Dr. Carmen R Thomas
Psy.D, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist

Carmen was born in Chile. She has more than 20 years experience as a  Nuclear Medicine Technologist, and as a researcher in Brain Imaging. She earned her Psy.D in Clinical Psychology from Southern California University and a M.A. in Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Carmen has been working with Victims of Crime, 
as well as children and families with depression, trauma, ADD, mood disorders and anxiety for several years. Carmen is also certified as Hypnotherapist, 
and Neuro Linguistic Practitioner.  Carmen welcomed Wellness as life style several years ago. Considering that Wellness is positive, affirming, conscious, 
self-directed,  and aimed to reach individual  full potential.

HONORS AND AWARDS

Recipient of Norman D. Poe Scholarship Award for the most outstanding abstract in the field of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Category. October, 1993

Recipient of Norman D. Poe Scholarship Award for the most outstanding abstract in the field of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Category. October, 1997

Recipient of The Society of Nuclear Medicine Brain Imaging Council Award
Second place-Technologist oral presentation. June, 2000. 

Recipient of World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology Award for best Technologist paper in " Do children with aggressive behavior have temporal lobe changes?". Chile, October 2002.

Recipient of The Society of Nuclear Medicine Brain Imaging Council Award First place-Technologist oral presentation. June, 2003. 

Recipient of Norman D. Poe Scholarship Award for the most outstanding abstract in the field of Nuclear Medicine Technologist Category. October, 2003


RESEARCH 

Logan plot analysis of I-123 Altropane striatal binding in normals, Parkinson’s disease and attention deficit disorder (ADD)". C Thomas, F Mishkin. The Society of Nuclear Medicine 51 th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. June, 2004.

"I-123 Altropane SPECT compared with PET-F-18 Fluoro L DOPA for the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease". 

C Thomas, F Mishkin. Annual Western Regional Meeting- The Society of Nuclear Medicine 2004." I-123 Altropane uptake in Parkinson’s disease, Attention deficit disorder and normal control" .C.Thomas, F Mishkin. Annual Western Regional Meeting - The Society of Nuclear Medicine 2003

"A system for relational reasoning in human prefrontal cortex" Waltz, J.A., Knowlton, B.J., Holyoak, K.J., Boone, K.B., Mishkin, F.S., de Menezes Santos, M., Thomas, C.R., Miller, B.L.. Am Psychol Soc 1999;10(2):119-125.

"The many Faces of frontotemporal dementia." C. Thomas, F. Mishkin, B. Miller.
Annual Western Regional Meeting - The Society of Nuclear Medicine 1996.

"Effects of cocaine in brain perfusion imaging." C. Thomas, I. Mena, L. Chang. T. Strickland. Annual Western Regional Meeting - The Society of Nuclear 
Medicine 1995.
 
Languages: English, Spanish.
 
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