Neuropsychology and Resilience

The role of sleep in cognitive disengagement syndrome (Nicole Delano) Recipient of 2024 TRI Student Research Grant
Sluggish cognitive tempo and social skills in children and adolescents. (Chase Yeatman)
Sluggish cognitive tempo and working memory training (Kyoungjun Kim)

PROJECT

Children of the Night (in affiliation with Children of the Night)

Hidden strengths: What projective assessment reveals about resiliency factors in adolescents who have been involved in prostitution. (Justine Duyst)
Executive function and learning strategies in adolescents with a history of prostitution. (Obagelli Uguru)
Insecure attachment and adolescents Involved in prostitution: A case study. (Roxie McLachlan)
Expressive and receptive language profiles of adolescents in prostitution. (Kendra Jacques)
Executive functioning profile of adolescents with a history of prostitution. (Ashley Vaillancourt)
An exploratory study of socio-emotional projective themes: A clinical profile of adolescents involved in prostitution. (Carly Trask-Kuchta).

PROJECT

Longitudinal Brain Aging Study (in affiliation with Huntington Medical Research Institutes)

PROJECT

Virtual Reality

Recent Posters and Publications

Persad, A., Adedeji, O., Robles, J., & Nolty, A. A. T. (2023, February). Executive functioning in children with sluggish cognitive tempo. Poster presented at the 51th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. San Diego, CA.

Bublitz, A., Masten, J., Grivois, I., Nolty, A. A. T., & Amano, S. S. (2023, February). Verbal comprehension and PTSD: A glimpse into trauma and resilience. Poster presented at the 51th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. San Diego, CA.

Sipan, I., Nolty, A. A. T., Delano, N., Colon, J., & Amano, S. S. (2022, October). Visuospatial skills in adolescents involved in prostitution. Poster presented at the 42nd annual conference of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Denver, CO. Recipient of the NAN student poster award.

Uguru, O., Nolty, A. A. T., Mastan, J., Persad, A., Sipan, I., & Amano, S. S. (2022, June). Executive function and learning in adolescents with a history of prostitution. Poster presented at the 20th annual conference of the American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology. Minneapolis, MN.

Jacques, K., Nolty, A. A. T., Sipan, I., & Amano, S. S. (2022, February). Expressive and receptive language profiles of adolescents in prostitution. Poster presented at the 49th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. New Orleans, LA.

McLachlan, K., Nolty, A. A. T., Duyst, J., & Amano, S. S. (2021, August). Insecure attachment and adolescents involved in prostitution: A case study. Poster presented at the 2021 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association. San Diego, CA/ virtual conference.

Sipan, I., & McLachlan, K. R. (2021, March). The relationship between trauma and attachment. Presentation at the Elizabeth House: Pasadena, CA.

Vaillancourt, A. A., Nolty, A. A. T., & Amano, S. S. (2019, February). Attention functioning in adolescents with a history of childhood prostitution. Poster presented at the 47th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. New York, NY.

Kim, K., Yeatman, C., Marion, S. D., Oh, Y. I., & Nolty, A. A. T. (2018, February). Neuropsychological features of sluggish cognitive tempo. Poster presented at the 46th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. Washington, DC.

Kim, K., Marion, S. D., Oh, Y. I., & Nolty, A. A. T. (2017, February). Cogmed working memory training for youth with sluggish cognitive tempo. Poster presented at the 45th annual conference for the International Neuropsychological Society. New Orleans, LA.

Vaillancourt, A. A., Trask-Kuchta, C. (Presenters), Nolty, A. A. T. & Amano, S. K., (2015, September). Stress, the body, and the brain. Staff presentation at the Children of the Night on 9/23/15, Van Nuys, CA.

Trask-Kuchta, C., Vaillancourt, A. A. (Presenters), Nolty, A. A. T. & Amano, S. S. (2015, June). PTSD symptomology in child prostitutes. Staff presentation at the Children of the Night on 6/14/15, Van Nuys, CA.

People

Faculty and Principal investigator

Anne Nolty

Assistant Professor of Psychology

BS (MATHEMATICS), DAVIDSON COLLEGE
MM (MATHEMATICS), UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
MA (PSYCHOLOGY), FULLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY
MDIV, FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
PHD, FULLER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Students

Oladipo Adedeji, M.S.

