b'22RAPPORT | Notes & NewsStudents Making WavesMany students choose 91香蕉视频成人在线 because they want to make a difference when it comes to the ever-evolving mental and behavioral health needs of a diverse global society. This commitment leads members of our community to make waves in academia, clinical settings, in the business world, and in communities throughout their careers and, for some, this high-impact work begins before graduation.Meet August Price and Dov Gold, both in the Clinical PsyD Neuropsychology concentration;Kristen Toohill in the Leadership PsyD program; and Adetutu Ajibose in the Clinical PsyD African & Caribbean Mental Health Concentration and Children and Families of Adversity and Resilience (CFAR) Concentration, four students whose research, contributions, commitment and advocacy are already having an impact in their fields. AUGUST PRICE & DOV GOLD:MORE ACCURACY IN ALZHEIMERSNeuropsychology DEPRESSION DIAGNOSIS Self-reported questionnaires, the usual method NO FAKING for collecting information regarding symptoms of Research by August Price, a Clinical Psychology PsyD depression, become less effective among patients with student, on malingeringor the act of faking orAlzheimers disease. Dov Gold, a Clinical Psychology exaggerating symptoms for financial compensationPsyD student, knew there had to be a better way. or to avoid responsibilityreceived attentionGold compared patients ratings of depression at several conferences. At the 2019 Americanwith those from their caregivers or other Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention,informants, then using tests of brain functioning, Price was the only student seated on a panel ofdetermined which category patients fell into research psychologists. He has also won best poster(not impaired, mildly impaired, moderately presentation at two separate conferences, one in Sanimpaired, or severely impaired) based on their Diego and one in Boston. results. When compared to previous studies, On the surface Prices research is lie detection,Golds method more accurately represents the but the actual process is more complex. Pricecomplex decline of Alzheimers disease. used Event-Related Potentials (ERP), whichOverall, Gold found a significant association monitor electrical brain wave activity while thebetween worsening levels of impairment and greater participant performs an attention-based task.discrepancies between patient and informant reports He discovered that while participants were ableof depression. He concluded that a wide range of to fake behavioral performance, they could notinformants can provide meaningful information manipulate brain activity, allowing the clinicianregarding changes in patients mood and behavior. to determine whether the individual is beingHis work suggests that clinicians should look to honest in their test performance. Price said heinformants for information on depressive symptoms believes this research will be most applicablewhen subtle cognitive decline is detected. Golds in the forensic psychology field, in addition toresearch was accepted for publication in the APAs standard neuropsychological assessments. journal, Neuropsychology, the flagship journal in the neuropsychology field.'