Meet our staff
Bonnie Sachs
Assistant Professor
LocaAssistant Professor
Location
Clinical Office - (804) 662-9185
Billy Reynolds Jr. Building, First Floor
6605 W. Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23230
Academic Office
Old City Hall, Suite 222
1001 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0539
“As a psychologist, I like working with patients clinically and also enjoy translating my clinical experiences into research questions to help better understand how changes in the brain impact thinking and behavior. I am particularly interested in the process of aging and diseases of aging such as Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease. I especially love working with older adults because they always have such a rich history and life-story.”
Education
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Clinical Neuropsychology Post-doctoral Fellowship, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville
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Clinical Psychology Pre-doctoral Internship, Neuropsychology Track, Emory University
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Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Track, University of Florida
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M.S. in Clinical Psychology, Neuropsychology Track, University of Florida
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M.A. in Experimental Psychology, American University
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B.S. in Psychology with Honors, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Licenses
- Virginia psychology license
Specialization
- Clinical neuropsychology
Research interests
- Exploring patterns of normal and abnormal cognitive aging
- Developing methods for better detection of preclinical cognitive symptoms
- Intervention and cognitive rehabilitation strategies for patients with neurologic illness
- Examining clinical utility of commonly used neuropsychological instruments
- Using multimodal techniques (e.g., neuroimaging and neuropsychological testing) to improve diagnostic accuracy in patients with neurologic illness
Professional affiliations
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American Psychological Association (APA)
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American Psychological Association (APA) – Division 40
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International Neuropsychological Society (INS)
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American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology (AACN) – Associate Member
Recent professional achievements
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Merit Research Poster Award, International Neuropsychological Society, 2008
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Selected to attend the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Advanced Training Institute on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), 2006
Recent publications
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Sachs, B.C., Lucas, J.A., Smith G.E., Ivnik R.J., Petersen R.C., Graff-Radford, N. & Pedraza O. (2012). Reliable Change on the Boston Naming Test. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 18, 1-4.
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Pedraza, O.P., Sachs, B.C., Ferman, T., Rush, B.K., & Lucas, J.A. (2011). Difficulty and discrimination parameters of Boston Naming Test Items in a consecutive clinical series. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 26 (5), 434-444.
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Sachs, B.C. (2011). Biography: Mortimer Mishkin. In J.S. Kreutzer, J. DeLuca, & B. Caplan (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology (Vol. 3, 13, p. 1636-1639). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
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Howe, L.L.S., Anderson, A.M., Stigge-Kaufman, D.A., Sachs, B.C., & Loring, D.W. (2007). Characterization of the medical symptom validity test in evaluation of clinically referred memory disorders patients. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 22 (6), 753-761.
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Berl, M.M., Balsamo, L.M., Xu, B., Moore, E.N., Weinstein, S., Conry, J.A., Pearl, P.L., Sachs, B., Grandin C.B., Frattali, C., Theodore, W.H., & Gaillard, W.D. (2005). Seizure focus affects regional language networks assessed by fMRI. Neurology, 65 (10), 1604-1611.
