About Patricia Johnson
| Patricia Johnson
Research Assistant |
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| Hometown: Haddon Township, NJ | |
| Education: Boston University, 2008, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Minor in Biology | |
| Long-term goals: To pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology. | |
| My current research interests: Sleep, anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease | |
| One day I would like to learn more about: Schizophrenia, psychopharmacology, and Alzheimer’s disease | |
| How I became involved in the LEN Lab: I joined the LEN Lab as a work-study student at the beginning of my sophomore year in 2005. I have continued in the LEN Lab since then, and after I graduated, I became a full-time research assistant. | |
| Past experience in the LEN Lab: I have previously worked on the Phylogeny of Sleep project, I presented a poster at the American Academy of Neurology conference in Boston in the Spring of 2007, and I also received an Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program grant for the summer of 2007 which resulted in a poster presentation entitled “Access to social action scripts in Parkinson’s Disease: Relation to side of onset.” | |
| What I am currently working on in the LEN Lab: For the past year, I have in charge of a sleep study looking at the different cognitive processes in REM and NREM sleep in college students. Now that the study is complete, we are beginning a small sleep study with Parkinson’s disease patients looking to relate sleep architecture and performance of neuropsychological tests. I will be conducting the neuropsychological tests for this study as well as for another Parkinson’s disease study examining changes in social cognition over a period of time. | |
| How I think the LEN Lab is helping me obtain my long-term goals: The LEN Lab has given me valuable research experience which has helped me gain insight into the many different aspects of research and has helped me decided to pursue a Ph.D in Clinical Neuropsychology. Additionally, I believe that my research experience in the LEN Lab has given me the tools I need to succeed in a graduate program and and makes me a strong and competitive applicant for any clinical neuropsychology program that I apply for. | |
