Dra. Sylvia Josephy Hernández

2022: Egresada de la subespecialidad de Neurología Cognitiva y Neuropsiquiatría. Clinical and Research Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital – Escuela de Medicina de Harvard, Boston, MA.

2020: Especialista en Neurología. Universidad de Massachusetts, Worcester, MA.A

2017: Internado en Medicina Interna, Universidad de Massachusetts, Worcester, MA

2015: M.Sc. Neurociencias, Universidad de McGill, Montreal, Canadá

2012: Doctora en Medicina y Cirugía, Universidad de Costa Rica

Experiencia profesional

• 2023 a la fecha: Especialista en Neurología. Hospital México.
• 2022 al 2023: Servicio Social en Neurología. Hospital Dr. Max Peralta, Cartago.

• Deterioro cognitivo
• Demencias frontotemporales
• Enfermedad de Alzheimer
• Demencias de inicio joven
• Afasias
• Trastornos neurológicos funcionales
• Enfermedad cerebrovascular

• Asociación Costarricense de Ciencias Neurológicas
• Asociación Americana de Neuropsiquiatría (EEUU)
• Sociedad Internacional de Demencias Frontotemporales
• Sociedad de Neurología Cognitiva y del Comportamiento (EEUU)
• Alzheimer's Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer's Research and Treatment
• Academia Americana de Neurología (EEUU)

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• Perfil en Research Gate 
• Josephy-Hernandez, S., Rezaii, N., Jones, A., Loyer, E., Hochberg, D., Quimby, M., ... & Dickerson, B. C. (2023). Automated analysis of written language in the three variants of primary progressive aphasia. Brain Communications.
• Rezaii, N., Michaelov, J., Josephy‐Hernandez, S., Ren, B., Hochberg, D., Quimby, M., & Dickerson, B. C. (2023). Measuring Sentence Information via Surprisal: Theoretical and Clinical Implications in Nonfluent Aphasia. Annals of Neurology.
• Josephy-Hernandez, S., Brickhouse, M., Champion, S., Kim, D.D., Touroutoglou, A., … & Dickerson, B.C. (2022) Clinical, Radiologic, and Pathologic Features of the Globular Glial Tauopathy Subtype of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration in Right Temporal Variant Frontotemporal Dementia with Salient Features of Geschwind Syndrome. Neurocase
• Gutierrez-Martinez, L., Karten, J., Kritzer, M. , Josephy-Hernandez, S., Kim, D., … & Chemali, Z. (2022) Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A descriptive clinical study. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
• Josephy-Hernandez, S. (2022) The accelerated approval of aducanumab from one trainee’s point of view. Neurology – Blogs
• Josephy-Hernandez, S., Norise, C., Han, J. Y., & Smith, K. M. (2021). Survey on Acceptance of Passive Technology Monitoring for Early Detection of Cognitive Impairment. Digital Biomarkers.
• Praschan, N., Josephy-Hernandez, S., Kim, D.D., Kritzer, M.D., Mukerji, S., … & Chemali, Z. (2021) Sequelae of COVID-19 – implications for affected healthcare personnel. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
• Molton, I. R., Keatley, E., Jaywant, A., Josephy‐Hernandez, S., Rivas‐Grajales, A. M., Perez, D. L., & Mukherjee, D. (2021). Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Functional Neurological Disorder. PM&R.
• Josephy-Hernandez, S., Pirvulescu, I., Maira, M., Aboulkassim, T., Wong, T. P., McKinney, R. A., & Saragovi, H. U. (2019). Pharmacological interrogation of TrkA-mediated mechanisms in hippocampal-dependent memory consolidation. PloS one.
• Tong, W., Maira, M., Roychoudhury, R., Galan, A., Brahimi, F., Gilbert, M., ... & Saragovi, H. U. (2019). Vaccination with Tumor-Ganglioside Glycomimetics Activates a Selective Immunity that Affords Cancer Therapy. Cell chemical biology.
• Sirois, I., Aguilar-Mahecha, A., Lafleur, J., Fowler, E., Vu, V., Scriver, M., ... & Legare, S. (2019). A unique morphological phenotype in chemoresistant triple negative breast cancer reveals metabolic reprogramming and PLIN4 expression as a molecular vulnerability. Molecular Cancer Research.

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• Frontotemporal Dementia