David J. Schaeffer Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory University of Georgia Phone: (989) 430 0406 Athens, GA 30602 3013 Email: djschaef@uga.edu Education Ph.D. University of Georgia, expected 2015 Neuroscience, Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute Advisor: Jennifer E. McDowell B.S. Michigan Technological University, 2010 Psychology, Summa cum laude Funding and Awards Society for Psychophysiological Research Poster Award, 2014 ARCS Foundation Award ($7,500), 2014 present National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011 14 Salary/tuition ($92,000) Research/travel ($32,000) Society for Psychophysiological Research Student Travel Award ($500), 2011 Franklin Foundation Travel Award ($600), 2011 Training/research grant for Training Course in fmri at University of Michigan, 2011 Training/research grant for Multimodal Neuroimaging Training Program Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh ($2,500), 2011 Graduate School Travel Award ($250), 2011 Summa cum laude, Michigan Technological University, 2010 Provost s Award for Scholarship, Michigan Technological University, 2009 Publications Schaeffer, D. J., Chi, L., Krafft, C. E., Li, Q., Schwarz, N. F., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). Individual differences in working memory moderate the relationship between prosaccade latency and antisaccade error rate. Psychophysiology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12380 Frank, D. W., Dewitt, M.A., Hudgens Haney, M., Schaeffer, D. J., Ball, B. H., Schwarz, N, Huessein A. A., Schwarz, N., Smart, L. M., & Sabatinelli, D. (2014). Emotion regulation: quantitative meta analysis of functional activation and deactivation. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 45, 202 211. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.06.010 Schaeffer, D. J., Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). An 8 month exercise intervention alters uncinate fasciculus white matter integrity in overweight children. Psychophysiology, 51, 728 733. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12227
Schaeffer, D. J., Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). The relationship between uncinate fasciculus white matter integrity and verbal memory proficiency in children. NeuroReport, 25, 921 925. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0000000000000204 Krafft, C. E., Schaeffer, D. J., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Weinberger, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Rodrique, A. L., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). Improved fronto parietal white matter integrity is associated with attendance in an after school exercise program. Developmental Neuroscience, 36, 1 9. doi: 10.1159/000356219 Krafft, C. E., Pierce, J. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Weinberger, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., Camchong, J., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). An eight month exercise intervention alters resting state synchrony in overweight children. Neuroscience, 256, 445 455. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.09.052 Krafft, C.E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Weinberger, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., Pierce, J. E., Rodrigue, A. L., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Miller, P. H., Tomporowski, P. D., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2014). An 8 month exercise intervention alters brain activation in overweight children. Obesity, 22, 232 242. doi: 10.1002/oby.20518 Schaeffer, D. J., Amlung, M. T., Li, Q., Krafft C. E., Austin, B. P., Dyckman, K. A., & McDowell, J. E. (2013). Neural correlates of behavioral variation in healthy adults antisaccade performance. Psychophysiology, 50, 325 333. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12030 Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Li, Q., Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., & McDowell, J. E. (2012). The location and function of parietal cortex supporting of reflexive and volitional saccades, a meta analysis of over a decade of functional MRI data. In A. Costa & E. Villalba (Eds.), Horizons of neuroscience research, volume 9 (pp. 131 153). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers. Helton, W. S., Hayrynen, L., & Schaeffer, D. J. (2009). Sustained attention to local and global target features is different: Performance and tympanic membrane temperature. Brain & Cognition, 71, 9 13. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2009.03.001 Manuscripts Under Review Jiang, X.*, Schaeffer, D. J.*, Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (Under review). An 8 month exercise intervention alters functional connectomic signatures in overweight children: a randomized controlled trial. *Joint first authors. Human Brain Mapping. Ye, J., Li, Y., Lazar, N. A., Schaeffer, D. J., & McDowell, J. E. (Under review). Finding common active regions in fmri data from multiple subjects by periodogram clustering and clustering ensemble. Statistics in Medicine. Schwarz, N. F., Krafft, C.E., Chi, L., Weinberger, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., Pierce, J. E.,
Rodrigue, A. L., DiBattisto, C. H., Maria, B. L., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (Under review). Antisaccade related brain activation in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder a pilot study. Pediatric Research: Neuroimaging. Manuscripts in Preparation Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. (In preparation). White matter structural integrity differs between people with schizophrenia and healthy controls as a function of cognitive control. Presentations Pierce, J. E., McCardel, J. B., Coppiano, J. S., Rodrigue, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., Arkin, S. & McDowell, J. E. Modulation of the neural correlates of saccade performance using task switching and trial type probability in an event related fmri paradigm. Presented at the 2014 Society for Neuroscience Meeting. Washington, D.C. Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. Diffusion tensor imaging reveals structural differences between people with schizophrenia and healthy individuals with low levels of cognitive control. Presented at the September 2014 Society for Psychophysiological Research annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. Pierce, J. E., McCardel, J. B., Coppiano, J. S., Rodrigue, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., McDowell, J. E. Antisaccade trial probability modulates saccadic circuitry activation in a rapid event related fmri paradigm. Presented at the June 2014 Organization for Human Brain Mapping annual meeting in Hamburg, Germany. Rodrigue, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J.,, Pierce, J. E., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. Altered correct and error related activity during antisaccades in participants with schizophrenia compared to healthy controls with low working memory. Presented at the May 2014 Society of Biological Psychiatry annual meeting in New York, New York. Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. Diffusion tensor imaging reveals structural differences related to antisaccade performance in people with schizophrenia. Presented at the April 2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Rodrigue, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J.,, Pierce, J. E., Clementz, B. A., McDowell, J. E. Error related activity during antisaccades is linked to increased coupling of middle temporal gyrus and posterior cingulate. Presented at the April 2014 Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Schaeffer, D. J., Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J., Yanasak, N., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (February, 2014). An 8 month exercise intervention alters brain structure and function in overweight children. Presented at the SEC MRI/fMRI Conference, Athens, Georgia.
