Residency
Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, 1983

Fellowship
(Behavioral Neurology) University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1984

Honors and Awards

• Developmental Neuropsychology Award, Rita Rudel Foundation, 1988-90
• Fellow, American Psychological Association, 1993
• Fellow American Psychological Society, 1995
• Board of American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, 1996
• Fellow, National Academy of Neuropsychology, 2000
• Counselor, Association of Neuroscience Programs and Departments, 2006-2009
• Board of Directors, International Neuropsychological Society, 2003-2006

Professional Activities/ Editorial Boards

• Editor, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
• Associate Editor, Neuropsychology
• Associate Editor, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
• Action Editor, Cortex
• Action Editor, Brain and Language
• Action Editor, Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Member, Cognitive Neuroscience Study Section, NIH (2002-2006, Chairperson 2004-2006)
• Member, Cognition and Perception Study Section, NIH (2006)

Professional Affiliations

• International Neuropsychological Society
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Neuroscience
• American Academy of Neurology
• Society for Psychophysiological Research
• National Academy of Neuropsychology
• Academy of Aphasia
• American Psychological Society

Research Interest

• Cognitive Neuroscience at systems level
• Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
• Psychophysiology
• Nonconscious processing
• Dementia (Alzheimer’s, Pick’s, NPH, etc.)
• Human neuroanatomy
• Brain-behavior relationships
• Forensic neuropsychology
• Neuropsychology ethics

Recent Publications/ Reviews

Tranel, D., Feinstein, J., & Manzel, K. Further lesion evidence for the neural basis of conceptual knowledge for persons and other concrete entities. Journal of Neuropsychology, (in press)

Yucus, C.J., & Tranel, D. Preserved proper naming following left anterior temporal lobectomy is associated with early age of seizure onset. Epilepsia, (in press)

Tranel, D., Anderson, S.W., & Manzel, K. Is the prefrontal cortex important for "fluid" intelligence? A neuropsychological study using Matrix Reasoning. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, (in press)

Tranel, D., Hathaway-Nepple, J., & Anderson, S.W. (2007). Impaired behavior on real-world tasks following damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 29, 319-332.

Koenigs, M., Young, L., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Cushman, F., Hauser, M., & Damasio, A. (2007). Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgments. Nature, 446, 908-911.

Koenigs, M., & Tranel, D. (2007). Irrational economic decision-making after ventromedial prefrontal damage: Evidence from the Ultimatum Game. Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 951-956.

Griffin, S.L., & Tranel, D. (2007). Age of onset, functional reorganization, and neuropsychological outcome in temporal lobectomy. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 29, 13-24.

Kemmerer, D., Chandrasekaran, B., & Tranel, D. (2007). A case of impaired verbalization but preserved gesticulation of motion events. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 70-114.

Hannula, D.E., Tranel, D., & Cohen, N. (2006). The long and the short of it: Relational memory impairments in amnesia, even at short lags. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 8352-8359.

Tranel, D., Gullickson, G., Koch, M., & Adolphs, R. (2006). Altered experience of emotion following bilateral amygdala damage. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 11, 219-232.

Tranel, D. (2006). Impaired naming of unique landmarks is associated with left temporal polar damage. Neuropsychology, 20, 1-10.

Tranel, D., & Jones, R.D. (2006). Knowing what and knowing when. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 43-66.

Duff, M.C., Hengst, J., Tranel, D., & Cohen, N.J. (2006). Development of shared information in communication despite hippocampal amnesia. Nature Neuroscience, 9, 140-146.

Hsu, M., Bhatt, M., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., & Camerer, C.F. (2005). Neural systems responding to degrees of uncertainty in human decision-making. Science, 310, 1680-1683.

Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Denburg, N.L., & Bechara, A. (2005). Does gender play a role in functional asymmetry of ventromedial prefrontal cortex? Brain, 128, 2872-2881.

Tranel, D., Grabowski, T.J., Lyon, J., & Damasio, H. (2005). Naming the same entities from visual or from auditory stimulation engages similar regions of left inferotemporal cortices. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, 1293-1305.

Gallegos, D., & Tranel, D. (2005). Positive facial affect facilitates the identification of famous faces. Brain and Language, 93, 338-348.

Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., & Buchanan, T.W. (2005). Amygdala damage impairs emotional memory for the gist but not details of complex stimuli. Nature Neuroscience, 8, 512-518.

Denburg, N.L., Tranel, D., & Bechara, A. (2005). The ability to decide advantageously declines prematurely in some older adults. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1099-1106.

Address
Office location: 2206 RCP
Phone:(319) 384-6050
Fax: 319-384-7199
E-mail: daniel-tranel@uiowa.edu
Director, Neuroscience Graduate Program