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Leah H. Rubin, Ph.D., M.A.
Research Assistant Professor


Email: lrubin@psych.uic.edu
Phone: (312) 355-5652

US Mail:
Neuropsychiatric Institute
912 S. Wood St. Ste. 235
Chicago, IL 60612-7327 USA

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Leah Rubin earned a masters in clinical psychology from Loyola College in Maryland and then earned a second masters and a PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has been supported by NIH during her academic career, and currently is part of multiple studies investigating hormonal factors that influence cognition in a number of populations including schizophrenia and HIV. Dr. Rubin's primary focus has been the effects of sex hormones, including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and oxytocin on cognition in schizophrenia. In addition, she has served as a study biostatistician on a number of projects in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at UIC.

Interests:

Sex differences in schizophrenia, effects of endogenous hormones on cognition in schizophrenia.

Publications:

Maki, P.M., Rubin, L.H. , Fornelli, D., Drogos, L, Banuvar, S., Shulman, L.P., & Geller, S.E. Effects of botanicals and combined hormone therapy on cognition in midlife women. Menopause, in press.

Maki, P.M., Cohen, M.H., Weber, K., Little, D.M., Fornelli, D., Rubin, L.H. , Perschler, P., Gould, F., & Martin, E. Impairments in Memory and Hippocampal Function in HIV+ Versus HIV- Women: A Preliminary Study, Neurology, 72(19):1661-8.

Ramati, A., Rubin, L.H. , Wicklund, A., Pliskin , N.H. , Ammar, A.N., Fink, J.W., Bodnar, E.N., Lee, R.C., Cooper, M., & Kelley, K.M. Prevalence and predictors of psychiatric morbidity following electrical injury, General Hospital Psychiatry, in press .

D'Cruz, A., Mosconi, M., Steele, S., Rubin, L.H., Luna, B., Minshew, N., & Sweeney, J.A. (2009). Lateralized response timing deficits in autism. Biological Psychiatry .

Rubin, L.H., Haas, G., Keshavan, M., Sweeney, J.A., & Maki, P.M. (2008). Sex differences in cognitive response to antipsychotic treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology, 33(2):290-297.

Maki, P.M., Drogos, L.L., Rubin, L.H. , Banuvar, S., Shulman, L.P., & Geller, S.E. (2008). Objective hot flashes are negatively related to verbal memory performance in midlife women. Menopause, 15(5) , 848-856.

Mordecai, K.L., Rubin, L.H. , & Maki, P.M. (2008). Effects of menstrual cycle phase and oral contraceptive use on verbal memory. Hormones and Behavior , 54 (2), 286-293.

Caldwell , T.L., Cervone, D., & Rubin, L.H. (2008). Explaining intra-individual variability in social behavior through idiographic assessment: the case of Humor, Journal of Research in Personality , 42 , 1229–1242.

Rubin, L.H., Witkiewitz, K., St. Andre, J., & Reilly, S. (2007). Methods for handling missing data in the behavioral neurosciences: Don't throw the baby rat out with the bath water. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 5(2), A71-A77.