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1 Catherine Fassbender, Ph.D. Fassbender Catherine, Ph.D., Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Education B.A., Psychology, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2000 H.Dip. Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2002 Ph.D. Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2005 Biography Dr. Fassbender graduated from the Trinity College Dublin, Department of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, graduate program in the field of cognitive neuroscience in Her graduate work involved investigating cognitive control through the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri). She subsequently moved to the University of Maryland, Baltimore, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, where she examined cognitive control in children and adolescents with ADHD. In 2007 she accepted a position at the UC Davis MIND Institute and Department of Psychiatry where she continued researching cognitive control in ADHD. She has also expanded her research interests to include the examination of cognitive impairments in other clinical disorders such as substance dependence at the UC Davis Imaging Research Center. Her interests include understanding the neural correlates of cognitive control processes in clinical disorders, examining cognition and reward processing following long-term substance abuse, determining neural risk factors for relapse from sobriety in substance users and examining the neural and behavioral risk factors for substance abuse in adolescents. She conducts her research using behavioral, functional neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods. Dr. Fassbender s goal is to better understand the cognitive impairments in clinical disorders in order to inform targeted treatments. She is also interested in identifying patterns of brain and behavior function that will inform the early identification of individuals vulnerable to substance dependence with the goal of prevention. Publications Fassbender, C. (2018) Dimensional and Categorical Approaches to Understanding Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: New Frontiers in Translational Research. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 3(8), pp McCarthy, J.J., Vasti, E.J., Leamon, M.H., Graas, J., Ward, C. & Fassbender, C. (2018) The Use of Serum Methadone/Metabolite Ratios to Monitor Changing Perinatal Pharmacokinetics, Journal of Addiction Medicine, 12(3), Fassbender, C., Mukherjee, P. & Schweitzer, J.B. (2017) Minimizing noise in pediatric task-based functional MRI; Adolescents with developmental disabilities and typical development, NeuroImage, 149:

2 McCarthy, J.J., Leamon, M.H., Finnegan, L.P. & Fassbender, C. (2017) Opioid Dependence and Pregnancy: Minimizing Stress on the Fetal Brain, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 216(3): Fassbender C, Krafft CE, Schweitzer JB. (2015) Differentiating SCT and inattentive symptoms in ADHD using fmri measures of cognitive control. NeuroImage: Clinical, 21(8):390-7 Weissman, D.G., Schriber, R.A., Fassbender, C., Atherton, O., Krafft, C., Robins, R.W., Hastings, P.D. & Guyer, A.E. (2015) Earlier adolescent substance use onset predicts stronger connectivity between reward and cognitive control brain networks. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, Fassbender, C., Lesh, T.A., Ursu, S. & Salo, R. (2015) Reaction Time Variability and Related Brain Activity in Methamphetamine Psychosis, Biological Psychiatry, 77(5): Fassbender C., Houde S, Silver-Balbus S., Ballard K, Kim B.K., Rutledge K.J., Dixon J.F., Iosif A.M., Schweitzer J.B., McClure S.M. (2014) The decimal effect: behavioral and neural bases for a novel influence on intertemporal choice in healthy individuals and in ADHD, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(11): Fassbender C., Scangos, K., Lesh, T.A. & Carter, C.S. (2014) RT distributional analysis of cognitive-control-related brain activity in first-episode schizophrenia. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(1): Mazaheri A, Fassbender C, Coffey-Corina S, Hartanto TA, Schweitzer JB, Mangun GR (2014) Differential Oscillatory Electroencephalogram Between Attention- Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes and Typically Developing Adolescents. Biological Psychiatry, 76(5):422-9 Salo R, Fassbender C, Buonocore MH, Ursu S. (2013) Behavioral regulation in methamphetamine abusers: an fmri study. Psychiatry Research, 30;211(3):234-8 Salo R, Fassbender C, Iosif AM, Ursu S, Leamon MH, Carter C. (2013) Predictors of methamphetamine psychosis: history of ADHD-relevant childhood behaviors and drug exposure. Psychiatry Research, 210(2): Green CT, Long DL, Green D, Iosif AM, Dixon JF, Miller MR, Fassbender C, Schweitzer JB. (2012) Will working memory training generalize to improve off-task behavior in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder? Neurotherapeutics, 9(3): Fassbender C., Schweitzer, J.B. Cortes, C.R., Tagamets, M.A., Windsor, T.A., Revves, G.M. & Gullapalli, R. (2011) Working memory in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a lack of specialization of brain function. PLos One, 6(11):e27240 Salo R, Ravizza S, Fassbender C. (2011) Overlapping cognitive patterns in schizophrenia and methamphetamine dependence. Cogn Behav Neurol, 24(4):187-93

