Prof Jennifer Vasterling

Jennifer J. Vasterling, Ph.D. is a clinical neuropsychologist who serves as a Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Psychology at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, and an affiliated investigator in the National Center for PTSD.

Her research and clinical work have focused on the neuropsychological correlates of PTSD and the comorbidity of PTSD and mild TBI - both topics on which she has published edited books in additional to journal articles. She is a former President of the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (APA Div 40) and a former member of the Governing Board of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Area of interest

Neuropsychology, PTSD, longitudinal cognitive and mental health outcomes of military deployment to war

Website

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/camed/profile/jennifer-vasterling/

Publications

• Vasterling, J. J., Aslan, M., Lee, L. O., Proctor, S. P., Ko, J., Jacob, S., & Concato, J. (2018). Longitudinal Associations among Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Neurocognitive Functioning in Army Soldiers Deployed to the Iraq War. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 24(4), 311–323. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617717001059

• Vasterling, J. J., Brailey, K., Constans, J. I., & Sutker, P. B. (1998). Attention and memory dysfunction in posttraumatic stress disorder. Neuropsychology, 12(1), 125–133. https://doi.org/10.1037//0894-4105.12.1.125

• Vasterling, J. J., Franz, M. R., Lee, L. O., Kaiser, A. P., Proctor, S. P., Marx, B. P., Schnurr, P. P., Ko, J., Concato, J., & Aslan, M. (2023). Early predictors of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories in U.S. Army soldiers deployed to the Iraq war zone. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 36(5), 955–967. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22964

• Vasterling, J. J., Bhalla, A., Franz, M. A., Pless Kaiser, A., & Lee, L. O. (in press). Warzone veteran cognitive-related functional decline and posttraumatic stress symptoms: Relationship to intimate partner stress. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Vasterling, J. J., & Arditte Hall, K. (2018). Neurocognitive and information processing biases in posttraumatic stress disorder. Current Psychiatry Reports, 20: 99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0964-1

• Vasterling, J. J., Proctor, S. P, Amoroso, P., Kane, R., Heeren, T., & White, R. F. (2006). Neuropsychological outcomes of Army personnel following deployment to the Iraq War. Journal of the American Medical Association, 296, 519-529

• Vasterling J. J., Bryant, R. A., & Keane, T. M. (2012). Editors, PTSD and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. New York: Guilford Press.

• Vasterling, J. J., & Brewin, C. R. (2005). Editors, Neuropsychology of PTSD: Biological, Cognitive and Clinical Perspectives. New York: Guilford Press.

Membership

International Neuropsychological Society

American Psychological Society (Divisions 18 and 40)