Seminar
Lecture Series (2020 - present)
Thursdays, 10:00 - 11:30 AM
For more information, please contact Iris Strangmann, PhD (ims2168@cumc.columbia) and Emily Hokett, PhD ( ech2175@cumc.columbia.edu).
All Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars will be held as hybrid, unless otherwise specified.
To join via Zoom, please use the following reoccurring Zoom link with this meeting ID: 971 2214 9768.
If you have never used Zoom before, please use this link (https://zoom.us/test) to review your settings ahead of the next meeting, and contact Iris Strangmann, PhD or Emily Hokett, PhD with any questions or concerns.
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2024 |
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Title |
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January 2 |
No talk |
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December 26 |
No talk |
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December 19 |
Leila Simani, PhD |
TBD |
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December 12 |
Zarina Kraal, PhD |
TBD |
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December 5 |
Angeliki Tsapanou, PhD |
Sleep Phenotypes and Genotypes |
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November 28 |
No talk |
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November 21 |
Tamar Gollan, PhD |
Aging Effects on Bilingual Language Switching Reflect Subtle Changes in Cognitive Control |
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November 14 |
Emily Hokett, PhD |
Works In Progress: Associations Among Sleep, Brain Measures, and Race and Ethnicity |
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November 7 |
Hengda He, PhD |
Network-based amyloid-β pathology predicts subsequent cognitive decline in cognitively normal older adults |
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October 31 |
Jordan Weiss, PhD |
Estimating the Lifetime Risk of Dementia |
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October 24 |
Iris Strangmann, PhD |
Cross-National Comparisons of the Association of Multilingualism and Education on Cognition Among Older Adults In India, Mexico, and South Africa |
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October 17 |
Katrin Wolfova, MD, PhD |
Plasma Biomarkers and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Multiple Sclerosis |
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October 10 |
Jeff Pyne, PhD |
Phase Contrast-Derived Cerebral Blood Flow is Associated with Neurodegeneration and Cerebrovascular Injury in Older Adults |
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September 26 |
Sarah E. Tom, PhD, MPH |
Adult Changes in Thought Study Life Course Core |
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September 19 |
Christian Habeck, PhD |
Simple and Avoidable Quantitative Reasoning Fallacies in the Analysis of High-Dimensional Data |
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September 12 |
Victoria Leavitt, PhD |
Feasibility Study of a Novel Smartphone app-based Multidomain Cognitive test in a Technology-Naive Sample of Rural Ethiopian Adolescent Girls |
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September 5 |
Yaakov Stern, PhD |
Update on the Reference Ability Neural Network Study |
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June 20 |
Fatemeh Hasanzadeh, PhD |
Co-Activation Patterns in fMRI Signals |
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June 13 |
Justina Avila-Rieger, PhD |
Sex/Gender Differences in Associations of Plasma Alzheimer’s Disease Biomarkers with Memory & Brain Integrity in a Diverse Cohort of Middle-Aged Adults |
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June 6 |
Yaakov Stern, PhD |
Heterogeneity in the Presentation and Course of Alzheimer's Disease |
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May 30 |
Zarina Kraa, PhD |
Socioeconomic Differences in the Associations Between Glycemic Level and MRI Markers of ADRD Risk in Middle-Aged Adults |
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May 23 |
talk canceled |
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May 16 |
talk canceled |
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May 9 |
Sharon Sanz Simon, PhD |
The Role of Estradiol and Inflammatory Markers in Sex-related Differences in Aerobic Exercise: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial |
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May 2 |
Emily Hokett, PhD |
Sleep-Memory Associations and Potential Sleep Intervention Methods in Racially and Ethnically Diverse People |
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April 25 |
No talk |
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April 18 |
Christian Habeck, PhD |
Basic Introduction to Multivariate Neuroimaging Analysis - for Nerds and Novices |
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April 11 |
Angeliki Tsapanou, PhD |
Sleep Genetics and Cognition |
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April 4 - Virtual ONLY |
Per Davidson, PhD |
The Effect of Sleep on Emotional Memories - What do we Really Know in a Time of Contrasting Findings and Replication Crisis? |
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March 28 |
Annabell Coors, PhD |
Brain Reserve and the Expression of Cognitive Reserve Networks |
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March 21 |
Silvia Chapman, PhD |
