| | Staff Scientists and Clinicians
| Joseph Snow, Ph.D. |
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Dr.
Snow is a staff scientist (clinical) neuropsychologist
in the
Mood and Anxiety Disorders
Program of the Intramural Research Program,
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes
of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He attended college and
graduate school at the University of Maryland Baltimore
County (UMBC), where he received a B.A. in Psychology
and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Human Services Psychology (Clinical).
He completed a 1-year predoctoral clinical neuropsychology
internship at the VA New Jersey Healthcare System (East
Orange) and a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical
neuropsychology at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Snow's primary responsibility is designing, implementing, and interpreting neuropsychological test batteries. His work also involves training staff to administer and score tests and designing novel experimental measures. Dr. Snow has an additional appointment in the Section of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition where he is developing neuropsychological test batteries for patients with focal brain lesions. |
| Research Interests |
| Dr. Snow's primary interest is to increase our understanding of the cognitive deficits that often afflict individuals with mood and anxiety disorders. The goal of this research is to use test performance to delineate the neural systems involved in these disorders. As such Dr. Snow is involved in studies to describe the neuropsychological performance of individuals across a spectrum of mood and anxiety disorders and of individuals with known brain pathology, as well as to characterize the changes in performance due to drug therapy and drug challenges. Prior to his work at NIMH, he used similar methods to study mild cognitive impairment and dementia in the elderly. |
| Representative Selected Recent Publications: |
- Waldstein, S.R., Tankard, C.F., Maier, K.J., Pelletier, J.R., Snow, J., Gardner, A.W., Macko, R., & Katzel, L.I. (submitted). Peripheral Arterial Disease and Cognitive Function.
- Waldstein, S.R., Snow, J., Muldoon, M.F., & Katzel, L.I.: : Neuropsychological consequences of cardiovascular disease. In R.E. Tarter, M. Butters, & S.R. Beers (Eds). Medical Neuropsychology (2nd ed) (pp. 51-83). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2001.
- Morgan, J.E., Snow, J., Lengenfelder, J., Caccappolo, E., & D’Andrea, E. The Importance of Delayed Recall for Dementia Screening. Presented at the 28th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 6, 172, 2000.
- Waldstein, S.R., Snow, J., Tankard, C.F., Tomoyasu, N., Gardner, A.W., & Katzel, L.I.: Peripheral arterial disease and neuropsychological performance in older adults. Presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. Psychosomatic Medicine, 1999.
- Waldstein, S.R., Snow, J., & Muldoon, M.F. : Applications of neuropsychological assessment to the study of cardiovascular disease. In D.S. Krantz & A. Baum (Eds.), Perspectives in behavioral medicine: Technology and methods in behavioral medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.
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