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Dr. Hart is Institute Scientist at MRRI, where she directs the Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Research Laboratory and the NIDRR-funded Moss Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. She is also a co-investigator in the NIH-funded TBI Clinical Trials Network. A clinical neuropsychologist by training, Hart is a Research Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University.

Areas of Expertise

• Measurement and treatment of cognitive, psychosocial and community outcomes of TBI
• Conceptualization and measurement of executive function, particularly self-monitoring and awareness of deficit/error
• Development and standardization of complex learning and experience-based treatments; measurement and conceptualization of the rehabilitation process
• Applications of assistive technology to cognitive/ behavioral rehabilitation

Programs of Research

• The use of portable electronic devices as goal reminding technologies for memory and executive deficits in TBI
• Anger self-management training for TBI based on theoretical principles of self-monitoring and problem-solving
• Conceptualization and measurement of rehabilitation ingredients ("opening the black box")
• Vocational rehabilitation for TBI

Publications

• Hart T, Evans J. Self-regulation and goal theories in brain injury rehabilitation. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 21:142-155, 2006. PMID 16569988
• Hart T, Giovannetti T, Montgomery M, Schwartz M: Awareness of errors in naturalistic action following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 13:16-27, 1998 PMID 9753532
• Hart T, Hawkey K, Whyte J: Use of a portable voice organizer to remember therapy goals in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: A within-subjects trial. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 17:556-570, 2002 PMID 12802246
• Hart T, Jacobs HE: Rehabilitation and management of behavioral disturbances following frontal lobe injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 8:1-12, 1993
• Hart T, Schwartz MF, Mayer N: Executive function: Some current theories and their applications. In: Varney NR, Roberts RJ, Eds. Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999, pp. 133-148
• Hart T, Sherer M, Whyte J, Polansky M, Novack T. Awareness of behavioral, cognitive and physical deficits in acute traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85:1450-1456, 2004 PMID 15375815
• Hart T, Whyte J, Kim J, Vaccaro M. Executive function and self-awareness of "real-world" behavior and attention deficits following traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 20:333-347, 2005. PMID 16030440
• Hart T, Whyte J, Polansky M, Millis S, Hammond FM, Sherer M, Bushnik T, Hanks R, Kreutzer J: Concordance of patient and family report of neurobehavioral symptoms at 1 year post traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84:204-213, 2003 PMID 12601651
• Giovannetti T, Libon D, Hart T: Awareness of naturalistic action errors in dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 8:633-644, 2002 PMID 12164673
• Jacobs HE, Hart T, Mory KD, Griffin C, Martin BA, Probst J: Single subject evaluation designs in rehabilitation: Case studies on inpatient units. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 11:86-94, 1996
• Kim J, Whyte J, Hart T, Vaccaro M, Polansky M, Coslett HB. Executive function as a predictor of inattentive behavior after traumatic brain injury. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11:434-445, 2005. PMID 16209424
• Sherer M, Hart T, Nick TG, Whyte J, Thompson RK, Yablon SA: Early impaired self-awareness after traumatic brain injury. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84:168-176, 2003 PMID 12601646
• Whyte J, Hart T: It's more than a black box; it's a Russian doll: Defining rehabilitation treatments. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 82:639-652, 2003 PMID 12872021
• Whyte J, Hart T, Bode R, Malec J: The Moss Attention Rating Scale (MARS) for traumatic brain injury: Initial psychometric assessment. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84: 268-276, 2003 PMID 12601660
• Whyte J, Hart T, Vaccaro M, Grieb-Neff P, Risser A, Polansky M, Coslett HB: The effects of methylphenidate on attention deficits after traumatic brain injury: A multi-dimensional randomized controlled trial. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 83:401-420, 2004 PMID 15166683
• Whyte J, Vaccaro M, Grieb-Neff P, Hart T: Psychostimulant use in the rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation 17:284-299, 2002 PMID 12105998
• Scherer M, Hart T, Kirsch N, Schulteis M: Assistive technologies for cognitive disabilities. In: Grabois M, Ed. Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2005, 17(3):195-215.
• Sherer M, Hart T, Whyte J, Nick TG, Yablon SA. Neuro-anatomic basis of impaired self-awareness after traumatic brain injury: Findings from early computed tomography. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 20:287-300, 2005. PMID 16030437
• Hart T, Whyte J, Millis S, Bode R, Malec J, Nakase-Richardson R, Hammond F. Dimensions of disordered attention in traumatic brain injury: Further validation of the Moss Attention Rating Scale. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 87:647-655, 2006. PMID 16635627
• Hart T, Fann J, Novack T. The dilemma of the control condition in experience-based cognitive and behavioral treatment research. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 18:1-21, 2008. PMID 17852761