Small, Steven L., MD PhD

Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychology
Director, Human Neuroscience Laboratory
Member, Committees on Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience
Senior Fellow, Computation Institute

Address: 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC 2030
Chicago, IL 60637-1470
Telephone: 773-702-1600
Secretary: Lydia Madrigal
Patient Calls: 773-834-7780
Fax: 773-702-2482
Laboratory Website: Dr. Small's Laboratory
Human Neuroscience Laboratory
Comprehensive Aphasia Center of Chicago
Education & Training
  • A.B. (Mathematics), 1976, Dartmouth College
  • Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence), 1980, University of Maryland
  • M.D. (Medicine), 1987, University of Rochester
  • Residency (Neurology), 1991, University of Pittsburgh
  • Diplomate, 1992, Neurology, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
Clinical Interests
  • Aphasia
  • Other language disorders
  • Skilled hand function
  • Behavioral neurology
Research Interests
  • Brain networks for language
  • Brain networks for hand motor function
  • Plasticity and stroke recovery
  • Functional brain imaging
Teaching
  • Brain Imaging Roundtable, Course Director, Weekly, Fall/Winter/Spring
  • fMRI Methods, Course Director, Occasionally offered
Selected Publications
  1. Small, S. L., G. W. Cottrell and M. K. Tanenhaus (ed.) (1988): Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Perspectives from Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology, and Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann, Inc., San Mateo, Ca.
  2. Harris, A. E., Ermentrout. G. B., & Small, S. L., A Model of Ocular Dominance Column Development by Competition for Trophic Factor. Proc NatI Acad Sci U S A, 94(18), 9944-9, 1997.
  3. Small, S. L., Flores, D., & Noll, D. C. (1998). Different Neural Circuits Subserve Reading before and after Therapy for Acquired Dyslexia. Brain and Language, 62, 298-308.
  4. Small, S. L. (2000). The Future of Aphasia Treatment. Brain and Language, 71(1), 227-232.
  5. Hlustik, P., Solodkin, A., Gullapalli, R. P., Noll, D. C., & Small, S. L. (2001). Somatotopy in human primary motor and somatosensory hand areas revisited. Cerebral Cortex, 11(4), 312-321.
  6. Small, S. L., Hlustik, P., Genovese, C., Noll, D. C., & Solodkin, A. (2002). Cerebellar Hemispheric Activation Ipsilateral to the Paretic Hand Correlates with Functional Recovery after Stroke. Brain, 125(7), 1544-1557.
  7. Solodkin, A., Hlustik, P., Chen, E., & Small, S. L. (2004). Fine Modulation in Network Activation during Motor Execution and Motor Imagery. Cerebral Cortex 14:1246-1255.
  8. Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2005). Listening to talking faces: motor cortical activation during speech perception. Neuroimage, 25(1), 76-89.
  9. Buccino, G., Solodkin, A., & Small, S. L. (2006). Functions of the mirror neuron system: implications for neurorehabilitation. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 19(1), 55-63.
  10. Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Repetition Suppression for Spoken Sentences and the Effect of Task Demands. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, in press.
  11. Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 105(36), 13269-13273.
  12. Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: beyond sensory representation. Neuron, 56(6), 1116-1126.
  13. Robinson, R. G., Jorge, R. E., Moser, D. J., Acion, L., Solodkin, A., Small, S. L., Fonzetti, P., Hegel, M., & Arndt, S. (2008). Escitalopram and problem-solving therapy for prevention of poststroke depression: a randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 299(20), 2391-2400.
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