KENNETH
ADAMS, Ph.D., is Chief of the Psychology Service at the
Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System and Professor of Psychology
in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychologist the University of Michigan.
A 1974 graduate of Wayne State University in Clinical Psychology, he has
served on the Medical School faculties of McMaster University in Hamilton
Ontario, Wayne State University, and was Chief of Psychology at the Henry
Ford Hospital in Detroit. He has served as a founding editor of the
Clinical Neuropsychologist and is appointed to the editorial board
of a number of psychological and medical journals.
He is
an avid researcher and educator in the area of brain-behavior relationships
and he is a respected scientific reviewer and editor. His current
research is supported by the National Institutes of Health and has focused
on the neurobehavioral effects of non-cerebral medical disorders and the
long term effects of substance abuse and neurotoxic exposures. His
work on neuromedical imaging since 1976 has helped to contribute to a dynamic
understanding between function and structure in neuropsychology. He
is coauthor of Neuropsychological Assessment of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
(Oxford University Press).
Dr.
Adams is past President of the International Neuropsychological Society,
the Division of Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Psychological Association,
and he has served 14 years as Executive Secretary of the International Neuropsychological
Society. E-mail: kmadams@umich.edu
RUSSELL
BAUER,
Ph.D., is a Professor of Clinical
Psychology and Neurology at the University of Florida Health Science Center,
Gainsville, Florida, USA. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1979
and completed an Internship in Clinical Psychology at the University of
Florida in 1980. He is the President of the American Psychological
Association's Division of Clinical Neuropsychology (Division 40), and is
a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology of the American Board of Professional
Psychology. He previously served on the Board of Governors of the
International Neuropsychological Society and on the Board of Directors of
the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology. He is Co-Editor of
The Clinical Neuropsychologist and is on the editorial boards of
Assessment and Applied Neuropsychology. He is the former
Chair of the Perception and Cognition Review Group of NIH's Center for Scientific
Review. He has given workshops and papers to national and international
audiences. The Florida Psychological Association awarded him its Outstanding
Psychological Research Award in 1992. He currently directs the Doctoral
Program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida and is active
in the professional training of clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists.
He received a 2003-2004 Dissertation Advising/Mentoring Award from the University
of Florida. He has authored over 80 professional papers and has received
extramural support from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
the National Institutes of Communicative Disorders and Stroke, the National
Institutes of Health, and the National Institutes of Mental Health.
His current research projects examine preclinical detection of dementia,
neurobehavioral aspects of epilepsy and epilepsy surgery, hippocampal contributions
to spatial memory, and structure-function relationships in cognitive aging.
E-mail: rbauer@phhp.ufl.edu
LINAS
BIELIAUSKAS, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Departments
of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Michigan,
where he is also coordinator of postdoctoral training in the Neuropsychology
Program, and staff psychologist at the Ann Arbor V.A.
Medical Center. He is board certified in both
Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of
Professional Psychology (ABPP) and is a fellow of the Divisions of Clinical
Health Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology (40) of APA, and a fellow of the Michigan Psychological
Association. He is past president (1992-1993) of the International
Neuropsychological Society and past president (1997-1998) of Division (40)
of APA, and the Executive Director
for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology. His primary research
interests include cognitive and affective changes due to normal and abnormal
aging and in measured predictors of treatment response in patients with chronic
pain. He has published widely on the relationship between depression and cognitive
change in dementing conditions, the implications
of neuropsychological test performance for prediction of disease effects
and critical daily functioning in the elderly, and on relationships between
psychological factors and physical illness and disease. E-mail: linas@umich.edu
MARK BONDI,
Ph.D., received his doctorate
in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology from the University
of Arizona
in 1991 and was an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 1991 to 1993.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at
UCSD and a Staff Neuropsychologist at the San Diego Veterans Affairs Healthcare
System. Dr. Bondi is a Diplomate in Clinical Neuropsychology from the American
Board of Professional Psychology and is a Fellow of both the National Academy
of Neuropsychology and Division 40 (Clinical Neuropsychology) of the American
Psychological Association. His major clinical research interests center
on neuropsychological aspects of aging and age-related disorders of the
central nervous system (such as Alzheimer's disease). Current research
focuses on (1) the assessment of older adults adults
at increased risk for developing Alzheimer's disease (AD) in an effort to
better detect and characterize its incipient stages, and (2) prospectively
identifying reliable patterns of neuropsychological change and altered brain
structure and function in individuals at high risk for AD (i.e. those with
Mild Cognitive Impairment and those with genetic susceptibility).