Preliminary Findings on the Neuropathological Correlates of Cognitive Function in Essential Tremor |
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March 14 |
talk canceled |
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March 7 |
Miguel Arce Rentería, PhD |
Cross-National Associations of Bilingualism with Cognition: Examples from the US, Mexico, and India |
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February 29 |
Iris Strangmann, PhD |
Association of Majority versus Minority First Language Multilingualism and Socioeconomic Status on Cognition among Older Indian Adults |
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February 22 |
Patrick Lao, PhD |
TSPO PET to Measure Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's Disease |
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February 13 |
Muireann Irish, PhD |
One System or two? Exploring Episodic-Semantic Memory Interactions in the Dementias |
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February 8 |
INS 2024 - no talk |
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February 8 |
Yian Gu, PhD |
Dietary Fatty Acids Intake and Plasma-Based Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease |
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February 1 |
Sarah Tom, PhD |
The Roles of Pregnancy and Midlife Exposomes on Midlife Maternal Alzheimer's Disease Risk Factors |
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January 25 |
Aline Thomas, PhD |
Inflammatory Cytokines Profiles and Cognition Among Older Adults |
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January 18 |
Katrin Wolfova, MD, PhD |
Cancer History and Cognitive Outcomes in Later Life: Preliminary Data and Future Directions |
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January 11 |
Frank Provenzano, PhD |
AI as New Eyes for Old Data in Neurodegeneration |
Seminar Archive:
2023
January 5: Winter break - no talk
January 12: Andrew Bender, PhD, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA, Reconceptualizing Diffusion MRI Applications in Cognitive Aging Research
January 19: Yunglin Gazes, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences, CUIMC, Neuroimaging 101 - AMA-style
January 26: Eric Schon, PhD, Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology (in Genetics and Development), CUIMC, A Different way of Thinking about Alzheimer's Disease
February 2: INS - No talk
February 9: Mario Parra, MD, PhD, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, Memory Markers in the Alzheimer’s Disease Continuum: the “which” and “when”
February 16: Sara Czaja, PhD, Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, Cognitive and Social Engagement in Aging Adults, Current Activities at the Center on Aging & Behavioral Research
February 23: Barbara Avelar Pereira, PhD Postdoctoral Scientist, Stanford University, California, Multilayer Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease
March 2: Patrick Lao, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences, CUIMC, Loneliness, Neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer's Disease
March 9: Lok-Kin Yeung, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, the Anterolateral Entorhinal Cortex and Dementia
March 16: Sharon Sanz Simon, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Investigating Dementia Risk Factors in Older Brazilian Immigrants in NYC: A Community-based Participatory Research
March 23 - talk canceled
March 30: Georgette Argiris, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Topological Data Analysis of Functional Connectivity in the RANN Cohort
April 6: Jeff Pyne, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Total, Anterior, and Posterior Cerebral Blood Flow Associations with White Matter Hyperintensity Volume and Alzheimer’s-like Patterns of Brain Atrophy in Older Adults
April 13: Sarah Tom, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, CUIMC, Employment, Occupation, and Cognitive Aging
April 20: Zarina Kraal, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Perceptions of Control in the Intergenerational Transmission of Risk for Dementia
April 27: Emily Hokett, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Associations Between Sleep Quality and Memory Performance in Racially and Ethnically Diverse People
May 4: "AJ" Paris Adkins-Jackson, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Looking Black: A Story About (His)tory and Science
May 11: Miguel Arce Rentería, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, CUIMC, Harmonized Memory and Language Function in the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) Across the United States and Mexico (Hybrid)
May 18: Serhiy Dekhtyar, PhD, Aging Research Center, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, Resilience in Cognitive Aging and Dementia: Findings from a Swedish Population-based Study
May 25: Adam Brickman, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology, CUIMC, Structural Brain Differences Across Race/Ethnicity in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis
June 1: Yian Gu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences, CUIMC, Longitudinal change of blood-based biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in older adults (HYBRID)
June 8: Justina Avila-Rieger, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Social Mechanisms Underlying Sex/Gender Inequalities in Alzheimer’s Disease An Intersectionality Approach
