Personnel
Suzanne Vrshek-Schallhorn
Suzanne is a 5th year clinical psychology graduate student currently completing clinical internship at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. Her research is aimed at understanding how neurochemical systems (serotonin and dopamine) influence behavior and confer risk for, or resilience to, psychopathology. Her clinical interests include the practice of empirically supported treatments for anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
Suzanne, with her husband Matt, on their 3rd wedding anniversary.
Publications and Posters
Vrshek, S., Luciana, M., Wahlstrom, D., and Johnson, K. (2004) Tyrosine depletion and affective functioning in healthy adults. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL.
Wonderlich S., Crosby R., Joiner T., Peterson C., Bardone-Cone A., Klein M., Crow S., Mitchell J.E., leGrange D., Steiger H., Kolden G., Johnson F., Vrshek S. (2005). Personality Subtyping and Bulimia Nervosa: Psychopathological and Genetic Correlates. Psychological Medicine 35 ;649-657.
Perez, M., Brown, J. S., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Johnson, F., Joiner Jr., T. E. (2005). Differentiation of Obsessive-Compulsive-, Panic-, Obsessive-Compulsive Personality-, and Non-Disordered Individuals by Variation in the Promoter Region of the Serotonin Transporter Gene. Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Luciana, M., and Crow, S. (2006) Attention biases to body shape words and affective words following tryptophan depletion and loading in healthy females. Accepted for presentation at the annual meeting of the Academy for Eating Disorders, Barcelona, Spain.
Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Luciana, M., Dickmann, P., Saari, M., and Crow, S. (2005) Body image distortion following tryptophan depletion and augmentation in healthy females. Presented at the annual meeting of the Eating Disorder Research Society, Toronto, Canada.
Luciana, M., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Wahlstrom, D., and White, T. (2005) Acute tyrosine depletion and dopamine-modulated cognitive functions in healthy volunteers. Presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York, NY.
Wahlstrom, D., White, T., Hooper, C.J., Vrshek-Schallhorn, S., Oetting, W.S., Brott, M.J., Luciana, M. (2007). Variations in the Catechol O-methyltransferase polymorphism and prefrontally-guided behaviors in adolescents. Biological Psychiatry, 61(5): 626-632.