Thania Benios, B.S. Neuroscience Trinity College Research Assistant Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center Institute of Living at Harford Hospital Yale University (860) 545-7355 email me

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Thania Benios is a graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience. Thania is interested in pursuing The Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology to integrate traditional PhD training in research with coursework in clinical theory and techniques.

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 (SPM2).

• Analysis of Electroencephalography data using UNIX based Digitize (and Windows based Neuroscan© Acquire) acquisition software and Event Related Potential Statistical Software (ERPSS).

• Using information processing deficits and attentional dysregulation as endophenotypes in family/genetic studies.

• Administration and scoring of a neuropsychological test battery for an Aging, Brain and Cognition study.

• Clinical assessment of psychiatric and neurological patient populations using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR and Thought Disorder Index.
   

Objectives/Interests in Neuropsychiatry:

• Using fMRI and EEG to explore the physiology of human emotion, cognitive aging and attention in clinical and in healthy populations

• Physiological indicators of the schizophrenia phenotype (i.e. P50)

• Cognitive processes related to working memory and attention
   

Current Projects:

• fMRI assessment of working memory in the aging population: A figural memory paradigm

• Linkage of the P50 in schizophrenia to chromosome 15

• The P3 Magnetized: A combined ERP and event-related fMRI study of an auditory oddball task: T. Benios, K. Laurens, A. Bates, P. Liddle, K. Kiehl.