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John A. Sweeney, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Psychology
Director, Center for Cognitive Medicine
Email : jsweeney@psych.uic.edu
Phone : (312)355-1582
Fax : (312) 413-8837
US Mail :
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Psychiatry
Center for Cognitive Medicine (MC913)
912 S. Wood St. Ste. 235
Chicago IL 60612-7327 USA
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Dr. Sweeney's research program pursues investigations in
the broad areas of basic and clinical cognitive neuroscience.
His basic
psychological research investigates brain systems that process different
kinds of visual information in order to make decisions about how, where
and when to make eye movements. This work is central to addressing the
question of how perception, behavioral plans and current environmental
context are integrated and translated into action.
His clinical studies,
closely integrated to this basic work, investigate disturbances of these
processes and other psychological domains such as episodic and working
memory, problem solving, and form perception in a range of psychiatric and
neurologic disorders including schizophrenia, mood disorders and autism.
His work involves eye movement, neuropsychological and neurocognitive
laboratory research as well as functional brain imaging studies.
His
studies have been funded by NIMH, NICHD, NIDA, NINDS, NAAR, and NARSAD.
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