Psychology Resume

Psychology Resume

LAUREN K. GERBRANDT, Ph.D.
230 Wildwood Way
Salinas, CA 93908 Email: presume@gerbrandt.com

I. LIST OF DEGREES, YEAR OF COMPLETION. AND AWARDS

Biomedical Fellow:	Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA.	1967-1969
Ph.D.:	Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.	1963-1967
M.A.:	San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.	1961-1962
B.A.:	San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.	1956-1961

R & D Team Award:	Research & Development, Wang Laboratories, Inc., Lowell, MA	1988
Employee of the Month Award:	Research & Development, Wang Laboratories, Inc., Lowell, MA	1987
Research Associate Award:	Neuropsychology Laboratory, VA Hospital, West Haven, CT	1969-1970
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurobiology:	Stanford UniversityMedicalSchool, Stanford, CA	1967-1969
NationaI Science Foundation FelIow:	Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechoslovakia	1966-1967
Young Psychologist Award:	American Psychological Association	1966
Predoctoral Fellow:	National lnstitutes of MentaI Health	1963-1966

II. EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION

Consultant, Human Factors: 1994-Present. Usability Analysts, Salinas, CA. Consultant in Educational, Cognitive and Neuropsychological Assessments, Usability Research for New Product Development, Exhibits, and Documentation. Clients: Educational Assessment and Production Development, Marketing Services, CTB/McGraw-Hill; Internet Site Development, [Internet Montery Bay-now on redshift.com]; Information Services, Santa Cruz Operatons, Inc.
Consultant, Research and Development: 1983-Present. Real-time Data Communications, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA. Directed the design and implementation of Diverse Host Integration System and associated Application Development Environment
Full Professor: 1990-1994. Department of Psychology, Radford University, Radford, VA. Committees: Graduate Experimental Psychology Program, Human Subjects Research Committee. Courses taught: Abnormal Psychology, Theories of Personality, Comparative Animal Behavior, Psychology of Emotion, Psychology of Consciousness, Behavioral Medicine, Physiological Psychology, Psychopharmacology, Psychology of Ecstasy, Proseminar in Psychology.
Chairman, Psychobiology Graduate Program: 1972-l982. California State University, Northridge, CA
Full Professor: 1970-1982. Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge, CA. Committees: Executive Committee, Recruitment Committee, Graduate Studies Committee. Courses taught: Introductory Psychology, General Psychology, Psychology of Adjustment, Clinical Neuropsychology, Biofeedback and Self Control, Psycho pharmacology, The Split Brain, Mind and Body, Biology of Intelligence, Experimental Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Physiological Psychology, Brain and Behavior, Advanced Psychobiology I, II, Advanced Seminar in Memory, Physiological and Biochemical Basis of Memory, Techniques in Physiological Psychology, Anatomy and Physiology of the Hippocampus, Electrophysiological Methods.
Program Director: 1980-1981. M.I.T. Neurosciences Research Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. (see Workshops and books produced, below).
Staff Coordinator: 1979-1981: M.I.T. Neurosciences Research Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA. Workshops and books produced: "The Biology of Language", "Electrophysiological Approaches to Human Cognitive Processing", "Development and Plasticity of the Neocortex", "Long-term Potentiation and HippocampaI Function", "Invertebrate Models of Growth and Plasticity", "Applications of Molecular Genetics to Neuroscience."
Visiting Faculty Member: 1969: Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Psychology. Course in Biological Psychology.

III. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC INTERESTS
AREAS OF INTEREST: Development of Cognitive Processes, Usability Research for Educational and Technical Product Development, Clinical Neuropsychology, The Biology of Intelligence, The Biology of Learning and Memory, Psychology of Consciousness, Psychology of Emotions.
TECHNIQUES: Neuropsychological and Cognitive Assessment, Usability Testing for New Product Development, Exhibits, and Documentation in Software and Education, Human Electrophysiology, HTML for Internet, Windows and C-Language Computer Programming, Statistical Data Analysis, Human and Animal Behavioral Methods, Animal Neurophysiology, Experimental Neurosurgery, Tissue Histology, Histochemistry, and Microscopy, and Psychopharmacological Screening Methods.
CONCENTRATIONS: Study of Cognitive Processes, Usability Research for New Product Development, Study of Human Emotions and Values, Study of Brain Activity in Human Perception, Study of Interruption, Confusion and Continuity in Work Training and Performance.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Chief Usability Analyst: 1995 - Present. Educational Assessment and Product Development, CTB/McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA. Modified and adapted software usability procedures for use in testing cognitive reactions of students (K - 12) to high graphic design in conventional achievement testing. Modified software usability procedures for testing the construct validity of new achievement testing items.
Collaborator: 1990-1994. With Dr. William J. Hudspeth, Neuropsychometrics Laboratory, Inc. Radford University, Radford, VA. Classification of Self-Centered and Other-Centered Human Emotions. Neuroelectric Classification of Color and Form in Humans. Three-dimensional Structure of the Human EEG.
Senior Software Engineer: 1984-1989. Research and Development Wang Laboratories, Inc.: Design, Implementation and Usability Testing of User-interfaces for Office Applications, Help Systems and User Manuals in Document Processing, Design, Implementation and Usability Testing of Advanced Word Processing Functions and Author-Assistance Functions for Legal, Medical, and Business Applications.
Software Engineer: 1982-1983, Advanced Systems Laboratory, Wang Laboratories, Inc. Design and Implementation of Automated Human Factors Research Environment.
Consultant: 1970-1982. VA Hospital. Psychobiology Research Laboratory. Sepulveda, CA. Developed System for Electrophysiological Recordings in Retrograde Amnesia Paradigms
Collaborator: 1977-1982. With Dr. Gary Lynch, Department of Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA. Alterations in Hippocampal Synaptogenesis After Low-leveI X-irradiation in Neonatal Rats. With Drs. Robert Chronister and Gene Palmer, Departments of Anatomy and Chemistry, University of Southern Alabama, College of Medicine, Mobile, AL. Alterations in Receptor Biochemistry after Low-level X-irradiation in Neonatal Rats.
Research Psychologist: 1977-1982. VA Hospital, Psychobiology Research Laboratory, Sepulveda, CA. Electrophysiological Recordings in Retrograde Amnesia Paradigms.
Principal Investigator: 1974-1981. CSUN Research Grant: The Role of Verbal Coding in Temporal Discriminations. 1973-1978. National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant 1RO3MH24236-10: EEG and Amnesia: Comparison of Two Convulsants.
Research Associate In Psychology: 1969-1970. Neuropsychology Laboratory, VA Hospital. West Haven, CT . Human Evoked Potential Recording of Motor Control Systems.
National Science Foundation Fellow: 1967-1969. With Nico Spinelli, Stanford University Medical School, Electrophysiology of Visual System in Learning and Attention. With Jan Bures, Institute of Physiology, Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences. Conditioning and Learning in Single Neurons.

[IV. PUBLICATIONS AND INVITED PRESENTATIONS -- Cont'd]

Email: presume@gerbrandt.com