| Joanna Szczepanik, M.A. E-mail: jszczepa@umd.edu or szczepaj@mail.nih.gov Work Phone: 301-594-9287 |
| Bio |
Background Information
I received an MA in Psychology from the Catholic University of America in 1992. After graduation, I joined Brain, Aging and Dementia Section of the National Institute on Aging, and later Geriatric Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health. Since 2005 I have worked as a Psychologist at the Mood and Anxiety Program at NIMH in research on Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder utilizing PET and fMRI neuroimaging techniques. Back in school as a Neuroscience and Cognition program doctoral student, I am hoping to apply my clinical research experience to further explore neurobiology of mood disorders.
Research Interests
Human brain reward system in depression and co-morbid addiction, functional brain imaging, neuropsychology, clinical application of neurobiological findings in mood disordersPersonal Interests
To list just a few: travel, reading, independent movies, figure and synchronized skating, pets, family and friends, volunteering with KEEN. http://www.keengreaterdc.org/
Selected Publications
Hippocampal atrophy in the healthy is initially linear and independent of age
Neurobiol Aging. 2006 Oct;27(10):1385-94
Cohen RM, Szczepanik J, McManus M, Mirza N, Putnam K, Levy J, Sunderland T
Age and APOE-epsilon4 genotype influence the effect of physostigmine infusion on the in-vivo distribution volume of the muscarinic-2-receptor dependent tracer [18F]FP-TZTP
Synapse. 2006 Jul;60(1):86-92
Cohen RM, Carson RE, Filbey F, Szczepanik J, Sunderland T
Time course of pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic effects of physostigmine assessed by functional brain imaging in humans
Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 2000 Jul;66(3):475-81.
Furey ML, Pietrini P, Alexander GE, Mentis MJ, Szczepanik J, Shetty U, Greig NH, Holloway HW, Schapiro MB, Freo U
Selected Presentations
fMRI study of response to monetary reward in Major Depressive Disorder
Szczepanik J, Martin-Soelch C, Wang H, Infante A, Drevets W
Poster presented by J. Szczepanik at the 2007 Society for Neurosciences conference
Lateralized dopaminergic response to reward in human ventral Striatum
Martin-Soelch C, Infante A., Szczepanik J., Herskovits P, Drevets W
Poster presented by J. Szczepanik at the 2007 Society for Neurosciences conference
Tyrosine and phenylalanine depletion influences the striatal activation during appetitive conditioning: an fMRI study
Martin-Soelch C, Szczepanik J, Infante A., Fromm S, Drevets W
Poster presented by J. Szczepanik at the 2007 Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference