Dually trained in clinical psychology and neuropsychology, Lauren Littlefield obtained her PhD from Drexel University. Practicum and post-doctoral work was completed at the Neurology Department of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the University of Virginia’s Child and Family Outpatient Clinic, and the Woodrow Wilson Rehabilitation Center. Currently, Dr. Littlefield is the departmental Chairperson for the undergraduate and graduate psychology programs at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. She has won several teaching awards, including Maryland Psychological Association’s Undergraduate Psychology Teacher of the Year in 2007 and Washington College’s Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2004. She has mentored over 200 student researchers who are co-authors on her publications, which include over 100 peer-reviewed research abstracts, teaching chapters, and data-driven manuscripts. Practicing part-time as a clinical neuropsychologist, she specializes in devising ways to improve the quality of life for adult neurological populations and children suffering from learning disorders.

B.A. – Boston College, 1966

M.Ed. – University of Massachusetts, 1978

Ph.D. – Loyola College, 1995

B.S. – American International College, 1978

M.S. – Lehigh University, 1982

Ph.D. Lehigh University, 1988

Research Interests:

Hormonal regulation of behaviors (how endocrine factors may contribute to sex/gender differences in behavior, cognition, psychopathology, neurological illness and response to therapeutic medications, commonly abuse drugs and neurotoxins

Current Projects:

Co-PI: Keck/PKAL Facilitating Interdisciplinary STEM Learning Project

Assessment of the Efficacy of Various Neuroprotectants in Rodent and Zebrafish Models of Neurotrauma

Strategies to Assess and Reduce Organophosphate Neurotoxicity in N2A Cell Cultures

Hormonal Influences on Spatial Abilities of Male and Female Undergraduates

Research Fellow in the Department of Psychology at Washington College

Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychology in the School of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University

Visiting Scholar in the Center on Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School

Conducted research on children’s social development for almost 40 years, starting in 1969 as a Research Coordinator for the Surgeon General’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior at the National Institute

B.A. – University of Delaware, 1972

M.A. – University of Nebraska, 1974

Ph.D. – University of Nebraska, 1979

“My profession is the teaching of psychology. Consequently, one of my favorite research areas is in aspects of teaching psychology classes. I often present research at a national conference on teaching in Florida. In addition, examples of other research include working with students who have collected data on such wide ranging topics as using animals (a dog) as a facilitator in working with children in a counseling setting, working on tutoring program for elementary children at risk for failure, looking at ethnic differences in abnormal eating behaviors among high school females, reading strategies used by those with certain types of learning disabilities, and looking at aspects of seasonal affective disorder (the tendency for some to feel depressed during the winter months), and lots of topics related to the Health Psychology class.

I went through an undergraduate program at the University of Delaware (1972) and graduate program at the University of Nebraska (MA 1974, PhD 1979). My degrees are in Counseling Psychology and I participated in a Clinical pre-doctoral internship at the Syracuse VA Hospital in Syracuse, NY. I became interested in psychology because I wanted to know why people make the decisions they make, particularly on a spiritual level. What is it about some people that provokes them to strive forward and succeed, while others struggle and hurt?

I like my work, but I have a life away from campus. I was the first medic certified in the Chestertown area and I continue to volunteer my time to the Kent-Queen Anne’s Rescue Squad, I was a publicly elected member of the Kent County School Board (resigned after serving 19+ years as a Board Member and President), I work one day a week as a Consulting Psychologist for the Kent County Mental Health Clinic, and I am an ordained deacon in the church; my greatest joy on campus is to serve as the faculty sponsor to the Washington College Campus Christian Fellowship, which has been meeting every Wednesday night for almost three decades. Lastly, I have a loving wife and two wonderful children.”

B.S. – Florida State University, 2003

Ph.D. – University of Michigan, 2009

B.A. – Washington College, 1983

M.A. – New School for Social Research, 1992

City University of New York, 2000

Ph.D. – New York University, 2006

B.A. - Widener University, 2005

M.S. – Lehigh University, 2008

Ph.D. – Lehigh University, 2011

B.A. – University of Wisconsin, 1974

M.A. – University of Texas at El Paso, 1978

Ph.D. – University of Pittsburgh, 1980

Research:

Neurodamage and cognition

Sex differences in cortical processes

EEG, Cognitive hemodynamics and eyegaze

Professional Experience:

Clinical Research Professor, Departments of Neurology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Zagreb , Zagreb, Croatia (1989-90)

B.S. – Old Dominion University, 1996

M.S. – Virginia Commonwealth University, 2000

Ph.D. – Virginia Commonwealth University, 2001

B.A. – Flagler College, 1984

M.S. – University of Florida, 1986

Ph.D. – University of Florida, 1990

B.S. – Morningside College, 1964

STM, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1969

M.Div, McCormick Theological Seminary, 1969