Lauren Strober, PhD

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Assistant Director, Wellness Research

Phone
973-324-8459

Lauren Strober, PhD, is assistant director, wellness research in the Center for Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research and director of the Positive Health and Well-Being Laboratory at Kessler Foundation. Dr. Strober is also a staff neuropsychologist at the Kessler Institute of Rehabilitation. In addition, she serves as an assistant professor in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Strober received her MS and PhD degrees in clinical psychology from Pennsylvania State University and completed her clinical internship at the Veterans Administration of Western New York in Buffalo, NY. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Expertise
Multiple Sclerosis
Neurology
Cognitive Functioning
Neuropsychology
Cognitive and Psychological Sequalea
Education
PhD - The Pennsylvania State University
MS - The Pennsylvania State University
BA - University at Albany, State University of New York
Research Interests

Dr. Strober’s primary research interests consist of the phenomenological experience of secondary factors associated with MS and other neurological conditions (e.g., depression, fatigue, sleep disturbance, personality changes); the influence of secondary factors on cognitive functioning, psychological well-being, and quality of life; identification of person-specific factors accountable for various outcomes following illness or injury; and the development of disease-specific measures of secondary factors (i.e., depression). As a clinical neuropsychologist, Dr. Strober’s clinical interests are in the assessment of cognitive and psychological sequalea following injury or illness and assisting her patients with the adjustment to such. 

Publications

View a comprehensive listing of Dr. Strober’s publications on Research Gate.

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