Department of Psychiatry

Office of Medical Student Education

Psychiatry Scholars Program

Projects by Mentor (Note: Some projects have more than one mentor and may be listed twice)

Cathy Adams
Neuroanatomy and Nictonic Receptors in Hippicampus: Relationship to Risk Factors in Schizophrenia

Lawrence Alder
Atypical Antipsychotics and P50 Sensory Gating (with Merilyne Waldo)

Michael Allen
Emergency Psychiatry Scholarship Project

David Arciniegas
Assessment of Frontally-Mediated Cognition in Healthy Adults

Marla Barnes
Factors Affecting Prescribing Practices of Physicians at a Public Health Hospital

Jan Beals
Cultural Validity in the Context of Comorbidity

Thomas Beresford
Psychological Adaptation to Illness

Lisa Brenner
Ongoing Projects Related to Suicide and/or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

Joy Browne
Preterm Infant Learning to Organize One's Self

Cheryl Chessick
Inpatient Psychiatric Medical Student Projects

Robert Clyman
Policy and Foster Care

Marilyn Coors
The Ethics of Legal Sanctions for Genetically-influenced Criminal Behavior

Karen Corsi
Project Safe: Street Outreach to Recruit Injection Drug Users into HIV Prevention and Drug Abuse Treatment Research

Thomas Crowley
Substance Dependent Adolescents: Imaging Risk-Taking

Robert Davies
Martial Arts as Early Intervention for Teen Drug Abuse

Robert Feinstein
Evidence Based Medicine
Quality and Effectiveness of Didactics/Clinical Rotations in Medical School

Guido Frank
Set Shifting in Children and Adolescents with Major Mental Disorders

Karen Frankel
Literature and Chart Review on Psychotropic Medications for Preschoolers with PTSD

Robert Freedman
New Medications for the Treatment of Schizophrenia

Alexis Giese
Quality and Effectiveness of Didactics Provided During a Psychiatry Residency Program and to Consider Alternative Approaches
What Type of Smoking Cessation Programs are Needed for Individuals with Severe Mental Illnesses?

Jay Griffith
Metabolic Risks Associated with Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Medications (with Merilyne Waldo)

Jennifer Hagman
Body image distortion in patients with eating disorders

Josette Harris
Cognitive Assessment in Spanish for Psychiatric and Neurologically Impaired Adults

Susan Hepburn
National CADDRE Study: Child Development and Autism
Psychosocial Intervention for Anxiety in Children with Autism

Christian Hopfer
Causes and Treatment of Adolescent Antisocial and Drug-Dependent Behavior
The Genetics of Conduct Disorder and Drug Dependence in Adolescents

Sharon Hunter
Infant Behavior and Psychophysiology

Lori L. Jervis
Native Elders and Cognitive Impairment

Lisa Kaley Isley
Adolescents with Health Concerns

Carol Kaufman
Differential Impact of HIV/AIDS Intervention Among Native Youth
Multilevel Analysis of American Indian Mental Health, Illness, and Service Use

Kim Kelsay
Asthma and Obesity in Youth

Mary Klinnert

What Affects Asthma in Children

Mark Laudenslager
Neuroendocrine Function in Medical Illness and Psychiatric Disorders

Jenn Leiferman

My Baby, My Move: A Perinatal Physical Activity Intervention

Sherry Leonard
Expression of Nicotinic Receptors in Postmortem Brain

Anne Libby
Cost-Benefit Literature Review for the Colorado Department of Human Services

Laura Martin
The Effects of Smoking on Symptoms and Drug Treatment in Schizophrenia

Richard Martinez
The Experience of Mental Illness in the Criminal Offender

David Miklowitz
Family Focused Treatment in Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder

Douglas Novins
Epidiemiology of Developmental Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Service Delivery

David Olds

Nurse Home Visitation for Primary Prevention

Ann Olincy
Effects of the Alpha-7 Nicotine Agonist DMXB-A on Neuropsychological Functioning of Schizophrenia
The Genetics of Endophenotypes in Schizophrenia – Study of Schizophrenia as a Polygenic Illness
The Genetics of Schizophrenia – Comparison of a Population of People with Schizophrenia to Controls

John Peterson
Distressed Youth's Intentions and Behaviors

William Proctor
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Adaptation to Drugs of Abuse (with Peter Wu)

Judy Reaven
Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy (CBT) for Treatment of Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Paula Riggs
Causes and Treatment of Adolescent Antisocial and Drug-Dependent Behavior

Thomas Robinson

Placebo Controlled Trial of L-tryptophan in Post-Operative Delirium

Don Rojas
Functional Organization of Audition in Schizophrenia
Gamma-Band Dysfunction as a Local Neuronal Connectivity Endophenotype in Autism

Randy Ross
Living with a Child with Severe Mental Illness
Violence in School Aged Children with Schizophrenia

Joseph Sakai
Causes and Treatment of Adolescent Antisocial and Drug-Dependent Behavior

Daniel Savin
Cambodian Mental Health Exchange Program

Paul Spicer
Poverty, Stress, and American Indian Child Development; Preventing Obesity in American Indian Infants and Toddlers

Karen Stevens
Drugs Development Using Animal Models of Schizophrenia: Physiology and Pharmacology

Heather Taussig
Fostering Healthy Futures: A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Preventive Intervention for Maltreated Youth in Foster Care

Marshall Thomas
Development of Care Management Strategies for Colorado Access Health Plan Members with Comorbid Mental and Physical Health Conditions

Jason Tregellas
Hippocampal Functioning and the Virtual Water Maze Test (with Merilyne Waldo)
The Influence of Nicotinic Receptor Polymorphisms on Brain Structure and Function in Schizophrenia

Natalie Walders
TODAY: Treatment Options for Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents and Youth

Merilyne Waldo
Atypical Antipsychotics and P50 Sensory Gating (with Lawrence Alder)
Hippocampal Functioning and the Virtual Water Maze Test (with Jason Tregellas)
Metabolic Risks Associated with Typical and Atypical Antipsychotic Medications (with Jay Griffith)

Frederick Wamboldt                                                                                 

Addressing Stress Improves Treatment Adherence in Children and Adolescents with Asthma

Marianne Wamboldt
Seroquel for Adolescents with Bipolar Disorder or Schizophrenia
Symptom Perception in Pediatric Asthma

Michael Weissberg
Sleep and its Disorders in Children and Adults

Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
Self-Concept Among American Indian Adolescents:  The Impact of Culture on Developmental Trends

Elizabeth Whitmore
Causes and Treatment of Adolescent Antisocial and Drug-Dependent Behavior

Peter Wu
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Neuronal Adaptation to Drugs of Abuse (with William Proctor)

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