Professor Joshua Sandry Receives Grant For Brain Injury Research

Dr. Joshua Sandry, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Director of the Cognition and Neurocognitive Disorders Research lab, was awarded a new $460,000 grant from the NJ Department of Health: NJ Commission on Brain Injury Research to investigate the functional neural markers of working and long-term memory impairment in individuals with traumatic brain injury. This brings the external funding awarded Dr. Sandry in support of his research lab, up to $1.3 million so far for this year.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in considerable difficulty learning and remembering new information and long-term memory impairment is one of the most common negative cognitive consequences of injury. Dr. Sandry’s research, Cognitive and Neural Mediators of Working and Long-Term Memory Impairment in TBI, will apply updated models from cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology to clarify the relationship between the medial temporal lobe, working memory and long-term memory impairment in TBI.