Rabin, Laura, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Education: Ph.D. Fordham University (Clinical Psychology)
Internship and Fellowship, Dartmouth Medical School (Neuropsychology)

Email: lrabin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Office: James Hall 5303 @ Brooklyn College
Telephone: 718-951-5601

Courses @ Brooklyn College:
Psychology Statistics
Abnormal Psychology
Counseling Processes
Fieldwork Experience in Psychopathology
Psychology Assessment Techniques
Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches to Counseling and Psychotherapy
Proseminar in Psychology
Independent Fieldwork in Psychopathology
Independent Research

Selected Publications:
Rabin, L.A., Saykin, A.J., Wishart, H.A., et al. (2007). The Memory and Aging Telephone Screen (MATS): Development and preliminary validation. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 3, 109 – 121.

Rabin, L., Tanapat, P., & Relkin, N. (2007). Cholinergic components of frontal lobe function and dysfunction. In G. Goldenberg & B.L. Miller (Eds.), Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 88 (3rd Series): Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology (pp. 10 – 41). London: Elsevier.

Rabin, L.A., Borgos, M.J., Saykin, A.J., et al. (2007). Judgment in older adults: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Test of Practical Judgment (TOP-J). Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 29, 752 – 767.

Rabin, L.A., Burton, L.A., & Barr, W.B. (2007). Utilization rates of ecologically oriented instruments among clinical neuropsychologists. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21, 727 – 743.

McHugh, T.L., Saykin, A.J., Wishart, H.A., Flashman, L.A., Cleavinger, H.B., Rabin, L.A., et al. (2007). Hippocampal volume and shape analysis in an older adult population. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21,130 – 145

Rabin, L.A., Barr, W.B., & Burton, L.A. (2007). Effect of patient occupation/education variables on the choice of neuropsychological assessment instruments. Applied Neuropsychology, 14, 247-254.

Wang, P., Saykin, A.J., Flashman, L.A., Wishart, H.A., Rabin, L.A., et al. (2006). Regionally specific atrophy of the corpus callosum in AD, MCI, and older adults with cognitive complaints. Neurobiology of Aging, 27, 1613 – 1617

Saykin, A.J., Wishart, H.A., Rabin, L.A., et al. (2006). Reduction of medial temporal gray matter density in older adults with amnestic MCI or cognitive complaints: A voxel-based morphometry study. Neurology, 67, 834 – 842.

Copenhaver, B.R., Rabin, L.A., Saykin, A.J., et al. (2006). The fornix and mammillary bodies in older adults with AD, MCI, and cognitive complaints: A volumetric MRI study. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 147, 93 -103.

Rabin, L.A., Wishart, H.A., Fields, R.B., & Saykin, A.J. (2006). The dementias. In P. J. Snyder, P. D. Nussbaum, & D. L. Robins (Eds.), Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook for Assessment (2nd ed., pp. 210 – 239). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Wishart, H.A., Saykin, A.J., McAllister, T.W., Rabin, L.A., et al. (2006). Regional brain atrophy in cognitively intact adults with a single APOE E4 allele. Neurology, 67, 1221-1224.

Rabin, L.A., Roth, R.M., Isquith, P.K., et al. (2006). Self-and informant reports of executive function on the BRIEF-A in MCI and older adults with cognitive complaints. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 721 – 732.

Rabin, L.A., Barr, W.B., & Burton, L.A. (2005). Assessment practices of clinical neuropsychologists in the United States and Canada: A survey of INS, NAN, and APA Division 40 members. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20, 33 – 65.

Burton, L., Rabin, L., Wyatt, G., et al. (2005). Priming effects for affective vs. neutral faces. Brain and Cognition, 59, 322 – 329.

Research Summary:
My research is focused on the cognitive and neurophysiological changes associated with preclinical stages of dementia. I also study the development and refinement of assessment tools that effectively distinguish categories along a continuum from normal aging through varying degrees of cognitive dysfunction. Additional interests include implicit and explicit memory systems, the ecological validity of neuropsychological instruments, and cognitive remediation of memory and executive dysfunction. To this end, I am developing an intervention for older adults with significant cognitive complaints, which is focused on enhancing the use of general and practically-oriented memory strategies and self-efficacy.

Doctoral Students:
S. Gupti
K. Nutter-Upham
W. Ramratan
Z. Rosen