Dr. Margolis earned his Ph.D. from Yeshiva University, completed his predoctoral neuropsychology internship at the University of California San Diego and did his postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Brown University. He is board certified in clinical neuropsychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology.
Dr. Margolis is a staff neuropsychologist at Brown University Health, where he specializes in disorders of aging, epilepsy, and the impact of chronic illness on patients’ cognition and behavior. Dr. Margolis performs neuropsychological evaluations for diagnostic and treatment planning purposes and is a consulting member of the Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders Center, the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, the Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program, and the Transplant Center at Rhode Island Hospital. He is a clinical supervisor for Brown’s APA-accredited clinical psychology internship training program and APA-accredited postdoctoral training program in neuropsychology.
Dr. Margolis is a principal and co-investigator on several research studies addressing neuropsychological and psychosocial aspects of health behavior, health outcomes, and functional capacities in clinical populations. He co-directs the Researching Everyday Activities of Living (REAL) Lab, in which he provides research mentorship to neuropsychology trainees within the Brown system.
A committed advocate and ambassador for neuropsychology, Dr. Margolis has assumed various committee positions within the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN), International Neuropsychological Society (INS), and the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN). He is a current Co-Chair of the INS Epilepsy Special Interest Group. In acknowledgment of his service to the profession, Dr. Margolis was the 2023 recipient of NAN's Early Career Service Award.
| Hinkle CE, Davis JD, Arias I, Goldstein A, Daiello L, Margolis SA. "Anticholinergic and sedative medication use in older patients with cognitive concerns." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2024. |
| Goldstein, Allyson, Commissariat, Persis V, Sullivan, Kelli L, Hallowell, Emily S, Davis, Jennifer D, Margolis, Seth A. "Compensatory Strategy Intervention: What Older Patients Want and Why." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2024. |
| Alhusaini S, Sine K, Prakash P, Korthauer LE, Margolis SA, Chen A, Rawnsley N, Breen E, Vinacco K, Weisbach E, Guglielmo M, Akbar U, Davis JD, Svokos K, Klinge P. "Experience from a Fast-Track Multidisciplinary Clinic Integrating Movement Disorders Neurologists in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Evaluation." Journal of Clinical Medicine, vol. 13, no. 20, 2024. |
| Joyce NR, Lombardi LR, Pfeiffer MR, Curry AE, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Zullo AR. "Implications of using administrative healthcare data to identify risk of motor vehicle crash-related injury: the importance of distinguishing crash from crash-related injury." Injury epidemiology, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024, pp. 38. |
| Zullo AR, Riester MR, D'Amico AM, Reddy Bhuma M, Khan MA, Curry AE, Pfeiffer MR, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Bayer T, Joyce NR. "Medication Changes Among Older Drivers Involved in Motor Vehicle Crashes." JAMA Network Open, vol. 7, no. 10, 2024, pp. e2438338. |
| De Vito AN, Emrani S, Hallowell E, Goldstein A, Davis JD, Margolis SA. "Medication management error types: Associations with mild cognitive impairment subtype." The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2024, pp. 1-16. |
| Zullo AR, Khan MA, Pfeiffer MR, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Curry AE, Bayer TA, Riester MR, Joyce NR. "Non-benzodiazepine Hypnotics and Police-Reported Motor Vehicle Crash Risk among Older Adults: A Sequential Target Trial Emulation." American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024. |
| Reznik ME, Margolis SA, Andrews N, Basso C, Mintz N, Varga S, Snitz BE, Girard TD, Shutter LA, Ely EW, Jones RN. "Validating the Fluctuating Mental Status Evaluation in Neurocritically Ill Patients With Acute Stroke." Critical care medicine, 2024. |
