Department of psychology 
Mary Beth Spitznagel, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., Ohio University (2003)
Clinical Interests
Neuropsychology; Behavior/emotional functioning
Research Interests
Neuropsychological functioning in patient populations including dementia, obesity, and schizophrenia spectrum disorders; Cognition in healthy aging.
Recent Publications
Gunstad, J., Paul, R., Cohen, R., Spitznagel, M. B., Tate D., Grieve, S., & Gordon, E. (in press). Relationship between body mass index and brain volume in healthy adults. International Journal of Neuroscience.
Spitznagel, M. B., Tremont, G., Brown, L. B., & Gunstad, J. (2006). Cognitive reserve moderates the relationship between depressive symptoms and awareness of deficits in dementia. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 18, 186-190.
Suhr, J. A., Spitznagel, M. B., & Gunstad, J. (2006). An obsessive compulsive subtype of schizotypy: Evidence from a nonclinical sample. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 194, 884-886.
Spitznagel, M. B., Tremont, G., Davis, J. D., & Foster, S. M. (2006). Psychosocial predictors of dementia caregiver desire to institutionalize: caregiver, care recipient, and family relationship factors. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 19, 16-20.
Spitznagel, M. B., & Tremont, G. (2005). Cognitive reserve and anosognosia in questionable and early dementia. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 20, 505-515.