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Center for Enhancement & Restoration of
Cognitive Function
Strengthening Cognitive Functions
Self Schema
Karen Farchaus Stein, PhD, RN, specializes in adult psychiatric and mental health nursing. Her research focuses on people's personal reflections as motivators and regulators of behavior. In her work with adolescents, she has considered self concept as related to eating disorders, exercise, and alcoholic behaviors. Dr. Stein has studied the structure of the self in adults having a borderline personality disorder. She has developed new perspectives on resistance and noncompliance in changing behavior which may prove useful in caring for patients who have anorexia or bulimia or problems with alcohol abuse or overexercising.
Concentration
Bernadine Cimprich, PhD, RN, FAAN, specializes in oncology nursing with a research focus on quality of life outcomes. She is investigating the impact of cancer and its treatment on cognitive function, particularly, attention and loss of concentration. Her research has contributed new knowledge of how intense mental demands in dealing with breast cancer can lead to cognitive or attentional fatigue. She is studying the therapeutic use of environmental interventions to improve cognitive functioning during and following cancer treatment. Dr. Cimprich's current research focuses on improving understanding of ways to ease attentional fatigue and enhance functioning in women with breast cancer through exposure to natural restorative environments.
Cognitive Maps
Margaret Scisney-Matlock, PhD, RN, has directed her professional interests to adults with chronic diseases, particularly those related to the effects of uncontrolled high blood pressure. These ailments include stroke, heart attack, and end-stage renal disease. Her current research focuses on an improved understanding of ways the structure of cognitive representations of disease and behavior described as perceptions, preferences, and possibilities of hypertension-related information can assist patients in performing behaviors that result in better management of their hypertension.
Coping and Quality of Life
Laurel Northouse, PhD, RN, FAAN
is the Mary Lou Willard French Professor
of Nursing at the University of Michigan. She has conducted a number
of
studies that describe the impact of cancer on the family and has developed
a model designed to predict risk levels of patients and family members
following cancer diagnoses. Currently she is conducting intervention
studies
designed to improve the quality of life of cancer patients and their
families.
Her research has been funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research,
the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society.
Decision Making
Penny Pierce, PhD, RN, has
dedicated her research to decision making, empowering women to participate
in choosing alternatives in their health care. Her extensive work with
women who are making treatment decisions following breast cancer diagnosis
has become widely recognized. Dr. Pierce's current focus is on designing
individualized and interactive decision support to assist women facing
difficult treatment resolutions.
Decision Making
Cynthia Arslanian-Engoren, PhD, RN studies decision-making processes of nurses
and patients. Her research focuses on the attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions
of patients, nurses, and community dwelling adults relative to the manifestation
of acute coronary events. In particular, she examines the perceptions of
women relative to coronary heart disease, with a particular focus on gender,
age, and racial disparities in the perception of cardiac risk. Additionally,
her program of research examines the triage decision-making processes of
emergency department nurses who triage men and women for complaints suggestive
of an acute cardiac event.
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