Amy L. Conrad PhD

Amy Conrad am trained as a psychologist and my research expertise is in pediatric neuropsychology. Amy Conrad training was in outpatient units conducting behavioral, emotional, and learning evaluations of children with various medical conditions. Amy Conrad worked 100% in research for the past 8 years; managing the administration and conduct of several large grants for Dr. Peg Nopoulos (Psychiatry).

Amy Conrad work with Dr. Nopoulos led me to conducting my own research on the neuropsychological development of children with non-syndromic cleft lip and/or palate. Amy Conrad use a combination of academic achievement and cognitive assessment tools and neuroimaging to evaluate learning disabilities (specifically language and reading) and their correlation to measures of brain function and structure. From shared and independent work, Amy Conrad published several first-author manuscripts evaluating neuropsychological correlates in children with various developmental/congenital diagnoses. Amy Conrad presented this data at national and international conferences. In 2012 I was awarded an internal grant (Biological Sciences Funding Program, $25K) to conduct a pilot study on neurocircuitry involved in reading among boys with non-syndromic cleft palate.