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…

Tweeting the research message in 5 words or less    Brittany Rohl, Lindsay Rotblatt, and Brad Taylor learn the art of crisp communication. Brittany’s poster evaluated the construct validity of brief cognitive rating scale for conveying complex neuropsychological results to DBS interdisciplinary teams.  Her poster, titled “The UF DBS Cognitive…

The department is proud to present our newest graduates.  Our CHP trainees were conferred the Ph.D. degree at the August 10, 2018 Doctoral Degree Commencement.  The Ph.D. is the culmination of years of painstaking work and dedication on the part of our students and their mentors.      …

CHP Doctoral student, Samuel Crowley (mentored by Dr. Catherine Price), was selected a one of three neuropsychologists in training to provide a case presentation to the American Psychological Association Convention 2018. His presentation, entitled, “The Absence of Evidence: Language Deficits Following Likely Stroke with No Imaging Findings,” and will be part…

CHP Doctoral student, Jessica Zakrzewski (co-mentored by Dr. William Perlstein, CHP, and Dr. Carol Mathews, Psychiatry), and Psychiatry Doctoral student, Christian Archer, (mentored by Dr. Carol Mathews) have received a joint poster award for the International OCD Conference at the end of July. Jessica and Christian co-authored an abstract entitled “Functional Impairment…

This $1000 research award was based on Bonnie’s doctoral dissertation, which focuses on cortical and subcortical electrophysiological markers of apathy and impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease, both before and during DBS surgery.  Bonnie is a TL-1 trainee and an associate trainee on an NINDS-T32 for interdisciplinary training in movement…

Sara Voorhees has been selected as one of five recipients of the University Women’s Club (UWC) Graduate Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to students completing their first year of graduate study and is based on scholastic excellence, character and leadership.  Sara was selected based on the recommendation…

PHHP Profile of CHP Ph.D. Student, Liselotte de Wit.

Elle Wiggins and for the second year, Charles Moreno, were awarded two of three scholarships by the Stephanie Nicole Ross Foundation, Inc. Three $1,000 scholarships are awarded to graduate students studying psychology, cognitive or behavioral science, or any related field in the state of Florida in order…