Debra Titone - Harvard Medical School

Email:  dtitone@mclean.harvard.edu

Debra Titone received an undergraduate degree from New York University in 1989, and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1995.  She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University until 1997, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School untill 1999.  She is presently a research scientist at McLean Hospital, Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Wellesley College. She is pursuing two research programs, one pertaining to language processing failures in schizophrenia supported by the NIMH, and one pertaining to hippocampus-mediated memory dysfunction in schizophrenia supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Award.  Titone is a huge fan of the web-based experimental approach pioneered by the PsychExps group at Ole Miss, and hopes one day to apply it to the study of cognitive dysfunction in brain-based disorders such as schizophrenia.  She has a husband named Bert, three cats, a Meyer's parrot, and a shiny new bicycle.