Faculty in the Neuropsychology Track
Faculty who are not likely to take a student in the academic year are indicated by an asterisk. Faculty who do not have an asterisk next to their name may or may not be taking a student.
* Natacha Akshoomoff, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Professor, UCSD. Diagnostic and assessment practices for children with autism. Neuropsychological development of attention and visuospatial processes in normal and atypical development.
* Angela Ballantyne, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Project Scientist, UCSD.
Ursula Bellugi, Ed.D. (Harvard), Professor, Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, UCSD. Biological foundations of language and cognition; cognitive neuroscience.
Mark W. Bondi, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD. Neuropsychology of aging and dementia; neuropsychological and neuroimaging changes of older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Susan Brasser, Ph.D. (State University of New York at Binghamton), Assistant Professor, SDSU. Studying the physiological mechanisms of action of ethanol on the nervous system that regulate behavioral ingestion of the drug
Gregory G. Brown, Ph.D. (Wayne State University), Professor, UCSD. Mathematical and computer models of amnesia; functional magnetic resonance imaging; neuropsychology of Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, and schizophrenia.
* Sandra J. Brown, Ph.D. (University of Windsor), Clinical Professor, UCSD. Neuropsychological evaluation of children and adolescents, developmental psychopathology.
Kristin Cadenhead, MD (University of Texas Medical Branch), Associate Professor, UCSD. Schizophrenic spectrum illness-basic and clinical issues.
* Michael P. Caligiuri, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin), Professor, UCSD. Motor control, movement disorders, instrumentation; psychopharmacology; methamphetamine; aging.
Leslie J. Carver, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota), Associate Professor, UCSD. Brain basis of cognitive and social development in infancy. Emphasis on infants with typical development and autism.
Mariana Cherner, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Professor in Residence, UCSD. Neurocognitive consequences of HIV and Hepatitis C infection. Neurocognitive effects of substances such as MDMA and methamphetamine. Cross-cultural and Spanish language neuropsychological testing and assessment of everyday functioning.
Jody Corey-Bloom, MD, Ph.D. (UCSD School of Medicine), Clinical Professor, UCSD. Clinical research on the causes and treatment of dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions associated, foremost, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Huntington’s disease (HD), and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Eric Courchesne, Ph.D. (University of California at San Diego), Professor, UCSD. Developmental neuroscience; anatomical and functional neuroimaging; neurobiology of autism; human neurophysiology.
Dean C. Delis, Ph.D. (University of Wyoming), Professor of Psychiatry, UCSD. Cognitive neuropsychology, neuropsychological test development.
Karen R. Dobkins, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego), Professor, UCSD. tracking sensory, cognitive, social and lanauage development in infants at risk for developing an autism spectrum disorder
Sean P. A. Drummond, Associate Professor in Residence, Psychiatry, Ph.D., SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program. Sleep and sleep deprivation, functional magnetic resonance imaging, the effects of sleep on cognitive performance and brain function, the ineraction of sleep and substances of abuse.
* Lisa T. Eyler, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Ph.D., (University of Pennsylvania), UCSD. Use of functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore Individual differences due to development, aging, and brain disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism.
* J. Vincent Filoteo, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Professor, UCSD. Cognitive neuroscience of memory, categorization, attention, and visual perception. Clinical neuropsychology of subcortical neurological disease.
*Paul E. Gilbert, Ph.D. (University of Utah), Associate Professor, SDSU. Cognitive deficits associated with aging, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease.
*Tamar H. Gollan, Ph.D. (University of Arizona), Associate Professor, UCSD. Consequences of biligualism for cognitive functioning in young and aging bilinguals, and differential diagnosis in bilinguals with Alzheimer's disease. Implications of bilingualism for normal models of language production and memory.
*Eric Granholm, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles), Professor, UCSD. Cognitive neuropsychology; psychophysiology, pupillometry; attention and memory in schizophrenia and dementia, CBT for psychosis.
