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Catherine Fortier, Ph.D.

I serve as Deputy Director of the RR&D TBI Center of Excellence at VA Boston Healthcare System (the Translational Center for TBI and Stress Disorders, TRACTS). Our Center is conducting state-of-the-art research studies that aim to understand how mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) and related stress...

Jennifer R. Fonda, Ph.D., M.A.

I am the epidemiologist for the Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders Center (TRACTS) at the VA Boston Healthcare System. I play a central role in the study design and data management of TRACTS. I have 14 years of research experience, with expertise in all aspects of observation...

Colleen B. Hursh, M.S., CRS

Colleen has been working for the VA Boston Healthcare System since 2004. She began as a research assistant, after which she became a project coordinator. In 2010, she earned her Master's degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from UMass Boston, and since then, she has been working with the TRACTS...

Laura J. Grande, Ph.D.

Laura Grande completed graduate training in Clinical Psychology at the University of Florida. Currently employed as the Director of Clinical Neuropsychology for VABHS. Research interests include neuropsychology of aging, with a specific interest in selective attention and development of clinical...

Alcohol

Our lab has a very long history devoted to the investigation of the cognitive and neurologic effects of chronic alcoholism. We are one of a small number of laboratories in the field to apply the eyeblink classical conditioning associative learning paradigm, designed originally for animal research...

Attention and Visual Processes

The Boston Attention and Learning Lab ( http://www.bu.edu/ballab ) at VA Boston uses behavioral measures, cognitive training, fMRI, and non-invasive bra in stimulation to investigate the ability to sustain attention and better understand why and how people get distracted. Additionally, we are...

Cerebro-Vascular Risk

Stroke and other silent cerebrovascular disease is highly prevalent in the African-American community. We are interested in examining how frontal lobe changes, due to cardiovascular risk, affect executive function, gait, and urinary bladder control. Our laboratory has tested a cohort of African...

Alexandra Cain Kenna, Ph.D.

I have worked with TRACTS since 2010 providing clinical and research services including the clinical research interviews, individual Cognitive Processing Therapy for PTSD, and co-leading the STEP Home group workshop for OEF/OIF/OND veterans. My previous clinical experiences include working with...

Jeffrey M. Spielberg, Ph.D.

My research investigates neural networks involved in trauma and anxiety, with a particular focus on circuitry involved in two sets of processes central to pursuing goals – motivation and executive function.

William Milberg, Ph.D.

Dr. Milberg is a clinical and research psychologist who founded the Geriatric Neuropsychology laboratory when he became part of the GRECC in 1981.At that time the focus of the lab was on the cognitive consequences of dementia and stroke in older adults, but since that time the laboratory has grown...