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Joel Sneed

Joel Sneed, PhD

Basic Information

Title: Professor
Area: Clinical Psychology
PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst
E-mail: joel.sneed@qc.cuny.edu
Office: D-314 Science Building
Office Phone: 718-997-4277
Lab: D-314 Science Building
Lab Phone: 718-997-4277
Website:

Professional Activities

Society Memberships

  • American Psychological Association
  • American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry)
  • Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute
  • Department of Psychiatry
  • Divisions of Geriatric Psychiatry and Epidemiology

Research Description

The focus of my lab, the Brain Performance Lab, is the use of brain training (internet-based games focusing on specific cognitive functions) across a variety of psychiatric disorders in which executive dysfunction exists including depression (across the lifespan), ADHD, and cognitive impairment in late-life. In the Fall of 2016, we will begin a 5-year NIA-funded project using Lumosity’s brain training platform for older adults with mild cognitive impairment. We are also conducting a study using Peak’s mobile brain training app in the treatment of mild depression among young adults and are exploring the game of chess as a potential treatment for executive deficits in children with ADHD symptoms.

Selected Publications

  1. Motter, J. N., Grinberg, A., Lieberman, D. H., Iqnaibi, W. B., & Sneed, J. R. (2019). Computerized cognitive training in young adults with depressive symptoms: Effects on mood, cognition, and everyday functioning. Journal of affective disorders, 245, 28-37.
  2. Motter, JN, Pelton, GH, D’Antonio, K, Rushia, SN, Pimontel, MA, Petrella, JR, Garcon, E, Ciovacco, MW, Sneed, JR, Doraiswamy, PM, & Devanand DP (2018). Clinical and radiological characteristics of early versus late mild cognitive impairment in patients with comorbid depressive disorder. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 33(12), 1604-1612.
  3. Motter, J. N., Devanand, D. P., Doraiswamy, P. M., & Sneed, J. R. (2016). Clinical trials to gain FDA approval for computerized cognitive training: What is the ideal control condition?. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 8, 249.
  4. Motter, J. N., Pimontel, M. A., Rindskopf, D., Devanand, D. P., Doraiswamy, P. M., & Sneed, J. R. (2016). Computerized cognitive training and functional recovery in major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 189, 184-191.
  5. Pimontel, M. A., Reinlieb, M. E., Johnert, L. C., Garcon, E., Sneed, J. R., & Roose, S. P. (2013). The external validity of MRI‐defined vascular depression. International journal of geriatric psychiatry, 28(11), 1189-1196.
  6. Sneed, J. R., Balestri, M., & Belfi, B. (2003). The use of Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies in the psychiatric emergency room. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 40, 265-277.
  7. Sneed, J. R., Johnson, J. G., Cohen, P., Gilligan, C., Chen, H. Crawford, T., & Kasen. S. (2006) Gender differences in the age-changing relationship between family contact and instrumentality in emerging adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 42, 787-797.
  8. Sneed, J. R., Roose, S. P., Keilp, J. G., Krishnan, K. R. R., Alexopoulos, G., Sackeim, H. A. (2007). Response inhibition predicts poor antidepressant treatment response in the very old depressed. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 15, 553-563.
  9. Sneed, J. R., Rutherford, B. R., Rindskopf, D., Lane, D. T., Sackeim, H. A., & Roose, S. P. (2008). Design Makes a Difference: A Meta-Analysis of Antidepressant Response Rates in Placebo-Controlled versus Comparator Trials in Late-Life Depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 16, 65-73.
  10. Rindskopf, D., & Sneed, J. R. (2008). Turning points in family contact during emerging adulthood. In: P. Cohen and R. Prouzek (Ed.), Applied Data Analytic Techniques for Turning Points Research. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Press.
  11. Sneed, J.R., Keilp, J. G., Brickman, A. M., & Roose, S. P. (2008). The Specificity of Neuropsychological Impairment in Predicting Antidepressant Non-Response in the Very Old Depressed. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 23, 319-323.
  12. Sneed, J. R., & Whitbourne, S. K., & Culang, M. (2008). Trust, Identity, and Ego Integrity: Modeling Erikson’s Core Stages over Thirty-Four Years. Journal of Adult Development, 13, 148-157.
  13. Sneed, J. R., Rindskopf, D., Steffens, D. C., Krishnan, R. R., Roose, S. P. (2008). The vascular depression subtype: Evidence of internal validity. Biological Psychiatry, 64, 491-497.