Congratulations to intern Cindy Geil, for successfully defending your dissertation!
You are awesome!!
May 05 2014
May 05 2014
Congratulations to Cassanda Sturycz!
WKPIC’s practicum student received Western Kentucky University’s College of Education and Behavioral Science Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Clinical Psychology on Sunday April 27, 2014!
This award is given out once per year and it was presented by Dr. Randy Capps, head of the Department of Psychology, and Dr. Sam Evans, dean of the College of Education and Behavioral Science. She was nominated for the award by the coordinator of the Clinical Psychology Master of Arts Program, Dr. Rick Grieve.
We’re proud of you!
February 02 2014
Welcome to the 2014-2015 Internship Class
WKPIC is thrilled to announce that we filled our 3 slots during Round I of Match this year–with awesome students! We extend a hearty welcome to Brittany Best, Faisal Roberts, and Graham Martin. We look forward to working with all of you come September!
Susan R. Vaught, Ph.D.
WKPIC Training Director
February 02 2014
Congratulations, Cassandra!
WKPIC is happy to announce that practicum student Cassandra Sturycz has been accepted to the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the University of Tulsa. She will be joining a psychophysiology laboratory for affective neuroscience. The lab was just awarded a sizeable grant from the NIH for research regarding pain in the Native American population.
Way to go, Cassandra!
January 01 2014
Neuropsychology and Sports-Related Concussions
William B. Barr, Ph.D., ABPP, Associate Professor of Neurology & Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine, writes,
“This year marks the 20th anniversary of the “modern era” in the study of concussion in sports, which began in 1994 following the retirements of Merrill Hoge and Al Toon and the National Football League’s (NFL) formation of its first Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee. Since that time, we have witnessed a marked shift from what was a pervasive attitude of denying or minimizing the effects of head injury in sport to one where stories of the current “concussion epidemic” or the controversy about long-term consequences of head injury in retired athletes appear in our newspapers on a daily basis. Over the same time period, the field of neuropsychology has received an unprecedented degree of public attention resulting from the fact that many in our field, including members of the Society of Clinical Neuropsychology (SCN), have provided important contributions to the scientific study of sports concussion and development of methods for its assessment. My goal in this SCN NeuroBlog is to provide a brief review and critique of neuropsychology’s role in the clinical management of sports concussion with suggestions on how we can maintain our position as leaders with regard to this highly publicized injury.”
Read the remainder of Dr. Barr’s piece on the direction and role of neuropsychologists in assessing concussions related to sports activities on the SCN NeuroBlog.
Susan R. Vaught, Ph.D.
WKPIC Training Director