PSU Home Page PSU Psychology Department About PSU Academic Programs
  Peter Arnett Laboratory
PSU Sports Concussion
Neuropsychology Program
 
PSU Neuropsychology
of MS Program
 
research interests
students/training select publications lab pictures

  biographical statement, Peter Arnett, Ph.D.
                
 
Dr. Arnett received his Ph.D. in Psychology (Clinical) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He subsequently completed two years of post-doctoral training in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is currently an associate professor and Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychology at Penn State University. Dr. Arnett’s research has focused on clinical neuropsychology, with applications to individuals with sports-related concussion and patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). His work on MS has been devoted to exploring cognitive, emotional, physical, and social functioning in these patients. More specifically, Dr. Arnett has examined the relationship between secondary factors (like depression, fatigue, chronic pain, motor impairments) and memory, attention, executive functions, and speeded information processing in MS. He is the director of the Neuropsychology of Sports-Related Concussion program at Penn State University, Program Co-Chair for the 2010 INS Mid-Year Meeting, a fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), and past winner of NAN’s Nelson Butters Award for Research Contributions to Clinical Neuropsychology. He has also received a Presidential Commendation for Outstanding Service to the Field of Clinical Neuropsychology from NAN, and is the author of over 70 research articles and book chapters.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Dr. Arnett's vitae