Thomas L. Kemper, M.D.

Professor

Phone: 617-414-5287
Fax: 617- 414-7207
Location: 19 Bradston Street, Room 108

Thomas L. Kemper. M.D. received his medical degree from the University of Illinois School of Medicine with residency training in internal medicine at the Rush-Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago. His residency training in Neurology was at Tufts University with further training in neuropathology and neuroanatomy at the Boston City Hospital (with D. Denny-Brown), the Harvard Medical School (with P. Yakovlev), and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Kemper’s main interests are in the effects of protein deprivation on brain development, the neuropathology of aging in the monkey brain, and in the anatomy of infantile autism. This research is funded by the NIH.

Recent Publications

King, R.S., Kemper, T.L., DeBassio, W.A., Blatt, G.J., Ramzan, M., Rosene, D.L., and Galler, J.R. Effect of prenatal protein deprivation on birthdates and number of neurons generated in the locus coeruleus. Nutr. Neurosci. 1999. 2:267-276.

Sloane, J.A., Hollander, W., Rosene, D.L., Moss, M.B., Kemper, T., and Abraham, C.R. Astrocytic hypertrophy and altered GFAP degradation with age in subcortical white matter of the rhesus monkey. Brain Res. 2000, 862:1-10.

Kemper, T.L, and Bauman, M.J. Neuropathology of Infantile Autism. Molecular Psychiatry. 2002. 7:S12-S13.

King, R.S., Kemper, T.L., DeBassio, W.A., Ramzan, M., Blatt, G.J., Rosene, D.L., and Galler, R. Birthdates and number of neurons in the serotonergic raphe nuclei in the rat with prenatal malnutrition. Nutrit. Neurosci. 2002. 5:391-397.

King, R.S., DeBassio, W.., Kemper, T. L., Rosene, D.L., Tonkiss, J., Galler, J.R., Blatt, G.J. Effect of prenatal protein malnutrition and acute postnatal stress on granule cell genesis in the fascia dentate of neonatal and juvenile rats. Dev. Brain Res.2004. 150:9-15.

Herbert, M. R., Zeigler, D.A., Makris, N., Filipek, P.A.,. Kemper, T. L., Normandin, J.J., Sanders, B.A., Kennedy, D. N., Caviness, V. S. Localization of white matter volume increase in autism and developmental language disorder. Ann. Neurol. 2004. 55:530-40.