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Doctoral Student, Francesca Lopez, receives Dissertation Award from APA SCN/EAC

Francesca Lopez, M.S., has been named one of the 2020-2021 recipients of the APA Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN) Education Advisory Committee (EAC) Dissertation Award for her project entitled “Cognitive Correlates of Mitochondrial Function in Older Adults.” The Dissertation Award provides $1250 for direct research costs and to present her…

Check it Out: New CNL Paper Published

Congrats to 2nd year Adrianna Ratajska who recently published her Master’s thesis, which examined data-driven cognitive subtypes in Essential tremor. This paper was accepted for publication in The Clinical Neuropsychologist, and can be found here.

Francesca Lopez receives diversity F31 from NIH/NIA

Francesca Lopez, MS has received funding for an NIH F31 Kirschstein Individual Research Fellowship Diversity award for a project entitled “Cognitive Correlates of Mitochondrial Function in Older Adults.” Funded by the National Institute on Aging, her study will examine phosphorous (31P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) markers of brain energy metabolism…

Check it Out: New CNL Paper Published

Congrats to 2nd year, Lauren Kenney, who published a paper entitled, “The UF Deep Brain Stimulation Cognitive Rating Scale (DBS-CRS): Clinical Decision Making, Validity, and Outcomes” in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Doctoral student training program in movement disorders research receives renewal

A T32 training program that prepares University of Florida Ph.D. students for research careers in movement disorders has received five-year funding renewal from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. The UF Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration program trains doctoral students to become independent researchers whose…

Francesca Lopez awarded an NIH T32 Fellowship

Francesca was awarded an NINDS funded T32 Predoctoral Fellowship on Interdisciplinary Training in Movement Disorders and Neurorestoration. The goal of this predoctoral T32 program is to develop independent investigators with programs of research in movement disorders which focus on the ABC’S of translational research: aetiology, biomarkers/ endophenotypes, and causative and…