Professor
 
Area: Clinical

Contact Information

Email: kmadams@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 116B VA
Psychology Phone: 734-845-3602

Alternate Office: 2101 Commonwealth, Suite C

Research and Teaching Interests

1. Human Neuropsychology
   (a) Brain dysfunction and its relationship to behavior in adults and children
   (b) Therapy and rehabilitation
   (c) Medical conditions producing neurobehavioral dysfunction as a secondary effect
2. Statistics, Measurement, and Evaluation
   (a) Multivariate Methods, Experimental Design
   (b) Computerized Testing and Interpretation
3. Medical Psychology
   (a) Psychological Interventions in Health Settings
   (b) Biobehavioral Research
   (c) Psychotherapy with neurobehaviorally impaired patients and their families
4. Professional Education
   (a) Psychology Training and Continuing Education
   (b) Neuropsychological Contributions to Medical Educati

Select Recent Publications

Whitney, K.A., Voglewede, M.A., & Adams, K.M. (Submitted). Symptom Validity

Testing Among Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Polytrauma Soldiers. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Grant, I., & Adams, K.M. (2009) (Eds.) Neuropsychological Assessment of Neuropsychiatric and Neuromedical Disorders (3^rd Ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Adams, K.M., & Loeher, K. (2007). Getting the Low-Lying Fruit in the Neuroethics

Vineyard. Review of Hard Science, Hard Choices: Facts, Ethics, and Policies Guiding Brain Science Today by Sandra J. Ackerman Psych Critiques, 52(32).

Ross, S.R., Putnam, S. H., Millis, S.R., Adams, K. M. & Krukowski, R. A. (2006). Detecting insufficient effort using the Seashore Rhythm and Speech-Sounds Perception tests in head injury. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 20, 798-815.

Ross, S. R., Putnam, S.H., & Adams, K.M. (2006). Psychological disturbance,        incomplete effort, and litigation as predictors of neuropsychological test             performance in head injury. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 28, 111-125.

Nigg, J.T., Wong, M.M., Martel, M.M., Jester, J.M., Puttler, L.I., Glass, J.M., Adams, K.M., Fitzgerald, H.E., & Zucker, R.A. (2006) Poor response inhibition and a predictor of onset of drinking and drinking problems in adolescents at risk of alcoholism. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 45, 468-475. 

Sheridan, LK, Fitzgerald, H.E., Adams, K.M., Nigg, J.T., Martel, M.M, Putler, L.I, Wong, M.M, & Zucker, R.A. (2006) Normative symbol digit modalities test performance in a community-based sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 21, 23-28.

Jester, J.M., Nigg, J.T., Adams, K.M., Fitzgerald, H.E., Puttler, L.I., Wong, M.M., & Zucker, R.M. (2005) Inattention/hyperactivity and aggression from early childhood to adolescence: Heterogeneity of trajectories and differential influence of family environment characteristics. Development and Psychopathology, 17, 99-125.

Nigg, J.T., Glass, J.M., Zucker, R.A., Wong, M.M., Poon, E., Jester, J.M, Fitzgerald, H.E., Puttler, L.I., & Adams, K.M. (2004). Neuropsychological executive functioning in children at elevated risk for alcoholism: findings in early adolescence.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 302-314.