Dustin Wahlstrom
Dustin Wahlstrom is a third-year clinical student from Stillwater, MN. He obtained his BA from Hamline University in St. Paul, majoring in psychology with minors in biology and philosophy. His research interests include the influence of genetic polymorphisms on cognitive development and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the development of decision-making skills in adolescence.
Posters and Publications
Wahlstrom, D. (2003, May). Assessing the mechanisms underlying performance on the Iowa Gambling Task in early adolescence. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Vrshek, S., Luciana, M., Wahlstrom, D., & Johnson, K. (2004, May). Tyrosine depletion and affective functioning in healthy adults. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society Conference, Chicago, IL.
Wahlstrom, D., Luciana, M., Cox, K. M., & Gilles, E. E. (2004, October). Autonomic mechanisms underlying the development of Iowa Gambling Task performance in adolescents. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience Conference, San Diego, CA.
Hooper, C. J., Luciana, M., Conklin, H. M., Wahlstrom, D., & Yarger, R. S. (2005, April). Personality correlates of performance on neuropsychological tasks associated with dorsolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Wahlstrom, D., Luciana, M., Cox, K., & Gilles, E. E. (2005, April). Autonomic correlates of Iowa Gambling Task performance in healthy adolescents . Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Wahlstrom, D., Collins, P. F., Luciana, M., & Gilles, E. E. (2005, September). Development of decision-making in adolescence: Electrodermal predictors of Iowa Gambling Task performance . Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Lisbon, Portugal.
Wahlstrom, D., White, T., Hooper, C. J., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Oetting, W. S., Brott, M. J., & Luciana, M. Association of the Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) gene to prefrontally-mediated cognitions in adolescents. In press.