Allen

Faculty

Daniel N. Allen, Ph.D.

Professor

Programs:

Clinical, Experimental

Lab:

Neuropsychology Research Program

Email:

daniel.allen@unlv.edu

Phone:

(702) 895-0121

Accepting Graduate Students 2010-2011: Clinical-YES; Experimental-NO

Research Interests

Daniel Allen uses clinical and cognitive neuropsychological approaches to study people with psychiatric and neurological disorders. His aim is to understand better how the brain supports complex cognitive activities such as memory, attention, and problem solving. His recent work has focused on understanding the considerable heterogeneity in neurocognitive function exhibited by those with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by examining such factors as comorbid substance use disorders, endophenotype expression, negative symptoms, trauma and premorbid adjustment. He has also examined abnormalities in social cognition and emotion processing as core features of these disorders, and has developed a number of new methods to examine cognitive components of the emotion processing system.

Dr. Allen is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 40), National Academy of Neuropsychology, and Western Psychological Association. He is the director of the Neuropsychology Research Program at UNLV. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of South Dakota in 1993.

Selected Publications

Allen, D. N., Randall, C., Bello, D. T., Armstrong, C., Frantom, L. V., Cross, C., & Kinney J. (in press). Are working memory deficits in bipolar disorder markers for psychosis? Neuropsychology.

Allen, D. N., & Barchard, K. A. (in press). Identification of a social cognition construct for the WAIS-III. Applied Neuropsychology.

Allen, D. N., Thaler, N. S., Donohue, B., & Mayfield, J. (in press). WISC-IV profiles in children with traumatic brain injury: Similarities and differences to the WISC-III. Psychological Assessment.

Allen, D. N., Goldstein, G., Donohue, B., & Caponigro, J. M. (in press). Long-term effects of alcoholism comorbidity on neurocognitive function following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Applied Neuropsychology.

Allen, D. N., Haderlie, M., Kazakov, D., & Mayfield, J. (in press). Construct validity of the Comprehensive Trail Making Test in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury. Child Neuropsychology.

Strauss, G. P., Allen, D. N., Duke, L. A., Ross, S. A., & Schwartz, J. (2009). Olfactory hedonic judgment in patients with deficit syndrome schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin.

Frantom, L. V., Allen, D. N., & Cross, C. (2008). Neurocognitive endophenotypes for bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorders, 10, 387-399.

Allen, D. N., Strauss, G. P., Kemtes, K., & Goldstein, G. (2007). Hemispheric contributions to nonverbal abstract reasoning and problem solving. Neuropsychology, 21, 713-720.