The People of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center

Beth Turner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center 200 Retreat Avenue Whitehall Building - Institute of Living Hartford CT 06106 Phone: 860-545-7844 Email: bmturner@harthosp.org

Who Am I?

Ms. Turner completed her doctoral studies in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa in December 2006. She joined the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognition, Brain Imaging, Behavior Research and Allelic Variation Laboratory (COBBRA Lab). Under Dr. Godfrey Pearlson’s mentorship, she is pursuing her research interests in drugged driving. She has a specific interest in the cognitive effects of marijuana. Other interests include predictors of safe and unsafe driving in persons with psychiatric and neurological diagnoses.

Publications

Meda SA, Calhoun VD, Astur RS, Turner BM, Ruopp K, Pearlson GD. Alcohol dose effects on brain circuits during simulated driving: an fMRI study. Human Brain Mapping in press.

Turner BM, Paradiso S, Marvel CL, Pierson, R, Ponto LLB, Hichwa R, Robinson R. (In press) The cerebellum and emotional experience. Neuropsychologia.

Marvel CL, Turner BM, O’Leary DS, Johnson, HJ, Pierson R, Ponto LLB, Andreasen NC. The neural correlates of implicit sequence learning in schizophrenia. Submitted.

Paradiso S, Paulsen JS, Turner BM, Jorge R, Moser DJ, Hichwa RD, Ponto LLB, Rodnitzky R, Robinson RG. Neural basis of dysphoria in early Huntington’s disease. Submitted.

Bigelow NO, Turner BM, Andreasen NC, Paulsen JS, O’Leary DS, Ho BC. Prism adaptation in schizophrenia. (2006) Brain and Cognition 61:235-242.

Paulsen JS, Nehl C, Hoth KF, Kanz JE, Benjamin M, Conybeare R, McDowell B, Turner B. (2005) Depression and stages of Huntington’s disease. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience 17(4): 496-502.

Sandu HK, Sarkar M, Turner BM, Wassink TH, Philbert RA. Polymorphism Analysis of HOPA: A Candidate Gene for Schizophrenia. (2003) American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics) 123B(1): 33-8.

O'Leary DS, Block RI, Turner BM, Koeppel J, Magnotta V, Ponto LLB, Watkins GL, Hichwa RD, Andreasen NC. (2003) Marijuana alters the human cerebral clock: effects of acute and chronic use. Neuroreport 14(8): 1145-1151.

Paulsen, JS, Turner BM, Thal LJ, Jeste DV, Grant I. (2000) Incidence of and risk factors for hallucinations and delusions in patients with probable AD. Neurology 55: 1240-1241. (response letter to the editor)