Deana Davalos

Professor, Colorado State University|

Deana earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Psychology from Colorado State University and her B.A. in Psychology from Texas A&M University. Her research and clinical work has focused on neuropsychological and neurophysiological assessments of populations with chronic mental illness.  She completed her predoctoral internship at Yale University Medical School and postdoctoral fellowship in the Developmental Psychobiology Research Group at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus before joining the CU Medical Campus, Department of Psychiatry faculty as Assistant Professor.  She joined the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University in 2005.

She currently serves as Director of the Aging Clinic of the Rockies, Associate Director of the Columbine Health Systems Center for Healthy Aging and is an active member of the Enriched Aging Research Group at CSU.  She has two main areas of research, the first focuses on time processing across the lifespan in healthy and clinical populations and how it relates to higher cognitive skills, such as planning, sequencing and executive functioning. Her current research also focuses on older adults and cognitive health.  She studies neurocognitive functioning in healthy and pathological aging and caregiver cognitive health in older adults.  She and other members of the Enriched Aging Research Group also study the effects of community-based arts engagement for individuals with dementia-related diseases and their caregivers.