Kelly Curtis
Graduate Student
Research Interests
Kelly Curtis received her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 2000. She entered the Applied Biopsychology Doctoral Program at UNO in August 2003. She received her Masters of Science in August of 2005. Kelly is currently a fourth year graduate student working under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Greve. Her research focuses on neuropsychological assessment, malingering detection, and examination of the contributory factors related to persistent symptomatology in both traumatic brain injury patients and pain patients
Poster Presentation
Greve, K.W., Bianchini, K.J., Curtis, K.L., & Heinly, M. (October, 2006). Detection of malingering in chronic pain: A known-groups comparison of three forced-choice symptom validity tests. Poster to be presented at the 26th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Antonio, TX.
Curtis, K.L., Greve, K.W., & Bianchini, K.J. (October, 2006). Attention and memory dysfunction in pain patients while controlling for effort on the California Verbal Learning Test –II. Poster to be presented at the 26th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Antonio, TX.
Curtis, K.L., Heinly, M., Greve, K.W., & Bianchini, K.J. (October, 2005). Sensitivity and Specificity of WAIS-3 indicators to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Tampa, FL.
Brasseux, R., Curtis, K.L., Springer, S., Greve, K.W., & Bianchini, K.J. (October, 2005). Sensitivity and Specificity of TMT indicators to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Tampa, FL
Thompson, L., Curtis, K.L., Greve, K.W., & Bianchini, K.J. (October, 2005). Sensitivity and Specificity of COWAT indicators to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster presented at the 25th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Tampa, FL.
Curtis, K., Greve, K., Brasseux, R., Bianchini, K., Thompson, L., & Brennan, A. (November, 2004). Sensitivity and Specificity of CVLT indicators to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster presented at the 24th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Seattle, WA.
Greve, K., Bianchini, K., Love, J., Heinly, M., Doane, B., Curtis, K., Uribe, E., Thompson, L., & Brasseux, R. (November, 2004). Sensitivity and Specificity of MMPI-2 Validity Scales and Indicators to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. Poster to be presented at the 24th annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology, Seattle, WA.
Publications
Bianchini, K.J., Curtis, K.L., & Greve, K.W. (in press). Compensation and malingering in TBI: A dose-response relationship? The Clinical Neuropsychologist.
Curtis, K.L., Greve, K.W., Bianchini, K.J., & Brennan, A. (2006). California Verbal Learning Test indicators of Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction. Assessment, 13, 46-61
Greve, K. W., Curtis, K. L., & Bianchini, K. J. (2005). Response to van Alphen and Engalan regarding the diagnosis of personality disorder in the elderly. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 20, 190.
Greve, K. W., Curtis, K. L., Bianchini, K. J., & Collins, B. T. (2004). Personality Disorder masquerading as dementia: A case of apparent Diogenes Syndrome. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 19, 703-705.
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