Oladipo is a third-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in neuropsychology. His current research interests include the interaction between receptive-expressive language and spiritual/religious coping in Black and African American adolescent sex workers. Outside of work and school, he enjoys performing music, outdoor sports, beach days, international media and cuisine, and game nights with friends.

Analisa Bublitz (M.A.)

Analisa (Lisa) is a fourth year PhD student in Clinical Psychology. She is interested in trauma and areas of resilience in those who have experienced some of the hardest of circumstances. Her masters project explored Verbal Comprehension and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among adolescent girls who have experienced sex-trafficking. She enjoys spending time outside, doing yoga, and cooking.

Juan Antonio Colon Jr. (M.A.)

Juan is a third-year PsyD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in neuropsychology. He is from Hemet, California and has a background in working with children that are in the ASD spectrum or other learning disorders. He is interested in completing a case study on sluggish cognitive tempo in kids with ADHD. He enjoys spending time with family, building Lego sets, painting, drawing, gaming, movie nights, and Disney trips with his wife.

Nicole Delano (B.S.)

Nicole is a third-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology in the neuropsychology track. She is passionate about researching sleep, cognition, ADHD, and sluggish cognitive tempo. Her Masters’ project will examine emotionality in individuals with SCT. She currently works as a Research Associate, developing psychometric assessments targeting resilience and relational dynamics. She enjoys reading, running, bouldering, photography, crocheting, and friendships!

Isabella Grivois, M.A.

Isabella is a fifth-year PsyD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in neuropsychology. Some of her experiences include working with children in care settings, with adolescents in therapy settings, and with older adults in a neurological outpatient health center. In her free time, she enjoys spending time in nature, hanging out with friends, and taking her cat, Loki, on walks. Additionally, she finds painting and at home projects to be a creative outlet.

Serly Khosravian (B.A.)

Serly is a second-year PsyD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in Neuropsychology. She is from Burbank, California, and graduated with her bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science from the University of California, Irvine in 2020. She has various research experiences working with children, adolescents, and adults. Her creative outlets include reading, swimming, and movie nights with family and friends.

Josh Mastan

Josh is a fourth-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in neuropsychology. He is interested in ADHD, sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), learning disorders, interpersonal neurobiology, neuropsychological components of effective psychotherapy, and existential psychotherapy. His Master's project focuses on working memory impairments in populations with elevated levels of SCT. He enjoys swimming, playing basketball, meaningful conversations, and time with friends and family.

Shonda McPherson

Shonda is a second year PhD student. She is interested in neuroplastic changes that occur within the client during the implementation of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) in the psychotherapeutic space. EMDR is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is typically used with trauma survivors, trauma-defined according to the client’s self-reported experience and the associated impact as opposed to a clinical &/or academic definition. Trauma may be viewed as “big T’s” or “little t’s” based on research by EMDR founder Francine Shapiro, PhD.

Shapiro, F. (2018). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, Procedures (3rd ed.). The Guilford Press.

Trevor Melton

Trevor is a second-year PhD student in the neuropsychology track. His research interests include virtual reality, as well as the neuropsychological impact of traumatic brain injuries and strokes. Outside of school, he enjoys working out, hiking, reading, going to the beach, and spending time with his wife.

Ashni Persad (M.A.)

Ashni is a fourth-year PhD student in the Clinical Psychology program in the neuropsychology track. She loves working with children and is especially excited to work with ASD and ADHD populations. Her Masters’ project focuses on executive functioning in children with sluggish cognitive tempo. In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing fantasy novels, drumming, watching kdramas, drawing, and gaming.

Jasmine Robles, M.A.

Jasmine is a third-year PsyD student in Clinical Psychology concentrating in neuropsychology. A few of her experiences include working with children in a church setting, working with adolescents in a dual diagnosis residential treatment center, and with adults in a community health center. Her creative outlets include taking ballroom dance classes and she just started her small photography business. She also spends time with her family, friends, three dogs, and two Sulcata tortoises.

Irene Sipan (M.A.)

Irene is a fifth-year PhD student in Clinical Psychology in the neuropsychology track. She is interested in researching how early trauma could influence executive functioning. Her Masters' project focused on visuospatial skills of adolescents involved in prostitution. Her dissertation will focus on executive functioning skills of adolescents involved in prostitution. Her hobbies include reading and baking.

Christy J. Lee

Christy is a second-year PhD student. She spent most of her life in California as a 1.5 generation Korean American. Her research and clinical interests include complex trauma, intra- and interpersonal trust, attachment, and integration of psychology and theology.