Vita
Email: dtucker@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-637-5841, 512-471-3393
On Campus Office: SEA 5.224
Off-Campus Office: Austin Neuropsychology, 711 W. 38th St Blg 3F-2, Austin,Tx 78705
See also Clinical Psychology
Dr. Tucker does not plan to admit a new clinical graduate student for fall of 2010.
Dr. Tucker completed his undergraduate work in psychology and microbiology at the University of Texas. He then attended the University of Georgia where he received his M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty emphasis in clinical neuropsychology. Internship training was completed at the Yale seizure surgery program through the West Haven V.A.M.C. He then joined the faculty of the University of Missouri Medical School serving as Director of Neuropsychological Services. He was an associate professor in the departments of Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and Psychology. Dr. Tucker relocated to Austin in 1990, joining the Austin Neurological Clinic and the psychology faculty at UT as an adjunct associate professor. He currently teaches graduate courses in Human Neuropsychology and Neuropsychological Assessment. Additionally, he provides clinical supervision to students in the area of neuropsychology. He is Director of Neuropsychology at the Austin State Hospital. He is a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology and the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology. Dr. Tucker recently served as a member of the American Psychological Association, Division 40 Task Force on Education and Credentially in Clinical Neuropsychology.
Current research interests include recovery of function following neurological injury, neuropsychological subtypes of attention deficit disorder, and mechanisms of mild traumatic brain injury.
Selected Publications
Tucker, D. M., Roeltgen, D. P., Hartmann, J., Tulley, R., & Boxell, C. (1988). Memory dysfunction following unilateral transection of the fornix: A hippocampal disconnection syndrome. Cortex, 24, 465-472.
Tucker, D. M., Roeltgen, D. P., Wann, P. D., & Wertheimer, R. I. (1988). Memory dysfunction in Myasthenia Gravis: Evidence for central cholinergic effects. Neurology, 38, 1173-1177.
Roeltgen, D. P., & Tucker, D. M. (1988). Developmental phonological and lexical agraphia in adults. Brain and Language, 35, 287-300.
Parsons, M., & Tucker, D. (1995). Word completion priming in normal reading and learning disabled children: Evidence for a deficit in phonological representation. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1, 163.
Gaub, M., Bunner, M., & Tucker, D. M. (1996). Behavioral and neurocognitive differences in DSMIV subtypes of ADD. International Neuropsychological Society, Chicago.
Harrington, P. J., & Tucker, D. M. (1997). Visual and linguistic dissociations in a case of literal alexia. American Neuropsychiatric Association, Orlando, FL.
