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Sarah Shizuko Morimoto

Sarah Shizuko Morimoto, PsyD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

  • HMHI (UNI) Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic

    801-587-1288
  • Dr. Morimoto is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders of late life. Her research encompasses the full range of digital cognitive remediation intervention development, from identifying targeted, and clinically relevant cognitive deficits, and the underlying neural circuit dysfunction, to developing computerized paradigms, conducting clinical trials, to CR method development. Her intervention for geriatric depression NeuroFlex garnered national attention when her pilot trial was published in Nature Communications. Dr. Morimoto's work has been featured on National Public Radio; LX NBC News, KSL, LiveScience and the Salt Lake Tribune.

    Dr. Morimoto directs a clinical service which addresses a wide range of cognitive and emotional deficits comorbid with psychiatric, neurological, and medical conditions. This service provides precision personalized medicine, and includes holistic and fine-grained evaluation of each patient’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and an individualized, multidisciplinary treatment plan tailored to each patients’ unique profile, follow up testing and relapse prevention.

    With her expertise, Dr. Morimoto aims to raise awareness about the importance of brain health at every age, and provide an evidence-based service where patients can learn how to optimize their cognitive and emotional functioning

    Specialties

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Population Health Sciences - Primary
    Academic Divisions
  • Dr. Morimoto is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist with expertise in diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders of late life. Her research encompasses the full range of digital cognitive remediation intervention development, from identifying targeted, and clinically relevant cognitive deficits, and the underlying neural circuit dysfunction, to developing computerized paradigms, conducting clinical trials, to CR method development. Her intervention for geriatric depression NeuroFlex garnered national attention when her pilot trial was published in Nature Communications. Dr. Morimoto's work has been featured on National Public Radio; LX NBC News, KSL, LiveScience and the Salt Lake Tribune.

    Dr. Morimoto directs a clinical service which addresses a wide range of cognitive and emotional deficits comorbid with psychiatric, neurological, and medical conditions. This service provides precision personalized medicine, and includes holistic and fine-grained evaluation of each patient’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, and an individualized, multidisciplinary treatment plan tailored to each patients’ unique profile, follow up testing and relapse prevention.

    With her expertise, Dr. Morimoto aims to raise awareness about the importance of brain health at every age, and provide an evidence-based service where patients can learn how to optimize their cognitive and emotional functioning

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Population Health Sciences -Primary
    Academic Divisions

    Research interests

    • Targeted and Evidence-Based Interventions for Cognitive Deficits
    • Neuroplasticity-Based Computerized Cognitive Remediation
    • Cognitive Deficits in Psychiatric Disorders
    • Cognitive decline in normal aging
    • Neurobiology of Depression in the Elderly
    • Computerized Cognitive Remediation Method Development

    Education history

    Research Fellow Neurobiology of geriatric mood disorders - Weill Cornell Medical School Research Fellow
    Neuropsychology - New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center Postdoctoral Fellow
    Fellowship Neuropsychology - Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School Clinical Fellow
    Clinical Psychology - Pacific Graduate School of Psychology/Stanford University School of Medicine Psy.D.
    Graduate Training Clinical Psychology - Pacific Graduate School of Psychology/Stanford University School of Medicine M.S.
    Psychology - University of California, Berkeley B.A.