Dr. Patricia Gruner

Biography

Patricia Gruner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist specializing in disorders related to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). She has specialized training in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for patients suffering from OCD-related disorders, neurocognitive assessment, and neuroimaging. Gruner completed her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology at Fordham University and underwent postdoctoral training in Clinical Neuroscience at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, where she conducted fMRI neurocognitive research on pediatric OCD. Her current work seeks to integrate clinical, neurobiological, and cognitive perspectives on OCD. She has a particular interest in cognitive processes such as cognitive flexibility and causal reasoning, the altered early course of the disease, and how cognitive abnormalities relate to aberrations in neurobiological functioning and clinical presentation. Her long-term goal is to utilize her knowledge to create and refine new interventions for patients with OCD, including the development of an adaptive computerized cognitive remediation training (CCRT) program that harnesses plasticity to target disease-specific cognitive deficits.

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