Major Appointments
NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Neuropsychology Section of NIMH, Bethesda, MD (1964–1966)
Instructor, College of General Studies, George Washington University (1965–1966)
Assistant Professor, Ohio State University (1966–1967)
Lecturer in Psychology, Antioch College (1966–1967)
Lecturer in Psychology, Wellesley College (1967–1968)
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Massachusetts (Boston) (1967–1983)
Research Career Scientist, Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center (1967–1983)
Professor of Neurology (Neuropsychology), Boston University School of Medicine (1967–1983)
Senior Lecturer, Northeastern University, University College (1967–1983)
Affiliate Professor of Psychology, Clark University (1973–1983)
Chief, Psychology Service, San Diego Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center (1983–1995)
Professor of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine (San Diego) (1983–1995)
Major Honors and Awards
Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, A.B.. with...
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Albert, M. S., Butters, N., & Brandt, J. (1981). Patterns of remote memory in amnesic and demented patients. Archives of Neurology, 38(8), 495–500. PMID: 6454407.
Brandt, J., Butters, N., Ryan, C., & Bayog, R. (1983). Cognitive loss and recovery in long-term alcohol abusers. Archives of General Psychiatry, 40(4), 435–442.
Butters, N. (1966). The effect of LSD-25 on spatial and stimulus perseverative tendencies in rats. Psychopharmacologia, 8(6), 454–460.
Butters, N. (1984). The clinical aspects of memory disorders: Contributions from experimental studies of amnesia and dementia. Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology, 6(1), 17–36. PMID: 6230375.
Butters, N. (1992). Memory remembered: 1970–1991. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 7(4), 285–295. PMID:14591284.
Butters, N. (1996). Memoirs, in Nelson Butters remembered. APA Division 40 Newsletter, 14(3), 1, 3–7.
Butters, M. A., & Butters, N. M. (2002). Nelson M. Butters: One step ahead. In A. Y. Stringer, E. L. Cooley, & A. L. Christensen (Eds.), Pathways to prominence: Reflections of 20th century neuropsychologists. New York: Psychology Press.
Butters, N., & Cermak, L. S. (1974). The role of cognitive factors in the memory disorders of alcoholic patients with the Korsakoff syndrome. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 233, 61–75. PMID: 4523804.
Butters, N., & Pandya, D. (1969). Retention of delayed-alternation: Effect of selective lesions of sulcus principalis. Science, 165(3899), 1271–1273. PMID: 4979528.
Butters, N., & Rosvold, H. E. (1968). Effect of caudate and septal nuclei lesions on resistance to extinction and delayed-alternation. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 65(3), 397–403. PMID: 4970002.
Butters, N., Lewis, R., Cermak, L. S., & Goodglass, H. (1973). Material-specific memory deficits in alcoholic Korsakoff patients. Neuropsychologia, 11(3), 291–299. PMID: 4792180.
Butters, N., Tarlow, S., Cermak, L. S., & Sax, D. (1976). A comparison of the information processing deficits of patients with Huntington’s chorea and Korsakoff’s syndrome. Cortex, 12(2), 134–144. PMID: 133786.
Butters, N., Wolfe, J., Martone, M., Granholm, E., & Cermak, L. S. (1985). Memory disorders associated with Huntington’s disease: Verbal recall, verbal recognition and procedural memory. Neuropsychologia, 23(6), 729–743. PMID: 2934642.
Butters, N., Granholm, E., Salmon, D. P., Grant, I., & Wolfe, J. (1987). Episodic and semantic memory: A comparison of amnesic and demented patients. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 9(5), 479–497. PMID: 2959682.
Butters, M., Becker, J. T., & Brandt, J. (1996). A legend in his own time: tribute to Nelson Butters, in Nelson Butters remembered. APA Division 40 Newsletter, 14(3), 2, 7–8.
Cermak, L. S. (Ed.). (1994). Neuropsychological explorations of memory and cognition: Essays in honor of Nelson Butters. New York: Plenum.
Chan, A. S., Butters, N., Paulsen, J. S., Salmon, D. P., Swenson, M. R., & Maloney, L. T. (1993). An assessment of the semantic network in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(2), 254–261. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.1993.5.2.254. PMID: 23972157.
Granholm, E., & Butters, N. (1988). Associative encoding and retrieval in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. Brain and Cognition, 7(3), 335–347. PMID: 2969744.
Heindel, W. C., Salmon, D. P., Shults, C. W., Walicke, P. A., & Butters, N. (1989). Neuropsychological evidence for multiple implicit memory systems: A comparison of Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and Parkinson’s disease patients. The Journal of Neuroscience, 9(2), 582–587. PMID: 2521896.
Hodges, J. R., Salmon, D. P., & Butters, N. (1990). Differential impairment of semantic and episodic memory in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases: A controlled prospective study. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 53(12), 1089–1095. PMID: 2149861.
Jernigan, T., & Butters, N. (1989). Neuropsychological and neuroradiological distinctions between Alzheimer’s and diseases. Neuropsychology, 3, 283–290.
Moss, M. B., Albert, M. S., Butters, N., & Payne, M. (1986). Differential patterns of memory loss among patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and alcoholic Korsakoff’s syndrome. Archives of Neurology, 43(3), 239–246. PMID: 2936323.
Rosen, J., Stein, D., & Butters, N. (1971). Recovery of function after serial ablation of prefrontal cortex in the rhesus monkey. Science, 173(3994), 353–356. PMID: 4997798.
Shimamura, A. P., Salmon, D. P., Squire, L. R., & Butters, N. (1987). Memory dysfunction and word priming in dementia and amnesia. Behavioral Neuroscience, 101(3), 347–351. PMID: 2955793.
Tröster, A. I., Butters, N., Salmon, D. P., Cullum, C. M., Jacobs, D., Brandt, J., & White, R. F. (1993). The diagnostic utility of savings scores: Differentiating Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases with the logical memory and visual reproduction tests. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 15(5), 773–788. PMID: 8276935.
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Butters, M.A., Becker, J.T. (2018). Butters, Nelson (1937–1995). In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_605
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