Lawrence A. Hansen, M.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Pathology
"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, even the killing of dogs in the name of 'teaching'..."
Email: lahansen@ucsd.edu

Education:

North Central College, Naperville IL B.A. 1974 Literature

Loyola University Stritch School of M.D. 1977 Medicine

Medicine, Maywood IL

Residencies:

Psychiatry - Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois 1977-1978

Pathology - Anatomical and Clinical, Loyola University, Medical Center, Maywood, IL 1978-1982

Neuropathology - Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA 1982-1985

Fellowships:

Geriatric Neuropathology and Dementia, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 1985-1987

Surgical Pathology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI 1987-1988

Board Certifications

National Board of Medical Examiners 1978

Diplomate, American Board of Pathology - Anatomic and Clinical Pathology 1982

Diplomate, American Board of Pathology - Neuropathology 1984

Academic Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Neurosciences and Pathology in Residence 1988-1994

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine

Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 1994-2000

Professor of Pathology and Neurosciences

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 2000 to present.

Recent Publications:

 

Link to Pub Med Results

  1.  Hansen, L.A., Boss, G.R. Use of live animals in the curricula of U.S. medical schools: survey results from 2001. Academic Medicine 77(11):1147-1149, 2002.

  2. Rascovsky, K., Salmon, D.P., Ho, G.J., Galasko, D., Peavy, G.M., Hansen, L.A., Thal, L.J. Cognitive profiles differ in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal dementia and AD. Neurology 25:58:1801-1808, 2002.

  3. Bondi, M.W., Serody, A.B., Chan, A.S., Eberson-Shumate, S.C., Delis, D.C., Hansen, L.A., Salmon, D.P. Cognitive and neuropathologic correlates of Stroop Color-Word test performance in Alzheimer Disease. Neuropsychology 16:335-343, 2002.

  4.   Merdes, A.R., Hansen, L.A., Jeste, D.J., Galasko, D., Hofstetter, C.R., Ho, G.J., Thal, L.J., Corey-Bloom, J. Influence of Alzheimer pathology on clinical diagnostic accuracy in dementia with Lewy bodies. Neurology 60(10):1586-1590, 2003.

  5. Kennedy, B.P., Ziegler, M.G., Alford, M., Hansen, L.A., Thal, L.J., Masliah, E. Early and persistent alterations in prefrontal cortex MAO A and B in Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Neural Transmission 110(7):789-801, 2003.

  6. Masliah, E., Alford, M., Adame, A., Rockenstein, E., Galasko, D., Salmon, D., Hansen, L.A. Abeta1-42 promotes cholinergic sprouting in patients with AD and Lewy body variant of AD. Neurology 61(2):206-211, 2003.

  7. Davydov, V., Hansen, L.A., Shackelford, D. Is DNA repair compromised in Alzheimer’s disease? Neurobiology of Aging 24(7): 953-968, 2003.

  8. Hansen, L.A., Harrison, N.L. Teaching without mercy at the UCSD School of Medicine. San Diego Union Tribune Feb. 12, 2003.

  9. Kennedy, B.P., Bottiglieri, T., Arning, E., Ziegler, M.G., Hansen, L.A., Masliah, A. Elevated S-adenosylhomocysteine in Alzheimer brain: influence on methyltransferases and cognitive function. Journal of Neural Transmission  111(4): 547-67, 2004. 

  10. Sabbagh MN, Tyas SL, Emery SC, Hansen LA, Alford MF, Reid RT, Tiraboschi P, Thal LJ.  Smoking affects the phenotype of Alzheimer disease. Neurology 12;64(7):1301-3, 2005.

  11. Masliah E, Hansen LA,  Adame A, Crews L, Bard F, Lee C, Seubert P, Games D, Kirby L, Schenk D. Aβ vaccination effects on plaque pathology in the absence of encephalitis in Alzheimer disease. Neurology 64:129-131, 2005

  12. Hansen, L.A. Animal research; Why its unnecessary and inhumane.  San Diego Union Tribune. April 7, 2005.