Ramona Hopkins

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Ramona O. Hopkins Department Chair Department of Psychology Brigham Young University 1082 SWKT Provo, Utah 84602 (801)422-0602 mona_hopkins@byu.edu

Education

• PhD, University of Utah 1996

Research Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurobiological approaches to cognition; brain imaging; brain behavior; relationships; emotion; health-related quality of life; cognitive development; family stress due to illness; cognitive, affective and quality-of-life outcomes in patients with cardiac and pulmonary disorders, and critical illness; and effects of medial temporal lobe and basal forebrain damage on memory systems.

Recent Publications

• Hopkins RO , Weaver LK,Valentine KJ, Mower C, Churchill S, Carlquist J. (2007). Apolipoprotein genotype and outcome with and without hyperbaric oxygen in acute carbon monoxide poisoning. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 176(10), 1001-1006.
• Suchyta MR, Hopkins RO . (2007). Neurologic sequelae in critical illness: Evaluation and outcomes. Current Respiratory Medicine Reviews , 3(4), 309-319.
• Hopkins RO , Ely EW, Jackson JC. (2007). The role offuture longitudinal studies in ICU survivors: Understanding determinants andpathophysiology of brain dysfunction. Current Opinion in Critical Care, 13(5), 497-502.
• Weaver LK, Valentine KJ, Hopkins RO . (2007). Risk factors for cognitive sequelae following acute carbon monoxide poisoning: Role of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 176(5):491-497.
• Hopkins RO . (2007).Sepsis, Oxidative Stress and Brain Injury. Critical Care Medicine, 36(9), 2233-2234.
• Larson MJ, Weaver LK, Hopkins RO . (2007). Cognitive sequelae in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients with and without recall of the intensive care unit. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , 13(14), 595-605.
• Jackson JC, Hart RP, Gordon SM, Hopkins RO , Girard T, Ely EW. (2007). Post-traumatic stressdisorder and post-traumatic stress symptoms following critical illness in medical ICU patients: Assessing the magnitude of the problem. Critical Care, Feb 22;11(1):R27.
• Shrager Y, Bayley PJ, Bontempi B, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2007). Spatial memory and the human hippocampus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104,2961-2966.
• Hopkins RO , Spuhler VJ, Thomsen GE. (2007).Transforming ICU Culture to Facilitate Early Mobility. Critical Care Clinics ,23, 81-96.
• Bailey P, Thomsen GE, Spuhler VJ, Blair R, Jewkes J,Bezdjian L, Veale K, Rodriquez L, Hopkins RO . (2007). Early activity is feasible and safe inrespiratory failure patients. Critical Care Medicine, 35(1), 139-145.
• Bayley PJ, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2006). Fate of old memories following medial temporal lobe damage. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(51), 13311-13317.
• Hopkins RO , Herridge MS. (2006). Quality of life,emotional abnormalities and cognitive dysfunction in survivors of ALI/ARDS. Clinics in Chest Medicine, 27(4), 679-689.
• Smith CN, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2006). Experience-dependent eye movements,awareness, and hippocampus-dependent memory. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(44), 11304-11312.
• Gold JJ, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2006). The hippocampus supports both single-item and associative recognition memory, Learning and Memory ,13(5), 644-649.
• Hopkins RO , Jackson JC. (2006). Long term neurocognitive function after critical illness. Chest , 130, 896-878.
• Thomas F, Hopkins RO , Handrahan DL, Walker J, Carpenter J. (2006). Sleep and cognitive performance following 12-hour evening vs. 18-hour shifts in flight nurses. Air Medical Journal , 25(5), 216-225.
• Hopkins RO , Woon FLM. (2006). Neuroimaging, Cognitive, and Neurobehavioral Outcomes Following Carbon Monoxide Poisoning. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews , 5(3), 141-155.
• Hopkins RO , Jackson JC. (2006). Assessing the effects of critical illness onthe brain: Are delirium and long-term cognitive impairments related? Current Opinion in Critical Care , 5; 388-394.
• Pulsipher DT, Hopkins RO , Weaver, LK. (2006). Basal ganglia volumes following carbon monoxide poisoning: A prospective longitudinal study. Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine, 33(4), 245-256.
• Christie JD, BiesterRC, Taichman DB, Shull WH, Hansen-Flaschen J, Shea, J, Hopkins RO . (2006). Formation and validation of a telephone battery to assess cognitive function in ARDS survivors. Journal ofCritical Care, 21(2), 125-132.
• Gold JJ, Smith CN, Bayley PJ, Schrager Y, Brewer JB, StarkCEL, Hopkins RO , Squire LR.(2006). Item memory, source memory, and the medial temporal lobe: concordant findings from fMRI and memory-impaired patients. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 103(24), 9351-9356.
• Hopkins RO , Beck CJ, Burnett DL, Weaver LK,Victoroff J, Bigler ED. (2006). Prevalence of white matter hyperintensities in a young healthy normal population. Journal of Neuroimaging, 16(3); 243-251.
• White JG, Hopkins RO , Glissmeyer EW, Kitterman N, Elliott,CG. (2006). Cognitive, emotional, and quality of life outcomes in pulmonary arterial hypertension patients. Respiratory Research, March 31, 7(1):55.
• Meeter M, Myers CE, Shohamy D, Hopkins RO , Gluck MA. (2006). Strategies in probabilistic categorization: Results from a new way of analyzing performance. Learning and Memory, 13(2),230-239.
• Hopkins RO , Fearing MA, Weaver LK, Foley JF.(2006). Basal ganglia lesions following carbon monoxide poisoning. Brain Injury, 20(3), 273-281.
• Hopkins RO , Gale SD, Weaver LK. (2006). Brain atrophy and cognitive impairment in survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome. Brain Injury, 20(3), 263-271.
• Shrager Y, Gold JJ, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2006). Intact visual perception in memory-impaired patients with medial temporal lobe lesions. Journal of Neuroscience , 26, 2235-2240.
• Kesner RP, Hopkins RO . (2006). Mneumonic functions ofthe hippocampus: A comparison between animals and humans. Biological Psychology , 73(1), 3-18.
• Wais PE , Wixted JT, Hopkins RO , Squire LR. (2006). The hippocampus supports both the recollection and the familiarity components of recognition memory. Neuron, 49(3), 459-466.
• Myers CE, DeLuca J, Hopkins RO , Gluck MA. (2006). Conditional discrimination and reversal in amnesia subsequent to hypoxic brain injury oranterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture. Neuropsychologia, 44(1), 130-139.