Dr. Bondi's research has been supported by
the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes on Health, the
Alzheimer's Association, and American Psychological Association. He
has authored more than 60 research articles and book chapters and is a consulting
editor to the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
and The Clinical Neuropsychologist. E-mail: mbondi@ucsd.edu
MARIOS CONSTANTINOU,
Ph.D., received his doctoral
degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Albany, State University
of New York, with a specialization in Neuropsychology and Law and Forensics.
In the past, he has worked at the Long Island Jewish Hospital in New York City, and since September 2004 has been working in the
country of Nicosia, Cyprus.
Dr.
Constantinou is currently a full-time Assistant Professor at Intercollege, Cyprus. He teaches courses
such as Neuropsychology, Neuroanatomy, the Biological Basis of Behavior,
Case Conceptualization and Treatment Methods, Brain and Behavior, Psychological
Assessment, Research Methods and Statistics, and Theories of Intelligence
to graduate and undergraduate students at Intercollege.
In addition, Dr. Constantinou teaches one graduate course, Psychometrics,
at the University
of Cyprus. At
Intercollege, he is also the chair of the
thesis committee of four graduate students and is the mentor of five students.
As one of the three founding members of the Center for Research, Training
and Therapy (KESY), Dr. Constantinou conducts psychoeducational
and neuropsychological assessments with children and adults, and offers psychological
therapy mostly to children. In addition, since his arrival to Cyprus, he
has been developing his own line of research in the area of neuropsychology,
forensic neuropsychology, and pediatric psychology.
E-mail:
constantinou.m@intercollege.ac.cy
GEORG
DEUTSCH,
Ph.D., is Associate Professor
of Radiology and Neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
He is also a scientist in the Center for Aging and the Alzheimer's Disease
Center at UAB. He received a B.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Psychobiology (1985) from the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. Further training in clincial neuropsychology
was completed at the Cornell Neurology-Psychiatry Service at Burke Rehabilitation
Center, White Plains, and New York Hospital, New York, N.Y. He established
one of the earliest laboratories to measure cortical blood flow for the
Cornell Neurology-Psychiatry Service.
Dr. Deutsch conducts research into brain-behavior relationships using
functional neuroimaging methods such as SPECT (single photon emission tomography),
PET (positron emission tomography), magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
(MRSI) and functional MRI (fMRI). He has concentrated on improving
133-xenon clearance SPECT methodology for conducting quantitative 3-dimensional
cerebral blood flow scans and most recently on new MRI techniques that can
obtain similar information. His investigations focus on cerebral changes
and reorganization in normal aging, dementia and stroke. These studies
typically involve imaging and quantification of regional cerebral blood flow
during sensory-motor or cognitive tasks and during cerebrovascular stress
tests. He is also involved in research comparing central nervous system
activity in a variety of pain syndromes. Most recently he has been
actively promoting the use of multimodality neuroimaging, including combining
MRI and MEG, to study recovery of function post stroke. Dr. Deutsch
is co-author of the award winning book on cognitive neuroscience called Left
Brain, Right Brain, which is in its fifth edition and has been translated
into several languages. E-mail: gdeutsch@uab.edu
ANASTASIA
EFKLIDES,
Ph.D., is a Professor of Experimental
and Cognitive Psychology, School Psychology, at Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research interests include intelligence,
thinking, reasoning, cognitive development, metacognition,
individual differences, relations of cognition with motivation, self-concept,
self-regulation, and geropsychology. Dr.
Efklides is the author of four books in Greek
on Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Motivation, Psychology of Thinking,
Metacognitive Processes and Self-Regulation;
the co-editor of another 8 books and special issues in Greek as well as
9 others in English published by international publishers and journals,
and co-author of two monographs in English and one in Greek. She is
the author and co-author of more than 150 articles published in international
and Greek journals and books as well as more than 230 presentations, invited
and other, in international and Greek conferences.