| Sanborn V, Ayub N, Margolis SA. "AGR - 3 Epilepsy Surgical Planning in a Patient with Co-Morbid Multiple Sclerosis and Seizures." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, 2023. |
| Riester MR, D'Amico AM, Khan MA, Joyce NR, Pfeiffer MR, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Curry AE, Bayer TA, Zullo AR. "Changes in the burden of medications that may impair driving among older adults before and after a motor vehicle crash." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2023. |
| Gandy M, Michaelis R, Acraman J, Donald KA, Fitzpatrick M, LaFrance WC Jr, Margolis SA, Modi AC, Reuber M, Tang V, Thayer Z, Verity K, Wagner JL, Wilmshurst J, Whittaker S, Munger Clary HM. "Integrated psychological care services within seizure settings: Key components and implementation factors among example services in four ILAE regions: A report by the ILAE Psychiatry Commission." Epilepsia, vol. 64, no. 7, 2023, pp. 1766-1784. |
| Crook CL, Margolis SA, Goldstein A, Davis JD, Gonzalez JS, Grant AC, Nakhutina L. "Medication self-management in predominantly African American and Caribbean American people with epilepsy: The role of medication beliefs and epilepsy knowledge." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 146, 2023, pp. 109313. |
| Reznik ME, Mintz N, Moody S, Drake J, Margolis SA, Rudolph JL, LaBuzetta JN, Kamdar BB, Jones RN. "Rest-activity patterns associated with delirium in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage." Journal of the Neurological Sciences, vol. 454, 2023, pp. 120823. |
| Reznik ME, Margolis SA, Moody S, Drake J, Tremont G, Furie KL, Mayer SA, Ely EW, Jones RN. "A Pilot Study of the Fluctuating Mental Status Evaluation: A Novel Delirium Screening Tool for Neurocritical Care Patients." Neurocritical Care, 2022. |
| Joyce NR, Khan MA, Zullo AR, Pfeiffer MR, Metzger KB, Margolis SA, Ott BR, Curry AE. "Distance From Home to Motor Vehicle Crash Location: Implications for License Restrictions Among Medically-At-Risk Older Drivers." Journal of aging & social policy, 2022, pp. 1-15. |
| Hewitt KC, Block C, Bellone JA, Dawson EL, Garcia P, Gerstenecker A, Grabyan JM, Howard C, Kamath V, LeMonda BC, Margolis SA, McBride WF, Salinas CM, Tam DM, Walker KA, Del Bene VA. "Diverse experiences and approaches to tele neuropsychology: Commentary and reflections over the past year of COVID-19." The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2022, pp. 1-16. |
| Reynolds GO, Tremont G, Santorelli GD, Denby C, Margolis SA, Ott BR. "Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors and Viewpoints Among Members of an Alzheimer Prevention Registry." Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, 2022. |
| Hallowell ES, Sullivan KL, Davis JD, Burke EM, Kenney L, Tremont G, Margolis SA. "The complementary utility of cognitive testing and the medication management ability assessment in older adults." Neuropsychology, vol. 36, no. 6, 2022, pp. 528-539. |
| Margolis SA, Kelly DA, Daiello LA, Davis J, Tremont G, Pillemer S, Denby C, Ott BR. "Anticholinergic/Sedative Drug Burden and Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Adults at Risk of Alzheimer's Disease." The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, vol. 76, no. 6, 2021, pp. 1037-1043. |
| Reznik ME, Kalagara R, Moody S, Drake J, Margolis SA, Cizginer S, Mahta A, Rao SS, Stretz C, Wendell LC, Thompson BB, Asaad WF, Furie KL, Jones RN, Daiello LA. "Common biomarkers of physiologic stress and associations with delirium in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage." Journal of Critical Care, vol. 64, 2021, pp. 62-67. |
| Joyce, Nina R., Khan, Marzan A., Zullo, Andrew R., Pfeiffer, Melissa R., Metzger, Kristina B., Margolis, Seth A., Ott, Brian R., Curry, Allison E. "Distance from home to motor vehicle crash location: Implications for license restrictions among medically-at-risk older drivers." [], 2021. |
| Reznik ME, Margolis SA, Mahta A, Wendell LC, Thompson BB, Stretz C, Rudolph JL, Boukrina O, Barrett AM, Daiello LA, Jones RN, Furie KL. "Impact of Delirium on Outcomes After Intracerebral Hemorrhage." Stroke, vol. 53, no. 2, 2021, pp. STROKEAHA120034023. |
| Gupta SK, Margolis SA, Grant AC, Gonzalez JS, Nakhutina L. "Relationships among illness representations and depressive symptom severity in predominantly African-American and Caribbean-American people with epilepsy." The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 2021, pp. 1-17. |
