A new special issue of the American Psychological Association (APA) journal Neuropsychology is focused on cognitive aging. Recent CHP doctoral graduate, Anna Yam, Ph.D., is the lead author on the lead paper in that special issue. The paper challenged the conventional assumption that everyday cognitive tasks (e.g., finding…
Asthma can be particularly problematic for children who are overweight, leading to increased medication use, more emergency room visits and lower quality of life compared with their peers with asthma who are not overweight. University of Florida Health researchers are now studying whether weight loss can improve lung function…
Team Basal Gangstas (Janelle Letzen, Kelsey Thomas, Paul Mangal, Jason Gravano, Loren Hizel) closely edged out two other teams to become the winners of the 2nd annual NeurOlympics, a student organized competition that tests neural knowledge. The event was sponsored by the UF Association of Neuropsychological Students in Training (ANST)…
UF Health Vitality Mind is a collaborative program between The Village in Gainesville, FL and the University of Florida is to explore strategies to help older adults maintain and improve their brain health and quality of life. Directed by Drs. Dawn Bowers and Michael Marsiske, of Clinical and Health Psychology,…
Kelsey Thomas, M.S. has been named the 2014 recipient of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology and Education Advisory Committee Dissertation Award for her project entitled “Understanding Errors in Complex Everyday Cognitive Tasks in Older Adults.” The Dissertation Award provides $1000 for direct research costs and a $1000 travel supplement…
Congratulations to Dr. Rozensky, recipient of the 2014 Nathan Perry, Jr. Career Service to Health Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Health Psychology. The award is for “significant contributions for the advancement of health psychology as a field, nationally or internationally” and will be presented at the…
Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D., will present “Explaining Health Disparities: Place is more important than race, but race matters, too” on Wednesday, Feb. 19 at 4 p.m. at the McKnight Brain Institute, DeWeese Auditorium, as part of the PHHP Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series.
Older adults who received as few as 10 sessions of mental training show long-lasting improvements in reasoning and speed of processing skills 10 years after the intervention, according to UF Health researchers [...]
Rates of dementia among people with Parkinson’s disease are higher than the general population, with 25 to 40 percent of patients expected to eventually develop dementia. [...]
Christy Karabetian with mentor, Dr. Steven Anton Congratulations to Christy Karabetian, M.S., a third year graduate student in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, for being selected as an Outstanding International Student in the College of Public Health and…
