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Sarah A. St. Germain, B.S.
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Sarah St. Germain graduated from Trinity College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Sarah has an additional concentration in computer science. At the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, she strives to integrate her psychology and computer knowledge to help projects involving functional imaging and virtual worlds.
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
- Creation and modification of computer simulated environments
Objectives/Interests in Neuropsychiatry:
- Application of virtual spatial memory tests to psychiatric groups with hippocampal abnormalities, as well as healthy populations
- Examining the effects of abused drugs on memory processes and brain activity
- Determining and analyzing the effects of gender and aging on memory processes, especially spatial memory and navigation
- Neuroscience correlates of Schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Disease, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Selective attention and memory in eating disordered populations
Current Projects:
- Study of spatial navigation using a virtual Morris Water Maze and 8-arm radial maze.
- Independent Components Analysis (ICA) of fMRI data relating to spatial orientation and navigation.
- Effects of Alzheimer's disease, normal aging, and Schizophrenia on driving behavior using a virtual driving simulator.
- Examination of the effects of THC and/or alcohol on virtual navigation.
- Investigation of fMRI correlates of memory, error monitoring, and emotion in Individuals with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
- The effects of Post-traumatic stress disorder on hippocampal-dependent learning and memory.
- fMRI Examination of memory processes disturbed in patients with Alzheimer's Disease or Schizophrenia.
- Examination of hippocampal function in people with schizophrenia using fMRI.
- fMRI examination of the role of the hippocampus in associative memory.
- Cognitive correlates of eating disorders.
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