Biography

Dr. Light received her PhD in clinical psychology and neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and completed post-doctoral training in clinical neuropsychology at the University of Michigan Medical School. She also completed a post-doctoral master’s program in Clinical Psychopharmacology with the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. 

Her areas of research expertise include clinical psychopharmacology, affective neuroscience (i.e., the study of the neural basis of emotional experience), and clinical neuropsychology (i.e., the study of brain-behavior relationships). Her clinical interests include dementia, mild cognitive impairment, brain injury, neurodevelopmental disorders, and psychiatric disorders—such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), treatment-resistant MDD, anxiety, bipolar disorder, etc. Clinically, she takes a flexible battery approach to testing, and therefore each assessment is personalized given each patient's presenting symptoms.  

In addition, Dr. Light has expertise in cognitive rehabilitation. Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) describes several therapies designed to retrain or preserve thinking abilities. The focus of therapy can be memory, concentration and attention, learning, planning and/or judgment, or a combination.