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1 BRANDON ABBS Curriculum Vitae Last updated August 11, 2012 Contact Information: Brigham and Women s Hospital 1620 Tremont St. BC-3-34 DWH Boston, MA Phone: (617) Fax: (617) babbs@partners.org babbs@wellesley.edu Education University of Iowa, Psychology, PhD 2008 University of Maryland, Psychology, BA cum laude 2003 Academic Appointments Harvard Medical School, Instructor of Psychiatry 2012 Wellesley College, Visiting Lecturer of Psychology 2012 Harvard University, Lecturer on Psychology 2012 Brigham and Women s Hospital, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Department of Medicine, Division of Women s Health Harvard Medical School, Research Fellow, Psychiatry Post-Doctoral Training Harvard Medical School, Clinical Research Training Program Fellow (CRTP), Judge Baker Children s Hospital Brigham and Women s Hospital, Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women s Health and Gender Biology, Department of Medicine Independent Teaching Experience Wellesley College Psychology 217 Cognition (1 Sem) 2012 Psychology 219 Biological Psychology (2 Sem) TBD Cognitive Seminar (1 Sem) 2013 Harvard University Psychology 1803 Vulnerability, Stress, and Mental Health (1 Sem) 2012 University of Iowa

2 Psychology 016 Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (4 Sem) Psychology 010 Research Methods in Psychology (1 Sem) 2006 Teaching Assistanships University of Iowa Psychology 002 Biological Psychology Psychology 133 Sensation and Perception Psychology 121 Laboratory in Psychology University of Maryland Psychology 341 Introduction to Memory and Cognition Other Teaching, Supervision, & Mentorship Roles Harvard Medical School 2008 Trained research assistants in the following domains: Clinical Research Protocol Administration, Institutional Review Board Administration, MRI Operation and Safety, Clinical Research Methods, MRI Theory, Statistical Analyses, Manuscript Preparation American Journal Experts 2011 Edited scientific writing for non-native English authors in preparation for peerreviewed publication University of Iowa Trained research assistants in experimental psychology methods & computational modeling Research Advisors & Mentors (*Reference Available Upon Request) Dr. Jill M. Goldstein*, Harvard Medical School (Post-Doctoral) 2008 Dr. Martha Shenton*, Harvard Medical School (CRTP PI) Dr. Prahlad Gupta*, University of Iowa (Thesis) Dr. Nancy Andreasen, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Dr. Michael Dougherty, University of Maryland Dr. Gretchen Haas, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 2002 Honors and Prizes Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry 2012 Neal Alan Mysell Research Day, Semifinalist, Neal Alan Mysell Award Schizophrenia International Research Society 2012 Young Investigator Travel Award Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry 2012 Livingston Fellowship

3 Bank of America 2011 Local Hero Award (Community Service) Harvard Medical School, Office of the Dean 2011 Dean s Community Service Award Brigham and Women s Hospital Research Institute 2011 Research Excellence Award International Congress on Schizophrenia Research 2011 Young Investigator Travel Award University of Iowa Graduate Student Council 2005 James F. Jacobsen Graduate Student Research Conference First Place, Social Sciences and Education Division Northeast Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Network 2004 Travel Award Committee Service Brigham and Women s Hospital, Post-doctoral Leadership Council University of Iowa, Psychology, Student Representative to Faculty Meetings University of Iowa, Psychology, Cognition and Perception Faculty Search Committee University of Iowa, Psychology Graduate Student s Activity Council, Chair University of Iowa, Psychology Graduate Student s Activity Council, Member University of Iowa, Computational Modeling Discussion Group Founder & Organizer Editorial Activities (Ad Hoc Reviewer) Journal of Neuroscience Human Brain Mapping Biological Psychiatry Brain Neuropsychology American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Biological Psychology Psychiatry Research European Psychiatry Cognitive Science Society Conference Proceedings European Cognitive Science Society Conference Proceedings Frontiers in Psychology for Clinical Settings

4 Professional Societies Phi Beta Kappa, Invited National Association of Collegiate Scholars, Member Cognitive Science Society, Member National Association for the Advancement of Science, Member New England Complex Systems Institute, Member Current Support Fetal Antecedents to Autonomic Nervous System Disruption in Schizophrenia Livingston Fellowship Award, Harvard Medical School, Department of Psychiatry Role: PI $5, Mental Health Centers for Intervention Development and Applied Research (CIDAR) National Institutes of Health, NIMH P50 MH (McCarley, PI) Project 2: Hormones, Memory, and Sex Effects in Illness Progression in Schizophrenia (Goldstein, Shenton: Co-PIs) Role: Research Fellow , 2012 Past Support Clinical Research Training Program National Institutes of Health, NIMH T32 MH (Shenton, PI) Role: Fellow (Goldstein, Preceptor) $99, Pending Support Fetal Antecedents to Autonomic Nervous System Disruption in Schizophrenia Brain and Behavior Foundation (NARSAD Grant) Role: PI $59,973 2 years Fetal Antecedents to Autonomic Nervous System Disruption in Schizophrenia President and Fellows of Harvard College (MeRIT Program) Role: PI (Goldstein & Keshavan, Mentors) $144,000 2 years Sex Differences in Adolescent Brain Dysmaturation and Risk for Schizophrenia National Institutes of Health, Silvio O. Conte Centers for Basic and Translational Mental Health Research (McCarley, Center PI) Role: Sr. Researcher (Goldstein, Project PI) $903,849 5 years Defining Research Domain Criteria for Negative Valence Processing in Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Schizophrenia National Institutes of Health, Dimensional Approaches to Research Classification in Psychiatric Disorders (R01) Role: Sr. Researcher (Goldstein & Smoller, Co-PIs) $1,600,000 4 years Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications 1. Gupta, P, Lipinski, J, Abbs, B, Lin, P, Aktunc, E, Ludden, D, Martin, N, Newman, R. Space aliens and nonwords: Stimuli for investigating the learning of novel word-

