Biography

Dr. Thatcher received a Ph.D. in psychology with a major in biopsychology from the University of Waterloo in 1970 and a B.S. with a major in Chemistry from the University of Oregon, 1966. He completed postdoctoral fellowships in neurobiology and neurophysiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1971-72 before joining the faculty of New York Medical College as an assistant professor from 1973-1977. He was appointed as an associate professor at NYU Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry 1977 to 1979 and then was appointed as a full professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and at UMES and was the director of the QEEG service at Shock Trauma (1979-1989). He joined the faculty at the National Institutes of Health (NINDS) in 1990 as the project officer for the 1st 128 channel EEG system and participated in the Human Brain Project multimodal Neuroimaging program. He edited two volumes on Neuroimaging ("Functional Neuroimaging: Technical Foundations" and "Developmental Neuroimaging", published by Academic Press). From 1993 to 2001 Dr. Thatcher was also the EEG and MRI principal investigator for the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration Head Injury Program (DVHIP) and the director of the NeuroImaging Laboratory at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, Florida. He was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of South Florida and served on the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Brain Map Project. Dr. Thatcher's professional affiliations include being on the medical advisory board of Brainscope, Inc and a board member of the American Board of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, a National Institute of Health Scientific advisory board member and an executive board member of the EEG and Clinical Neuroscience Society. He is involved in collaborative research with several major medical centers as well ongoing clinical applications of qEEG and EEG biofeedback as part of the Resilience Program of the US Army at Fort Campbell. He has been the recipient of the Hans Berger Award of Merit (Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, Neurofeedback Division, May 16, 2008) and the Life Time Achievement Award for work in the scientific specialty of QEEG (American Board of Certification of Quantitative Electroencephalography). Robert W. Thatcher, Ph.D., is currently the Director of Applied Neuroscience Research Institute and Applied Neuroscience, Inc. St. Petersburg, Florida. Dr. Thatcher is certified as an expert in both conventional electroencephalography and quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG), has read over 20,000 EEGs, and has written or supervised the writing of over 10,000 clinical EEG cases. He has extensive mathematical and programming experience as well as organizational leadership skills. He is the author of over 200 publications, including eight books. His most recent book is entitled the "Handbook of Quantitative Electroencephalography and EEG Biofeedback".

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Research Interest

Conventional electroencephalography and Quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG)