Marta Statucka

Marta Statucka
Toronto Western Hospital | TWH · Neuropsychology

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
As a researcher, Marta has a longstanding interest in the social aspects of cognition, functioning, and well-being in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and is currently expanding this line of research to patients with Parkinson’s disease.
Additional affiliations
September 2015 - present
Toronto Western Hospital
Position
  • Medical Professional
September 2014 - August 2015
Toronto Western Hospital
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Education
September 2007 - September 2014
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Field of study
  • Clinical Psychology with emphasis in Neuropsychology
September 2002 - May 2006
York University
Field of study
  • Psychology

Publications

Publications (15)
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Background Visual hallucinations (VH) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) often co-occur in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Each symptom in isolation is associated with cholinergic basal forebrain (BF) atrophy. However, it is unclear whether BF integrity relates to one symptom preferentially or to their co-occurrence, and whether this relationship is spe...
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Objective Among individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), visual hallucinations (VH) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are highly prevalent and often co-occur. Atrophy in similar brain regions [e.g. cholinergic basal forebrain (BF) nuclei] as well as specific cognitive difficulties (e.g. posterior-cortical abilities such as semantic fluency and...
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Objective Subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and how much cognitive decline impacts one’s ability to perform instrumental activities of daily living (iADLs) are necessary elements of neuropsychological assessment when diagnosing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and dementia. Though limited, the literature suggests that culture and self-appraisal of...
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Background Postoperative outcome following deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the subthalamic nucleus is variable, particularly with respect to axial motor improvement. We hypothesized a genetic underpinning to the response to surgical intervention, termed “surgicogenomics”. Objective We aimed to identify genetic variants associated with clinical het...
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Background: The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and the Dementia Rating Scale-2 (DRS-2) are recommended screeners for Parkinson's disease mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI). Cross-cultural studies examining their diagnostic precision have not addressed cultural bias in a multicultural setting. Objectives: To compare DRS-2 and MoCA performan...
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Objective: Reward-based decision-making is a growing area of research in Parkinson's disease (PD), a disorder characterized by alterations in dopamine and cortico-striatal circuits. While reward is typically operationalized as a gain, altruistic decisions also engage the reward system in fMRI studies. Although altruism comes at a cost, individuals...
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Cognitive decline is common in Parkinson’s disease (PD), and precise cognitive assessment is important for diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. To date, there are no studies in PD investigating cultural bias on neuropsychological tests. Clinical practice in multicultural societies such as, Toronto Canada where nearly half of the population is compr...
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Objectives: Deficits in semantic verbal fluency (SVF) can stem from dysfunction of an executive control system and/or of semantic knowledge. Previous analyses of SVF responses were devised to characterize these two components including switching and mean cluster size (MCS) indices, but these rely on subjective experimenter-based assessment of the...
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Facial affect recognition (FAR) accuracy is impaired in schizophrenia and, to a lesser extent, in individuals at-risk for psychosis. Reduced reaction time and negative bias on FAR tasks are also evident in schizophrenia, though few studies have examined these measures in at-risk samples. Social dysfunction is associated with FAR deficits in schizop...
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The term “psychotic disorders” refers to a broad conceptualization of conditions including primary psychoses, such as schizophrenia and psychotic mood disorders, other disorders that are sometimes marked by psychotic features (e.g., borderline personality disorder, body dysmorphic disorder), and secondary psychotic disorders due to medical conditio...
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Schizophrenia patients suffer from significant social functioning deficits. Social cognition, particularly facial affect recognition (FAR), is an important predictor of functional outcome. Recently, investigators developed numerous social cognition remediation programs targeting FAR deficits with the goal of improving social functioning and quality...
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Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder largely believed to have neurodevelopmental origins with complex polygenic influences (including gene-environment interactions) that modify illness expression, as captured by the diathesis-stress model. It is now well known that the scope of these influences that render individuals vulnerable is broad and not...
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Prior research examined the complex, bidirectional interplay of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axes and their roles in (clinical) cognitive/behavioral functions. Less well understood are contemporaneous relationships in non-clinical samples. This pilot study explored cortisol in relation to psychiatric s...
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This study evaluated the University of California Performance-based Skills Assessment (UPSA) in a Canadian outpatient schizophrenia setting. The UPSA was administered to 64 patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder and to 42 nonpsychiatric controls. Patient and control samples did not differ in age, gender composition, first language...

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