Dr. Lucette Cysique is a neuropsychologist with a background in experimental psychology; clinical neuropsychology; neurosciences; and neuroimaging. Dr. Cysique was awarded her PhD in 2005 at the University of New South Wales in the area of HIV neuropsychology. Her central interest resides in establishing models of neurocognitive/brain changes as applied to chronic brain injury in HIV infection; aging, cancer, and Hepatitis C. She is also interested in validating those models cross-culturally. She is currently Brain Sciences University of New South Wales post-doctoral fellow. Prior to this appointment, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center and Laboratory of Cognitive Imaging (University of California San Diego). Dr. Cysique is currently receiving additional training in the Rae group for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Morphometric MRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging.
