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Dr. Chialant's background includes extensive training and
experience in the areas of experimental and clinical neuropsychology,
forensic neuropsychology, and relational mindfulness based psychology.
Her practice is entering its tenth year of providing both clinical and
consultation services. Dr. Chialant
provides consultation services to attorneys involved in
criminal, civil or immigration law, and to insurance providers in
independent medical evaluations. Consultation services can be
offered anywhere in the United States.
Dr. Chialant provides clinical services in the fields of
neuropsychology and individual psychotherapy.
Clinical services are provided in her private practice in Cambridge.
Services are offered in English and Italian.
Dr. Chialant is a Clinical Associate in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School and is a member of the American Psychological
Association, Division 40 (Neuropsychology), the Massachusetts Neuropsychological
Society, the Associazione Alunni, Ricercatori e Professori della
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Alumni, Researcher and Professor
Association of the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), and the
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center. She is also a volunteer
neuropsychologist for Physicians for Human Rights.
Dr. Chialant's
areas of interest include memory evaluations, the differential
diagnosis of psychiatric versus neurological versus substance abuse deficits,
the integrated assessments of the interplay of cognition and emotions,
and relational and mindfulness based psychotherapeutic interventions. Dr. Chialant has applied her expertise in several settings, to include
hospital and clinic based practices, educational settings, and
consultation services to attorneys.
She obtained a Laura Magna cum Laude from the University of Perugia, Italy, where she majored in neurolinguistics. She then won a
national competition obtaining a three year post-doctoral fellowship
at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, where she continued her
studies in neurolinguistics and began her research projects in this
area. Her work included collaborations with the Centro Nazionale di
Ricerca di Roma (the National Institute of Research in Rome). She
subsequently obtained a three-year fellowship to work on a Ph.D. in
Cognitive Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University where she
specialized in experimental studies of language and visual spatial
disorders in stroke patients. After completing her Ph.D. in 1995, she
obtained an APA-approved Clinical Psychology Retraining Certificate
from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998.
Her
neuropsychology clinical training includes a pre-doctoral externship
at the Neuropsychology Department of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
Center in Hanover in New Hampshire, a pre-doctoral externship at the
Neuropsychology Department of the Baystate Medical Center in
Springfield Massachusetts, an American Psychological Association (APA)
internship at the Department of Mental Health at Tewksbury Hospital, a
two-year post-doctoral training in the Neuropsychology Department of
McLean Hospital, and private-practice experience in forensic
neuropsychology with Dr. Donald Davidoff, Ph.D. in Boston.
Her career as a
neuropsychologist has included working at the Psychology Department of
Dartmouth College, the Psychology Department of Harvard University,
the Brighton-Allston Mental Health Association and the Memory
Disorders Clinic at McLean Hospital.
Dr. Chialant has
published extensively in the field of neuropsychology and has
presented her work and ideas to several eminent academic and clinical
institutions to include the University of Beijing, the Rehabilitation
Institute of Chicago, the Academy of Aphasia, TENNET, the Moss
Rehabilitation Center in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts
Alzheimer's Association. She has also offered a series of educational
lectures on cognitive deficits and aphasia to several hospitals in the
Boston area to include Massachusetts General Hospital, Spaulding
Rehabilitation Hospital and Tewksbury Hospital.
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