Igor Grant, M.D. (University of British Columbia), Professor, Executive Vice Chair of Psychiatry, UCSD. Stressors, human coping, and health; neuropsychology of alcohol, drug abuse, and other diseases; neurobehavioral research on AIDS; neurobiological and neurocognitive complications of HIV.
Frank Haist, Ph.D., Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Developmental cognitive neuroscience studies of perception with emphasis on face and object processing in typically and atypically developing children. Studies of memory, language, and attention across the lifespan. fMRI is used to evaluate regional and systems level brain activation.
Deborah L. Harrington, Ph.D. (Univeristy of New Mexico) Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Current research uses fMRI to study the neural basis for cognitive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease and the responsiveness of the brain to dopamine therapy.
Robert K. Heaton, Ph.D. (University of Washington), Professor, Joint Doctoral Program Co-Director, UCSD. Neurobehavioral effects of HIV infection; schizophrenia; clinical vs. statistical prediction in neuropsychology; correcting for demographic influences on test performance; use of neuropsychological tests results to predict aspects of everyday functioning; Cross-cultural (international) neuropsychology.
Terry L. Jernigan, Ph.D. (University of California at Los Angeles), Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, Radiology, UCSD. Director, UCSD Center for Human Development. Brain imaging of neural architecture, relationship to behavioral differences, especially in developing children, genetic factors mediating these relationships, and imaging correlates of HIV infection and other neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders.
William Kremen, Ph.D. (Boston University), Professor, UCSD. Behavior genetics (twin studies) of cognitive aging and dementia; behavior genetics and neuroimaging changes in normal and pathological aging; neuropsychological vulnerability indicators for schizophrenia.
* Marta Kutas, Ph.D. (University of Illinois, Champaign), Professor, Cognitive Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Neurosciences, UCSD. Cognitive neurosciences with emphasis on language and memory; electrophysiological approaches to human cognition; interface between mood and cognition.
Gregory Light, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Professor, UCSD. Neurophysiological and neurocognitive endophenotypes of schizophrenia.
James Lohr, MD (Pritzker School of Medicine at U of Chicago), Professor and Vice Chair-Clinical Affairs, UCSD. Schizophrenia and movement disorders research.
Carrie McDonald, Ph.D. (University of Florida), Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Neuropsychology of epilepsy and dementia. Language and memory processing in epilepsy using magnetoencephalography. Structural MRI and diffusion tensor imaging in temporal lobe epilepsy.
Thomas D. Marcotte, Ph.D. (California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles), Associate Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Neuropsychological sequelae of HIV infection; the impact of mild neurocognitive disorders on everyday functioning; use of neuropsychological tests/driving simulators to predict impaired driving abilities.
Sarah N. Mattson, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Professor, SDSU. Behavioral teratology; Child neuropsychology; neuropsychological, cognitive, neuroanatomical effects of prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol, medications, and other agents; visual-spatial function and attention; neuropsychological effects of abnormal brain development.
* Jeffrey E. Max, MMBCh-M.D. (University of the Witwatersrand), Associate Professor in Residence, UCSD. Neuropsychiatry clinical research and neuroimaging of child and adolescent traumatic brain injury and focal lesions due to stroke.
David J. Moore, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Neurobehavioral and everyday functioning of HIV+ persons with mental illness; clinicopathological studies of neuroAIDS.
Pamela Moses, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego), Assistant Professor, SDSU. Developmental cognitive neuroscience; brain development and plasticity, neuroimaging of neuroanatomical and functional brain development in typical children and children with perinatal brain injury, visuospatial cognition.
Ralph-Axel Müller, Ph.D. ( J. W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany) Professor, SDSU. Functional brain development in autism spectrum disorders, functional and anatomical connectivity; developmental changes of functional brain organization for language in children; plasticity and individual variability of brain organization; functional MRI, functional connectivity MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, eye-tracking.
Claire Murphy, Ph.D. ( University of Massachusetts), Professor, SDSU. Age-associated sensory-perceptual changes, cognitive function, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, evoked potentials, fMRI.
* Sharon L. Nichols, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Pediatric neuropsychology; development of behavioral inhibition, attention and working memory after early brain injury; neuropsychology of HIV infection in children.
