Daniel Norton

About:

Before coming to Gordon College in 2019, Professor Norton was a Visiting Assistant professor of psychology at Williams College, and previous to that he was a postdoctoral fellow at MGH, where he studied Alzhiemer's disease and practiced cognitive behavioral therapy in an outpatient clinic. As a scientist practitioner he does research on questions that are clinical in nature, and uses the scientific method in his clinical practice. In general, his research is in the realm of clinical psychological science.  He focuses on well-understood brain systems, especially the visual system, as a way to uncover how the brain and mind change in neurological and psychiatric disorders. His previous work has utilized psychophysical and eye tracking methods to help understand, track, or diagnose schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s disease, and autism.