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Kaitlin B. Casaletto publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaitlin B. Casaletto sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 104 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Kaitlin B. Casaletto D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kaitlin B. Casaletto sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Kaitlin B. Casaletto is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with specific work spanning psychiatry and mental health, physiology, neurology, cognitive neuroscience, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Casaletto has contributed to multiple frequently publishing venues. These include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neurology
  • Neurobiology of Aging

Frequent co-authors have included Joel H. Kramer, Adam M. Staffaroni, Rowan Saloner, Emily W. Paolillo, and Bruce L. Miller.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Casaletto include:

  • "Blood factors transfer beneficial effects of exercise on neurogenesis and cognition to the aged brain" (2020, Science)
  • "Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality" (2024, Journal of the American College of Cardiology)
  • "Temporal order of clinical and biomarker changes in familial frontotemporal dementia" (2022, Nature Medicine)
  • "Sex and gender differences in cognitive resilience to aging and Alzheimer's disease" (2024, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • "Late-Life Physical and Cognitive Activities Independently Contribute to Brain and Cognitive Resilience" (2020, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)

Best Publications

  • Blood factors transfer beneficial effects of exercise on neurogenesis and cognition to the aged brain.

    Alana M. Horowitz;Xuelai Fan;Gregor Bieri;Lucas K. Smith

  • Neurocognitive Change in the Era of HIV Combination Antiretroviral Therapy: The Longitudinal CHARTER Study

    Robert K. Heaton;Donald R. Franklin;Reena Deutsch;Scott Letendre

  • Reliability and Validity of Composite Scores from the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery in Adults

    Robert K. Heaton;Natacha Akshoomoff;David Tulsky;Dan M Mungas

  • Demographically Corrected Normative Standards for the English Version of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Anya Umlauf;Jennifer Beaumont;Richard Gershon

  • The Longitudinal Trajectory of Default Mode Network Connectivity in Healthy Older Adults Varies as a Function of Age and is Associated with Changes in Episodic Memory and Processing Speed

    Adam M. Staffaroni;Jesse A. Brown;Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Fanny M. Elahi

  • Plasma biomarkers of astrocytic and neuronal dysfunction in early- and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease

    Fanny M. Elahi;Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Renaud La Joie;Samantha M. Walters

  • Neuropsychological Assessment: Past and Future.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Robert K. Heaton

  • Sex Differences in Association of Physical Activity With All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality

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  • Neurogranin, a synaptic protein, is associated with memory independent of Alzheimer biomarkers.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Fanny M. Elahi;Brianne M. Bettcher;John Neuhaus

  • Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Levels of Inflammation Differentially Relate to CNS Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Neuronal Damage

    Brianne M Bettcher;Sterling C Johnson;Ryan Fitch;Kaitlin B Casaletto

  • Increases in a Pro-inflammatory Chemokine, MCP-1, Are Related to Decreases in Memory Over Time.

    Brianne M. Bettcher;John Neuhaus;Matthew J. Wynn;Fanny M. Elahi

  • Late-Life Physical and Cognitive Activities Independently Contribute to Brain and Cognitive Resilience.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Miguel Arce Rentería;Judy Pa;Sarah E. Tom

  • A longitudinal characterization of perfusion in the aging brain and associations with cognition and neural structure.

    Adam M. Staffaroni;Yann Cobigo;Fanny M. Elahi;Kaitlin B. Casaletto

  • Sex differences in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: A new window to executive and behavioral reserve

    Ignacio Illán‐Gala;Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Sergi Borrego‐Écija;Eider M. Arenaza‐Urquijo

  • Validation of the NIH Toolbox in Individuals with Neurologic Disorders

    N. E. Carlozzi;S. Goodnight;K. B. Casaletto;A. Goldsmith

  • Individualized texting for adherence building (iTAB): improving antiretroviral dose timing among HIV-infected persons with co-occurring bipolar disorder.

    David J. Moore;Amelia Poquette;Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Ben Gouaux

  • Multimodal neuroimaging of sex differences in cognitively impaired patients on the Alzheimer's continuum: greater tau-PET retention in females.

    Lauren Edwards;Renaud La Joie;Leonardo Iaccarino;Amelia Strom

  • Cognitive aging is not created equally: differentiating unique cognitive phenotypes in "normal" adults.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Fanny M. Elahi;Adam M. Staffaroni;Samantha Walters

  • National Institutes of Health Toolbox Emotion Battery for English- and Spanish-speaking adults: normative data and factor-based summary scores.

    Ida Babakhanyan;Benjamin S McKenna;Kaitlin B Casaletto;Cindy J Nowinski

  • Demographically Corrected Normative Standards for the Spanish Language Version of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Anya Umlauf;Maria Marquine;Jennifer L. Beaumont

  • Retinal thinning is uniquely associated with medial temporal lobe atrophy in neurologically normal older adults.

    Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Michael E. Ward;Nicholas S. Baker;Brianne M. Bettcher

  • Performance of Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites on the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery: the roles of ethnicity and language backgrounds.

    Ilse Flores;Kaitlin B. Casaletto;Maria J. Marquine;Anya Umlauf

  • Construct validity of the NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery in individuals with stroke.

    Noelle E. Carlozzi;David S. Tulsky;Timothy J. Wolf;Siera Goodnight

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel H. Kramer
Joel H. Kramer University of California, San Francisco
Bruce L. Miller
Bruce L. Miller University of California, San Francisco
Robert K. Heaton
Robert K. Heaton University of California, San Diego
Steven Paul Woods
Steven Paul Woods University of Houston
John Neuhaus
John Neuhaus University of California, San Francisco
Howard J. Rosen
Howard J. Rosen University of California, San Francisco
Igor Grant
Igor Grant University of California, San Diego
Renaud La Joie
Renaud La Joie University of California, San Francisco
Gil D. Rabinovici
Gil D. Rabinovici University of California, San Francisco
Kaj Blennow
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg

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