| Reznik ME, Drake J, Margolis SA, Moody S, Murray K, Costa S, Mahta A, Wendell LC, Thompson BB, Rao SS, Barrett AM, Boukrina O, Daiello LA, Asaad WF, Furie KL, Jones RN. "Deconstructing Poststroke Delirium in a Prospective Cohort of Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage." Critical care medicine, vol. 48, no. 1, 2020, pp. 111-118. |
| Venkatesan UM, Margolis SA, Tremont G, Festa EK, Heindel WC. "Forward to the past: Revisiting the role of immediate recognition in the assessment of episodic memory." Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 42, no. 2, 2020, pp. 1-11. |
| Reznik, Michael E., Drake, Jonathan, Margolis, Seth A., Mahta, Ali, Wendell, Linda C., Thompson, Bradford B., Rao, Shyam S., Daiello, Lori A., Furie, Karen L., Jones, Richard N. "The authors reply." Critical Care Medicine, vol. 48, no. 7, 2020, pp. e636-e637. |
| Margolis, Seth A, Hallowell, Emily S, Davis, Jennifer D, Kenney, Lauren E, Tremont, Geoffrey N. "The Clinical Utility and Ecological Validity of the Medication Management Ability Assessment in Older Adults with and without Dementia." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2020. |
| Margolis SA, Festa EK, Papandonatos GD, Korthauer LE, Gonsalves MA, Oberman L, Heindel WC, Ott BR. "A pilot study of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in primary progressive aphasia." Brain Stimulation, vol. 12, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1340-1342. |
| Margolis SA, Zughaft Sears M, Daiello LA, Solon C, Nakhutina L, Hoogendoorn CJ, Gonzalez JS. "Anticholinergic/sedative drug burden predicts worse memory acquisition in older racially/ethnically diverse patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 34, no. 10, 2019, pp. 1545-1554. |
| Margolis SA, Gonzalez JS, Faria C, Kenney L, Grant AC, Nakhutina L. "Anxiety disorders in predominantly African American and Caribbean American adults with intractable epilepsy: The role of perceived epilepsy stigma." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 99, 2019, pp. 106450. |
| Kenney LE, Margolis SA, Davis JD, Tremont G. "The Screening Utility and Ecological Validity of the Neuropsychological Assessment Battery Bill Payment Subtest in Older Adults with and without Dementia." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, 2019. |
| Margolis SA, Gonzalez JS, Spindell J, Mohamadpour M, Grant AC, Nakhutina L. "Assessment of medication management capacity in a predominantly African American and Caribbean American sample of adults with intractable epilepsy." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 88, 2018, pp. 308-314. |
| Margolis SA, Nakhutina L, Schaffer SG, Grant AC, Gonzalez JS. "Perceived epilepsy stigma mediates relationships between personality and social well-being in a diverse epilepsy population." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 78, 2018, pp. 7-13. |
| Margolis, SA & Sartori, AC. "Serial Neuropsychological Assessment of an Adult with Moyamoya Disease and Borderline Personality Disorder." INS Clinical Case Series, no. Summer 2018, 2018. |
| Margolis, S, Drake, J, Tremont, G. "AGR-2A Sign of the Times? A Case of Cardiopulmonary Arrest Due to Heroin Overdose." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol. 32, no. 6, 2017, pp. 654-655. |
| Margolis, Seth A., Papandonatos, George D., Tremont, Geoffrey, Ott, Brian R. "Telephone-based Minnesota Cognitive Acuity Screen predicts time to institutionalization and homecare." International Psychogeriatrics, vol. 30, no. 3, 2017, pp. 1-9. |
| Margolis, S, Assuras, S. "AGR-1Lessons from a Neuropsychological Case Study of Adult Pologlucosan Body Disease Initially Diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, vol. 30, no. 6, 2015, pp. 473.1-473. |
| Margolis SA, Gonzalez JS. "Beliefs about medicines in 3D: a comment on Phillips et al." Annals of Behavioral Medicine, vol. 48, no. 1, 2014, pp. 1-2. |
| Margolis, Seth A., Osborne, Patricia, Gonzalez, Jeffrey S. "Problem Solving." Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine, 2013, pp. 1539-1540. |
| Margolis, SM, Gonzalez, S. "The Relationship between Depression and Adherence in Diabetes (revision number 8)." Diapedia, 2013. |
