David Berry
*Dr. Berry is no longer accepting graduate students.
My primary research area is in detection of invalid approaches to psychological and neuropsychological testing, such as malingering and faking good. One line of research is aimed at identifying feigned cognitive and neuropsychological deficits. A second series of studies examines detection of false reports of psychiatric and somatic symptoms on the MMPI-2. A third line focuses on denial of problems in employment evaluations. Overall, these research interests are very relevant to forensic issues. I am also generally interested in the brain and the manner in which it influences and interacts with behavior.
Clinically, I am primarily interested in neuropsychological assessment of brain-injured individuals. There are a number of excellent settings for training in clinical neuropsychology available at UK, including a tertiary care medical center, a VA hospital, a state psychiatric hospital, a private psychiatric facility, a geriatric evaluation center, a rehabilitation hospital and the department Psychological Services Center.
Ph.D. Univ. of Florida, 1985
Get to know the current members of the Berry lab!
Hannah Combs, PhD: The most recent student to complete her graduate training in Dr. Berry’s lab, Hannah completed her neuropsychology internship at the DeBakey VA Medical Center in 2017. She is currently a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Lisa Koehl, PhD: Lisa completed her neuropsychology internship at the VA Medical Center in St. Louis. She completed a clinical neuropsychology postdoctoral fellowship at the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute. She is currently a clinical neuropsychologist at the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute and an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Kentucky.
Jordan Harp, PhD: Jordan completed his internship through the University of Kentucky Internship Consortium Program. He then comppleted a neuropsychology and mental health postdoctoral fellowship at the Lexington VA Medical Center. He is currently a neuropsychology postdoctoral fellow at the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute.
Maryanne Edmundson, PhD: Maryanne completed her neuropsychology residency at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System.
Lindsey Jasinski, PhD: Lindsey completed her residency at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington. She is currently the Director of Psychology Services at Eastern State Hospital in Lexington, where she also supervises graduate students in practicum placements at that location. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry in the UK Health Care system.
Myriam Sollman, PhD: Myriam completed her neuropsychology internship at the University of Florida. She then completed her neuropsychology fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute. Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology at Wake Forest University. She is a practicing neuropsychologist at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. She also acts as director of the neuropsychology clinic and psychology internship at Wake Forest Baptist Health.
Anni Shandera, PhD: Anni completed the following dissertation research in 2012: Effects of Mild TBI and PTSD in OIF/OEF Veterans: Support for the “Additive” Hypothesis? After her time at UK, she completed her neuropsychology internship at Emory University School of Medicine. She then completed her neuropsychology fellowship at Wisconsin’s Mayo Clinic. She currently works as a neuropsychologist at Wisconsin’s Mayo Clinic.
Jessica Clark, PhD: Jessica completed the following dissertation research in 2010: Neuropsychological Correlates and Underlying Cortical Mechanisms of Working Memory in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. She completed her neuropsychology internship at the VA Maryland Health Care System/University of Maryland School of Medicine Psychology Internship Consortium in Baltimore, Maryland. She then completed her neuropsychology fellowship at the MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her current clinical work includes assessments and psychotherapy at MedStar Health in D.C.
Victoria Vagnini, PhD: Victoria completed the following dissertation research in 2007: Applying Reaction Time and Event-Related Potential Measures to Detect Malingered Neurocognitive Deficit. She is currently working as a clinical psychologist in the VA Connecticut Healthcare System.
Chantel Dearth, PhD: Chantel completed the following dissertation research in 2006: Cross-Validation of Malingering Tests for Adolescent Forensic Evaluations.
Shandera, A.L., Berry, D.T.R., Clark, J.A., Schipper, L.J., Graue, L.O., Harp, J.P. (2010). Detection of malingered mental retardation. Psychological Assessment, 22, 50-56.
Alwes, Y.R., Clark, J.A., Berry, D.T.R., Granacher, R.P. (2008). Screening for feigning in a civil forensic setting. The Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30, 1-8.
Graue, L.O., Berry, D.T.R., Clark, J.A., Sollman, M.J., Cardi, M., Hopkins, J., Werline, D. (2007). Identification of feigned mental retardation using the new generation of malingering detection instruments: Preliminary findings. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 21, 921-942.