ROBERT J. THOMA, Ph.D.

Department of
Psychiatry


ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR ADULT NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (CNS)
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, MENTAL ILLNESS NEUROSCIENCE DISCOVERY (MIND) INSTITUTE

Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 1999.
APA Clinical Internship: Southwest Consortium Predoctoral Psychology Internship, Albuquerque, NM, 1998-1999.
 Postdoctoral Fellow: Neuropsychology and Neuroimaging, Center for Advanced Medical Technologies, Dept of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999-2000.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM., 2000-2002.

E-mail: rjthoma@salud.unm.edu 
 

Areas of Specialization: Neuropsychological assessment of adult patients, neuroimaging brain-behavior research (structural MRI, MEG), neural substrates of intelligence.

Selected Publications

1.      Moses, S.N., Houck, J.M., Martin, T., Hanlon, F.M., Ryan, J.D., Thoma, R.J., Weisend, M.P., Jackson, E.M., Pekkonen, E., Tesche, C.D. (2007). Dynamic neural activity recorded from human amygdala during fear conditioning using magnetoencephalography. Brain Research Bulletin, 71(5), 452-60.

2.      Canive, J.M., Miller, G.A., Irwin, J.G., Moses, S.N., Thoma, R.J., Edgar, J.C., Sherwood, A., Torres, F., Lanoue, M., Lewis, S., Hanlon, F.M., Weisend, M.P., Mead, V., Tuason, V.B. (2007). Efficacy of olanzapine and risperidone in schizophrenia: a randomized double-blind crossover design. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 39(1),105-16.

3.      Lewine JD, Davis JT, Bigler E, Hartshorne M, Thoma RJ, Funke M, Sloan JH & Orrison WW. (2007). Multimodal brain imaging in mild and moderate head trauma: integration of MEG, SPECT and MRI. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(3), 141-155.

4.      Thoma, R.J., Hanlon, F.M., Huang, M., Moses, S.N., Weisend, M.P., Paulson, K.M., Irwin, J., Edgar, J.C., Miller, G.A. & Caņive, J.M. (2007). Impaired Secondary Somatosensory Gating in Patients with Schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, 151, 189-199.

5.      Yeo, R. A., Gangestad, S. G., & Thoma, R. J. (2007). Developmental instability and individual variation in brain development: Implications for the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 245-249.

6.      Thoma, R.J., Hanlon, F.M., Petropoulos, H., Miller, G.A., Moses, S.N., Smith, A., Parks, L., Lundy, S.L., Sanchez, N.M., Jones, A., Huang, M., Weisend, M.P., and Canive, J.M. (2008). Schizophrenia diagnosis and anterior hippocampal volume make separate contributions to sensory gating. Psychophysiology, 45(6), 926-35.

7.      Edgar, J.C., Hanlon, F.M., Huang, M., Weisend, M.P., Thoma, R.J., Carpenter, B., Hoechstetter, K., Canive, J.M., Miller, G.A. (2008). Superior Temporal Gyrus Spectral Abnormalities in Schizophrenia. Psychophysiology, 45(5), 812-24.

8.      Thoma, R.J., Gangestad, S.W., Yeo, R.A., Euler, M.J. & Lysne, P.A. (2008). Developmental Instability and Markers of Schizotypy in University Students. Evolutionary Psychology, 6(4), 586-594.

9.      Euler, M.J., Thoma, R.J., Parks, L.K., Gangestad, S.W., Yeo, R.A. (2008). Fluctuating asymmetry and individual variation in regional gray matter volumes: A Voxel Based Morphometry study. Evolutionary Psychology, 6(4), 613-627.

10.  Parks, L.K., Hill, D.E., Thoma, R.J., Euler, M.J., Lewine, J.D., and Yeo, R.A. (2009). Neural Correlates of Communication Skill and Symptom Severity in Autism: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 3(2), 444-454.  

11.  Mayer, A.R., Hanlon, F.M., Franco, A.R., Teshiba, T.M., Thoma, R.J., Clark, V.P. & Canive, J.M. (2009). The neural networks underlying auditory sensory gating. NeuroImage, 44(1), 182-9.

12.  Thoma, R.J., Monnig, M., Hanlon, F.M., Miller, G.A., Petropoulos, H., Mayer, A.R., Yeo, R.A., Euler, M., Lysne, P., Moses, S.N. & Caņive, J.M. (2009). Hippocampus Volume and Memory in Schizophrenia. Journal of The International Neuropsychological Society, 15, 1-14.

 


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