Sarah Shizuko Morimoto
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Sarah Shizuko Morimoto, PsyD

Languages spoken: English

Clinical Locations

Primary Location

Huntsman Mental Health Institute

Huntsman Mental Health Institute Downtown Behavioral Health Clinic
525 East 100 South
Salt Lake City , UT 84102
801-583-2500
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  • 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 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.

    Specialties

  • 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 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.

    Board Certification and Academic Information

    Academic Departments Psychiatry -Adjunct Associate Professor
    Population Health Sciences -Associate Professor

    Education history

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

    Selected Publications

    Journal Article

    1. Bessette KL, Karstens AJ, Crane NA, Peters AT, Stange JP, Elverman KH, Morimoto SS, Weisenbach SL, Langenecker S (2020). A Lifespan Model of Interference Resolution and Inhibitory Control: Risk for Depression and Changes with Illness Progression. Neuropsychology review, 30(4), 477-498. (Read full publication)
    2. Victoria LW, Alexopoulos GS, Ilieva I, Stein AT, Hoptman MJ, Chowdhury N, Respino M, Morimoto SS, Kanellopoulos D, Avari JN, Gunning F (2019). White matter abnormalities predict residual negative self-referential thinking following treatment of late-life depression with escitalopram: A preliminary study. Journal of affective disorders, 243, 62-69. (Read full publication)
    3. Morimoto SS, Altizer RA, Gunning FM, Hu W, Liu J, Cote SE, Nitis J, Alexopoulos G (2020). Targeting Cognitive Control Deficits With Neuroplasticity-Based Computerized Cognitive Remediation in Patients With Geriatric Major Depression: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Trial. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry, 28(9), 971-980. (Read full publication)
    4. Duff K, Anderson JS, Mallik AK, Suhrie KR, Atkinson TJ, Dalley BCA, Morimoto SS, Hoffman J (2018). Short-term repeat cognitive testing and its relationship to hippocampal volumes in older adults. Journal of clinical neuroscience, 57, 121-125. (Read full publication)
    5. Respino M, Hoptman MJ, Victoria LW, Alexopoulos GS, Solomonov N, Stein AT, Coluccio M, Morimoto SS, Blau CJ, Abreu L, Burdick KE, Liston C, Gunning F (2020). Cognitive Control Network Homogeneity and Executive Functions in Late-Life Depression. Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, 5(2), 213-221. (Read full publication)
    6. Vega JN, Newhouse PA, Conley AC, Szymkowicz SM, Gong X, Cote S, Mayer I, Taylor WD, Morimoto S (2023). Use of focused computerized cognitive training (Neuroflex) to improve symptoms in women with persistent chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment. Digital health, 9, 20552076231192754. (Read full publication)
    7. Lindbergh CA, Altizer R Jr, Grady JJ, Diniz BS, Kamath J, Steffens DC, Morimoto S (2024). Computerized cognitive remediation of Long COVID in older adults. International psychogeriatrics, 1-3. (Read full publication)

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