Overview
| Specialty | Psychology-PhD |
|---|---|
| Clinical Interests | Forensic Psychiatry |
| Gender | Female |
| karen.dahlman@mssm.edu | |
| Education and Training | PHD, New School for Social Research |
| Internship, Psychology, Bronx Psychiatric Center |
Dr. Dahlman is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Co-Director of Neuropsychology Training (1995-present) in the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the New School for Social Research (1995). She is an accomplished clinician and administrator of neuropsychological services and the director of a large and successful training program in neuropsychology.
Dr. Dahlman founded the Psychological Services Clinic, in which she is currently developing a large database that is now being used for analyses of neuropsychological deficits in early dementia. This data has been used to describe discreet neuropsychological function such as fluency (Dahlman, 1997). As Co-Director of the Neuropsychology Service, she provides neuropsychological assessment for memory disorders, teaches "Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessment in Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry," and serves on the Training Grant Advisory Committee at Bronx Veteran's Administration Me dical Center (2002-present). She currently receives research support from Mount Sinai's ADRC (Alzheimer's Disease Research Center) and the ADCS Project (Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study Site) on which she is PI for instrument development. In addition she has recently taken over activities as a center neuropsychologist on a multicentered trial of hormonal effects on memory and cognition (R01-AG15922). In this role she is supervising the administration and interpretation of neuropsychological data. Her research includes: immune inflammatory responses in depression; neurocognitive functioning and disease; memory disorders; Alzheimer's disease and preclinical neuropsychological markers. Evidence of her commitment to research can be seen in her participation in several data based abstracts, presentations and manuscripts submitted and in preparation. For example, she described cognitive functioning in first psychosis based on data collected from clinical trial population. An expansion of this abstract has just been accepted for publication. She described the cognitive and affective disturbances in AD patients using data from a longitudinal data base of elders followed in a program project (P01-AG02219). A full manuscript is in preparation.
Dr. Dahlman has also reported on the cognitive comparisons of traumatic brain injury and dementia that integrated data from 2 independent projects. She has also described in two abstracts the cognitive traits that predict dementia onset (2002; 2003) and this work has been expanded into a full manuscript now under review. Her new research focuses on biological mediators and neuroimaging associated with neurocognitive and psychiatric disorders.
