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Wendy Zhang, M.S.

Pronouns: Wendy

Doctoral Student
2022-Present

SDSU / UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology

San Diego

Areas of Research

Sensory Processing, Abnormalities in Cognitive and Emotional Processes, Psychotic and Affective Disorders, ERP components, EEG/ERP Data Processing and Analysis

Bio

Wendy is interested in how disturbances in sensory processing interact with abnormalities in cognitive and emotional processes in psychotic and affective disorders. She uses a wide range of ERP components (e.g. MMN, P300, ASSR) in her research and is highly interested in EEG/ERP data processing and analysis.

Mentors

Emily Kappenman, Ph.D., SDSU

Details

Publications
  1. Light, G. A., Zhang W., Joshi Y. B., Bhakta, S., Talledo, J. A, Swerdlow N. R. (2017). Single-Dose Memantine Improves Cortical Oscillatory Response Dynamics in Patients with Schizophrenia. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi:10.1038/npp.2017.81
  2. Young, J. Y., Bismark, A. W., Sun Y., Zhang W., Mcllwain M., Crootendorst I., Light, G. A. (2016). Neurophysiological characterization of attentional performance dysfunction in schizophrenia patients in a reverse-translated task. Neuropharmacology, 42(6):1338-1348. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.268.