June 15: Cristina Romaán, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Kessler Foundation, New Jersey, Structural Brain Differences Across Race/Ethnicity in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis (HYBRID)
June 22: Jennifer Manly, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology, CUIMC, Estimating National Prevalence of Dementia and MCI Using the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol Project
September 7: Yaakov Stern, PhD, Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology
Florence Irving Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology, Psychiatry, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute)
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Update on Cognitive Reserve
September 14: Jeffrey Pyne, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Proximal Cerebral Blood Flow Associations with Alzheimer’s-like Patterns of Atrophy, WMHs, and Cognition in Older APOE e4 Carriers
September 21: Iris Strangmann, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Cognitive Outcomes in Multilingual Older Adults in India: Preliminary Data on Illiteracy and a Proposal on Connected Speech Competence
September 28: Annabell Coors, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Personality and Cognitive Reserve
October 5: Christian Habeck, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute), Occupational and Environmental Substrates of Brain and Cognitive Health
October 12: Osamu Katayama, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, CUIMC, Neurophysiological Markers in Community–Dwelling Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment: an EEG Study
October 13: Ryan Wagner, PhD,Senior Research Fellow with the MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit based in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Brain Aging in Africa: Leveraging and Extending Population-Based Research to Build an Evidence Base in Rural South Africa
October 26: Leila Simani, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Randomized Clinical Trial of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Targeting Language Function and Evoked Potential in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
November 2: Stephanie Cosentino, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain), Cognitive Screening at the Well Woman Visit
November 9: Victoria Leavitt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, Department of Neurology, Language & Memory Test (LMT): A Novel app-based Composite Cognitive Measure
November 16: Fatemeh Hasanzadeh, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, A Longitudinal Analysis of Cognitive Reserve in ECF Task
November 23: Thanksgiving break - no talk
November 30: talk canceled
December 7: Sylvie Goldman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, Department of Neurology, Sex/Gender Biases in Autism Diagnosis – Priorities to Improve Early Identification of Girls
December 14: Hengda He, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Approaches for Inferring Brain Dynamics and its Applications in Neuromodulation Therapies
December 21: Edric Winford, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Neuroscience, University of Kentucky, the Neuroimmune Axis in Amylin-Induced Type-2 Diabetic Brain Injury
2022
January 27: Alexandra Gaynor, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Effect of diet on the association between resting state functional connectivity and cognitive performance
February 10: Sanne Franzen, PhD, Neuropsychologist, Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, Neuropsychological assessment of diverse populations in Europe
February 17: Ruijia Chen, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist, UCSF, Lifecourse cumulative stressors, sleep, and disparities in cognitive aging
February 24: Emerald Heiland, PhD, Postdoctoral Scientist, University of Uppsala, Sweden, Physical Activity and Healthy Brain Functions
March 3: Anja Leist, PhD, Associate Professor, Université du Luxembourg, Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, inequalities, and cognitive ageing and dementia
March 10: Yunglin Gazes, PhD, Assistant Professor, CUIMC, Examining the neural mechanism of apathy in neurodegenerative diseases
March 17: Suhang Song, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Effects of modifiable lifestyle factors on brain makers and cognitive change across the adult life span
March 24: Hadi Hosseini, PhD, Assistant Professor, Standford University, Quantitative MRI markers of brain microstructure in aging and AD
March 31: Anne Kever, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Cognitive biases and chronic pain in Multiple Sclerosis: a K99/R00 grant proposal
April 7: Jeff Pyne, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Total Cerebral Blood Flow Alterations Throughout Vascular Aging and Injury
April 14: Silvia Chapman, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Subjective Cognitive Decline in Middle and Older Aged Older Adults: Path towards a K99/R00
April 21: Patrick Lao, PhD,Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Neuroimaging and Plasma Biomarkers of ATV(N) in middle aged, racially and ethnically diverse adults
April 28: Martin Lövdén, PhD, Professor, University of Gothenburg, Education, Brain, and Cognitive Performance across the lifespan
