Clinical Neuropsychologist
Rebecca Wershba, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology
Arizona State University
APA-Accredited Pre-Doctoral Internship
Southern Arizona VA Health Care System
Postdoctoral Fellowship
UMass Medical Center, Worcester MA
Department of Neurology
Advanced Fellowship
Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge MA
Department of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Advanced Fellowship
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Harvard Medical School
Home Base Program
Specialty
Clinical Neuropsychology
About Dr. Wershba
Dr. Wershba is a clinical
neuropsychologist. She earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Arizona
State University. Her postdoctoral training at UMass Medical Center involved
assessment of patients across the lifespan, from children to geriatrics, with
neurological concerns including dementing disorders, movement disorders,
epilepsy, brain tumors, ADHD, and learning disorders. She also trained at
the Cambridge Health Alliance where she conducted assessments of adult and
geriatric patients with complex psychiatric or substance use histories, as well
as patients with limited education or from diverse backgrounds. Dr. Wershba
additionally completed an advanced postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General
Hospital within the Home Base Program, focusing on patients with mild traumatic brain injury, and
(often) comorbid substance use and/or mood disorders.
At Metrowest Neuropsychology,
Dr. Wershba works with children, teenagers, adults, and geriatric patients. She
aims to make the evaluation process as comfortable and personable as possible
while conducting a holistic assessment of psychological, social, and medical
characteristics that can affect a person’s cognitive abilities. In feedback
sessions, she not only provides diagnostic information to patients but makes
tailored recommendations to help them seek appropriate treatment or adjust
their lifestyles in order to think and feel their best.
Selected Publications
Wershba, R., Locke, D.E., & Lanyon, R.I. (2015) Analysis of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory– 2– Restructured Form response bias indicators as suppressors or moderators in a medical setting. Psychological Assessment, 27(2):733-737. doi: 10.1037/a0038802..
Lanyon, R. I., Goodstein, L. D., & Wershba, R. (2014). “Good impression” as a moderator in employment-related assessment. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 22(1), 52– 61.
Lanyon, R.I., Maxwell, B.M., Wershba, R. (2014). The relationship of pre-operative health status to sustained outcome in gastric bypass surgery. Obesity Surgery 24(2): 191-196.
Lanyon, R. I. & Wershba, R. (2013). The effect of under-reporting response bias on the assessment of psychopathology. Psychological Assessment, 25(2), 331– 338.
Locke, D.E., Kirlin, K., Wershba, R., Osborne, D., Drazkowski, J., Sirven, J., & Noe, K. (2011) Randomized comparison of the Personality Assessment Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 in the epilepsy monitoring unit. Epilepsy & Behavior, 21(4), 397– 401.
Youngjohn, J.R ., Wershba, R., Stevenson, M., Thomas, M., & Sturgeon, J. (2011). Independent validation of the MMPI-2-RF somatic/cognitive and validity scales in TBI litigants tested for effort. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 25, 463– 476.
Finan, P. H., Zautra, A. J., & Wershba, R. (2009). The dynamics of emotion in adaptation to stress. In R.J. Contrada & A. Baum (Eds.), The Handbook of Stress Science: Biology, Psychology, and Health (pp. 209– 220). Springer Publishing.