5 meaning pairs. Behav Res Meth Ins C 2004; 36: Gupta, P, Lipinski, J, Abbs, B. Serial position effects in nonword repetition. J Mem Lang 2005; 53: Abbs, B, Gupta, P, Khetarpal, N. Is overt repetition critical to word learning? An examination of the role of overt repetition in word learning with and without semantics. App Psycholinguist 2008; 29: Goldstein, JM, Jerram, M, Abbs, B, Whitfield-Gabrieli, S, Makris, N. Sex differences in stress response circuitry activation dependent on female hormonal cycle. J Neurosci 2010; 30: Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Tsuang, M, Seidman, LJ & Goldstein, JM. Covariance modeling of MRI Brain volumes in memory circuitry in schizophrenia: Sex differences are critical. NeuroImage. 2011; 56: Dougherty, M, Sprenger, AM, Atkins, SM, Franco-Watkins, AM, Thomas, R, Lange, N, Abbs, B. Implications of cognitive load for hypothesis generation and probability judgment. Front Psychol. 2011; 2: Lebron-Milad, K, Abbs, B, Milad, MR, Linnman, C, Rougemount-Bücking, A, Zeidan, MA, Holt, DJ, Goldstein, JM. Sex differences in the neurobiology of fear conditioning and extinction: A preliminary fmri study of shared sex differences with stress-arousal circuitry. Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders. 2012; 2:7. 8. Makris, N, Swaab, D, van der Kouwe, A, Abbs, B, Boriel, D, Handa, R, Tobet, S, Goldstein, JM. A parcellation methodology of the human hypothalamus in neuroimaging: Validation, normative data, and sex differences. Revision submitted Goldstein, JM, Abbs, B, Lancaster, K, Cherkerzian, S, Spaeth, S. Hormonal regulation of emotional arousal measured with fmri in affective and non-affective psychosis. In preparation Abbs, B, Seidman, L, Cherkerzian, S, Buka, S, Makris, N, Goldstein, JM. A prospective study of childhood auditory perception and adulthood psychosis in the National Collaborative Perinatal Project. In preparation (a) Abbs, B, Longenecker, J, Bitterman, J, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein, JM. Hormonal variation and sex differences in functional MRI of verbal memory circuitry in first-episode schizophrenia. In preparation (b) Abbs, Bb Gupta, P. What s in a nonword? Co-articulation critically affects short-term memory performance for non-words. In preparation (a) Abbs, B, Gupta, P. Auditory memory for item and position information of static and dynamic sounds. In preparation (b)

6 14. Abbs, B, Bitterman, J, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein, JM. Hormones mediating functional connectivity during verbal memory encoding in first-episode schizophrenia. In preparation (c) Abbs, B, Seidman, L, Cherkerzian, S, Buka, S, Makris, N, Goldstein, JM. Adult brainstem structure, psychosis, and verbal memory in relation to childhood auditory perception and language function. In progress Abbs, B, Seidman, L, Cherkerzian, S, Buka, S, Makris, N, Goldstein, JM. Prenatal antecedents and longitudinal factors of verbal memory deficits in psychosis: Impact of maternal immunological activity and childhood cognitive function on adult memory function and brain structure in psychosis. In progress Other Peer-Reviewed Publications 17. Abbs, B, Gupta, P. Learning melodic expectancy: Musical predictability in an SRN. In Sun, R (ed): Proceedings of the Twenty-Eigth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Malwah, NJ, 2006, Erlbaum. 18. Abbs, B, Gupta, P, Tomblin, JB, Lipinski, J. A behavioral and computational integration of phonological, short-term memory, and vocabulary acquisition processes in nonword repetition. In McNamara and Trafton (eds): Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Austin, TX, 2007, Cognitive Science Society. Invited Presentations 1. Neuropsychological and clinical differences between suicide attempting and nonattempting patients with schizophrenia / University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Department of Psychiatry. (2002). 2. Neuropsychological and clinical differences between suicide attempting and nonattempting patients with schizophrenia / University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Department of Neurology. (2004). 3. Word learning in children with specific impairment / University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Department of Neurology. (2004). 4. Is overt repetition critical to word learning? / University of Iowa, Department of Psychology. (2005). 5. Learning melodic expectancy: Musical predictability in a simple recurrent network / University of Iowa, Department of Psychology. (2006). 6. Overt repetition, word learning, and specific language impairment / MossRehab Center & University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, PA. (2008).

