Doctoral Students Present Research at the National Academy of Neuropsychology

CPS doctoral students in clinical psychology made an impressive showing at the National Academy of Neuropsychology Conference held in October in New York City. Professors Charles Golden and Wiley Mittenberg supervised the students whose presentations were based on their neuropsychological research. The projects and corresponding presenters included:

“IQ-Memory Differences in Traumatic Brain Injury”
Kristen Domboski, Abigail Stevens, Lori Miller,* and Wiley Mittenberg.

“Premorbid Memory Prediction using the Wechsler Test of Adult Reading”
Allison Myers, Angela Kuemmel, Lori Miller,*and Wiley Mittenberg.

“Working memory capacity in child anxiety disorders: Testing the processing efficiency theory”
Ryan Boddy, David Scarisbrick, and Charles Golden.

“Relationship of executive function to memory in depressed adults”
Daniel Frisch, Howard Buddin, Stephanie Renfrow, David Scarisbrick, and Charles Golden.

“Executive functioning performance in children and adolescents with ADHD and LD”
Lindsay Hines, Daniel Heyanka, Sara West, Jennifer Speisman, and Charles Golden.

“Evaluation of executive functioning deficits in children with a learning disability”
Miriam Rodriguez, Lindsay Hines, Daniel Heyanka, and Charles Golden.

“Memory Deficits in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder”
Isaac Tourgeman, Julio Gurrea, Daniel Frisch, William H. Buddin, and Charles Golden.

“Distinguishing Alzheimer’s Disease from Vascular Dementia: An exploration of five cognitive domains”
Daniel Heyanka, David Scarisbrick, and Charles Golden.

“Frontal Lobe function in children with Conduct Disorder”
David Scarisbrick, Ryan Boddy, Daniel Heyanka, Daniel Frisch, and Charles Golden.

“Can the MMPI-2 differentiate between neurodegenerative and psychiatric populations?”
Daniel Heyanka, Lindsay Hines, David Scarisbrick, and Charles Golden.

“Parietal functioning contributes more than frontal functioning to word pair learning in Normal”
Lindsay Hines, Ben D. Hill, and Charles Golden.

“An argument for the utilization of crystallized abilities rather than education as a covariate in elderly populations”
Daniel Heyanka, Julio Gurrea, David Scarisbrick, and Charles Golden.

“Relationship between objective versus behavioral measures of ADHD”
Amy Rosenberg, Jessica Mackelprang, and Charles Golden.

“Are the working memory and processing speed indices from the WISC-IV associated with performance on measures of attention?”
Julio Gurrea, Isaac Tourgeman, Daniel Heyanka, and Charles Golden.

“Depressive symptomatology in adults with and without acquired brain injury”
Stephanie Renfrow, Daniel Frisch, MaryBeth Bailar-Heath, Jamie Rice, and Charles Golden.

“Impact of comorbid Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and learning disabilities on observed behavior and social competence in school-age youth”
Jessica Holster, Sarah West, and Charles Golden.

“Does location of cerebral compromise result in differing performances in memory and executive functioning in patients diagnosed with dementia?”
Daniel Heyanka, David Scarisbrick, Bryan Reuther, and Charles Golden.

*Lori Miller, Ph.D. is a CPS alumna.