Taylor R. Schmitt

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Neuropsychology Resident at Michigan Medicine

Introduction Verbal fluency (VF) decline is a well-documented cognitive effect of Deep Brain Stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS) in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). This decline may be associated with disruption to left-sided frontostriatal circuitry involving the anteroventral non-motor area of the STN. While recent studies hav...

Objective: Verbal fluency (VF) decline is a well-recognized adverse cognitive outcome following subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN DBS) in patients with Parkinson disease (PD). The mechanisms underlying VF decline, whether from stimulation, lesioning, or both, remain unclear. This study aims to investigate the unique effects of DBS le...

Due to the sexual nature of their work, strip club dancers have long been subject to marginalization and occupational stigma. During the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, dancers faced unique stressors due to their status as contract workers within the stigmatized commercial sex/adult entertainment industry, and these stressors have likely i...

Objective: High quality and accessible education is crucial in order to secure the future of neuropsychology. Recent and ongoing advancements include the creation of a taxonomy of education and training, progress in delineating relevant competencies, and an update to the Houston Conference Guidelines. Meanwhile, there is also potential for growth i...

Introduction The Social Provisions Scale (SPS) measures a person’s perceived social support. We evaluated the perceived social support in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients before and after subthalamic nucleus (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) and its impact on clinical outcomes following DBS. Methods We analyzed 55 PD patients who underwent STN D...

Objective: The literature has consistently shown that Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients tend to experience increases in apathy following deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS). While surgical variables, i.e., active contact location and lead angle, have previously been found to predict post-DBS cognitive changes, it has yet to...

The impact of infectious disease outbreaks on mental health among health care workers is well-established. Minimal research has focused on health care trainees’ well-being, especially during unprecedented events such as the 2019 coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Trainees are vulnerable to inherent power and resource differentials, which may exacerba...

Objective: Determine feasibility of a procedure to identify relationships between preexisting traits and immediate mindfulness meditation (MM) responses in novice college students. Participants: Twenty-four novice college students participated between September 2016 and April 2017. Methods: We measured trait mindfulness, attention and executive fun...

Emotional information rapidly captures our attention and also often invokes automatic response tendencies, whereby positive information motivates approach, while negative information encourages avoidance. However, many circumstances require the need to override or inhibit these automatic responses. Control over responses to emotional information re...

While widely used in epidemiological research, studies of the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) have supported profoundly mixed results regarding its latent factor structure and optimal cutoff scores to identify clinically significant psychological distress. The present study sought to investigate the K10 and identify cutoff scores denotin...

Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is an affordable neuroimaging technique that measures cerebral perfusion and has been utilized repeatedly in aging populations. However, we are aware of no studies to date examining relationships between SPECT imaging and comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations in a clinical sample of patients...

Poor inhibitory control over negative emotional information has been identified as a possible contributor to affective disorders, but the distinct effects of emotional contrast and fearful versus angry faces on response inhibition remain unknown. In the present study, young adults completed an emotional go/no-go task involving happy, neutral, and e...

Objective: Predicting neurocognitive and functional outcomes in stroke is an important clinical task, especially in rehabilitation settings. We assessed acute predictors of cognitive and functional outcomes 6 months after mild to moderate stroke. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of acute clinical data and 6-month follow-up telephon...

Objective: Predicting neurocognitive and functional outcomes in stroke is an important clinical task, especially in rehabilitation settings. We assessed acute predictors of cognitive and functional outcomes six months after mild to moderate stroke. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of acute clinical data and six-month follow-up telep...

The present study examined clinical characteristics of patients referred to an academic medical center for a neuropsychological evaluation for diagnostic clarification of ADHD, in addition to the association between self-reported ADHD symptoms with self-reported mood and sleep disturbance, and objective performance on a measure of sustained attenti...