Robert T Watson

Robert T Watson,

Professor Emeritus

Department: MD-NEUROLOGY
Business Phone: (352) 392-6524
Business Email: rtw@ufl.edu

About Robert T Watson

Robert T. Watson, M.D.

Dr. Watson has served as a professor of neurology, neuroscience and clinical psychology for more than three decades, during which time he has been recognized as an outstanding teacher and student advocate.

He is an acknowledged authority on curriculum, and among his many published articles he wrote “Rediscovering the Medical School” for the July 2003 issue of Academic Medicine. Among the numerous teaching awards he has received, Dr. Watson was chosen as recipient of the 2005 Association of American Medical Colleges Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.  Dr. Watson served as Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs at the University of Florida College of Medicine for 17 years. In that role, he was delegated authority for undergraduate medical, physician assistant, graduate biomedical, graduate medical and continuing medical education. He also served as the Jules B. Chapman, M.D. Professor in Clinical Care and Humaneness for 12 years. He served as Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology until 2008.

Publications

2017
Callosal disconnection neglect: reassessment after 34 years.
Neurocase. 23(1):1-4 [DOI] 10.1080/13554794.2016.1257729. [PMID] 27869541.
2017
Scholarships for Humanism.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 92(5) [DOI] 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001633. [PMID] 28441194.
2016
Callosal apraxia: a 34-year follow-up study.
Neurocase. 22(3):306-11 [DOI] 10.1080/13554794.2016.1148743. [PMID] 26928117.
2012
Commentary: discovering a different model of medical student education.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 87(12):1662-4 [DOI] 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318271bab9. [PMID] 23187916.
2012
Florida State University College of Medicine: from ideas to outcomes.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 87(12):1699-704 [DOI] 10.1097/ACM.0b013e318271b8b4. [PMID] 23095920.
2010
Florida State University College of Medicine.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 85(9 Suppl):S144-6 [DOI] 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3181e86dd4. [PMID] 20736534.
2009
Conversion hemianesthesia: possible mechanism.
The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences. 21(1):99-100 [PMID] 19359461.
2008
The disconnection apraxias.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. 44(8):975-82 [DOI] 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.10.010. [PMID] 18585696.
2004
A rodent model for investigating the neurobiology of contralateral neglect.
Cognitive and behavioral neurology : official journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology. 17(4):191-4 [PMID] 15622013.
2004
Alien limb syndrome and moya-moya disease.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society. 19(11):1317-20 [PMID] 15390006.
2004
Evaluating evidence-based medicine skills during a performance-based examination.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 79(3):272-5 [PMID] 14985203.
2003
Rediscovering the medical school.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 78(7):659-65 [PMID] 12857681.
2002
Effect of background motion on line bisection performance in normal subjects.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. 38(5):787-96 [PMID] 12507047.
2002
Paraneoplastic gaze palsies in a patient with negative anti-Hu and anti-Yo antibody tests.
Southern medical journal. 95(12) [PMID] 12597321.
2001
Using standardized patients as teachers: a concurrent controlled trial.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 76(8):840-3 [PMID] 11500289.
2000
Neglect and related disorders.
Seminars in neurology. 20(4):463-70 [PMID] 11149702.
1999
Mission-based budgeting: removing a graveyard.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 74(6):627-40 [PMID] 10386088.
1998
Moving a graveyard: how one school prepared the way for continuous curriculum renewal.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 73(9):948-55 [PMID] 9759096.
1997
“Managed education”: an approach to funding medical education.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges. 72(2):92-3 [PMID] 9040241.
1993
Disorders of visual attention.
Bailliere's clinical neurology. 2(2):389-413 [PMID] 8137006.
1990
Frontal hypermetabolism and thalamic hypometabolism in a patient with abnormal orienting and retrosplenial amnesia.
Neuropsychologia. 28(2):161-9 [PMID] 2314571.
1989
Bibrachial palsy due to paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis.
Southern medical journal. 82(8):1053-5 [PMID] 2548289.
1989
Loss of spontaneous blinking in a patient with Balint’s syndrome.
Archives of neurology. 46(5):567-70 [PMID] 2712753.
1988
Changes in sensory inattention, directional motor neglect and “release” of the fixation reflex following a unilateral frontal lesion: a case report.
Neuropsychologia. 26(4):533-45 [PMID] 3405399.
1988
Pupil-sparing oculomotor palsy from midbrain hemorrhage.
Annals of ophthalmology. 20(9):345-6 [PMID] 3190115.
1987
Dopamine agonist therapy for neglect in humans.
Neurology. 37(11):1765-70 [PMID] 3670614.
1987
Efferent connections of the rostral portion of medial agranular cortex in rats.
Brain research bulletin. 19(2):203-21 [PMID] 2822206.
1987
Hemispace-visual field interactions in visual extinction.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry. 50(9):1117-24 [PMID] 3668561.
1987
Retrosplenial amnesia.
Brain : a journal of neurology. 110 ( Pt 6):1631-46 [PMID] 3427404.
1987
Transitive movements in a deafferented man.
Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. 23(3):525-30 [PMID] 3677739.

Contact Details

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(352) 392-6524
Emails:
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