Dr. Efklides was vice president of the School
of Philosophy, Education and Psychology (1991-2) and head of the School
of Psychology, Aristotle University (1995-1997; 1997-1999); chair of the
"4th Panhellenic Conference of Psychological
Research" (1993), of the "International Conference on Motivation: 6th Workshop
on Achievement and Task Motivation" (1998), and of the "International Seminar:
Motivation in Education" (1998). She also organized the "1st International
Conference of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece: Psychology and
Quality of Life" (2004). Currently, Dr. Efklides
is co-president of the Scientific Committee of the "26th International Conference
of Applied Psychology" (2006).
Dr. Efklides was founding member (1992), member
of the Executive Committee (1993-2003), General Secretary (1993-5), and
President (2001-2003) of the Hellenic Psychological Society; founding member
(2001) and currently President of the Psychological Society of Northern
Greece (2001-2004; 2004-2007); founding member (1989) and Coordinator (1992-2003)
of two Special Interest Groups of the European Association for Research
on Learning and Instruction. She is a member of the European Society
for Cognitive Psychology (ESCP); currently vice-president (2004-07) of the
European Association of Psychological Assessment (EAPA), member of the International
Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP), and affiliate member of the American
Psychological Association.
Dr. Efklides was editor of Psychology: The
Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society (1997-2001), and currently the
editor of the Hellenic Journal of Psychology (2004-) and of the Scientific
Annals of the Psychological Society of Northern Greece (2003-). She
is associate editor of Learning and Instruction (2003-) and of European Psychologist
(2004-), and was elected as the next editor of Learning and Instruction (2006-2009).
Since their founding in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Dr. Efklides is President of the Social Policy Committee
(1997-), President of the Executive Committee of the Center for Psychological
Support and Counseling for Students (1998-), Chair of the Blood Bank (2002-),
and President of the Organizing Committee of the Students' Cultural Week
from its revival in 1999 until 2003.
Address: School
of Psychology, Aristotle
University
of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 541 24,
Greece.
Phone: +30-2310-997374; fax: +30-2310-997384.
E-mail:
efklides@psy.auth.gr
Website: http://users.auth.gr/efklides
GLENN LARRABEE, Ph.D. is currently engaged in a full-time independent
practice of clinical neuropsychology, with an emphasis in forensic neuropsychology,
in Sarasota, Florida. He is board-certified in Clinical Neuropsychology
by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), is a member of
the medical staff of Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and is a licensed psychologist
in the states of Florida and Texas. Dr. Larrabee received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Bowling Green
State University in 1981, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University
of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston from 1981-1983. He is a fellow
of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, and serves on the editorial boards
of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, The
Clinical Neuropsychologist, Archives of Clinical Neurospychology,
Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, and Neuropsychology
Review.
Dr.
Larrabee has authored or co-authored over 100 professional publications
including journal articles, book chapters, and tests, and covering such
topics as memory assessment, age-related cognitive change, Alzheimer's Disease,
mild traumatic brain injury, forensic neuropsychology, and malingering.
He is the co-author, with Dr. Donald E. Trahan, of the Continuous Visual
Memory Test, and is the editor of Forensic Neuropsychology. A Scientific
Approach, published by Oxford University Press in 2005. E-mail:
GLarrabee@aol.com
NAFTALI RAZ, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Gerontology
at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan and also the Associate Director
of Life-Span Cognitive Neuroscience Research for the Institute of Gerontology.
He is interested in the relationship between the age-related changes in
the brain and cognition aging. The brain ages in an uneven manner:
some regions undergo significant changes in cell number, size, composition,
and connectivity as well in blood supply and neurochemical properties.
Others seem to fare better, and show little age-related alterations.
In the realm of cognitive performance the pattern of aging is also complex.
Some areas of mental activity such as verbal knoweledge and reasoning or
expert performance on musical instrument remain relatively intact in healthy
elderly. Other facets of cognitive activity such as acquisition of
new skills show age-related declines. The goal of this research is
to understand how age-related changes in specific brain regions can explain
the pattern of differential age-related preservation and declines of cognitive
skills. To answer these questions, Dr. Raz uses noninvasive imaging
tool - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He examines participants of
a broad age range (18-85 years of age or older) and follows them for at least
five years. The relationships between the changes in regional brain
volume obtained of paper-and-pencil and computer tasks are evaluated using
statistical models. Dr. Raz is currently working on applying the imaging
techniques to examination of age-related differences in brain activation
associated with learning and skill acquisition in older adults. E-mail:
nraz@wayne.edu
LAZAROS TRIARHOU, M.D., Ph.D.,
received his medical degree from Aristotelian University School of Medicine
in Greece,
and his doctorate degree in Neurobiology from Indiana University-Purdue
University in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He is currently a Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Macedonia
in Greece.
