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Student research on serious mental illness gets funding boost The American Psychological Foundation has awarded research grants to three graduate students who are doing promising work in the area of serious mental illness. They are: • Anna Docherty, a fifth-year clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Missouri, Columbia, who is using her $2,000 APF F.J. Mcguigan Dissertation Award to study the ways in which Docherty emotional traits such as anhedonia — the inability to experience pleasure — may reveal a genetic vulnerability to schizophrenia. Docherty hopes her research will help develop more effective ways of managing schizophrenia symptoms. • Matthew Cohen, a doctoral student in the department of clinical and health psychology at the University of Florida, who will use his $2,500 APF BentonMeier Scholarship to test Parkinson’s disease patients’ ability to move Cohen in response to environmental cues. His research has the potential to create new treatments for Parkinson’s patients. • ivy Tso, a fifth-year clinical psychology doctoral student at the University of Michigan, who will use her $2,500 APF Benton-Meier Scholarship to explore eye-gaze tso processing with people who have schizophrenia. Tso hopes to determine whether people with schizophrenia have abnormal gaze perception, and whether that irregularity could be related to their socio-emotional functioning. APF’s F.J. McGuigan Dissertation Award supports dissertation research on any aspect of mental functioning, including cognition, affect and motivation. The Benton-Meier Scholarships support graduate student research on neuropsychology. The 2012 deadline for each is June 1. For more information, visit www.apa.org/apf/ funding. Many psychologists who are 70½ or older must take their minimum distribution from their IrAs. If you do not need your required distribution this year and want to avoid the taxes on it, you may donate it to APF or the charitable organization of your choice. For more information, contact Kimberly Palmer rowsome at krowsome@apa.org or (202) 336-5622. Important APF application deadlines December 2011 • Gold Medals for Life Achievement: Dec. 1 • Charles L. Brewer Distinguished Teaching of Psychology Award: Dec. 1 • Wundt-James Transatlantic Psychology Award: Dec. 31 • Pearson Early Career Grant: Dec. 31 January 2012 • Div. 29 Award: Jan. 1 february 2012 • Randy Gerson Memorial Grant: Feb. 1 • Henry David Research and Travel Grants: Feb. 15 March 2012 • Esther Katz Rosen Fellowship: March 1 • Wayne F. Placek Grants: March 1 • Timothy Jeffrey Award: March 15 • Visionary and Weiss Grants: March 15 For more information about APF’s funding programs, visit www.apa.org/ apf or contact Parie Kadir at pkadir@apa.org or (202) 336-5984. DeceMber 2011 • Monitor on psychology 87 http://www.apa.org/apf/funding http://www.apa.org/apf/funding http://www.apa.org/apf http://www.apa.org/apf

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Monitor on Psychology - December 2011

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Willpower Pioneer Wins $100,000 Grawemeyer Prize
Single-Sex Schooling Called Into Question by Prominent Researchers
Maternal Depression Stunts Childhood Growth, Research Suggests
For Boys, Sharing May Seem Like a Waste of Time
Good News for Postdoc Applicants
In Brief
Treatment Guideline Development Now Under Way
Government Relations Update
Psychologist Named Va Mental Health Chief
The Limits of Eyewitness Testimony
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
Time Capsule
Deconstructing Suicide
Questionnaire
A Focus on Interdisciplinarity
A Time of ‘Enormous Change’
The Science Behind Team Science
Good Science Requires Good Conflict
A New Paradigm of Care
Speaking of Education
Science Directions
New Labels, New Attitudes?
Psychologist Profile
Early Career Psychology
Unintended Consequences
Better Options for Troubled Teens
Saving Lives, One Organ at a Time
New Journal Editors
APA News
Division Spotlight
Guidelines for the Conduct of President-Elect Nominations and Elections
American Psychological Foundation
Personalities

Monitor on Psychology - December 2011