Neurophotonics NRT Seminar: ALICE CRONIN-GOLOMB
ALICE CRONIN-GOLOMB, PhD
Professor of Psychology and Brain Sciences
Boston University
Vision, perception, and cognition in Parkinson’s disease
Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
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Abstract
Parkinson’s disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder associated with numerous non-motor symptoms, which are often better predictors of quality of life than the motor symptoms for which the disease is better known. Among the non-motor symptoms are disturbances of vision, visual perception, and cognition, all of which interact with each other and with motor disturbances such as impaired walking. Our lab uses various behavioral and imaging methods to examine these interactions with current goals of identifying markers of distressing abnormalities such as visual hallucinations, and developing interventions.
Biography
Dr. Cronin-Golomb graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1984 with a Ph.D. in Psychobiology, after receiving a B.A. in Biology-Psychology from Wesleyan University. She joined Boston University in 1989 and is a faculty member in the Clinical Program and the Program in Brain, Behavior, and Cognition, as well as the interdisciplinary Center for Systems Neuroscience and Center for Research in Sensory Communication and Emerging Neural Technology (CRESCENT). She is director (along with Dr. Michael Lyons) of the Center for Clinical Biopsychology and is director of the Vision and Cognition Laboratory. Dr. Cronin-Golomb’s group collaborates with faculty from the Charles River Campus where she is based, including the College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College, and with faculty from the Medical Campus; the VA Boston Healthcare System; and the BU-affiliated Framingham Heart Study, the latter in regard to disease biomarkers. She teaches courses at the undergraduate and graduate level in Neuropsychology.