Christine Bushell, PsyD

Christine Bushell, PsyD, is currently a forensic psychology postdoctoral fellow and clinical psychology resident at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Prior to obtaining her doctorate, she completed a Master of Arts degree in forensic psychology from New York University. She completed her PsyD in clinical psychology from the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University and her predoctoral internship at the NYU-Bellevue Hospital Clinical Psychology internship program on the neuropsychology track. She recently completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at Dartmouth Health. Dr. Bushell has conducted clinical neuropsychological evaluations for individuals with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric conditions across inpatient and outpatient settings. She has also received additional training in criminal forensic and forensic neuropsychological assessment.

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Research interests:

  • Factors affecting performance validity tests

  • Expanding available neuropsychological normative data for diverse populations

Clinical interests:

  • Clinical and forensic neuropsychological assessment

  • Complex comorbid medical, neurological, and psychiatric illness

  • Epilepsy, neurodegenerative conditions

Select Publications/presentations:

Bushell, C.M., Myers, M.A., Moncrief, G.G., Graefe A.C., Isquith, P.K., Roth, R.M. (2026). TOMM Trial 1 Time to Completion as an Embedded Performance Validity Test. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), Chicago, IL.

Bushell, C.M., Myers, M.A., Moncrief, G.G., Roth, R.M. (2026). PVT failure among patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder and other serious mental illness in the inpatient setting. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), Philadelphia, PA.

Bushell, C.M., Myers, M.A., Moncrief, G.G., Roth, R.M. (2026). Impact of insomnia on performance validity tests. Poster accepted at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), Philadelphia, PA.

Bushell, C.M., Castillo, L.R., Salinas, L., & Barr, W.B. (2023). Demographic factors affecting sensitivity rates of performance validity tests in Spanish-speaking forensic litigants. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS), San Diego, California.