7 7. Sex differences in information processing: Hormonal regulation of brain structure and function and its implications for schizophrenia / Brigham and Women s Hospital, Department of Opthamology. (2010). 8. Perception and memory in schizophrenia from childhood to adulthood / Harvard Medical School, Clinical Research Training Program. (2010). 9. Preserved verbal memory in females with schizophrenia: What gives? / Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatric Imaging and Neuroscience Group. (2011). 10. Sex differences in perception across development link to adult brain differences: Data from the National Collaborative Perinatal Project / Harvard Medical School, Clinical Research Training Program. (2011). 11. The neurodevelopmental basis of major mental illness: Starting with schizophrenia / The Education Cooperative s Summer Science Institute, Dover, MA. (2011). 12. Early childhood language and perceptual deficits predict sex differences in psychosis and brain volume abnormalities in perception and memory-associated regions 40 years later. / Harvard Medical School, Clinical Research Training Program. (2012). Professional Meeting Abstracts and Poster Presentations (since 2009) 1. Goldstein, JM, Buka, SL, Cherkerzian, S, Abbs, B, Makris, N, Donatelli, J, Tsuang, MT, Seidman, LJ. Sex-specific transmission of psychosis suggests X-linkage: Implications for sex differences in memory dysfunction in schizophrenia. Schiz Bull 2009; 35-S1: Abbs, B, Gupta, P. The temporal dynamics of auditory memory for static and dynamic sounds. Mysell Harvard Research Day, Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Goldstein, JM. Covariance Modeling of MRI Brain Volumes in Memory Circuitry in Schizophrenia: Impact of Gender and Genetic Loading, The 4 th Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Gupta, P. The temporal dynamics of auditory memory for static and dynamic sounds. 50 th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Seidman, LJ, Goldstein, JM. Sex differences in memory and the implications for schizophrenia: An anatomical, functional, and hormonal perspective. Mysell Harvard Research Day, Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Seidman, LJ, Thermenos, H, Goldstein, JM, Sex differences in working memory circuitry assessed by fmri, 32 nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Goldstein JM. Covariance Modeling of MRI Brain Volumes in Memory Circuitry in Schizophrenia: Impact of Gender, BWH Connors-BRI Center for Research on Women s Health and Gender Biology Workshop

8 and Poster Session, Boston, MA, Goldstein, JM, Abbs, B, Holsen, L, Cherkerzian, S, Klibanski, A, Makris, N, Buka, S, Hornig, M. An in vivo fmri human study of fetal programming of the stress response in the brain: Implications for depression, 49 th Meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Miami, FL Seidman, L, Abbs, B, Thermenos, H, Juelich, R, Goldstein, J. Evolution of neural circuitry alterations in memory processing in schizophrenia: Impact of sex. Schiz Bull 2011; 37-S1: Goldstein, J., Abbs, B., Holsen, L., & Spaeth, S. The hormonal regulation of sex differences in activation of the stress response circuitry in schizophrenia. Schiz Bull 2011; 37-S1: Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Goldstein JM. Covariance Modeling of MRI Brain Volumes in Memory Circuitry in Schizophrenia: Impact of Gender. Schiz Bull 2011; 37-S1: Abbs, B, Bitterman, J, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein JM. Impact of sex on verbal memory deficits in schizophrenia assessed using functional MRI. Mysell Harvard Research Day, Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Tsuang, M, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Seidman, L, Goldstein, JM. Sex differences in verbal memory brain circuitry in schizophrenia: structural, functional and hormonal contributors. BWH BRI Spring 2011 Research Excellence Awards, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Liang, L, Makris, N, Tsuang, M, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein, JM. Sex differences in verbal memory brain circuitry in schizophrenia: structural, functional and hormonal contributors. BWH BRI Clinical Research Poster Session, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Bitterman, J, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein, JM. Impact of sex on verbal memory deficits in schizophrenia assessed using functional MRI. 33 rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Seidman, L, Cherkerzian, S, Buka, S, Goldstein JM. Early childhood language and perceptual deficits predict sex differences in psychosis and brain volume abnormalities in perception and memory-associated regions 40 years later. Mysell Harvard Research Day, Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Boston, MA Abbs, B, Liang, L, Bitterman, J, Makris, N, Seidman, L, Shenton, M, McCarley, RM, Goldstein, JM. Sex differences in verbal memory circuitry in schizophrenia: structural, functional and hormonal contributors. 3 rd Biennial Conference of the Schizophrenia International Research Society, Florence, Italy 2012.

Curriculum Vitae Madeline Harms, Ph.D.

Curriculum Vitae Madeline Harms, Ph.D. Child Emotion Lab Waisman Center, rm 399 1500 Highland Ave Madison, WI 53705 Phone: 785-230-7332 (cell) e-mail: mharms3@wisc.edu Education Graduate: Institute of