Christopher I. Higginson, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Office: Beatty Hall, Room 221B
Telephone: 410-617-2461
Email: CIHigginson@loyola.edu

Curriculum Vitae, 2007

Education:

• B.S. (Psychology, Summa Cum Laude)
  Washington State University
• M.S. (Clinical Psychology)
  Washington State University
• Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology)
  Washington State University
• Predoctoral Internship,
  Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Neurology,
  University of Kansas Medical Center
• Licensed Psychologist in Maryland, Delaware & Pennsylvania

Scholarly Interests:

My area of specialization within clinical psychology is adult
neuropsychology. My specific research interests are: 1) the
degree to which cognitive measures are predictive of daily
function (i.e. ecological validity); and 2) degenerative diseases
in general, and the cognitive deficits associated with Parkinson's
disease and its surgical treatment.

Representative Publications:

Higginson, C. I., Wheelock, V. L., Levine, D., King, D. S., Pappas, 
     C. T. E., & Sigvardt, K. A. (in press). The clinical significance 
     of neuropsychological changes following bilateral subthalamic 
     nucleus deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease. 
     Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

Higginson, C. I., Wheelock, V. L., Levine, D., King D. S., 
     Pappas, C. T. E., & Sigvardt, K. A. (in press). Cognitive deficits 
     in essential tremor consistent with frontosubcortical dysfunction. 
     Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology.

Higginson, C. I., Wheelock, V. L., Carroll, K. E., Pappas, C. T. E., & 
     Sigvardt, K. A. (2005). Recognition memory in Parkinson’s disease 
     with and without dementia: Evidence inconsistent with the 
     retrieval deficit hypothesis. Journal of Clinical and Experimental 
     Neuropsychology, 27, 516-528.

Higginson, C. I., King, D. S., Levine, D., Wheelock, V. L., Khamphay, N.,
     & Sigvardt, K. A. (2003). The relationship between executive 
     function and verbal memory in Parkinson’s disease. Brain and 
     Cognition, 52, 343-352.

Arnett, P. A., Higginson, C. I., Voss, W. D., Randolph, J. J., & 
     Grandey, A. A. (2002). Relationship between coping, cognitive 
     dysfunction and depression in multiple sclerosis. The Clinical 
     Neuropsychologist, 16, 341-355.

Higginson, C .I., Fields, J. A., Koller, W. C., & Tröster, A. I. (2001). 
     Questionnaire assessment potentially overestimates anxiety in 
     Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical 
     Settings, 8(2), 95-99.

Higginson, C. I., Fields, J. A., & Tröster, A. I. (2001). Which 
     symptoms of anxiety diminish after surgical intervention for 
     Parkinson’s disease? Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and 
     Behavioral Neurology, 14(2), 117-121.

Higginson, C. I., Arnett, P. A., & Voss, W. D. (2000). The ecological 
     validity of clinical tests of memory and attention in multiple 
     sclerosis. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology,15(3), 185-204.

Arnett, P. A., Higginson, C. I., Voss, W. D., Wright, B., Bender, W. I., 
     Wurst, J. M., & Tippin, J. M. (1999). Depressed mood in multiple 
     sclerosis: Relationship to capacity-demanding memory and 
     attentional functioning. Neuropsychology, 13(3), 434-446.

Course offerings:
                                    
PY101: Introductory Psychology                             
PY332: Introduction to Neuroscience    
PY333: Sensation and Perception
PY814: Biopsychology
PY925: Clinical Assessment