Education B.A., Psychology, San Diego State University, CA Magna Cum Laude with Distinction in Psychology Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan, MI
Research Interests Mood disorders: sleep, emotion regulation, resting state abnormalities in psychopathology, the neurological bases of functional impairments, EEG/ERP, fMRI, polysomnography Professional Affiliations Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Student Member International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) Student Member Academic Awards and Grants University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society University of Michigan Diversity Recruitment Weekend Travel Award Psychology Undergraduate Honors Thesis Program Amgen Summer Research Scholar (University of California, San Francisco) University of Florida Campus Visitation Program Travel Award San Diego State University Undergraduate Research Excellence Award Ronald E. McNair Program Scholar NIMH Career Opportunities in Research Scholar (T34)
06/2012 05/2017 05/2012 04/2011 08/2011 05/2012 06/2011 08/2011 10/2011 03/2011 07/2010 05/2012 07/2010 05/2012
Research Experience Graduate Research Assistant 06/2012-Present University of Michigan Ann Arbor: Mood and Schizophrenia Laboratory Abnormal EEG Activity and Sleep Quality in Bipolar Spectrum Disorder PI: Dr. Patricia Deldin, PhD Collected data for a polysomnography study, an ERP study, and a multi-site biomarker study. Undergraduate Research Fellow 6/2011 - 8/2011 University of California, San Francisco: Speech Mechanisms Laboratory Language mapping of left hemisphere surgical resection patients PI: Dr. Edward Chang, MD Developed and streamlined a processing pipeline for neurosurgical lesion and language data using the Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping technique. Synchronized neurosurgical video recordings of a cortical stimulation task. Presented the research to the neurosurgery team at the UCSF Epilepsy Clinic.
Conference Presentations Cardinale R.C., Shih P., Keehn B., Mller R.A. (2010). Atypical lateralization of functional networks in Autism Spectrum Disorder as detected by independent component analysis. Selected for a platform presentation at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA., presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2010, Charlotte, NC., and also presented at the San Diego State University Student Research Symposium, San Diego, 2011, CA. Recipient of San Diego State University Undergraduate Research Excellence Award (March 5, 2011) Holden H.M., Hoebel C., Loftis K., Brewer M., Cardinale R. C., Szajer J., Gilbert P.E. (2010). Age-related changes in spatial pattern separation. Poster Presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA. Cardinale R.C., Babiak M., DeLeon J., Chang E.C. (2011). Voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping of left hemisphere surgical resection patients. Selected for a platform presentation at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students 2011, St. Louis, MO. Publications Cardinale R.C., Shih P., Fishman I., Ford L., Mller R.A. (In press). Pervasive rightward asymmetry shifts of functional networks in autism spectrum disorder. JAMA psychiatry. References Dr. Patricia Deldin, PhD Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Ann Arbor Director, Mood and Schizophrenia Laboratory 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Office: (734) 647-9863 Email: pjdeldin@umich.edu