Professor of Psychology

Clinical Science and Neuroscience

Office: 505 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-2532
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Degrees

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1991.

Research Area

• Research programs in Park’s lab focus on understanding neurobiological bases of psychoses. We use diverse methods and techniques including cognitive tasks, functional MRI, structural MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, near-infrared optical imaging and hormonal assays to understand the complex relationship between behavior, brain structure and function. Current projects in the lab focus on elucidating cognitive-perceptual and affective functions in schizophrenia, neurobiological underpinnings of creativity, effects of cannabis on attention and emotion and sex differences.

Graduate Students

• Jejoong Kim
• Brian Essex
• Eunice Yang
• Mikisha Doop
• Katy Thakker
• Charnese Bowes

Other Personnel

• Crystal Gibson Randy Minas

Representative Publications

• Lee J & Park S (2006) The role of stimulus saliency in CPT-AX performance of schizophrenia patients. Schizophrenia Research. 81(2-3) 191-197
• Riccardi P, Zald D, Li R, Park S, Ansari M, Dawant B, Anderson S, Woodward N, Schmidt D, Baldwin R, & Kessler R (2006) Sex differences in amphetamine induced displacement of [18F] Fallypride in striatal and extrastriatal regions: a PET study. American J of Psychiatry 161,1-4
• Turnbull OH, Evans CEY, Kemish K, Park S & Bowman CH (2006) A novel ‘set-shifting’ modification of the Iowa Gambling Task: Flexible emotion-based learning in schizophrenia. Neuropsychology 20:290-8
• Riccardi P, Li R, Ansari MS, Zald D, Park S, Dawant B, Anderson S, Doop ML, Woodward N, Schoenberg E, Schmidt D, Baldwin R, & Kessler R. (2006) Amphetamine induced displacement of [18F] Fallypride in striatum and extrastriatal regions in humans. Neuropsychopharmacology 31, 1016-1026.
• Park S, Gibson C & McMichael, T (2006) Socioaffective factors modulate working memory in schizophrenic subjects. Neuroscience. 139(1) 373-384
• Lee J & Park S (2005) Working memory impairments in schizophrenia: A meta-analysis. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 114(4), 599-611.
• Folley BS & Park S (2005) Schizophrenia, schizotypy and creativity in relation to laterality; a behavioral and near-infrared optical imaging (NIROT) study. Schizophrenia Research, 80 (2-3) 271-282
• Hooker CI & Park, S (2005) You must be looking at me; the nature of gaze perception in schizophrenia patients. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry,10(5) 327-345.
• Kim J, Doop ML, Blake R & Park S (2005) Impaired recognition of biological motion in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 77(2-3) 299-307.
• Minor KL, Wright BD & Park S (2004) University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) as a measure of olfactory identification ability in schizophrenic and normal populations: A Rasch psychometric study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 113 (2) 207-216
• Park S, Püschel J, Sauter B, Rentsch M & Hell D (2003) Visual object working memory deficits and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 59(2-3), 261-268.
• Hooker CI & Park S (2002) Emotion processing and its relationship to social functioning in schizophrenia patients. Psychiatry Research, 112(1), 41-50
• Myles-Worsley M & Park S (2002) Working memory deficits in schizophrenia patients and their first-degree relatives in Palau, Micronesia. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 114, 609-615.
• Rosenberg L & Park S (2002) Verbal and spatial functions across the menstrual cycle in healthy young women. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 27(7) 835-84.
• Park S, Püschel J, Sauter B, Rentsch M & Hell D (2002) Spatial selective attention and inhibition during acute psychosis and at 4-month follow-up. Biological Psychiatry 51(6) 498-506.
• Raine A, Park S, Lencz T, Bihrle S, LaCasse L, Spatz-Widom C, Al Dayeh L & Singh M (2001) Reduced right hemisphere activation in severely abused violent offenders during a working memory task as indicated by fMRI. Aggressive Behavior, 27 (2), 111-129
• Skosnik PD, Spatz-Glenn L & Park S (2001) Impaired attentional inhibition is associated with increased schizotypy in Cannabis users. Schizophrenia Research 48(1) 83-92
• Hooker CI, Roese NJ & Park S (2000). Impoverished counterfactual thinking is associated with schizophrenia. Psychiatry, 63(4), 326-335.
• Park S, Knopick C, McGurk S & Meltzer HY (2000) Nicotine impairs spatial working memory while leaving spatial attention intact. Neuropsychopharmacology, 22(2),200-209
• Meltzer HY, Park S & Kessler R (1999) Cognition, Schizophrenia, and the Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 96(24), 13591-13593.
• Park S, Püschel J, Sauter B., Rentsch M & Hell D (1999) Spatial working memory deficits and clinical symptoms in schizophrenia; A 4-month follow-up study. Biological Psychiatry, 46(3), 392-400.
• Park S, Holzman PS & Goldman-Rakic PS (1995) Spatial working memory deficits in the relatives of schizophrenic patients. Archives of General Psychiatry. 52, 821-828.
• Park S, Holzman PS & Lenzenweger MF (1995) Individual differences in spatial working memory in relation to schizotypy. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 104, (2), 355-364.
• Park S & Holzman PS (1992) Schizophrenics show spatial working memory deficits. Archives of General Psychiatry, 49, 975-982.

Miscellaneous

Positions Available:
Post doctoral research fellow
Research assistant