Welcome to the Laboratory for Lifespan
Development and Psychopathology
Director, Joel R. Sneed, Ph.D.
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Antidepressant treatment can adversely effect cognitive functioning in late-life depressed.
Culang, et al., 2009

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Executive dysfunction predicts poor anti-depressant treatment response
Sneed, et al., 2007

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Antidepressant response rates depend on clinical trial design
Sneed, et al., 2008

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Joel R. Sneed, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Queens College of the City University of New York, an adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute in the Departments of Geriatric Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Dr. Sneed is the Director of the Lifespan Lab and is currently funded by a Career Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Michelle Culang is the senior member of the Lifespan Lab. She is an Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellow and is finishing her second year in the doctoral subprogram in Neuropsychology at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her research interests focus on late-life depression with an emphasis on the role of executive dysfunction and change in cognitive functioning in antidepressant treatment trials.
Lauren Johnert is a Masters student at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her research in the Lifespan Lab currently focuses on the role of microvascular ischemia in late-life depression as it pertains to the vascular depression hypothesis. In particular, she is focusing on both quantitative and qualitative methods of measuring lesion severity and volume in the brain.
O. Rachael Awosogba is the post-baccalaureate research assistant in the Lifespan Lab. She received her B.A. from Binghamton University of the State University of New York, double majoring in Economics and Philosophy, Politics and Law. She is currently working on a meta-analysis examining the role of executive functioning in late-life depression, in particular the role of executive dysfunction in predicting antidepressant treatment response.
Arash Sadigh is a junior in the Honors in Mathematics and Natural Sciences Program at Queens College of the City University of New York and is majoring in Neuroscience. He is currently working on a meta-analysis examining the role of executive functioning in late-life depression.
Ruben Fayzakov is a sophomore in the Honors in Mathematics and Natural Sciences Program at Queens College of the City University of New York and is majoring in Neuroscience. He is currently working on a research project that the Lifespan Lab is conducting in collaboration with Dr. Claudia Brumbaugh examining the impact of acculturation on the way people respond to profound threat to the self.
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