Caroline Hollnagel, PhD

Dr. Hollnagel is a neuropsychologist, a specialist in the relationship between the central nervous system and behaviors. Dr. Hollnagel completed her undergraduate training at Smith College and her graduate studies at Washington University. She subsequently completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.

Her research and clinical interests center around dementia, the role of the frontal lobe in cognitive and behavioral inhibition, rehabilitation from stroke and brain injury, first break in schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder. She hopes to help refine diagnosis and intervention for these disorders.

Dr. Hollnagel has extensive teaching and supervisory experience with undergraduates at Washington University, Fontbonne College, and Mills College; clinical psychology graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley; medical students, pre-doctoral interns and post-doctoral psychology fellows at the University of California, San Francisco; and supervising psychiatry residents at the University of California, San Francisco. She's also taught professional peers in teaching methodology at the University of California, San Francisco.

She has served as a subject matter expert for the State of California in developing the licensing exam for clinical psychologists; volunteers as a speaker for support groups, hospitals and universities; and has volunteered at school science fairs to teach about the brain and served a number of years as a science mentor for high school students. She has participated in Screening for National Depression Day, and most recently put together a community education series at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center on topics ranging from attention deficit disorder to memory to caregiver stress.