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The Neurocognitive Screening Initiative (NSI) provides a cognitive assessment service to adults who have concerns about their thinking and/or memory – including symptoms of ADHD, epilepsy, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia syndromes like Alzheimer’s disease. The clinic offers screenings to uninsured individuals or those who cannot otherwise afford cognitive testing. Providers are neuropsychology graduate students,…

CHP Doctoral Student, Aviva Ariel-Donges, has been organizing a national Health Psychology Seminar Series as part of her internship at Jesse Brown VA.  The series is jointly presented by the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center and Northwestern University’s Clinical Psychology Program in the Feinberg School of Medicine. The…

The Woods Lab in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology and Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory in the McKnight Brain Institute received a new National Institute on Aging U01 grant to study the impact of cognitive training on functional abilities in patients with mild cognitive impairment.

Self-medication of pain with alcohol is a common, yet risky, behavior. Evidence suggests family history of alcoholism may affect the degree to which alcohol use relieves pain, but the independent contributions of expectation and conditioning have not been previously studied. Interactive effects of sex and family history are also currently…

October 12, 2018; 12-1pm Communicore C1-3 Presented by Professor Emerita, Dr. Cynthia Belar, PhD, ABPP In this interactive Q&A session, Dr. Belar will address your questions about professional organizations, their purposes, and how to optimize your engagement with them. Dr. Belar served as APA Executive Vice president/CEO from 2016-17, and…

September 28, 2018; 12-1pm Communicore C1-3 Presented by Ronald H. Rozensky, Ph.D., ABPP The discussion will consider trends in society, science, health care and education including the role of psychology in the interprofessional health care context and team science. Participants will be encouraged to focus on trends and career choices and the range of resultant trajectories leading…

September 21, 2018; 12-1pm Communicore C1-3 Presented by the Education and Advocacy Committee Available on Amazon ($12) and at the UF Smathers Library Please join us for a discussion of this powerful book about the toll of evictions of all aspects of life. If you don’t have…

The Society for Clinical Neuropsychology, Division 40 of the American Psychological Association, recognized  CHP Department Chair and Elizabeth Faulk Professor, Glenn Smith, PhD, ABPP/CN, for Presidential Citation for Outstanding Contributions to the Profession and the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.

    August 24, 2018 — 12-1pm — Communicore C1-3 Presented by Glenn Smith, Ph.D., ABPP & the Colloquium Planning Committee The Department of Clinical and Health Psychology is launching its Fall Season of Colloquia with a new redesigned format. Food will be served…

2017 Graduate, Dr. Aliyah Snyder, has won the 2018 National Academy of Neuropsychology Outstanding Dissertation Award for “The Effect of Exercise on Neurorecovery following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury:  A Pilot Study”.  Dr. Snyder will receive her award at the NAN convention in New Orleans on October 19.  She will receive…