All students in the doctoral program at Suffolk University are required to complete both a master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation. For those students in the neuropsychology concentration, both thesis and dissertation are expected to be on a topic in neuropsychology under the mentorship of one of the three Suffolk neuropsychology faculty. The three neuropsychology faculty at Suffolk have diverse research interests, summarized below.

David Gansler, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN

dgansler@suffolk.edu

There are two main lines of research currently under study in Dr. Gansler’s lab. The first focuses primarily on investigations of aggression, unipolar depression, and bipolar depression by correlating neuropsychological function, as assessed by neuropsychological tests, with underlying brain structures, as assessed by volumetric structural MRI data analysis. The second line of work is investigating neuropsychological function in patients with ADHD. Dr. Gansler’s work has also led to the creation of a Brain Image Analysis Lab at Suffolk.

For a more complete description, see Dr. Gansler’s faculty research page.

Edith Kaplan, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN

ekaplan@suffolk.edu

Dr. Kaplan has a variety of project currently under study in her lab. For a more complete description of her research interests, see Dr. Kaplan’s faculty research page.

Elisabeth J. Moes, Ph.D., ABPP/ABCN

emoes@suffolk.edu

Dr. Moes has a primary interest in investigating the neural underpinnings of slow, non-dyslexic readers and has developed a dopamine deficit hypothesis that she is currently investigating. There are a number of other projects under study in her lab, mostly involving executive functions. Some of the projects include how executive functions change over the life span, how they are affected by emotional processing, how they correlate with narrative discourse, and how they are affected by traumatic brain injury. One final line of inquiry is the role of fatigue in multiple sclerosis (MS).

For a more complete description, see Dr. Moes’ faculty research page.