Dr. Brad Dickerson

Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit

Brad Dickerson, M.D., is the Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Frontotemporal Disorders Unit and Neuroimaging Lab in Boston. He is also a staff behavioral neurologist in the MGH Memory Disorders Unit and co-investigator on the Neuroimaging Core of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. He is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Dickerson runs a busy weekly clinic caring for patients with various forms of cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as providing training for clinical and research fellows. His research employs quantitative structural, functional, and molecular neuroimaging techniques to investigate dementias as well as normal aging. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals as well as many book chapters, and has edited two books on dementia. He has won a number of awards, including the American Academy of Neurology’s Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology.