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REC Rising Star Awardee Research Showcase
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Time: 2:00-3:00 pm ET / 11:00 am-12:00 pm PT
Join us for a one-hour webinar featuring the 2023 Fall and 2024 Fall ADRC Meeting REC Rising Star Award Winners! Each presenter will have a 10-minute presentation followed by an opportunity for Q&A.
Agenda:
- 2:00-2:15 pm ET - Quinton D. Cotton, PhD, MSSA
- 2:15-2:30 pm ET - Meagan Lauber, BS, BA
- 2:30-2:45 pm ET - Naomi Gaggi, PhD
- 2:45-3:00 pm ET - Francis Cambronero, PhD
Our Speakers:
Quinton Cotton, PhD, MSSA
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work; OSCAR Scholar, University of Pittsburgh ADRC
Qualitative Analysis of Dementia Caregivers' Experiences with Lucidity: Lucid events among persons with Alzheimer's disease and related dementia (ADRD) lack a shared definition and are understudied. ADRD family caregivers' perspectives are critical to understanding these events and may provide insights for potential clinical practice and caregiver support interventions. Drawing from interviews with caregivers, our findings characterize lucid events and describe caregiver experiences.
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Naomi Gaggi, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU ADRC
The effects of transcranial photobiomodulation on cerebral hemodynamics in early Alzheimer’s disease: This research looks at target engagement during and after transcranial photobiomodulation using fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuations in early Alzheimer’s disease. Since presentation, this work has been published and secondary analyses have been conducted to understand the cerebral metabolic basis of the demonstrated target engagement.
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Meagan Lauber, BS, BA
PhD Candidate, Boston University ADRC
Graphical Model Analysis of How Global Amyloid Influences Regional Tau Dynamics in PET Imaging: This project leverages machine learning and graphical modeling to analyze the relationship between regional tau accumulation and global amyloid burden using PET data from the ADNI and A4 cohorts. This work was recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 10.1177/13872877241294084.
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Francis Cambronero, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Exploratory ADRC
Neighborhood Disadvantage is Associated with Changes in Cerebrovascular Health Among Older Adults Over a 9-year Follow-up Period: While many prevention strategies for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) have traditionally focused on individual-level health behaviors (e.g., diet, exercise) and social risk factors, more holistic frameworks emphasize the high-impact role of community-level risk in promoting ADRD, particularly as community environments shape people's health options and behaviors at the outset. The area deprivation index (ADI), a composite measure of community-level socioeconomic composition and built environment, has previously been linked to accelerated cognitive aging, neurodegeneration, and core Alzheimer’s pathology; yet the relationship between ADI and cerebral small vessel disease (SVD) is critically understudied, particularly as prevalent SVD neuropathologies promote numerous biological pathways towards ADRD. Our research examines associations between ADI and both imaging- and fluid-based biomarkers of cerebrovascular dysfunction in the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project; results indicate that higher ADI is related to longitudinal changes in biomarkers of cerebrovascular remodeling and degeneration among older adults over time, supporting the hypothesis that low-quality housing and community-wide resource constraints may contribute to cerebrovascular dysfunction in aging.
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