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Anthony Risser, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty

Clinical Psychology

Chicago, Online

OVERVIEW

Dr. Risser is a clinical neuropsychologist whose teaching and research focus on diagnostic neuropsychological assessment, clinical psychopharmacology, and the neuroscience of behavior. His mentors during doctoral and post-doctoral training included Drs. Otfried Spreen, Louis Costa, Esther Strauss, Kerry DeS. Hamsher, and Charles Cleeland, whose influence shaped his work in assessment issues and concepts rooted in the Benton tradition. His interests also include the pharmaceutical clinical trials process and related FDA issues.

At Adler University, Risser teaches psychopharmacology in the Psy.D. in clinical psychology program and statistics in the online programs in industrial and organizational psychology and organizational leadership. He also teaches at The Chicago School in its Psy.D. in clinical psychology programs at the Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Dallas campuses, as well as in its online clinical psychopharmacology programs.

Risser has held previous teaching appointments with the University of Liverpool’s global online program in applied psychology, Winona State University as a visiting associate professor, and the University of Houston as a visiting assistant professor in its Ph.D. program in clinical psychology. He is currently collaborating with colleagues on a case study series examining neuropsychological findings in agenesis of the corpus callosum.

MEMBERSHIPS + ASSOCIATIONS

International Neuropsychological Society (INS)

PUBLICATIONS

Publications

Katharine McBride, 1935, and “Aphasia”

2024 In W. Barr and L. Bieliauskas (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History
of Clinical Neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press

Risser, A. H.

Writing composition ability and spelling competence in deaf subjects: A psycholinguistic analysis of source of difficulties

2022 Reading and Writing

Vizzi, F., Angelelli, P., Iaia, M., Risser, A. H., and Marinelli, C. V.

Cancer-related fatigue reported in online discussion groups

2021 Western Journal of Nursing Research, 45(5), 452–458

Rozmus, C., White, L. L., Risser, A. H., Hara, R., Golant, M., Mendoza, T., and Cohen, M. Z.

Influences of temporal lobe epilepsy and temporal lobe resection on olfactory function

2018 Journal of Neurology, 265, 1654–1665

Doty, R. L., Tourbier, I., Neff, J. K., Silas, J., Turetsky, B., Moberg, P., Kim, T., Pluta, J., French, J., Sharan, A. D., Sperling, M. J., Mirza, N., Risser, A., Baltuch, G., and Detre, D. A.

Symptom Assessment

2005 In A. D. Shaw, A. W. Burton, B. Riedel, and T. W. Feeley (Eds.), Acute
Care of the Cancer Patient (pp. 991–1004). Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis

Risser, A. H., Anderson, K. O., Mendoza, T. R., and Cleeland, C. S.

Effects of methylphenidate on attention deficits after traumatic brain injury: A multidimensional, randomized controlled trial

2004 American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 83, 401–420

Whyte, J., Hart, T., Vaccaro, M., Grieb-Neff, T., Risser, A., Polansky, M., and Coslett, H. B.

Assessment of Aphasia

2003 New York: Oxford University Press

Spreen, O. and Risser, A.

Developmental Neuropsychology

1995 New York: Oxford University Press

Spreen, O., Risser, A., and Edgell, D.

LEADERSHIP + ENGAGEMENT

Coordinator, International Neuropsychological Society’s (INS) Global Engagement Committee’s Research, Editing, and Consulting Program (RECP)
Member, International Neuropsychological Society’s (INS) Global One-to-One Trainee Mentoring Program

RESEARCH + OPPORTUNITIES

Research interests include aphasia, CNS fatigue, and the development of tests that employ poetry interpretation as a representation of highly abstract and rules-free language functioning.

Professional interests include scientific consultation in the clinical trial process for CNS/Neurology and CNS/Psychiatry investigational drugs.