About
Dr. Brandon Zuccato is a registered clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist in Ontario and Alberta. He completed his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at the University of Windsor and his pre-doctoral residency at the Edmonton Consortium Clinical Psychology Residency Program in Alberta.
Dr. Zuccato’s clinical background is working with neurological conditions (epilepsy, Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, etc.), neurodegenerative conditions (mild cognitive impairment/dementia), acquired brain injury (stroke, pre- and post-neurosurgery, tumors, encephalitis, etc.), traumatic brain injury (mild/moderate/severe), sport-related concussion, learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia), ADHD, depression, anxiety, PTSD, adjustment disorder, insomnia, and more.
Dr. Zuccato’s research background is in sport-related concussion, sleep, and performance validity testing.
Professional Association Memberships: Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), CPA Rural and Northern Psychology Section
Research Publications:
Abeare, C., Messa, I., Whitfield, C., Zuccato, B., Casey, J., Rykulski, N., & Erdodi, L. (2019). Performance validity in collegiate football athletes at baseline neurocognitive testing. The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation, 34(4), 20-31.
Abeare, C. A., Messa, I., Zuccato, B.G., Merker, B., Erdodi, L. (2018). Prevalence of Invalid Performance on Baseline Testing in Sport-Related Concussion as a Function of Development and Validity Indicator. Journal of the American Medical Association: Neurology (JAMA), 1-7.
Erdodi, L. A., Abeare, C. A., Lichtenstein, J. D., Tyson, B. T., Kucharski, B., Zuccato, B. G., & Roth, R. M. (2017). Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-(WAIS-IV) processing speed scores as measures of noncredible responding: The third generation of embedded performance validity indicators. Psychological assessment, 29(2), 148-157.
Erdodi, L. A., Sagar, S., Seke, K., Zuccato, B. G., Roth, R. (2018). The Stroop Test as a Measure of Performance Validity in Adults Clinically Referred for Neuropsychological Assessment. Psychological Assessment, 75(6), 755-766.
Erdodi, L. A., Tyson, B. T., Abeare, C. A., Zuccato, B. G., Rai, J. K., Seke, K. R., ... & Roth, R. M. (2018). Utility of critical items within the Recognition Memory Test and Word Choice Test. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 25(4), 327-339.
Erdodi, L. A., Tyson, B. T., Shahein, A. G., Lichtenstein, J. D., Abeare, C. A., Pelletier, C. L., Zuccato, B. G., Kucharski, B. & Roth, R. M. (2017). The power of timing: Adding a time-to-completion cutoff to the Word Choice Test and Recognition Memory Test improves classification accuracy. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 39(4), 369-383.
Karr, J. E., Zuccato, B. G., Ingram, E. O., McAuley, T. L., Merker, B., & Abeare, C. A. (2022). The Post-Concussion Symptom Scale: normative data for adolescent student-athletes stratified by gender and preexisting conditions. The American journal of sports medicine, 51(1), 225-236.
Karr, J. E., Zuccato, B. G., Ingram, E. O., Considine, C. M., Merker, B., & Abeare, C. A. (2024). Cognitive, sleep-arousal, physical, and affective domain scores on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale: added utility in detecting symptom elevations among student-athletes with a remote history of concussion. Archives of clinical neuropsychology.
Zuccato, B. G., Tyson, B. T., Erdodi, L. A. (2018). Early Bird Fails the PVT? The Effects of Administration Time and Instrumentation Artifacts on the Classification Accuracy of Performance Validity Tests. Psychological Assessment, 30(11), 1491-1498
Publications under review for publication:
Pender, S., Zuccato, B. G., Correia, V., Sami, S., & Abeare, C. A. (2024). Unraveling The Emotional Links: How Sleep and Somatic Symptoms Interact [Manuscript submitted for publication]. Department of Psychology, University of Windsor; Department of Psychology, Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital.
