Thomas L. Kemper, MD

Emeritus Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Kemper is Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University School of Public Health. He 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 brain development, the neuropathology of aging in the monkey brain, and in the anatomy of infantile autism. This research is funded by the NIH.

Publications

  • Published 2/24/2014

    Skefos J, Cummings C, Enzer K, Holiday J, Weed K, Levy E, Yuce T, Kemper T, Bauman M. Regional alterations in purkinje cell density in patients with autism. PLoS One. 2014; 9(2):e81255. PMID: 24586223.

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  • Published 1/1/2013

    Bauman ML, Kemper T. The Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders. The Cerebellum in Autism Spectrum Disorders. 2013; 289-295.

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  • Published 9/1/2012

    Fatemi SH, Aldinger KA, Ashwood P, Bauman ML, Blaha CD, Blatt GJ, Chauhan A, Chauhan V, Dager SR, Dickson PE, Estes AM, Goldowitz D, Heck DH, Kemper TL, King BH, Martin LA, Millen KJ, Mittleman G, Mosconi MW, Persico AM, Sweeney JA, Webb SJ, Welsh JP. Consensus paper: pathological role of the cerebellum in autism. Cerebellum. 2012 Sep; 11(3):777-807. PMID: 22370873.

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  • Published 12/21/2011

    Peters A, Kemper T. A review of the structural alterations in the cerebral hemispheres of the aging rhesus monkey. Neurobiol Aging. 2012 Oct; 33(10):2357-72. PMID: 22192242.

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  • Published 7/1/2011

    Lister JP, Blatt GJ, Kemper TL, Tonkiss J, DeBassio WA, Galler JR, Rosene DL. Prenatal protein malnutrition alters the proportion but not numbers of parvalbumin-immunoreactive interneurons in the hippocampus of the adult Sprague-Dawley rat. Nutr Neurosci. 2011 Jul; 14(4):165-78. PMID: 21902887.

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Education

  • University of Illinois, MD
  • Northwestern University, BS

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