Dr. Nelson is an assistant professor and board-certified clinical neuropsychologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin. She has a broad background in clinical psychology and traumatic brain injury.
Since joining the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2012, Dr. Nelson has worked in the Center for Neurotrauma Research where she conducts studies of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Her overall goal in this research is to advance our understanding of the psychosocial, cognitive, and neurobiological sequelae of mTBI to improve its diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.
Her work has been particularly geared toward prediction of individual differences in recovery from mTBI, study of the interplay between various neurobiopsychosocial factors as they pertain to mTBI diagnosis and recovery, and evaluation of the reliability and validity of clinical assessment tools for diagnosing and monitoring mTBI.
Dr. Nelson has led a number of internally and externally funded studies and serves as a co-investigator on large prospective studies of both sport and civilian/community TBI. The aim of her primary research program is to leverage advance quantitative approaches to improve patient classification and outcome measurement for TBI, with a goal of facilitating the conduct of high-quality clinical trials that lead to the validation of new treatments for patients with TBI.
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