Hometown: Allentown, PA Undergraduate: B.A., Psychology, Tufts University Graduate Program: UGA Dept. of Psychology - Clinical View my CV Courtney is a Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology. Her research interests remain in examining language processes using neuroimaging. She recently accepted a pre-doctoral internship in Neuropsychology at the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Upon completion of her internship she will complete her dissertation at UGA investigating language processing changes in older adults identified as susceptible to development of degenerative dementias (such as Alzehiemer’s disease). Publications: MacKillop, J., Brown, C., Stojek, M., Murphy, C., Sweet, L., & Niaura, R. (2013). Behavioral Economic Analysis of Withdrawal- and Cue-elicited Craving for Tobacco. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Miller, L.S., Brown, C., Mitchell, M., & Williamson, G. (2013). Activities of Daily Living are Associated with Older Adult Cognitive Status: Caregiver versus Self Reports. Journal of Applied Gerontology. Abstracts: Brown, C., Mitchell, M., Miller, L.S., Williamson, G., & FRILL. (submitted).Prediction of cognitive status in older adults: caregiver versus care recipient report of daily functioning. Abstract submitted to the 2008 Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, New York, NY. Brown, C., Sitnikova, T., Kuperberg, G., Holcomb, P. (2007, May). Semantic integration in real-world and cartoon-world movie clips: Electrophysiological evidence. Poster presented at 2007 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY. Brown, C.L., Adler, M., Shenton, M.E., McCarley, R.W., & Salisbury, D.F. (2006, April). P300, cognition, and symptoms at first hospitalization and longitudinally in first episode schizophrenia. Poster presented at the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Mysell Lecture and Research Day, Boston, MA. Brown, C.L., Collins, K.C.L., Shenton, M.E., McCarley, R.W., & Salisbury, D.F. (2005, March). Relationship of symptoms to sensory and cognitive ERPs in first episode schizophrenia. Poster presented at the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry, Mysell Lecture and Research Day, Boston, MA. Salisbury, D.F., Brown, C.L., & Thakur, A.S. (2006, October). Expecting the unexpected: Expectancy trumps association and modulates N400 on a Neely-type task. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Salisbury, D.F., Thakur, A.S., & Brown, C.L. (2005). Expectancy- Based Priming, Context Utilization, and N400 in Schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 42, S11- S12. Michelson, J., Brown, C., Davis, L., Sitnikova, T., & Holcomb, P.J. (2004, April). ERPs to Semantic and Physical Anomalies in Cartoon Videos. Poster presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA. Honors: 2007- 2009 Paul D. Coverdell Neuroimaging Program Franklin Foundation Scholar
