Journal of Depression and Anxiety
Open Access
ISSN: 2167-1044
ISSN: 2167-1044
Sarah M Szymkowicz
Sarah M Szymkowicz
University of Florida
USA
Sarah M. Szymkowicz, M.S., received both her Bachelor of Science (Psychology & Sociology: Social & Criminal Justice) and Master of Science (Experimental Psychology: Behavioral Neuroscience) from Central Michigan University, where she was a research assistant in a behavioral neuroscience laboratory investigating motor and cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease. After graduation, she worked at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation as a clinical research assistant for their Mood Disorders program, investigating long-term outcomes for primary mood disorders, as well as the use of repeat ketamine infusions for treatment-resistant depression. She entered the Clinical and Health Psychology program at the University of Florida in Fall 2012, where she is pursuing studies in Clinical Neuropsychology. Broadly, Sarah’s research interests include using both behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques to identify structural and functional neurological changes and their associations with cognitive functioning and emotion processing in healthy aging and neuropsychiatric disorders, as well as glutamate’s involvement in the pathophysiology of mood disorders.
Cognitive Neuroscience, Aging and depression