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Andrew
Budson, M.D.
Director
of the CTCN
Dr.
Budson is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Boston
University School of Medicine. By training, he is a cognitive
and behavioral neurologist with specialization in memory
disorders and dementia. He has a long history of research
in the cognitive disorders of aging. Dr. Budson's research
is currently funded by the National Institute on Aging
(NIH). Dr. Budson's specific research interests include
understanding how memory breaks down in Alzheimer's disease,
false memory, and the role of different cortical lesions
in episodic memory function. In addition to his duties
as Director of the CTCN, Dr. Budson is the Director for
the Bedford Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center
(GRECC).
Dr.
Budson's website
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Maureen
K. O'Connor, Psy.D, ABCN.
Director
of Cognitive Rehabilitation
Dr.
O’Connor is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist.
She earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania and completed an internship
in neuropsychology at Yale University School of Medicine.
Her post-doctoral training was completed at Weill Cornell
Medical College/Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
and the Bedford Veterans Hospital/Boston University School
of Medicine. In addition to her work in the CTCN, Dr. O’Connor
is the Director of Neuropsychology at the Bedford Veterans
Hospital and Instructor of Neurology at Boston University.
Dr. O’Connor specializes in the clinical evaluation
and treatment of older adults. Her research interests focus
on understanding cognitive aging in an effort to develop
effective treatments to help aging adults and their families.
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Rebecca
Deason, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Deason just completed a PhD in cognitive and biological psychology at
the University of Minnesota. As a postdoctoral fellow in the center, Becky
will be expanding her prior research on perceptual priming and antipriming
to gain further insight into implicit memory, as well as its interactions
with other types of memory, in healthy older adults and in patients with
Alzheimer's disease.
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Sean Flannery, B.S.
Research
Technician
Sean
graduated from the University of Georgia in December
of 2008 with a B.S. in Psychology, minoring in Sociology
and Film Studies. He has been at CTCN since February
of 2008 in order to gain experience related to neuropsychology
with the hopes of higher-level education.
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Lee
Ashendorf, Ph.D
Investigator
Dr. Ashendorf
is a clinical neuropsychologist who specializes in cognition
and aging. He also serves as the lead neuropsychologist
for the Bedford VAMC's Polytrauma clinic. His research
focuses on psychometric and process aspects of neuropsychological
assessment, particularly with older adults. He additionally
works as a clinical supervisor for neuropsychology interns
and postdoctoral fellows at the Bedford VAMC.
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Nick
Simmons-Stern
Student
Research Assistant
Nick
is a student at Yale University, where he studies the
cognitive neuroscience of music. He has worked for four
years as a research assistant at the CTCN, where his
research has focused on understanding the relationship
between music and memory in patients with Alzheimer's
disease.
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Erin
Reynolds, Psy.D.
Dr.
Reynolds is currently a postdoctoral resident at
the Bedford VAMC. She completed her Psy.D. in clinical
psychology from the Massachusetts School of Professional
Psychology and her internship with a major rotation
in clinical neuropsychology at the Bedford VAMC.
Dr. Reynolds’ research interests include sports-related
TBI, the long-term effects of repetitive head injury,
including the early detection and management of chronic
traumatic encephalopathy, and cognitive rehabilitation
for individuals with TBI, neurodegenerative disorders,
and other neurological conditions.
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Bruno
Frustace,
B.A.
Research
Technician
Bruno
received a B.A. in Psychology from Swarthmore College
in 2010. He has been working in the CTCN lab as a
research technician since January 2011. He hopes
to gain experience with research prior to his plans
for graduate school in Medicine or Neuroscience.
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Karin
Schon, Ph.D.
Karin
Schon is a senior postdoctoral associate at Boston
University. She is working on an NIA-sponsored K-award
project on the role of aerobic exercise and cardio-respiratory
fitness on memory using functional and structural
MRI methods.
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Lindsay
Embree
Lindsay is currently a doctoral candidate in clinical
psychology/neuropsychology at Suffolk University in Boston,
MA. She will begin her pre-doctoral internship at the
Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology in the fall
of 2011, and will receive her Ph.D. in clinical psychology
in the summer 2012. She is currently conducting her dissertation
in the CTCN investigating recollection and familiarity
for pictures and words in mild cognitive impairment using
receiver operating characteristics.
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Aleksandra
C Stark, M.D.
Aleksandra
is a post-doctoral fellow with the CTCN. She is a
neurologist by training, and completed neurology
residency at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill.
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Andrew Rosenblatt
Andrew graduated from
Skidmore College in 2010 with a B.A. in neuroscience. Andrew has worked
in a clinical neuropsychology setting since September, 2010, and he has
worked in the CTCN lab as a research intern since September 2011. Andrew
hopes to gain further experience with research in neuropsychology prior
to his plans for graduate school in clinical psychology.
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