Dr. Triarhou is also the Chairman for the Department
of Educational Policy at the University of Macedonia.
Dr. Triarhou was a founding member of the
American Society for Neural Transplantation and the American Society for
Experimental Neurotheraputics. He is
also an elected member of the executive council for the Hellenic Society
for Neuroscience. His research efforts are centered about aspects
of cellular neurobiology, the evolution of biological intelligent systems,
themes at the crossroads of neurobiology and social sciences, and the historical
evolution of ideas in neuroscience.
E-mail:
triarhou@uom.gr
Website: http://ldap.uom.gr/~triarhou
HARRY VAN DER VLUGT,
M.D., Ph.D., received his doctorate degree in Clinical
and Experimental Psychology from Leyden
University
in 1970. After one year of working at a psychiatric hospital, he started
as a neuropsychologist at the Academic Hospital of Leyden. From 1972
to 1973, Dr. van der Vlugt
completed his post-doctoral fellowship with Paul Satz
in Gainsville. Upon his return to the Neurology
Department of the Academic
Hospital, he combined
his work as a neuropsychologist with the study of neuroscience. In
1979, Dr. van der Vlugt
received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience.
In 1978 he moved to the Psychology Department of Tilburg University.
From 1985 until 1995, Dr. van der Vlugt was a professor of Neuropsychology by special
appointment at the University
of Nijmegen.
As of 1994, he became a tenured professor of Developmental and Child Psychology
at Tilburg University,
and an adjoined professor at the University of
Windsor, Canada. From 1978 until 1984 Dr. van der Vlugt was president
of the Dutch Neuropsychological Society, and from 1982 until 1998, European
Secretary of the International Neuropsychological Society. In this
function he organized many INS
meetings in Europe. Dr. van
der Vlugt was also
one of the founding editors (with Byron Rourke
and Sara Sparrow) of Child Neuropsychology, and is consulting editor of
many journals. He has published extensively about topics in the area
of lifespan neuropsychology. E-mail: H.vdrVlugt@uvt.nl
FARANEH
VARGHA-KHADEM,
Ph.D.,
completed her doctoral studies at McGill University,
Montreal,
Canada, and the University
of Massachusetts,
Amherst,
USA, and a post-doctoral
fellowship at the Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University,
Canada.
She subsequently joined the Faculty of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University where she held a research
lectureship for two years before moving to London, England.
Having accepted a faculty research position at the Institute of Child Health,
University College London in 1983, she went on to undertake in 1987 the leadership
of the Clinical Neuropsychology Service at Great Ormond
Street Hospital for Children, London, where she
has remained to the present time. During this period, she has helped
create the first academic department of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
in the UK,
and its clinical counterpart, the Department of Pediatric Neuropsychology
at Great Ormond Street
Hospital for Children.
Professor Vargha-Khadem's research and clinical
work is directed toward understanding the cognitive and behavioral deficits
of brain-injured children in relation to the underlying neuropathy, with
the goal of developing new knowledge about the ontogeny of specific neural
systems. Together with her colleagues, Professor Vargha-Khadem has made a series of discoveries concerning
the ontogenetic neural bases of episodic and semantic memory in developmental
amnesia, speech and language dysfunction associated with the FOXP2 gene mutation,
and differences in the capacity for functional reorganization in the
developing brain as compared with that of the mature brain. She holds
a personal chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at University College
London, and is also the head of her department. She was elected Fellow
of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000, and received the Asian Women
of Achievement Award (professional achievement in 2003. E-mail: fkhadem@ich.ucl.ac.uk
MARINA
TZAKOSTA,
Ph.D.,
received her B.A and M.A. in General Linguistics at the University of Crete, Greece and her Ph.D. in the Department of Linguistics of the University
of Leiden/Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics, The Netherlands.
Her research focuses on the phonological acquisition of Greek as a first
(L1) and second language (L2, children and adults). Her interests are further
related to bilingualism and SLI.
She is currently a lecturer at the department of Philology, section of Linguistics
of the University
of Patras,
where she offers courses on phonological language variation and change.
E-mail:
M.Tzakosta@let.leidenuniv.nl
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