Public Health and Health Professions
Brain Health Equity and Dementia Prevention Lab
Led by Shellie-Anne Levy · Clinical and Health Psychology
What we study
The lab studies cognitive aging in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's. They examine lifestyle interventions, barriers to research participation, and health factors affecting cognitive decline in diverse groups.
What working here is like
- Clinical
- Human participants
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Lewy Body Disease Symptom Progression
Investigating how health conditions like diabetes affect cognitive decline in older adults.
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Recent papers, explained
- Sex and ethnicity in early‐onset Alzheimer's disease biomarkers and global function
2025 · Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
Compares biomarkers and function in early-onset Alzheimer's disease across ethnic groups.
- A Systematic Review of Available Normative Data on Neuropsychological Tests for Spanish Speakers in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean, and Spain
2025 · Neuropsychology Review
Reviews studies on neuropsychological test norms for Spanish speakers in the U.S., Latin America, and Spain.
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- Moderating effects of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein along the Alzheimer's disease continuum
2025 · Alzheimer s & Dementia
Sees if GFAP in blood affects Alzheimer's disease progression.
- Cognitive factor structure of the NACC UDS-3 neuropsychological battery across ethno-racial, linguistic, and cognitive status groups
2025 · The Clinical Neuropsychologist
Checks if cognitive tests work the same way for different groups.
- Symptom diagnosis codes informing under-diagnosis of Lewy body dementia in Medicare beneficiaries from different ethnoracial backgrounds
2025 · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
Finds LBD diagnosis codes vary by ethnoracial background in Medicare.
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