Rebecca L. M. Fuller

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience

Dr. Rebecca Fuller will join the CUA faculty in September 2007 as a specialist in Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research bridges important issues in both experimental and clinical psychology. She has developed cognitive neuropsychological test batteries for patients with schizophrenia, patients with movement disorders including Parkinson’s disease, cerebellar ataxia and dystonia and patients with frontal / temporal lobe lesions, and healthy comparison subjects. She has used a variety of techniques in her research, especially event related potentials (ERP). She record and analyze electroencephalography (EEG) measures in patients with schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects in paradigms ranging from attention shifting to movement initiation. Most recently, she served as an Instructor at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

Education

B.A., Psychology, University of Kentucky (1989)

M.SC., Experimental Psychology, University College London, University of London, England (1992)

Ph.D., Psychology, Institute of Neurology, University of London, England (2000)

Honors and Awards

The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders Travel

Award to the Mt. Sinai Conference on Cognition in Schizophrenia, (2003)

Outstanding Trainee Poster Presentation, Department of Psychiatry Annual Research Day (2004)

Young Investigator Award, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (2005)

The National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders,

Young Investigator Award (2002)

Advanced Center for Interventions and Services Research Pilot Project Program (2006)

Selected Recent Publications

Spinks R, Nopoulos P, Ward J, Fuller R, Magnotta V, Andreasen N. (2005). Globus pallidus volume is related to symptom severity in neuroleptic naïve patients with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 73, 229-233.

Fuller R, Luck S, McMahon R, Gold J. (2005). Working memory consolidation is abnormally slow in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,114,279-290.

Ho BC, Andreasen N, Nopoulos P, Fuller R, Arndt S, Cadoret RJ (2005). Secondary prevention of schizophrenia: utility of standardized scholastic tests in early identification. Ann Clin Psychiatry 17(1):11-8.

Fuller R, Luck S, Braun E, Robinson B, McMahon R, Gold J. (2006). Impaired control of visual attention in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115(2):266-75.

Luck S, Fuller R, Braun E, Robinson B, Summerfelt A, Gold J. (2006). The speed of visual attention in schizophrenia: Electrophysiological and behavioral evidence. Schizophrenia Research. ;85(1-3):174-95.

Saperstein A, Fuller R, Avila M, Adami H, McMahon R, Thaker G, and Gold J. (2006). Spatial Working Memory as a Cognitive Endophenotype of Schizophrenia: Assessing Risk for Pathophysiological Dysfunction. Schizophrenia Bulletin 32: 498-506.

Jahanshahi M, Saleem T, Ho AK, Dirnberger G, Fuller R. (2006). Random number generation as an index of controlled processing. Neuropsychology. 20:391-9.

Gold J, Fuller R, Robinson B, McMahon R, Braun E, Luck S (2006). Intact attentional control of working memory encoding in schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 115 (4): 658-673.

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