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Matthew Wright

Assistant Professor

Psychology | 559.278.3852 | Office: Science II 357

mattwright@mail.fresnostate.edu

Education

Postdoc, UCLA Semel Institute 
Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman
M.A., California State University, Fresno
B.A., California State University, Fresno

Courses Taught

PSYCH162
Dr. Wright is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at CSU Fresno and an Adjunct Full Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF. He Directs the Neurocognitive Equipotentiality, Recovery and Development (NERD) Laboratory, where he uses neuropsychological and cognitive methods, functional neuroimaging, and brain stimulation to better understand traumatic brain injury (TBI) and HIV/AIDS.
 
Prior to joining the faculty at CSU Fresno, Dr. Wright served as an Associate Professor in Psychiatry at UCLA, Director of Neuropsychology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Director of the NERD Laboratory at Lundquist Institute, Research Director of the Safe Harbor Trauma Recovery Center (for victims of domestic violence) at Harbor-UCLA, and Co-Director of the Neurotherapeutics Institute at the Lundquist Institute.
Cognitive impairment following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and HIV/AIDS, neuropsychological assessment, test development, cognitive remediation, brain stimulation, & neuroimaging.