Karen D. Sullivan



Fifth-Year Clinical Student

Birthplace: Ocean Gate, New Jersey.

B.A. Clark University, 2000.
M.A. Boston University, 2006.

My primary research interests are in visual cognition and how deficits in basic vision and visual processing may influence the daily functioning of people living with neurodegenerative disorders, particularly Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s disease. I am especially interested in designing visual interventions that may enhance quality of life for these populations. I am also focused on refining my skills in the Boston Process Approach to neuropsychological assessment (click here to see me in action) and conducting integrative psychotherapy with neurologically impaired populations.

I am currently an intern at the Boston Consortium Clinical Psychology Internship Program in the Neuropsychology rotation and am working on my dissertation.

Claim to fame: President of Bon Jovi Fanclub circa 1987 (Don't believe me? Click here to view the shocking truth).


Publications:

Neargarder, S. A., Carvalho, J, & Sullivan, K. (2007). Neuropsychological profile of a high-functioning family with a mitochondrial cytopathy. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 20(3), 193-201.   [view abstract]

Sullivan, K.D., Weber, E., Davidsdottir, S. & Cronin-Golomb, A (2006). Visuoconstruction in Two Frontostriatal Disorders: HIV and Parkinson’s Disease. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21: Psychology Press. (abstract).

Sullivan, K. D., Adamiak, B. & Kennedy, L. M. (1999). Human Taste Sensitivity to Glucose is Greater after Repeated-Exposure to Fructose rather than to Glucose in Lemonade. Chemical Senses, 24 (5). Oxford University Press (abstract).


Presentations:

Sullivan, K.D., Becker, C.L., Morales, S.F. & Chitnis, T. (2008). Visual Dysfunction in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis. Poster presented at 36th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii, February 2008.

Seichepine, D., Sullivan, K.D., Morales, S.F., Dodd, J., Davidsdottir, S. & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2008). Clock Drawing Differentiates Cortico-Striatal-Thalamic Disorders: HIV More Sensitive to Executive Dysfunction than Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presented at 36th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii, February 2008.

Sullivan, K.D., Reid, W.G.J. & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2006). 20-Year Longitudinal Study of the Stability of the Verbal Fluency and Vocabulary in Parkinson’s disease. Poster presented at the Cognitive Aging Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 2006.

Sullivan, K.D., Weber, E., Davidsdottir, S. & Cronin-Golomb, A. (2006). Visuoconstruction in Two Frontostriatal Disorders: HIV and Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Boston, MA. Abstract published in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Volume 12, February 2006.

Sullivan, K.D. (2005). What Neuropsychologists Need to Know About The Subjective Experience of Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Disease. Poster presented at the Fourteenth Annual Massachusetts Neuropsychological Science Symposium, Boston, MA, June 2005.

Kennedy, L.M., Kobayashi, C., Chua, G.C.H., Murray, K.D., Sullivan, K.D. & Adamiak, B. (2002). Experience-Induced Increases in Taste Sensitivity. Oral presentation delivered at the International Meeting of the Australasian Association of Chemosensory Science, Heron Island, Queensland, Australia.

Ray, S., Leslie, V., Sullivan, K.D., Munongo, K., & Fava, M. (2000). Psychosocial Predictors of Depression Across Ethnic Groups. Oral presentation given at the XVth International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Congress, Pultusk, Poland.

Sullivan, K. D., Adamiak, B. & Kennedy, L. M. (1999). "Human Taste Sensitivity to Glucose is Greater after Repeated-Exposure to Fructose rather than to Glucose in Lemonade." Slide presentation delivered at the XXI Annual Meeting of the International Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Sarasota, F.L. Abstract published in Chemical Senses, 24, (5).

Ray, S., Leslie, V., Sullivan, K. D., Munongo, K. & Fava, M. (1998). Ethnic Differences in Depression and Its Correlates. Depression Clinical and Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital. Poster presented at the American Psychiatric Association's 151st Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.