Charlie Davidson , BA

Charlie’s research interests include the relationship between neurocognition and functional behavior in people with serious mental illness, especially applying longitudinal models. He is also interested in psychometrics and application of clinical instruments.

Charlie graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2006 with a BA in Music and a minor in Psychology. After graduating, he worked as Research Assistant for two years in the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (pnl.bwh.harvard.edu), directed by Dr. Martha Shenton. During college, he worked with Dr. Drew Westen and Dr. Rebekah Bradley at Emory University (www.psychsystems.net/lab) and with Dr. Nancy Pistrang and Dr. Chris Barker at University College London (www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-psychology/Research-Groups/phas/).

During his first year at UNL, Charlie worked as a psychology extern at the Community Mental Health Center as part of the Decision Science in Rehabilitation (DSR) grant project.

Currently, he is a Project Manager for the Decision Science in Rehabilitation grant project.

e-mail Charlie: unlcharlied [at] gmail.com

Poster Presentations:

Davidson, C. A., Levitt, J. J., Kuroki, N., Niznikiewicz, M., McCarley, R. W., and Shenton, M.E (April, 2007). An MRI study of septi pellucidi in relation to hippocampus and fornix in schizophrenia. Poster presented at the 15th Annual Research Day, Sponsored by the Mysell Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Alvarado, J. L., Davidson, C. A., Niethammer, M., McCarley, R.W., Kubicki, M.R., Shenton, M. E., Levitt, J. J. (April, 2008). Sobel filter segmentation of the globus pallidus in schizophrenics. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Research Day, Sponsored by the Mysell Committee, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Online: http://pnl.bwh.harvard.edu/pub/papers_html/AlvaradoMysell2008.html

Kawashima, T., Niznikiewicz, M., Nakamura, M., Davidson, C. A., Salisbury, D. F., Shenton, M. E., McCarley, R.W. (May, 2008). Progressive decrease of right prefrontal cortex gray matter volume in first-episode schizophrenia: A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study. Poster presented at 63rd Annual Society of Biological Psychiatry Convention.

Davidson, C. A., Cook, E. A., Nolting, J. R., Spaulding, W. D. (November, 2008). Observed Ward Behavior Strongly Associated with Real World Living Skills: An Analysis of Concurrent Validity between NOSIE and ILSI. Poster presented at 42nd Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Orlando, Florida.

Choi, K. H., Reddy, L. F., Wynne, A., Taransenko, M., Davidson, C. A., Cook E. A., Spaulding, W. D. (November, 2008). Memory Functioning Trajectories as a Level of Severity of Child Abuse during Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation: An 18-Month Longitudinal Study Using Multilevel Modeling. Poster presented at 42nd Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention, Orlando, Florida.

Tarasenko, M., Kleinlein, P., Choi, K., Cook, E., Davidson, C. A., & Spaulding, W. D. (2008, November). Differential Processing of Emotional Cues in Inpatients and Outpatients with Serious Mental Illness. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Orlando, FL.

Kikinis, Z., Fallon, J., Niznikiewicz, M., Kubicki, M., Nestor, P., Wible, C., Davidson, C. A., Bobrow, L., Pelavin, P., Chiu, M., Fischl, B., McCarley, R. W., Kikinis, R. Shenton, M. E. (March, 2009). Changes in Gray Matter Volume in Rostral Middle Frontal Gyrus of Chronic Schizophrenia Subjects. Poster presented at International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, San Diego, California. Online:
http://pnl.bwh.harvard.edu/pub/papers_html/KikinisICOSR09.html