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Katherine J. Bangen is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of medicine, with a particular focus on psychiatry and mental health, neurology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, physiology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their scientific work extensively covers topics related to dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, cardiovascular health and disease prevention, neurological disease mechanisms and treatments, cerebrovascular and carotid artery diseases, functional brain connectivity studies, as well as advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Katherine J. Bangen has published research in numerous venues, frequently contributing to journals such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
  • Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Innovation in Aging

Among recent papers associated with Katherine J. Bangen are:

  • Outcomes of Randomized Clinical Trials of Interventions to Enhance Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Components of Wisdom, 2020, JAMA Psychiatry
  • APOE interacts with tau PET to influence memory independently of amyloid PET in older adults without dementia, 2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Regional hyperperfusion in older adults with objectively-defined subtle cognitive decline, 2020, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
  • Prediabetes Is Associated With Brain Hypometabolism and Cognitive Decline in a Sex-Dependent Manner: A Longitudinal Study of Nondemented Older Adults, 2021, Frontiers in Neurology
  • Elevated plasma neurofilament light predicts a faster rate of cognitive decline over 5 years in participants with objectively-defined subtle cognitive decline and MCI, 2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia

They collaborate frequently with various co-authors, including:

  • Kelsey R. Thomas
  • Mark W. Bondi
  • Alexandra J. Weigand
  • Emily C. Edmonds
  • Lisa Delano-Wood

Best Publications

  • Decreased white matter integrity in late-myelinating fiber pathways in Alzheimer's disease supports retrogenesis.

    Nikki H. Stricker;B. C. Schweinsburg;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood;Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga

  • The Role of Early-Life Educational Quality and Literacy in Explaining Racial Disparities in Cognition in Late Life

    Shannon Sisco;Alden L. Gross;Regina A. Shih;Bonnie C. Sachs

  • Defining and Assessing Wisdom: A Review of the Literature

    Katherine J. Bangen;Thomas W. Meeks;Dilip V. Jeste

  • Altered cortical visual processing in PD with hallucinations: an fMRI study.

    G. T. Stebbins;C. G. Goetz;M. C. Carrillo;K. J. Bangen

  • Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation differences in Alzheimer's disease risk

    Adam S. Fleisher;Katherine M. Podraza;Katherine J. Bangen;Curtis Taylor

  • Gray Matter Atrophy in Patients With Ischemic Stroke With Cognitive Impairment

    Glenn T. Stebbins;David L. Nyenhuis;Changsheng Wang;Jennifer L. Cox

  • Are Empirically-Derived Subtypes of Mild Cognitive Impairment Consistent with Conventional Subtypes?

    Lindsay R. Clark;Lisa Delano-Wood;David J. Libon;Carrie R. McDonald

  • Combined neuropathological pathways account for age‐related risk of dementia

    Melinda C. Power;Elizabeth Mormino;Anja Soldan;Bryan D. James

  • Complex activities of daily living vary by mild cognitive impairment subtype.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Amy J. Jak;Dawn M. Schiehser;Lisa Delano-Wood

  • Cerebral Blood Flow and BOLD Responses to a Memory Encoding Task: A Comparison Between Healthy Young and Elderly Adults

    Khaled Restom;Katherine J. Bangen;Mark W. Bondi;Mark W. Bondi;Joanna E. Perthen

  • Pulse Pressure in Relation to Tau-Mediated Neurodegeneration, Cerebral Amyloidosis, and Progression to Dementia in Very Old Adults

    Daniel A. Nation;Emily C. Edmonds;Katherine J. Bangen;Katherine J. Bangen;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood

  • Differential age effects on cerebral blood flow and BOLD response to encoding: associations with cognition and stroke risk.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Khaled Restom;Thomas T. Liu;Amy J. Jak

  • APOE genotype modifies the relationship between midlife vascular risk factors and later cognitive decline.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Alexa Beiser;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood;Daniel A. Nation

  • Objective subtle cognitive difficulties predict future amyloid accumulation and neurodegeneration

    Kelsey R. Thomas;Katherine J. Bangen;Alexandra J. Weigand;Emily C. Edmonds

  • Aggregate effects of vascular risk factors on cerebrovascular changes in autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Daniel A. Nation;Lisa Delano-Wood;Lisa Delano-Wood;Gali H. Weissberger

  • A new scale for assessing wisdom based on common domains and a neurobiological model: The San Diego Wisdom Scale (SD-WISE)

    Michael L. Thomas;Katherine J. Bangen;Barton W. Palmer;Averria Sirkin Martin

  • Assessment of Alzheimer's disease risk with functional magnetic resonance imaging: an arterial spin labeling study.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Khaled Restom;Thomas T. Liu;Christina E. Wierenga;Christina E. Wierenga

  • Relationship Between Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Cognitive Change in a Multiethnic Elderly Cohort.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Katherine J. Bangen;Yian Gu;Alden L. Gross;Brooke C. Schneider

  • Reduced Regional Cerebral Blood Flow Relates to Poorer Cognition in Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes.

    Katherine J. Bangen;Madeleine L. Werhane;Alexandra J. Weigand;Alexandra J. Weigand;Emily C. Edmonds;Emily C. Edmonds

  • Effect of Mild Cognitive Impairment and APOE Genotype on Resting Cerebral Blood Flow and its Association with Cognition

    Christina E Wierenga;Sheena I Dev;David D Shin;Lindsay R Clark

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark W. Bondi
Mark W. Bondi University of California, San Diego
Lisa Delano-Wood
Lisa Delano-Wood University of California, San Diego
Emily C. Edmonds
Emily C. Edmonds University of Arizona
Amy J. Jak
Amy J. Jak University of California, San Diego
Christina E. Wierenga
Christina E. Wierenga University of California, San Diego
David P. Salmon
David P. Salmon University of California, San Diego
Rhoda Au
Rhoda Au Boston University
David J. Libon
David J. Libon Rowan University
Thomas T. Liu
Thomas T. Liu University of California, San Diego
Dilip V. Jeste
Dilip V. Jeste University of California, San Diego

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