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David C. Steffens is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Health.

Their research topics cover several areas, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

David C. Steffens has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • COVID-19, Mental Health and Aging: A Need for New Knowledge to Bridge Science and Service, 2020, American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Associations of loneliness with risk of Alzheimer's disease dementia in the Framingham Heart Study, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • The Duke Somatic Treatment Algorithm for Geriatric Depression (STAGED) Approach, 2025, Psychopharmacology Bulletin
  • The neurobiology of apathy in depression and neurocognitive impairment in older adults: a review of epidemiological, clinical, neuropsychological and biological research, 2022, Translational Psychiatry

Other co-authors frequently collaborating with Steffens include Kevin J. Manning, Guy G. Potter, Richard H. Fortinsky, Rong Wu, and Mingxia Liu.

The primary venues for their research publications are:

  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • International Psychogeriatrics
  • UNC Libraries
  • The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Open Science Education and Practice
  • Innovation in Aging

Steffens also contributed to book publications, including a title published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing eBooks:

  • The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2022

Best Publications

  • Prevalence of dementia in the United States: the aging, demographics, and memory study.

    Brenda L Plassman;Kenneth M Langa;Gwenith G Fisher;Steven G Heeringa

  • Mental and Behavioral Disturbances in Dementia: Findings from the Cache County Study on Memory in Aging

    Constantine G. Lyketsos;Martin Steinberg;Jo Ann T. Tschanz;Maria C. Norton

  • Prevalence of cognitive impairment without dementia in the United States.

    Brenda L. Plassman;Kenneth M. Langa;Gwenith G. Fisher;Steven G. Heeringa

  • Hormone replacement therapy and incidence of Alzheimer disease in older women: the Cache County Study.

    Peter P. Zandi;Michelle C. Carlson;Brenda L. Plassman;Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer

  • Hormone Replacement Therapy and Incidence of Alzheimer Disease in Older Women

    Peter P. Zandi;Michelle C. Carlson;Brenda L. Plassman;Kathleen A. Welsh-Bohmer

  • Documented head injury in early adulthood and risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

    Brenda L. Plassman;R. J. Havlik;D. C. Steffens;M. J. Helms

  • Point and 5-year period prevalence of neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia: The Cache county study

    Martin Steinberg;Huibo Shao;Peter Zandi;Constantine G. Lyketsos

  • Prevalence of depression and its treatment in an elderly population: the Cache County study.

    David C. Steffens;Ingmar Skoog;Ingmar Skoog;Maria C. Norton;Andrea D. Hart

  • Validation of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Korean version in the elderly population: the Ansan Geriatric study.

    Changsu Han;Sangmee Ahn Jo;Ji Hyun Kwak;Chi Un Pae;Chi Un Pae

  • APOE-ε4 count predicts age when prevalence of AD increases, then declines: The Cache County Study

    J. C. S. Breitner;B. W. Wyse;J. C. Anthony;K. A. Welsh-Bohmer

  • Provisional diagnostic criteria for depression of Alzheimer disease.

    Jason T. Olin;Lon S. Schneider;Ira R. Katz;Barnett S. Meyers

  • Hippocampal volume in geriatric depression

    David C Steffens;Christopher E Byrum;Douglas R McQuoid;Daniel L Greenberg

  • Cognitive Function in Late Life Depression: Relationships to Depression Severity, Cerebrovascular Risk Factors and Processing Speed

    Yvette I. Sheline;M Deanna;Keith Garcia;Kenneth Gersing

  • The Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study: study design and methods.

    Kenneth M. Langa;Brenda L. Plassman;Robert B. Wallace;A. Regula Herzog

  • APOE genotype predicts when — not whether — one is predisposed to develop Alzheimer disease

    Marion R Meyer;JoAnn T Tschanz;Maria C Norton;Kathleen A Welsh-Bohmer

  • Structural neuroimaging and mood disorders: Recent findings, implications for classification, and future directions

    David C. Steffens;K. Ranga Rama Krishnan

  • Depression Treatment Preferences in Older Primary Care Patients.

    Amber M. Gum;Patricia A. Areán;Enid Hunkeler;Lingqi Tang

  • Neuropsychiatric disturbance in Alzheimer's disease clusters into three groups: the Cache County study.

    Constantine G. Lyketsos;Jeannie Marie E. Sheppard;Martin Steinberg;Jo Ann T. Tschanz

  • Head injury in early adulthood and the lifetime risk of depression.

    Tracey Holsinger;David C. Steffens;Caroline Phillips;Michael J. Helms

  • Cerebrovascular Disease and Depression Symptoms in the Cardiovascular Health Study

    David C. Steffens;Michael J. Helms;K. Ranga Rama Krishnan;Gregory L. Burke

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy G. Potter
Guy G. Potter Duke University
Warren D. Taylor
Warren D. Taylor Vanderbilt University Medical Center
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan
K. Ranga Rama Krishnan Rush University Medical Center
John C.S. Breitner
John C.S. Breitner Douglas Mental Health University Institute
James R. MacFall
James R. MacFall Duke University
Lihong Wang
Lihong Wang University of Connecticut Health Center
Dan G. Blazer
Dan G. Blazer Duke University
James R. Burke
James R. Burke Duke University
JoAnn T. Tschanz
JoAnn T. Tschanz Utah State University

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