Current Degree in progress: MSc
Thesis Title: Decision-making capabilities of patients with the human immunodeficiency virus
Research Interests: I am primarily interested in investigating how neuropsychological functioning and physical health interact. Currently, I am examining how neuropsychological performance, specifically decision making capabilities, are altered during the course of HIV infection. I will also be investigating the role of reward value in explicit and implicit memory systems and how this pertains to decision making and gambling.
Supervisor:
Dr. Esther Fujiwara
Publications:Narang, D., Tomlinson, S., Holt, A., Mousseau, D.D., &Baker, G.B. (2011). Trace amines and their relevance to psychiatry and neurology: a brief overview. Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology, (in press).
MacKenzie, E. M., Song, M. S., Dursun, S., Tomlinson, S., Todd, K. G., & Baker, G. B. (2010). Phenelzine: An old drug that may hold clues to the development of new neuroprotective agents. Bulletin of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 20, 179-86.
Tomlinson, S., and Baker, G.B. (2010). Trace Amines. In Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology (Stolerman, I., ed.). Springer, New York, N.Y. pp. 1325-1329.
Abstracts
Tomlinson, S., Kragel, K., Stokes, J., Dolcos, F., McCarthy, G., & Cabeza, R. (2008). Role of individual differences in the response to emotional distraction: An event-related fMRI investigation. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco, CA).
Dolcos, F., Tomlinson, S., Kragel, J., Stokes, J., McCarthy, G., Cabeza, R. (2008). Role of individual differences in the response to emotional distraction: An event-related fMRI investigation. Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science - BASICS (Banff, AB).
Dolcos, F., Tomlinson, S., Kragel, J., Stokes, J., Ritchey, M., McCarthy, G., Cabeza, R. (2008). Role of individual differences in the response to emotional distraction: An event-related fMRI investigation. Mental Health Forum (Edmonton, AB).
Dolcos, S., Edgington, C., Dalmer, N., Tomlinson, S., Sung, K., & Dolcos, F. (2008). The effect of emotion regulation on the response to emotional challenge: A comparison of conscious and nonconscious emotion regulation goals. Brain Research Meeting: Stress, Coping and Disease (Arlington, VA).
Wang, R., Dolcos, S., Tomlinson, S., Wong, G., Dalmer, N., Edgington, C., et al. (2008). The role of emotion regulation strategies in coping with social anxiety. A Brain Research Meeting: Stress, Coping and Disease (Arlington, VA).
Wong, G., Sabourin, K., Sung, K., Tomlinson, S., & Dolcos, F. (2008). Dissociable patterns of brain activity in executive vs. perceptual brain regions linked to individual differences in social anxiety: An fMRI investigation. Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Summer Students’ Poster Competition (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB).