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Joel R. Sneed, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York, an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Departments of Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Dr. Sneed is the Director of the Lifespan Lab and is currently funded by a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
--For more about Dr. Sneed and his work and life, click here. |
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Brandon Adams, Psy.D. is the newest member of the Lifespan Lab. He recieved his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the American School of Professional Psychology. He spent two years training at the University of California at Davis Medical Center in both the inpatient and outpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Departments. His research interests include dementia, particularly frontotemporal dementia (FTD), late-life depression, and psychopharamacology. |
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Michelle Culang is the senior member of the Lifespan Lab. She is an Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellow and is finishing her second year in the doctoral subprogram in Neuropsychology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her research interests focus on late-life depression with an emphasis on the role of executive dysfunction and change in cognitive functioning in antidepressant treatment trials. |
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Monique Pimontel is in her first year of the doctoral subprogram in Clinical Neuropsychology at Queens College of the City University of New York. She is a recipient of the Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship Award. With research interests pertaining to geriatric depression, she is focusing her work at the Lifespan lab on the predictive value of executive dysfunction on treatment resistant depression in late-life. |
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Amanda D. Persaud is the post-baccalaureate research coordinator of the Lifespan Lab. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she received her B.A. in Psychology. She completed an honors thesis under the direction of Dr. Paula Pietromonaco and Dr. Sally Powers, studying the effects of physical and sexual trauma on cortisol levels in the body. Her research interests include trauma, substance abuse, and depression. |
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Emily Cohen is a first year doctoral student in the doctoral subprogram in Neuropsychology at Queens College of the City University of New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut College and received her M.A. in developmental psychology from Teachers College at Columbia University. With a varied background working with the relationship between medical and psychological illness, she will be starting her research in the Lifespan Lab by focusing on the significance of MRI scans in vascular depression. |
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