experience that includes weekly neurology clinical rounds, journal club, presentations and
discussions, tutorial training, and the teaching of skills necessary to conduct original cognitive
and neuroimaging research on the functions of the human prefrontal cortex. In addition, you will
be expected to take a major role in preparing manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed
journals in collaboration with the PI and other Iraqi-Afghan head injury study investigators.
Finally, you will have the primary role in running the day-to-day operations of the Iraqi-Afghan
Head Injury study and supervising 4-5 staff members. Interested candidates should send a
resume, statement of career interests and objectives, and three letters of recommendation to:
Jordan Grafman, Ph.D.
Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Section
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
National Institutes of Health
10 Center Drive MSC 1440
Building 10 Room 5C205
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1440
Telephone: (301) 496-0220
Fax: (301) 480-2909
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