Marc Norman, Ph.D. (Brigham Young University), Associate Professor, UCSD. Neuropsychological functioning in healthy normal adults and adults with neurological or psychiatric disorders; cognitive and memory performance in healthy adults, especially Senior African Americans; cognitive and affective in Multiple Sclerosis.
*Barton W. Palmer, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago), Associate Professor in Residence, UCSD. Neurocognitive aspects of late-life schizophrenia and related psychoses, empirical bioethics and informed consent, cognitive assessment.
* William Perry, Ph.D. (California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego), Professor, UCSD; Associate Director Adult Psychiatry at UCSD Medical Center. Neuropsychiatric disorders, viral disease, and traumatic brain injury, neuropsychology, psychophysiology frontal executive functioning.
Judy S. Reilly, Ph.D. (University of California at Los Angeles), Professor, SDSU. Language and affective development in normal and atypical populations including children with early focal brain damage, children with language impairment, & children with Williams Syndrome. Cross-cultural studies of emotional development.
Edward P. Riley, Ph.D. ( Tulane University), Professor, SDSU. Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on brain and behavioral development in children; effects of other drugs of abuse on development; alcohol studies.
David P. Salmon, Ph.D. (Rutgers), Professor in Residence, UCSD. Cognitive neuropsychology; Alzheimer's disease; cross-cultural studies of dementia.
* Larry R. Squire, Ph.D. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences,
and Psychology, UCSD. Biological foundations of memory in humans and rats; neurological organization of memory.
Joan Stiles, Ph.D. (Princeton University), Professor; Director, Human Development Program, UCSD. Cognitive and neurological development in typical and atypical populations, including pre- and perinatal focal brain injury, Williams Syndrome, and language impairment. Brain and behavior correlates using MRI.
Susan F. Tapert, Ph.D., (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Professor in Residence, UCSD. Brain imaging in adolescents with or at risk for substance use disorders to investigate cognitive functioning, cue reactivity, impulsivity, and other aspects of addictive behaviors.
Michael J. Taylor, Ph.D., (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Clinical Professor, UCSD and Director of the SDSU Psychology Clinic. Evaluation of treatment efficacy and/or disease progression in disorders impacting the CNS (including alcoholism, substance abuse, and HIV) using magnetic resonance spectroscopy, diffusion tensor imaging, and other novel neuroimaging techniques. Generation and application of demographically-corrected norms in neuropsychological assessment.
Jennifer D. Thomas, Ph.D. (University of Iowa), Professor, SDSU. Behavioral teratology and neurotoxicology with an emphasis on alcohol and nicotine; neurobiology of learning, memory, and cognition.
Jeanne Townsend, Ph.D. (SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology), Associate Adjunct Professor, UCSD. Use of neuropsychological and behavioral testing, electrophysiological recordings (EEG, ERP), and MR imaging to examine brain structural and functional correlates of sensory and attentional processing in typical function and in autism and other developmental disorders.
Doris A. Trauner, M.D. (Medical College of Virginia), Chief of Pediatric Neurology, Professor, UCSD. Neurobehavioral correlates of metabolic disorders and brain injury in children; development of prosody in brain damaged, autistic, and language impaired children; visual processing.
* Elizabeth W. Twamley, Ph.D. (Arizona State University), Associate Professor, UCSD. Neuropsychology of schizophrenia and severe mental illness; cognitive training and supported employment for individuals with severe mental illness; neurocognitive risk factors for suicide; genetic markers of cognition; cognitive rehabilitation for people with traumatic brain injury.
*Steven Paul Woods, Psy.D. (Virginia Consortium), Assistant Professor, UCSD. Cognitive neuropsychology of HIV-1 infection, including the role of prospective memory in everyday functioning outcomes (e.g., medication adherence)..
* Beverly B. Wulfeck, Ph.D. (University of California at San Diego), Professor and SDSU Director, SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders (School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences), SDSU. Developmental language disorders, adult aphasia, neural underpinnings of language and cognitive disorders, life-span psycholinguistics.
