Dr. Brooke Schneider

Brooke Schneider

Curriculum Vitae

2013 – present Research psychologist, Clinical Neuropsychology Working Group, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
2014 Licensed as psychotherapist in cognitive behavioral therapy
2012 – 2014 Research psychologist, Adjunct faculty, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, United States
2012 Licensed as psychotherapist, State of California, United States
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral fellow in neuropsychology/geropsychology, West Los Angeles VA Hospital, California, United States
2010 Ph.D. dissertation on cognitive, psychological and health contributors to disability among urban black older adults, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2004 – 2006 M.Sc. in clinical psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
2000 – 2004 B.Sc. in psychology, biology, and neuroscience, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Research Interests

  • neuropsychological functioning in psychological and neurological disorders
  • depression
  • associations between age-related changes in health and cognition
  • contribution of cultural differences to neuropsychological assessment

Selected Independent Research Funding

2016 Funding for a study on medication adherence in individuals with psychosis by the Forschungsförderung durch Fakultätsmittel, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
2015 – 2017 Young Investigator Award for a study entitled "Objective and Subjective Social Cognition in Schizophrenia" from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (NARSAD)

Selected Publications

Schneider, B. C., Brüne, M., Bohn, F., Veckenstedt, R., Kolbeck, K., Krieger, E., Becker, A., Drommelschmidt, K.A., Englisch, S., Eisenacher, S., Lee-Grimm, S, Nagel, M., Zink, M. & Moritz, S. (2016). Investigating the efficacy of an individualized metacognitive therapy program (MCT+) for psychosis: Study protocol of a multi-center randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychiatry, 16, 51-65.

Schneider, B. C., Gross, A. L., Bangen, K. J., Skinner, J. C., Benitez, A., Glymour, M. M., Sachs, B.C., Regina, A.S., Sisco, S., Manly, J.J. & Luchsinger, J. A. (2014). Association of vascular risk factors with cognition in a multiethnic sample. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 70(4), 532-544.

Schneider, B. C., Thoering, T., Cludius, B., & Moritz, S. (2015). Self-reported symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Rate of endorsement and association with neuropsychological performance in an adult psychiatric sample. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 30(3), 186-191.

Moritz, S., Andreou, C., Schneider, B. C., Wittekind, C. E., Menon, M., Balzan, R. P., & Woodward, T. S. (2014). Sowing the seeds of doubt: A narrative review of metacognitive training in schizophrenia. Clinical Psychology Review, 34, 358-366.

Moritz, S., Veckenstedt, R., Andreou, C., Bohn, F., Hottenrott, B., Leighton, L., Pfueffer, U. & Roesch-Ely, D. (2014). Immediate, delayed and “sleeper” effects of megacognitive group training (MCT) in psychosis: A three-year follow-up investigation. JAMA Psychiatry, 71, 1103-1111.