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Elizabeth Baker is a recent
graduate of Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. At the
Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, she strives to develop her clinical and
research skills prior to pursuing her PhD in clinical psychology.
Roles and Responsibilities include:
- Collection and analysis of
event-related functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) data using UNIX
based Mathworks© Matlab 6.0 and Statistical Parametric Mapping (SPM99 and
SPM2).
- Analyzing data involving
computer-simulated virtual worlds and spatial memory in both healthy and
clinical populations.
Objectives/Interests in
Neuropsychiatry:
- Application
of virtual spatial memory tests to psychiatric groups with hippocampal
abnormalities, as well as healthy populations.
- Determining
and analyzing the effects of gender and aging on memory processes,
especially spatial memory and navigation
- Neuroscience correlates of
Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease.
Current Projects:
- Independent Components Analysis (ICA) of fMRI data
relating to spatial orientation and navigation.
- Effects of Alzheimer's disease, normal aging, and
Schizophrenia on spatial navigation, using a virtual Morris Water Maze.
- Investigation of fMRI correlates of memory and error
monitoring in individuals with Schizophrenia and Alzheimer's Disease. .
- The effects of Shizophrenia, normal aging, and
Alzheimer's Disease on hippocampal-dependent learning and memory.
- fMRI Examination of memory processes disturbed in
patients with Alzheimer's Disease and Schizophrenia.
- Examination of hippocampal
function in people with schizophrenia using fMRI.
- fMRI examination of the role of the hippocampus in
associative memory.
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