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Clinical

Adult Neuropsychology Program

  • Outpatient consultation 
    • Neuropsychology Clinic in Psychiatry
    • Neuropsychology Clinic in Neurology
    • Healthy Aging Brain Center (geriatric medicine clinic)
    • Center for Senior Health (geriatric medicine clinic)
  • Inpatient consultation - psychiatry, neurology, and medical-surgical service
    • University Hospital
    • Wishard Hospital
  • Drug study outcome assessments
  • Between 2-4 consultations per week

Pediatric Neuropsychology Program

  • Outpatient consultation
    •  Neuropsychology Clinic in Neurology
  • Inpatient consultation – rehabilitation and oncology service
    •  Riley Hospital for Children
  • Between 2-4 consultations per week

Academic

  1. Training in the Protection of Human Subjects (IUPUI module).

  2. Training in Compliance (initially on hire and periodically as required by the School).

  3. Formal instruction and certification in administration and scoring of neuropsychological tests (first month of residency).

  4. Medical Neuroscience Wet Labs for anatomy instruction (3 sessions, 6 hrs total in the laboratory).

  5. Psychiatry Grand Rounds.  Weekly during the academic year, 1 hour.

  6. Neurology Grand Rounds.  Weekly during the academic year, 1 hour.

  7. Pediatric Neurology Rounds.  Weekly during the academic year, 1 hour.

  8. Pediatric Brain Tumor Board.  Twice monthly during the academic year, 1 hour.

  9. Functional Neuroanatomy and Neurobehavioral Syndromes short course.  10 hour sequence offered annually to neuropsychology residents, psychiatry residents, and psychology interns. 

  10. Neuropsychology Case Conference.  Weekly, 1.5 hours.  Residents practice fact finding in the style of ABCN board certification, attend professional development seminars, and participate in neuroanatomy and neurobehavioral syndrome reviews.

  11. Geriatric Psychiatry Core Lecture Series.  Fifteen (15) lectures by faculty in Psychiatry, Neurology, Medicine, and Nursing.  Topics range from neurobiology of Alzheimer disease to Personality Disorders in the aged.  Lectures focus on pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment concerns of the geriatric population.

  12. Clinicopathologic Conference (CPC).  Intermittently during the academic year.  Clinical history including neuropsychological status and clinical diagnosis is presented by clinician.  Neuropathologists present the results of brain autopsy including gross description of the brain, histopathology, immunohistopathology, genotype status, and pathologic diagnosis, 1 hour.

  13. Brain Cuttings.  The resident observes two (2) brain cuttings with neuropathology faculty, 1-2 hours.

  14. Geriatric Medicine Lectures.  Optional weekly lectures on basic issues in geriatrics as presented by the Department of Medicine, 1 hour.

Research

  1. Analyze longitudinal data from a large, multi-center clinical trial of a cognitive intervention for older adults, ACTIVE: Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly (U01 NR04508); PI:  Frederick W. Unverzagt, PhD 

  2. Collaborate in study examining risk factors for progression of MCI in primary care, Risk Factors for Conversion to Dementia (R01 AG026096); PI:  Frederick W. Unverzagt, PhD 

  3. Analyze cross-sectional cognitive data from a large, quality of life study of long-term breast cancer survivors, Quality of Life in Younger Breast Cancer Survivors (American Cancer Society, RSGPB04-089-01-PBP); PI:  Vickie Champion, RN, PhD 

  4. Analyze longitudinal data from a large, longitudinal, cross-national study of the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors of Alzheimer disease in elderly African Americans, Indianapolis-Ibadan Dementia Project (R01 AG09956); PI:  Kathleen S. Hall, PhD 

  5. Analyze longitudinal data from a large registry of Alzheimer disease patients and matched healthy controls, Indiana Alzheimer Disease Center (P30 AG10133); PI:  Bernardino Ghetti, MD 

  6. Participate in industry-sponsored, clinical drug trials for Alzheimer disease and other dementias as an efficacy rater; Co-Investigator: Daniel F. Rexroth, PsyD

  7. Collaborate in functional neuroimaging studies of addiction, obesity, and behavioral neuroscience of reward-related behavior; learn functional image analysis, (R01 DK085601, R21 AA018020, R01 AA017661, P60 AA007611); PI: David A. Kareken, PhD

  8. Collaborate in functional neuroimaging studies of children and adults with TBI and other studies of pediatric populations including healthy children and those with epilepsy and leukemia (R01 HD047242, Partnership for Pediatric Epilepsy Research, American Cancer Society, Indiana Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Fund); PI: Brenna C. McDonald, PsyD, MBA; Co-Investigator: Gwen C. Sprehn, PhD

  9. Participate in MRI and PET imaging studies of cognitive disorders of aging and cognitive effects of breast cancer chemotherapy (R01 CA101318, R01 AG019771); PI: Andrew J. Saykin, PsyD; Co-Investigator: Brenna C. McDonald, PsyD, MBA.