Sohee Park, PH.D.   

Professor of Psychology (Clinical and Neuroscience)

 

Contact information

 

Office: Wilson 505.  (615 322 2532)         Lab: Wilson 213.  (615 322 3235)

Email: sohee.park@vanderbilt.edu

 

Education

 

BA (Honours) University of Cambridge UK. Natural Sciences Tripos. 

MA Columbia University Psychology. (Cognitive/Developmental)

PhD Harvard University. Psychology (Cognitive/Experimental Psychopathology)

Post Doctoral Fellow. Harvard University (Schizophrenia Research)

 

Appointments

 

Research Scientist, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry

Universitätsspital Zürich, Switzerland, 1993 – 1995

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience,

Northwestern University, 1995 – 2000

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Center for Integrative and

Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, 2000–2005

Professor, Department of Psychology and the Center for Integrative and Cognitive

Neuroscience, Vanderbilt University, 2006 –present

Visiting Fellow, Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea,

Sep 2005 Jan 2006

Visiting Scientist, the Prince of Wales International Center for Schizophrenia Research,

Department of Psychiatry and Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College,

University of Oxford, UK, Feb-July 2006

 

Research interests (please go to the Research page)

 

Cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia with a focus on working memory and attention

Social consequences of neurocognitive deficits

Endophenotypic markers for schizophrenia

Laterality

Sex differences in brain functions and behavior

Origins of psychosis and language

Schizotypal personality

Cognitive neuroscience of creativity in relation to psychosis

 

Teaching

 

I have taught graduate and undergraduate courses on schizophrenia, cognitive neuropsychiatry, biological basis of mental illness, culture & mental illness, neuroscience and abnormal psychology

 

Editorial board

 

Psychological Science 2003-2006

Psychiatry Investigation 2004-2009

 

Miscellaneous links to somewhere

 

Reasons to be glad homo sapiens have language:

Granta Magazine   www.granta.com

Pablo Neruda   http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/279

Leo Tolstoy  http://www.ltolstoy.com/index.html

Charles Darwin’s writings  http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/

 

More reasons to be glad we have imagination:

Collection de L’Art Brut, Lausanne.  http://www.artbrut.ch/

Janwillem van de Wetering  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janwillem_van_de_Wetering

Judge Dee/Robert Van Gulik   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Van_Gulik

Professor Von Igelfeld novels. (academics at their finest.)

http://www.randomhouse.com/anchor/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400077083&view=excerpt

Asterix Le Gaulois   http://www.asterix.tm.fr/    http://www.chez.com/axterixlegaulois/index.htm

The story of the weeping camel http://www.thinkfilmcompany.com/weepingcamel/

Eric Rohmer  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/03/rohmer.html

Margarethe von Trotta http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/von_trotta.html

Wong Kar-wai  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/wong.html

 

Places in the World:

Wengen   http://www.wengen-muerren.ch/

Collection de L’Art Brut, Lausanne.  http://www.artbrut.ch/

Freud Museum  http://www.freud.org.uk/

Kettles Yard, Cambridge   http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/

Fondation Maeght  http://www.fondation-maeght.com/

Sanchon vegetarian restaurant   http://www.sanchon.com/

Dolmen sites in Korea  http://www.ocp.go.kr/english/treasure/dom_goin.html

 

For Now and Tomorrow:

Amnesty International  www.amnesty.org

Médecins Sans Frontières   http://www.msf.org/

End Hunger! Heifer International   http://www.heifer.org/

Sponsor a child today. Children International  http://www.children.org/

National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.  www.narsad.org

Schizophrenia Research Forum   http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/

 

Great programs:

Praat (free sound analysis software)   http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

 

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