Conversation with  Dr. Barry Gordon M.D., Ph.D. and Eustacia Cutler.  A Scientist and a Father 

Dr. Gordon discusses  his research on improving language, memory, learning, and thinking skills,  in individuals with autism.  Barry Gordon, M.D., Ph.D., is a behavioral (cognitive) neurologist and cognitive neuroscientist.  His research focuses on identifying and implementing better methods for improving language, memory, learning, and thinking skills, both in individuals with autism and other developmental and acquired brain conditions (such as stroke and aging), and in normally-developing individuals.  Dr. Gordon is Therapeutic Cognitive Neuroscience Professor, Professor of Neurology with a Joint Appointment in Cognitive Science, founder and Director of the Cognitive Neurology/Neuropsychology Division of the Department of Neurology at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, and a member of the Steering Committee of Hopkins’ Science of Learning Institute.  Dr. Gordon has authored or co-authored over 160 scientific articles and book chapters, and two books on memory for the general public, Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Everyday Life and Intelligent Memory. Dr. Gordon is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology.