Active Research in the Department of Psychology
Our department specializes in health-related research that spans health psychology, pediatric health psychology, behavioral neuroscience, neuropsychology, and the social psychology of health.
Current active research interests of our faculty include medically unexplained symptoms, psychosocial oncology, effects of medical illness on cognitive and emotional functioning, behavioral neuroscience, attention & emotion, neuropsychological functioning before & after medical procedures, behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer's Disease, transgenic & gene-knockout models of Alzheimer's Disease, measurement of patient outcomes in psychotherapy, patient progress feedback to therapists, linguistic markers of psychological processes in therapy, and statistical methodology.
Recent Faculty Publications
Ropacki, S.A., Jeste, D.V. (2005). Epidemiology of and risk factors for psychosis in Alzheimer's Disease: A review of the literature from 1990 through 2003.
American Journal of Psychiatry, 162, 2022-2030.
Boyle, P.A.,
Legendre Ropacki, S.A., & Stern, R.A. (in press). Cognitive reserve, ECT, and coronary artery bypass grafting. In
Cognitive Reserve (Y. Stern, editor).
Legendre Ropacki, S.A., & Perry W. (in press). Frontal lobe functioning in schizophrenia. In
The Human Frontal Lobes. (J. Cummings, B. Miller, eds.).
Hartman, R.E., Izumi, Y., Bales, K.R., Paul, S.M., Wozniak, D.F., Holtzman, D.M. (2005). Treatment with an amyloid-beta antibody ameliorates plaque load, learning deficits and hippocampal LTP in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 6213-6220.
Hartman, R.E., Lee, J.M., Zipfel, G.J., & Wozniak, D.F. (2005). Characterizing learning deficits and hippocampal neuronal loss following transient global cerebral ischemia in rats. Brain Research, 1043, 48-56.
Izumi, Y., Kitabayashi, R., Funatsu, M., Izumi, M., Yuede, C., Hartman, R.E., Wozniak, D.F., & Zorumski, C. (2005). A single day of ethanol exposure during development has persistent effects on bi-directional plasticity, NMDA receptor function and ethanol sensitivity. Neuroscience, 136, 269-279.
Wahrle, S.E., Jiang, H., Parsadanian, M., Hartman, R.E., Bales, K.R., Paul, S.M., & Holtzman, D.M. (2005). Deletion of Abca1 increases A-beta deposition in the PDAPP transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 280, 43236-43242.
Owen, J.E., Bonds, C.L., Wellisch, D.K. (2006) Psychiatric evaluations of heart transplant candidates: Predicting post-transplant hospitalizations, rejection episodes, and survival.
Psychosomatics, 47, 1-10.
Owen, J.E., Klapow, J.C., Roth, D.L., Shuster, J.L., Meredith, R., & Tucker, D.C. (2005). Randomized pilot of a self-guided internet coping group for women with breast cancer.
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 30, 54-64.
Owen, J.E., Winzelberg, A., Lieberman, M., Golant, M. (in press). Online support groups for persons with cancer. In
The Advent of Cancer Online Services. P. Whitten, G. Kreps, & M. Eastin, eds.
Burley, T., (2005). The Neuroscience of Creativity. Invited Address. Danish Gestalt Association Conference at University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Burley, T., (2005). The Convergence of Cognitive Nueroscience and Psychotherapy. Invited Address. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Burley, T., & Freier, M. C., (2004). Character Structure: A Gestalt - Cognitive Theory.
Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, and Training. 41, 3, 321-331
Burley, T., Sickler, J., Kuehfus, K., Pester, J., & Beck, H., (2004). Gestalt Therapy and Schizophrenia - Why and How. Paper presented at 6th European Association of Gestalt Therapy. Prague, Czech Republic.
Burley, T., (2003). The Neuroscience of creativity: A Gestalt perspective. In N. Amendt-Lyon & M. Spagnuolo Lobb (Eds.),
Art and Creativity in Gestalt Therapy. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag
Lesniak, K. (in press). The effects of intercessory prayer on wound healing in nonhuman primates.
Alternative Therapy in Health and Medicine.Lesniak, K., Rudman, W., Rector, M., & Elkin, D. (2006). Psychological distress, stressful life events, and religiosity in younger African American adults.
Mental Health, Religion, and Culture, 9, 15-28.
Keenan, L.,
Lesniak, K., Guarnaccia, C., Althaus, B., Ethington, G., & Blum, J. (2004). An exploratory analysis of family environments of community women seeking BRCA1/BRCA2 genetic testing.
Journal of Genetic Counseling, 13, 157-176.
Lesniak, K., Dubbert, P. (2001). Exercise and hypertension.
Current Opinion in Cardiology, 16, 356-359.
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