May 5: Eider M. Arenaza-Urquijo, PhD, Researcher, Barcelonabeta Brain Research Center, Resilience and Resistance to Aging and AD: Lifestyle. Mental Health and Brain Mechanisms
May 12: Sharon Sanz Simon, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Pay attention to what you pay attention to: Training executive control in cognitively healthy older adult: A path towards a clinical trial K99/R00
May 19: Miguel Arce Rentería, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Deconstructing bilingualism, AD-biomarkers, and brain reserve
May 26: Indira Turney, PhD,Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Race and ethnicity-related differences in neuroimaging markers of neurodegeneration and cerebrovascular disease in middle and older age
June 2: Christian Habeck, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences, CUIMC, Simple and avoidable quantitative reasoning fallacies in the analysis of high-dimensional data
June 9: Jet Vonk, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Linguistic markers of cognitive aging and dementia: from K99 to R00
June 16: Franchesca Arias, PhD, Assistant Scientist at the Aging Brain Center, CUIMC, Social Determinants of Health & Acute Changes in Cognition
September 15: Yaakov Stern, PhD, Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, Florence Irving Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology, Psychiatry, the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute), CUIMC, Update on the Predictors Study
September 22: Korhan Buyukturkoglu, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Thalamus Derived Radiomic Features to Explore Cognition in People with MS and At-risk Individuals
September 29: Christian Habeck, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences, CUIMC, Principal Components Analysis in Neuroimaging and OMICs Data: Playground for a Lifetime
October 6: Vicky Leavitt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, CUIMC, Characterizing brain resilience and cognitive phenotypes in multiple sclerosis
October 13: Lesya Gaynor, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Lifestyle factors moderate effects of change in connectivity on change in cognition
October 20: Aline Thomas, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, CUIMC, Associations of diet and physical activity with biological aging, among US adults: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2001
October 27: Annabell Coors, PhD, Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Epidemiology, Eye movements for cognitive assessment & brain organization and cognition
November 3: Ray Lee, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, CUIMC, Brain expression and perception networks for parents and children affective exchanges
November 10: Stephanie Cosentino, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuropsychology, CUIMC, Subjective Cognitive Decline
November 17: Andrew Bender, PhD, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Reconceptualizing Diffusion MRI Applications in Cognitive Aging Research
December 1: Laszlo Zaborszky, MD, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Rutgers, Large-scale organization of the forebrain cholinergic system: Anatomy to Function and Dysfunction
December 8: Angeliki Tsapanou, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, CUIMC, Sleep and Cognitive Polygenic Indices; the beginning of the K99 path
December 15: Indira Turney, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Brain Aging in Midlife Adults
2021
September 30: Renaud La Joie, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCSF, Weill Institute for Neurosciences; Memory and Aging Center, Neuroimaging and Neuropathology of ‘Atypical’ Presentations of Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease
September 23: Yaakov Stern, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology, in Psychiatry, in the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain), CUIMC, Predicting the Course of Alzheimer's Disease
June 24: Yian Gu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Inflammation and Neuroimaging Biomarkers
June 17: Marie D'hooghe, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurology, Center for Neurosciences VU Brussels, The Context Matters in MS: the Contribution of Observational Research
June 10: Edward Huey, MD, Associate Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Taub Institute, CUIMC, Clinical and Neuropathological Analysis of Dementia in Patients with Schizophrenia
June 3: Monica Thieu, BA, Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, Exploring Individual Differences in Emotion Self-Report Thresholds
May 27: Georgette Argiris, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Age-related Disintegration in Functional Connectivity: Evidence from the RANN Cohort
May 20: Severine Lannoy, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Virginia Commonwealth University, Binge Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder: An Integrative Approach
May 13: Siddharth Ramanan, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, Capturing Transdiagnostic and Inter-Individual Cognitive Variations in Neurodegenerative Syndromes
May 6: Sylvie Goldman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology (GH Sergievsky Center and Division of Child Neurology), CUIMC, Autism Research: What Have we Learned From one Year of COVID-19 Pandemic About Remote Diagnostic and Training?
