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Dr. Kenneth M. Heilman attended college at the University of Virginia College of Arts and Sciences from 1956 to 1959. He subsequently received his M.D. from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1963. He completed 2 years of postgraduate training in Internal Medicine at Cornell University Medical Center’s Bellevue Hospital. In 1965, he enrolled in the US Air Force and became Chief of Medicine at the NATO hospital in Izmir, Turkey. Upon discharge from military service, he obtained a neurology residency and fellowship at the Harvard Neurological Unit of Boston City Hospital, where he was mentored by Dr. Derek Denny-Brown and Dr. Norman Geschwind.
Major Appointments
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, Distinguished Professor, 1998–present.
North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida, Chief of Neurology, 1996–2008.
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, James...
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Heilman, K. M. (1973). Ideational apraxia – A re-definition. Brain, 96, 861–864.
Heilman, K. M. (1974). Neuropsychologic changes in the stroke patient. Geriatrics, 29, 153–160.
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Heilman, K. M., & Valenstein, E. (1979a). Mechanisms underlying hemispatial neglect. Annals of Neurology, 5, 166–170.
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Heilman, K. M., & Wilder, B. J. (1971). Evaluation and treatment of chronic simple dementias. Modern Treatment, 8, 219–230.
Heilman, K. M., Pandya, D. N., Karol, E. A., & Geschwind, N. (1971a). Auditory inattention. Archives of Neurology, 24, 323–325.
Heilman, K. M., Safran, A., & Geschwind, N. (1971b). Closed head trauma and aphasia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 34, 265–269.
Heilman, K. M., Schwartz, H. D., & Geschwind, N. (1975). Defective motor learning in ideomotor apraxia. Neurology, 25, 1018–1020.
Heilman, K. M., Watson, R. T., & Greer, M. (1977). The differential diagnosis of neurological diseases. New York: Appleton-Century-Croft.
Heilman, K. M., Gonzalez-Rothi, L. J., & Valenstein, E. (1982). Two forms of ideomotor apraxia. Neurology, 32, 342–346.
Heilman, K. M., Bowers, D., Speedie, L., & Coslett, H. B. (1984a). Comprehension of affective and nonaffective prosody. Neurology, 34, 917–921.
Heilman, K. M., Valenstein, E., & Watson, R. T. (1984b). Neglect and related disorders. Seminars in Neurology, 4, 209–219.
Heilman, K. M., Valenstein, E., & Watson, R. T. (1994). The what and how of neglect. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 4(2), 133–139.
Valenstein, E., & Heilman, K. M. (1981). Unilateral hypokinesia and motor extinction. Neurology, 31, 445–448.
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Moffett, K., Eidson, A. (2018). Heilman, Kenneth M. (1938–). 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_626
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