Neuropsychology and Assessment Lab
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit
Rebecca De La Garza crushed it at the ReBUILD poster day as the first author of our lab project, “Alexithymia Predicts Face Emotion Perception after Acquired Brain Injury.”
Rebecca De La Garza, Robiann Broomfield, Emily Flores, Jo Blocton, Darius Vann, & Lisa J. Rapport. See her poster here
Breaking news: Our Southeastern Michigan Traumatic Brain Injury System (SEMTBIS) research project was renewed for the 2022-2027 cycle of the national collaborative Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems (TBIMS). This $2.4 million grant is funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR).
Dr. Robin Hanks, Professor and Chief of Psychology and Neuropsychology at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan is the Project Director for the SEMTBIS, overseeing collaboration with the national TBIMS sites, and Lisa Rapport will be the primary investigator on the site-specific study. Other key collaborators include Professor and biostatistician Scott Millis, as well as Peter Lichtenberg, Director of the Institute of Gerontology, who will serve as the consultant on the grant. Historically, many NeurAL students have used the support and resources of the SEMTBIS (e.g., access to the large, rigorously-vetted participant pool with moderate to severe TBI) to complete their research projects.
We’re very proud of NeurAL members Sarah Patrick and Gavin Sanders, who matched for internship at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the VA Cincinnati Health Healthcare Centers, respectively.
Congratulations to Gavin Sanders and his invaluable wingperson, Robiann Broomfield, for garnering a research grant from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan. The grant will help to fund Gavin’s dissertation research, “Recognition and Memory for Facial Affect After Traumatic Brain Injury.”
Woo hoo for Lauren, who garnered her top choice postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston VA Medical Center. Hard-earned and well deserved, LJR-II. Lauren will have rich clinical and research experience there, including opportunities to continue her dissertation research on memory for emotion after acquired brain injury.
Jeremy is currently completing his predoctoral internship at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center, and he will finish in June 2022.
Jeremy won a competitive postdoctoral fellowship grant from the Florida Department of Health (Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program), which will fund his research, “Novel Training in Interventions for Treatment Adherence in Underserved Diverse Patients at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease.”
Lauren’s dissertation: “Memory for Emotional Expressions in Adults with Acquired Brain Injury” and her committee: Lisa Rapport (Chair), Mark Lumley, Robin Hanks (WSU School of Medicine), and Scott Langenecker (University of Utah, Psychiatry).
Jeremy’s dissertation: “Predictors of Cognitive Reserve in Multiple Sclerosis” and his committee: Lisa Rapport (Chair), Mark Lumley, Eva Bernitsas (WSU, Neurology), Brigid Waldron-Perrine (University of Michigan), and Keith Whitfield (former WSU Provost, now UNLV President).