Bonnie Nagel, Ph.D.

1995, B.S., Psychology, Washington State University
2003, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology/Neuropsychology, University of Memphis
2002-2003, Predoctoral Intern, Neuropsychology, University of California San Diego (UCSD)/VA San Diego Healthcare System
2003-2005, NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biological Psychiatry & Neuroscience, UCSD
2005-2006, Assistant Project Scientist, Psychiatry, UCSD

Bonnie Nagel earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with an emphasis in neuropsychology, from the University of Memphis in 2003. She completed her clinical internship at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)/VA San Diego Healthcare System and went on to complete a 2-year NIMH funded fellowship in Biological Psychiatry and Neuroscience, also at UCSD. After completing her fellowship, she was awarded an NIH Career Development Award and was appointed as an Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSD. Dr. Nagel joined the faculty at OHSU as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience in July of 2006.

Dr. Nagel’s clinical interests are in the area of pediatric neuropsychology. She has extensive experience in the neuropsychological evaluation of children and adolescents referred for a variety of conditions, including epilepsy, learning disabilities, traumatic brain injury, genetic/metabolic abnormalities, brain tumors, and attention problems. Dr. Nagel’s primary research focuses on exploring typical adolescent brain and cognitive development using structural and functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological assessment techniques. Additionally, she has applied her research findings and methodologies from her studies of normally developing youth to other populations, including pediatric cancer survivors and adolescents with substance abuse disorders. She has published several peer-reviewed articles in the area of child and adolescent cognition and brain development, serves as an ad-hoc reviewer for several scholarly journals, and regularly attends and presents at professional conferences. Dr. Nagel has also been involved with teaching and supervision of undergraduate, graduate, and medical students.

Selected Publications:

1. Nagel, B.J., Brewer, V.R., Phelps, S.J. (2001). Cognitive and behavioral side effects associated with the use of topiramate. The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 6, 256-270.
   
2. Nagel, B.J., Palmer, S.L., Reddick, W.E., Glass, J.O., Helton, K.J., Wu, S., Xiong, X., Kun, L., Gajjar, A., Mulhern, R.K. (2004). Abnormal hippocampal development among pediatric patients with medulloblastoma treated with risk-adapted radiation therapy. The American Journal of Neuroradiology, 25, 1575-1582.
   
3. Caldwell, L.C., Schweinsburg, A.D., Nagel, B.J., Barlett, V.C., Brown, S.A., Tapert, S.F. (2005). Gender and adolescent alcohol use disorders on BOLD response to spatial working memory. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 40, 194-200.
   
4. Nagel, B.J., Schweinsburg, A.D., Phan, V., Tapert, S.F. (2005). Reduced hippocampal volume among adolescents with alcohol use disorders without psychiatric comorbidity. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 139, 181-190.
   
5. Schweinsburg, A.D., Nagel, B.J., Tapert, S.F. (2005). FMRI reveals alteration of spatial working memory networks across adolescence. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11, 631-644.
   
6. Nagel, B.J., Barlett, V.C., Schweinsburg, A.D., Tapert, S.F. (2005). Neuropsychological predictors of BOLD response during a spatial working memory task in adolescents: What can performance tell us about fMRI response patterns? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27, 823-839.
   
7. Nagel, B.J., Delis, D., Palmer, S.L., Reeves, C., Gajjar, A., Mulhern, R.K. (2006). Patterns of verbal memory impairment in children treated for medulloblastoma. Neuropsychology, 20, 105-112.
   
8. Han, S.D., Houston, W.S., Jak, A.J., Eyler L.T., Nagel, B.J., Fleisher A.S., Brown, G.G., Corey-Bloom, J., Salmon, D.P., Bondi, M.W. (2006). Verbal paired-associate learning by APOE genotype in nondemented adults: fMRI evidence of a right hemispheric compensatory response. Neurobiology of Aging.
   
9. Nagel, B.J., Medina, K.L., Yoshii, J., Schweinsburg, A.D., Moadab, I., Tapert, S.F. (In press). Age-related changes in prefrontal white matter volume across adolescence. NeuroReport.
   
10. Tate, S.R., Patterson, K.A., Nagel, B.J., Anderson, K.G., Brown, S.A. Addiction and Stress in Adolescents. In Stress and Addiction: Biological and Psychological Mechanisms (Chapter 12). Elsevier. In press.
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