Bradford Clark Dickerson MD

Brad Dickerson, MD is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Frontotemporal Disorders Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital, an integrated multidisciplinary unit dedicated to the highest level of care of patients with these conditions. Dr. Dickerson is also on staff as a behavioral neurologist in the MGH Memory Disorders Unit.Dr. Dickerson is an active clinical consultant in many aspects of cognitive and behavioral neurology of neurodegenerative and related disorders, including frontotemporal dementia, primary progressive aphasia, Alzheimer's, mild cognitive impairment, posterior cortical atrophy, and related conditions, and the use of neuroimaging and other diagnostic markers in neurodegenerative diseases.
Dr. Dickerson has published extensively in the field of neurodegenerative disease, neuroimaging, aging, and cognitive neuroscience. He is on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Alzheimer's Association and the National Association for FTD. He is active in teaching, leading an annual course on Cognitive Neurology at the American Academy of Neurology and co-directing the annual Harvard Dementia Course. He is also an active mentor of trainees in neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, and of graduate and medical students, as well as undergraduate and high school students interested in this field. Dr. Dickerson has published more than 70 manuscripts and book chapters and is in the process of editing 2 textbooks in the field of cognitive neurology and dementia, and runs a brain imaging laboratory affiliated with the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.