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Emily Sharp, PhD, ABPP

Associate Professor of Neurology
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Division Chief, Neuropsychology

Associate Training Director, Postdoctoral Residency Program, Neuropsychology

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Associate Professor of Neurology

Division Chief, Neuropsychology; Associate Training Director, Postdoctoral Residency Program, Neuropsychology

Biography

Dr. Sharp is a board certified clinical neuropsychologist and associate professor in the Department of Neurology. She obtained her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Southern California and completed a two year post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at VA Boston Healthcare System. She is committed to providing excellent quality care to patients and the families of individuals who have experienced cognitive changes. As both a clinician and a researcher, she is broadly interested in aging and cognition including neurodegenerative disorders such as dementia as well as exceptional aging. Her research has focused on the relationship between cognitive engagement and cognitive decline with specific interest in interventions designed to delay and reduce the functional implications of cognitive impairment. More recent research has examined psychometric properties of screening measures for dementia and the relationship between novel neuroimaging techniques and neuropsychological measures of cognition.

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  • Neurology

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Education & Training

Fellowship
VA Boston Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014)
Internship
West Los Angeles VA Medical Center (2012)
PhD
University of Southern California, Clinical Psychology (2012)
MA
University of Southern California, Psychology (2007)
BA
Bucknell University, Psychology

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Overview

Emily Sharp, PhD, is a neuropsychologist at Yale Medicine with a specialty focus in memory disorders and Parkinson’s disease.

Dr. Sharp uses specialized neuropsychological measures to assess patients’ cognitive and emotional functioning, which provides neurologists and primary care physicians with important data for diagnosis and treatment planning.

“Neuropsychological testing allows us to see how a patient is doing within each domain of thinking, like memory, language, and attention. And those domains of thinking tend to correlate with different disorders. That can help the neurologist or referring provider better understand what’s going on,” she says.

Dr. Sharp spends several hours with patients, and interviews family members and caregivers, to form a complete picture of a patient’s current abilities. This information is then compiled into a detailed report with recommendations for the referring physician.

Dr. Sharp completed her PhD at the University of Southern California before finishing a two-year neuropsychology fellowship in Boston. Soon after, she joined Yale Medicine.

In addition to seeing patients, Dr. Sharp conducts research on the relationship between cognitive engagement and cognitive decline. She has a specific interest in interventions designed to identify, delay, and reduce the burden of cognitive impairment. She is a member of the clinical core faculty for the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Clinical Specialties

Neurology; Neuropsychology; Memory Disorders & Cognitive Neurology; Movement Disorders

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