Dr. Rebecca Dunn Folkerth MD
Neuropathologist | Neuropathology
75 Francis St Pathology Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Rebecca Folkerth is a Neuropsychiatrist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Folkerth studies, evaluates, diagnoses, and treats mental disorders attributable to diseases of the nervous system. Neuropsychiatrists are trained to treat disorders occurring in patients due to irritability, attention deficit disorder, epilepsy, and many other conditions.
Education and Training
Univ of Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 1985
University of Louisville School of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
PathologyAmerican Board of PathologyABP- Cytopathology
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Abnormalities of developing white matter in lysosomal storage diseases.
- Infantile G(M1) gangliosidosis: complete morphology and histochemistry of two autopsy cases, with particular reference to delayed central nervous system myelination.
- Descriptive analysis and quantification of angiogenesis in human brain tumors.
- Organizing posterior fossa hematomas simulating developmental cysts on prenatal imaging: report of 3 cases.
- Histologic measures of angiogenesis in human primary brain tumors.
- Surgical reversal of a subacute complete unilateral visual loss from an ovarian metastasis to the pituitary gland.
- Neuropathologic substrate of cerebral palsy.
- Periventricular leukomalacia: overview and recent findings.
- The neuropathology of acquired pre- and perinatal brain injuries.
- Oxidative injury in the cerebral cortex and subplate neurons in periventricular leukomalacia.
- A practical classification schema incorporating consideration of possible asphyxia in cases of sudden unexpected infant death.
- Neuropathology of a fatal case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
- Germinal matrix haemorrhage: destroying the brain's building blocks.
- Neuroanatomic connectivity of the human ascending arousal system critical to consciousness and its disorders.
- Biopsy neuropathology of cerebral ischemia associated with a developmental venous anomaly.
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