Clinical Psychology Graduate Student

Forensic psychology, and developmental psychopathology. Assessment of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder. Development of psychopathic and APD traits and their heterotypic continuity. Therapeutic models in child and adolescent populations with psychopathic and APD traits. Interaction of mental health services with the criminal system. Brain plasticity and therapeutic effectiveness.

Integration of psychophysiological tools (electrodermal and startle reflex responses) with assessment questionnaires for the assessment of psychopathy traits in non-institutionalized populations.

Brown, E.S., Nejtek, V.A., Perantie, D.C., Orsulak, P.J., & Bobadilla, L. (in press). Lamotrigine in patients with bipolar disorder and cocaine or amphetamine dependence. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

E. Sherwood Brown, Ph.D., M.D., Alan Frol, Ph.D., Leonardo Bobadilla, B.A., Vicki A. Nejtek, Ph.D., Dana C. Perantie, B. S., and Harminder Dhillon, M.D. (in press). Effect of Lamotrigine on mood and cognition in patients receiving chronic exogenous corticosteroids. Psychosomatics.

Brown, E. S., Bobadilla, L., & Rush, A. J. (2001). Ketoconazole in bipolar patients with depressive symptoms: a case series and literature review. Bipolar Disorders, 3, 23-29.