April 29: Michael Andres, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology,, Université Catholique de Louvain, Precision Grasping in Humans : From Motor Control to Cognition
April 22: Jing Guo, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Association between Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Activities of Daily Living: Results from the Washington Heights-Inwood Community Aging Project (WHICAP)
April 15: Madeleine Sharp, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Effort and Reward Sensitivity in Parkinson's Disease
April 8: Indira Turney, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, K99/R00 Specific Aims: Understanding the Link Between Sociocultural and Biological Factors and Brain Health across Race and Ethnicity
April 1: Yunglin Gazes, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Research Updates on Diffusion Weighted Imaging Projects
March 25: Jordan Dworkin, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Biostatistics (in Psychiatry), NYSPI & CUIMC Psychiatry, A Framework for Studying the Networked Effects of White Matter Lesion Damage in Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Disease
March 18: Angeliki Tsapanou, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Sleep Polygenic Risk Score and Cognition
March 11: Mélanie Brion, PhD, Neuropsychologist, Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, A Dual-Process Model Exploration of Executive and Emotional Dysfunctions in Alcohol-Dependence and Korsakoff Syndrome
March 4: Justina Avila-Rieger, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Using an Intersectionality Framework to Understand Sex/Gender and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Cognitive Aging
February 25: Miguel Arce Renteria, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Deconstructing Bilingualism and its Sociocultural Determinants for Research on Cognitive Aging
February 18: Patrick Lao, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Using MRI and PET Neuroimaging to Understand Cerebrovascular and Alzheimer’s Disease
February 11: Jeffrey Pyne, MS, Staff Associate, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Will the Neurological and Vascular Consequences of COVID-19 Result in Increased Risk of Dementia?
February 4: NO TALK – International Neuropsychological Society Annual Conference
January 28: Jet Vonk, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, A Neurolinguist Gone Rogue: Epidemiological Methods in Neuropsychological Dementia Research
January 21: Korhan Buyukturkoglu, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Investigating Superficial White Matter Integrity in Early Multiple Sclerosis using Machine Learning
January 14: Eleanna Varangis, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Five-year Change in Resting State Functional Connectivity: What the Cross-Sectional Data Aren't Telling You
January 7: Lok-Kin Yeung, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, The Cosmos-Web Study: A Longitudinal Online Study of the Cognitive Impacts of Cocoa Flavanol Consumption in Older Adults
2020
December 31: No Lecture
December 24: No Lecture
December 17: Kevin Ochsner, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Columbia University, TBD
December 10: Severine Lannoy, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University, Binge drinking and alcohol use disorder: Cognitive and emotional correlates
December 3: Sharon Sanz Simon, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Association between leisure activity engagement and cognitive trajectory across the adult lifespan
November 26: No Lecture
November 19: Preeti Sunderaraman, PhD, Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Cognitive and Structural Correlates of Financial Decision Making and Financial Awareness
November 12: Victoria Leavitt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, The MIMMMS Study: A Mechanistic Model of Memory Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis
November 5: Ravi Mill, PhD, Research Associate, Cole Neurocognition Lab, Rutgers University, Insights into the Cognitive and Clinical Relevance of Resting-State Functional Connectivity gained from Activity Flow Mapping
October 29: Nika Seblova, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, The Role of High School Quality for Later Life Cognition and Health: Findings From the Project Talent Aging Study
October 22: Anne Kever, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Investigating Attentional Bias for Disease-related Stimuli in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: Behavioral Consequences, Neural Correlates, and Clinical Relevance
October 15: Kiana Chan, Program Coordinator, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Overview of Survey Data from the Summer of Translational Aging Research for Undergraduates Program
October 8: Christian Habeck, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroimaging, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Exploration of Cross-sectionally and Longitudinally Derived Functional MRI Networks
October 1: Silvia Chapman, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, CUIMC, Exploring how to best operationalize Subjective Cognitive Decline
