Members of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab attended the International Neuropsychological Society annual meeting in San Diego, CA in February 2023! Everyone presented fabulous paper talks or posters, attended talk/poster sessions with groundbreaking work, and networked in person at INS for the first time since 2019! …
A BIG congratulations to our assistant study coordinator, Lauren Santos, for accepting her offer from UF’s Clinical and Health Psychology doctoral program! She will be working in Dr. Francesca Arias’ lab starting fall 2023. She has been an integral part of our lab, so we are sad to see her…
Research Assistants Kenney and Ratajska Awarded NIH F31 Fellowships…
Francesca Lopez, MS, a rising fifth year doctoral student, has been awarded the 2021 APA Walter G. McMillen Memorial Award for Parkinson’s Disease Research. In 2007, as a tribute to Mr. Walter G. McMillen, who died with Parkinson’s disease, a joint award between APA Division 20 – Adult Development and…
Congrats to rising third year Adrianna Ratajska for her published paper on the role motor symptom onset laterality plays in facial expressivity in individuals with Parkinson’s disease using sophisticated digitizing methods. This paper was accepted for publication in Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition. …
Francesca Lopez was accepted to attend the NIH-funded Advanced Psychometric Methods in Cognitive Aging Research Conference held in August 2021. The overall mission of the conference is to expose leaders in the field and early-stage investigators to state-of-the-science psychometric and data analytic methods for use in cognitive aging research.
Congratulations, Adrianna Ratajska! Adrianna and co-authors have been selected as one of two runner-ups of the Sixth Annual TCN/AACN Student Project Competition (The Clinical Neuropsychologist, Official Journal of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology). During this award cycle, TCN received over 40 Competition submissions. From among these, 12 were accepted…
The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab is excited to welcome Rachel Schade and Katie Rodriguez to the lab as PhD students in the Clinical and Health Psychology program (Neuropsychology Track). Welcome Rachel and Katie! Go Gators! …
Second year Adrianna Ratajska has successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Cognitive subtypes in individuals with essential tremor seeking deep brain stimulation.” She will be awarded her Masters of Science degree later this summer. Congrats, Adrianna!!…
Second year Lauren Kenney has successfully defended her thesis entitled: “Mapping diagnostic criteria for Parkinson’s Disease-Mild Cognitive Impairment onto data-driven cognitive phenotypes.” She will be awarded her Masters of Science degree later this summer. Congrats, Lauren!! …
