Lauren Pollak, PhD, ABPP-CN, has been a staff neuropsychologist at the MGH Psychology Assessment Center (PAC) since 2000 and is currently an assistant professor of psychology within the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Pollak completed her undergraduate studies at Brown University and received her Ph.D. from the San Diego State University/UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in 1998. She completed both her predoctoral internship and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Brown University.  

Dr. Pollak provides neuropsychological evaluations to a wide range of adult patient populations but has particular expertise in movement disorders (e.g., Parkinson’s disease, parkinsonism-plus syndromes), leukodystrophies, and older adults with neurodegenerative conditions. 

Dr. Pollak is a member of MGH’s multidisciplinary movement disorders neurosurgical team. She also provides individualized cognitive rehabilitation therapy to patients with memory and executive functioning challenges. She is involved in clinical training and also serves as a neuropsychological consultant on various large-scale research projects.