| Nakhutina L, Gonzalez JS, Margolis SA, Spada A, Grant A. "Adherence to antiepileptic drugs and beliefs about medication among predominantly ethnic minority patients with epilepsy." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 22, no. 3, 2011, pp. 584-6. |
| Roberts DL, Penn DL, Labate D, Margolis SA, Sterne A. "Transportability and feasibility of Social Cognition And Interaction Training (SCIT) in community settings." Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, vol. 38, no. 1, 2010, pp. 35-47. |
Dr. Margolis's research focuses broadly on psychosocial aspects of illness and disability with an emphasis on epilepsy, neuropsychological aspects of medication adherence, predictors of functional decline and compensatory strategy use in MCI and mild dementia, the ecological validity of cognitive testing, the effects of psychoactive medication exposure on cognition and functional outcomes (e.g., driving safety), as well as the assessment/diagnosis of delirium in neurological populations.
Title: Improving neuropsychologists’ detection of real-world medication nonadherence in Mild Cognitive Impairment.
Role: Principal Investigator Source: American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Foundation
Title: Validating the Fluctuating Mental Status Evaluation: A Novel Delirium Screening Tool
Role: Co-Investigator Source: Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists (NIDUS)
Title: Medications and the Risk of Motor Vehicle Crashes in Older Drivers
Role: Co-Investigator / Site PI (RIH) Source: National Institutes of Health (National Institute on Aging)
Title: Reducing Internalized Stigma in Epilepsy - A Behavioral Online Video Education (RISE ABOVE)
Role: PI Source: Epilepsy Foundation of New England
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Blum, Andrew | Professor of Neurology |
| Daiello, Lori | Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice (Research), Associate Professor of Neurology (Research) |
| Davis, Jennifer | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Clinician Educator |
| Drake, Jonathan | Assistant Professor of Neurology |
| Festa, Elena | Senior Lecturer in Cognitive and Psychological Sciences |
| Heindel, William | Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences |
| Joyce, Nina | Manning Assistant Professor of Epidemiology |
| LaFrance, W | Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Neurology |
| Ott, Brian | Professor Emeritus of Neurology |
| Reznik, Michael | Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor of Neurology |
| Tremont, Geoffrey | Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
| Zullo, Andrew | Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology
International Neuropsychological Society
National Academy of Neuropsychology
| Psychologist: State of New York | - | ||
| ABPP-CN | American Board of Professional Psychology, Clinical neuropsychology | - | #10309 |
| Psychologist | State of Rhode Island | - |
| Neuropsychologist. Rhode Island Hospital, - |
Clinical Supervisor
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program (APA-accredited)
Clinical Supervisor
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Program (APA-accredited)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Neuropsychology
Co-Director / Research Mentor
Researching Everyday Activities of Living (REAL) Lab
Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program (APA-accredited)
Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Program (APA-accredited)
Longitudinal Preceptor
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Clerkship
Co-Facilitator: Clinical Neuroanatomy Sequence
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Didactic Series
Co-Facilitator: Integrating Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology Seminar
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Neuropsychology Resident and Postdoctoral Fellowship Didactic Series
Lecturer: Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessment
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Neurology Residency Didactic Series: Dementia Block
Lecturer: Stigma and Psychosocial Issues in Epilepsy
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Neurology Residency Didactic Series: Epilepsy Block