3 Salo R, Gabay S, Fassbender C, Henik A. (2011) Distributed attentional deficits in chronic methamphetamine abusers: evidence from the Attentional Network Task (ANT). Brain and Cognition, 77(3): Miller M., Hanford, R.B., Fassbender, C., Duke, M. & Schweitzer, J.B. (2011). Affect recognition in adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Journal of Attention Disorders 15(6): Fassbender, C., Zhang, H., Buzy, W.M., Cortes, C., Mizuiri, D., Beckett, L. and Schweitzer, J.B. (2009). A lack of default network suppression is linked to increased distractibility in ADHD, Brain Research, 1273: Fassbender, C., Hester, R., Murphy, K., Foxe, J. J., Foxe, D. M. and Garavan, H. (2008). Prefrontal and midline interactions in behavioural control, European Journal of Neuroscience, 29(1): Fassbender, C., Simoes-Franklin, C., Murphy, K., Hester, R., Meaney, J., Robertson, I. H. and Garavan, H. (2006). The role of a right fronto-parietal network in cognitive control: Common activations for cues-to-attend and response inhibition, Journal of Psychophysiology, 20(4): Fassbender, C., Foxe, J. J. & Garavan H. (2006). Mapping the functional anatomy of task preparation: priming task- appropriate brain networks. Human Brain Mapping,27(10), Fassbender, C and Schweitzer, J.B. (2006). Is There Evidence for Neural Compensation in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder? A Review of the Functional Neuroimaging Literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 26(4), Garavan, H., Hester, R., Murphy, K., Fassbender, C. & Kelly, C. (2006). Individual differences in the neuroanatomy of inhibitory control. Brain Research, 1105, Fassbender, C., Murphy, K., Foxe, J., Wylie, G., Javitt, D.C., Robertson, I.H. & Garavan, H. (2004). A topography of executive functions and their interactions revealed by functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Cognitive Brain Research, 20, Hester, R., Fassbender, C. & Garavan, H. (2004). Individual differences in error processing: A review and Reanalysis of three event-related fmri studies using the GO/NOGO task. Cerebral Cortex, 14, Invited Presentations ADHD & Substance Abuse; Impulsivity and Decision-Making. Northern California Regional ADHD Conference: ADHD from Preschool to Adulthood, Berkeley, CA 2017 ADHD and Substance Abuse. Calciano Youth Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA 2017

4 Will Computerized Working Memory Training Generalize to Improve Off-Task Behavior in ADHD? Cogmed Network Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, September 2010 Executive Functioning in ADHD. U.C. Davis M.I.N.D. Summer Institute on Neurodevelopmental Disorders, California State University, Sacramento, CA, August Mixed Block and Event-related fmri Investigation of Response Inhibition in the Sustained Attention to Response Test (SART). 33 rd Annual Conference of the Psychological Society of Ireland, Waterford November, Research Funding Active: Cognitive and Reward processes in risk for relapse in poly substance dependence NIH/NIDA, 04/01/ / (no cost extension until 04/30/2019) Developmental Changes in Neural Processes Underlying Impulsivity and ADHD (Schweitzer, J), NIH/NIMH, 8/15/2012 8/31/2021 Building Resistance to Distraction via Virtual Reality Therapy (Schweitzer, J) Joe P. Tupin Research Award, UC Davis Dept. Psychiatry, 07/01/16-06/30/17 Completed: Charting the Gateway Years: Linking Brain Connectivity Trajectories and Psychosocial Risk Profiles with Substance Use from Early Adolescence into Young Adulthood (Guyer, A) UC Davis Behavior Center for Excellence Award, 6/01/2015-5/31/2016 Identifying Cognitive and Neural Risk Factors for Substance Dependence in ADHD (Fassbender, C) NIH/NIDA, 2/1/2012-1/31/2013, (no cost extension until 01/31/2015) Attention Bias in Comorbid ADHD and Stimulant Dependence (Fassbender, C) Joe P. Tupin Research Award, UC Davis Dept. Psychiatry 7/01/2013-6/30/2014 (no cost extension until 06/30/2015) Community Service Institutional Service January 2018 Evaluation Committee of on-line Individual Development Plan for UC Davis Health 2017 present Member of the UC Davis MIND Institute Space Committee 2017 present Administrator of the UCDMC Parenting Resources Facebook Page 2017 Served on interdepartmental academic merit review committee

5 2016 present UC Davis Neuroimaging Safety Committee National Service Organizing Committee Member for Global Conference on Addiction and Behavioral Health (GAB 2019), August 22-24, 2019, London, UK. Ad-hoc Journal Manuscript Review Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology Review, Human Brain Mapping, Brain Research, Journal of Addiction Medicine, Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Brain Imaging and Behavior, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience and Neuroscience Bulletin. Editorial Board 2018 present Editorial Board of Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging 2013 present Academic Editor of International Neuropsychiatric Disease Journal Grant Review February 2018 Reviewer for the NIH, Brain Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience, ZRG1 BDCN J 02 grant August 2017 Reviewer for the Children s Research Institute, Washington DC, DC- IDDRC (Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center) pilot grant July 2017 Reviewer for the NIH, Brain Disorders and Clinical Neuroscience, ZRG1 BDCN J 02 grant May 2017 Reviewer for the NINDS Brain Initiative, Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain (U01) grant 2012 Pennsylvania Final Performance Review Awards and Honors 2001 Government of Ireland Research Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2008 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship in ADHD 2013 Joe P. Tupin Research Award, UC Davis Dept. Psychiatry

Catherine Fassbender, Ph.D.

Catherine Fassbender, Ph.D. Fassbender Catherine, Ph.D., Assistant Professional Researcher, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine Education B.A., Psychology, University College