Schaeffer, D. J., Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J., Yanasak, N., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (November, 2013). An 8 month exercise intervention alters uncinate fasciculus white matter integrity in overweight children. Presented at Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, California. Chi, L., Krafft, C. E., Li, Q., Schwarz, N. F., Schaeffer, D. J., McDowell, J. E. Individual differences in working memory moderate the relationship between antisaccade error rate and prosaccade latency. (October, 2013). Presented at Society for Psychophysiological Research, Florence, Italy. Krafft, C.E., Weinberger, A.L., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Schaeffer, D.J., Pierce, J.E., Rodrigue, A.L., Davis, C.L., McDowell, J.E. (April, 2013). Eight month exercise intervention alters brain activation during cognitive control in overweight children. Presented at Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, California. Chi, L, Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Li, Q., Schaeffer, D. J., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Dyckman, K. A., & McDowell, J. E. (October, 2012). Common and distinct functional regions of neural circuitry supporting reflexive and volitional saccades (a meta analysis of functional mri data). Presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana. Krafft, C. E., Weinberger, A. L., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Schaeffer, D. J., Pierce, J. E., Rodrigue, A. L., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Miller, P. H., Tomporowski, P. D., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (October, 2012). An 8 month exercise intervention alters brain activation in overweight children. Presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana. Pierce, J. E., Krafft, C. E., Rodrigue, A. L.,Weinberger, A. L., Schaeffer, D. J., Chi, L., Schwarz, N. F., Allison, J. D., Yanasak, N. E., Miller, P. H., Tomporowski, P. D., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (October, 2012). Associations of cortical thickness and subcortical volume with measure of cognitive performance in overweight children. Presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana. Schwarz, N. F., Krafft, C. E., Chi, L., Pierce, J. E., Rodrigue, A. L., Weinberger, A. L., Li, Q., Schaeffer, D. J., Tomporowski, P. D., Yanasak, N. E., Allison, J. D., DiBattisto, C. H., Maria, B. L., Davis, C. L. & McDowell, J. E. (October, 2012). Neural correlates of cognitive control and behavior in a sample of children with ADHD. Presented at Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana. Schaeffer, D. J., Krafft, C. E., Schwarz, N. F., Chi, L., Rodrigue, A. L., Pierce, J. E., Allison, J., Yanasak, N., Liu, T., Davis, C. L., & McDowell, J. E. (September 20, 2012). The relationship between white matter diffusivity in uncinate fasciculus and verbal memory proficiency in overweight and obese children. Presented at the 52nd meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, New Orleans, Louisiana. Chi, L., Austin, B. P, Krafft, C. E., Li, Q., Schwarz, N. F., Schaeffer, D. J., Pierce, J. E., Rodrigue, A. L., McDowell, J. E. (June 12, 2012). Practice induced neural plasticity in
schizophrenia. Presented at the Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Beijing, China. Schaeffer, D. J., Amlung, M. T., Li, Q., Krafft, C. E., Austin, B. P., Dyckman, K. A., & McDowell, J. E. (September 17, 2011). Brain activation patterns differentiating correct and incorrect antisaccade performance. Presented at the 51st meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, Boston, MA. Schaeffer, D. J., Libero, L. E., Levens, S. M., Kohli, N., Jung, K. J. (July 14, 2011). Techniques in diffusion weighted imaging and fiber tract visualization. Presented at the 2011 Multimodal Neuroimaging Training Program Symposium: The Resting State, Default Networks, and Neural Connectivity, Pittsburgh, PA. Kern, R. P., Helton, W. S., Schaeffer, D. J., & Landow, M. (April 9, 2009). The effect of emotion and source of theme congruent sound on memory for pictures. Presented at the 101st meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Savannah, GA. Kern, R. P., Helton, W. S., Schaeffer, D. J., & Landow, M. (May 22, 2009). The effect of arousal and source of sound on memory for pictures. Presented at the APS 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. Helton, W. S., Kern, R. P., Schaeffer, D. J., & Landow, M. (July 18, 2009). The relationship between memory for emotional stimuli and subjective state. Presented at the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences 2009 meeting, Evanston, IL. Kern, R. P. & Schaeffer, D. J. (May 22, 2007). The effect of valence on memory for pictures. Presented at the 100th meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA. Research Experience MRI Scanner Operator (100+ hours) 3.0 Tesla, Bio Imaging Research Center, University of Georgia Graduate Student, Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, 2010 present Dr. Jennifer McDowell Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Georgia Research Assistant, Human Robot Interaction Laboratory, 2008 Dr. William Helton Department of Psychology, Michigan Technological University Research Assistant, Memory Lab, 2007 2010 Dr. Rosalie Kern Department of Psychology, Michigan Technological University Guest Lecturer Teaching Experience
Psyc 4300 Brain Imaging Lab. Lecture: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Psyc 4300 Brain Imaging Lab. Lecture: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Teaching Assistant, University of Georgia Psyc 4130 Physiological and Comparative Psychology, 2015 Teaching Assistant, Michigan Technological University Psyc 2720 Statistics, 2010 Psyc 3060 Physiological Psychology, 2009 Professional Activities Peer reviewer for: Pediatric Exercise Science Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2014 present Society for Neuroscience, 2013 present Society for Psychophysiological Research, 2011 present Psi Chi, 2010 present Association of Psychological Science, 2008 present Association of Psychology Students, 2007 2010 President, 2009 2010 Vice President, 2008 2009 Service University of Georgia Undergraduate Mentoring Program, 2013 present Volunteer judge for Georgia Science and Engineering Fair, 2013, 2014, & 2015