I am a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in neuropsychology and the neuroscience of serious mental illness. I maintain a part-time private practice offering remote and in-person psychotherapy services based in South Orange County, California. CA License PSY27514.

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ABOUT THE PRACTICE

In my therapy practice, I treat a broad range of psychological and emotional difficulties, including depression, anxiety, relationship issues, and challenging life transitions. I also have specialized expertise in the treatment of individuals with trauma history and psychotic disorders, using evidence-based psychosocial interventions within a recovery and community integration model. Read more about my psychotherapy services.

In my assessment practice, I work with clients who are self-referred or referred to me from specialty medicine (neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation medicine) to help clarify diagnostic questions and offer treatment recommendations. For these clients, I assess and diagnose problems with cognitive function and psychological/behavioral concerns. Typically, these services are requested when someone is experiencing new difficulties in the context of an injury, illness, or aging. Read more about my neuropsychological assessment services.

In addition to my clinical practice, I maintain an active clinical neuroscience research program. My research uses cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to understand how the brain processes social and non-social information in individuals with serious mental illness, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. My goal is to understand how these neurocognitive changes contribute to cognitive impairments and social and interpersonal difficulties. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Academic Affiliations. I have authored manuscripts published in the American Journal of Psychiatry and Frontiers in Psychology, among others, and written several book chapters. I am a member of the American Psychological Association, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, and the Society for Neuroscience. 

TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

Licensure

  • CA PSY 27514

Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles, PhD, Clinical Psychology

  • University of California, Berkeley, BA, Psychology

Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • MIRECC Advanced Fellowship in Mental Health Research and Treatment VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, West Los Angeles

Clinical Training

  • VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Pre-doctoral Internship

  • Medical Psychology Assessment Center, UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital

  • Memory and Aging Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior

  • Anxiety Disorders Research Center, UCLA Department of Psychology

  • UCLA Psychology Clinic

Professional Affiliations

  • American Psychological Association, Member

  • Society for Neuroscience, Member

  • Society of Biological Psychiatry, Member

  • Society for Research in Psychopathology, Member

  • Schizophrenia International Research Society, Member

 Professional Service

  •  Review Editor, Editorial Board, Frontiers in Psychology: Psychopathology (2021 – Present)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jimenez, A. M., Lee, J., Reavis, E. A., Wynn, J. K., & Green, M. F. (2020). Neural correlates of true and false recognition memory for socially relevant information in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 1(1): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaa029

Jimenez, A. M., Riedel, P., Lee, J., Reavis, E. A., & Green, M. F. (2019). Linking resting-state networks and social cognition in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Human Brain Mapping, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.24731

Jimenez, A. M., Lee, J., Reavis, E. A., Wynn, J. K., & Green, M. F. (2018). Aberrant patterns of neural activity when perceiving emotion from biological motion in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical, 20: 380-387. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2018.08.014

Jimenez, A. M., Lee, J., Wynn, J.K., & Green, M.F. (2018). The neural correlates of self-referential memory encoding and retrieval in schizophrenia. Neuropsychologia, 109:19-27. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.12.004.

Jimenez, A. M., Lee, J., Green, M. F., Wynn, J. K. (2017). Functional connectivity when detecting rare visual targets in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research Neuroimaging, 261:35-43. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2017.01.007.

Jimenez, A. M., Lee, J., Wynn, J. K., Cohen, M. S., Engel, S. A., Glahn, D. C, Nuechterlein K. H., Reavis, E. A., Green, M. F. (2016). Abnormal ventral and dorsal attention network activity during single and dual target detection in schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:323. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00323.

Higier, R. G*., Jimenez, A. M*., Hultman, C., Borg, J., Roman, C., Kizling, I., & Cannon, T. D. (2014). Enhanced neurocognitive functioning and positive temperament in twins discordant for bipolar disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 171(11):1191-1198. *authors contributed equally to the work