September 24: Megan Barker, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Taub Institute, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Developing a set of Research Criteria for Prodromal Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia
September 17: Yaakov Stern, PhD, Professor of Neuropsychology; Chief, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Cognitive Changes Across the Lifespan: Update on the ‘Reference Ability Neural Network Study’
June 25: Adina Zeki Al Hazzouri, PhD, MsC, Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, CUIMC, International Migration and Cognitive Health: Preliminary Findings
June 18: Korhan Buyukturkoglu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Multiple Sclerosis Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Investigating Short-range Association Fibers (A.K.A Superficial White Matter) in MS Using a Machine Learning Approach
June 11: No lecture
June 4: No lecture
May 28: Anita van Loenhoud, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, Alzheimer Center Amsterdam, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Relationships of Education, Occupation and Premorbid Brain Size with Dementia Type and Clinical Course – Results From the Amsterdam Dementia Cohort
May 21: Yian Gu, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences in Neurology, Epidemiology and the Taub Institute, CUIMC, Dietary Patterns and Cognition in US Older Adults
May 14: Jonathan Jackson, PhD, Executive Director, Community Acess, Recruitment, and Engagement (CARE) Research Center, Massachusets General Hospital, The Challenge of Health Equity in Clinical Research: Towards a Quantifiable Science of Inclusion
May 7: Georgette Argiris, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Quantifying Age-related Changes in Brain and Behavior Across the Lifespan
April 30: Keenan Walker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Understanding the Role of Systemic Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease
April 23: Lok-Kin Yeung, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, The Cosmos-Web Study: a Longitudinal Online Study in Four Cognitive Domains in an Older Adult Cohort
April 16: Jet Vonk, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Semantic Processing as a Preclinical Marker of Alzheimer's Disease
April 9: Ashok Jansari, DPhil, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, Detecting Pre-Clinical Signs of MCI or Dementia in Healthy Elderly Populations: a new Paradigm, the Verbal Associative Learning & Memory Task (VALMT), for Assessing Rapid Forgetting
April 2: Sylvie Goldman, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology, GH Sergievsky Center and Division of Child Neurology, CUIMC, Parent-Initiated Social and Motor Behaviors in Toddlers with and Without Autism Spectrum Disorders and How COVID-19 Social Distancing Measures Affect the Diagnosis of Autism
March 26: Sara Czaja, PhD, Assistant Professor of Gerontology in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cognition, Technology, and Older Adults
March 19: Indira Turney, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Sex Differences in AD-related Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Racially/Ethnically Diverse Older Adults
March 12: Reuben Robbins, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), CUIMC, Developing an mHealth app to Scale-up and Improve the Assessment of Neurocognitive Functioning in Resource-Limited Settings
March 5: Sarah Tom, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (in Neurology and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center), Trends in Incident Dementia and Early Life Socioeconomic Status by Birth Cohort in the Adult Changes in Thought Study
February 27: Megan Barker, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Taub Institute, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Characterizing Subtle Language Decline Using Details Embedded in Neuropsychological Tests
February 20: Nicholas Balderston, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Using Unpredictable Threat to Investigate and Develop Treatments for Anxiety Disorders
February 13: Preeti Sunderaraman, PhD, K99/R00 Associate Research Scientist, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Awareness of Financial Abilities in Cognitively Healthy Individuals
February 6: No Lecture
January 30: Sharon Sanz Simon, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Executive / Attention Control Training in Healthy Aging
January 23: Angeliki Tsapanou, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognitive Neuroscience Division, Department of Neurology, CUIMC, Polygenic Risk Score for Sleep Duration. Association with Cognition
January 16: Victoria Leavitt, PhD, Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology), CUIMC, eSupport and eFIT: Social Network Science-based Telehealth Interventions for Persons with Multiple Sclerosis
January 9: Chi-Ying (Roy) Lin, MD, MPH, Movement Disorders Fellow, Department of Neurology, The Neurological Institute of New York, Cerebellar Volume is Associated with Cognitive Function in MCI: Results from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)