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PhD, 2023, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

MS, 2020, University of Massachusetts Amherst

MA, 2016, Southern Connecticut State University

BA, 2013, University of Rhode Island

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Advisor: 

Rebecca Ready PhD

Research Area(s): 

Clinical Psychology

Masters Thesis: 

Associations between Cumulative Concussion and Academic Success in University Students

Research

Mike's research focuses on the intersection of academics, cognition, and emotion regulation in university students with a history of multiple concussions and persistent post-concussion symptoms. 

Teaching

Summer 2017 - Present: Instructor, Methods of Inquiry in Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Winter 2020: Instructor, Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Winter 2019: Instructor, Introductory Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Winter 2018: Instructor, Abnormal Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Summer 2018: Instructor, Introduction to Human Neuropsychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fall 2021:Graduate Teaching Assistant, Abnormal Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fall 2016 - Spring 2021: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Methods of Inquiry in Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Spring 2017: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Interdisciplinary Directions in Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Fall 2015 - Spring 2016: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Statistics in Psychology, Southern Connecticut State University

Publications

Broggi, M & Ready, R. E. (accepted). Academic skills, self-perceptions, and grades in university students with a history of multiple concussions:  The mediating roles of processing speed and psychological symptoms. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Broggi, M., Ready, R. E., & Moore, D. L. (2019). Screening for reading disability in university students with phonological processing and working memory tasks. Dyslexia25(3), 256-266.

Rossetti, M. A., Piryatinsky, I., Ahmed, F. S., Klinge, P. M., Relkin, N. R., Salloway, S., Ravdin, L.D., Brenner, E., Malloy, P.F., Levin, B.E., Broggi, M., Gavett, R., Maniscalco, J.S., & Katzen, H. (2016). Two novel psychomotor tasks in idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society22(3), 341-349.

Biography

Mike is a sixth year student in the Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst focusing in neuropsychology. He earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and philosophy from the University of Rhode Island in 2013. From 2011 to 2015, Mike worked on a clinical research team at Brown University's Memory and Aging Program. During this time he investigated the ability of new neuropsychological instruments and spinal fluid analysis to predict patient response to shunt placement in hydrocephalus. In 2015, Mike joined the Speech, Reading, and Cognition Lab at Southern Connecticut State University. He earned a master’s degree in psychology from Southern Connecticut State University in 2016 after completing his thesis on developing a new screening instrument to detect reading disabilities in college students.