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6615
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  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Kristy A. Nielson is affiliated with Marquette University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in neuroscience and medicine. Their scholarly output includes 34 publications in the field of neuroscience and 33 in medicine, with a particular emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and psychiatry and mental health subfields.

Their research covers several interconnected areas, including dementia and cognitive impairment, functional brain connectivity, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural and behavioral psychology, psychosomatic disorders and treatments, memory and neural mechanisms, and Alzheimer's disease research and treatments.

Nielson has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • "Cognitive-emotional processing in alexithymia: an integrative review," 2021, Cognition & Emotion
  • "A systematic review of cognitive event-related potentials in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease," 2020, Behavioural Brain Research
  • "Having no words for feelings: alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion," 2021, Cognition & Emotion
  • "Hippocampal Functional Connectivity and Memory Performance After Exercise Intervention in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment," 2021, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
  • "Alexithymia: Toward an Experimental, Processual Affective Science with Effective Interventions," 2024, Annual Review of Psychology

Their frequent co-authors include J. Carson Smith, Junyeon Won, Elizabeth R. Paitel, Daniel D. Callow, and Gabriel S. Pena.

Nielson's work has been published repeatedly in several venues, notably Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease, Cognition & Emotion, Journal of Alzheimer s Disease Reports, and Psychophysiology.

In addition to journal articles, Nielson has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Frontiers Media: Insights in Neurocognitive Aging and Behavior: 2021 (2023).

Kristy A. Nielson was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Differences in the Functional Neuroanatomy of Inhibitory Control Across the Adult Life Span

    Kristy A. Nielson;Scott Aaron Langenecker;Hugh Garavan

  • fMRI of healthy older adults during Stroop interference.

    Scott Aaron Langenecker;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Stephen M. Rao

  • Differences in the functional neuroanatomy of inhibitory control across the adult life span.

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  • Intact physiological response to arousal with impaired emotional recognition in alexithymia

    Linda Ann Stone;Kristy A. Nielson

  • A task to manipulate attentional load, set-shifting, and inhibitory control: convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Parametric Go/No-Go Test.

    Scott A. Langenecker;Jon Kar Zubieta;Elizabeth A. Young;Huda Akil

  • Positive and negative sources of emotional arousal enhance long-term word-list retention when induced as long as 30 min after learning.

    Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Mark R Powless

  • Physical activity reduces hippocampal atrophy in elders at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

    J. Carson Smith;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;John L. Woodard;Michael Seidenberg

  • Exercise Training and Functional Connectivity Changes in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Healthy Elders

    Theresa J. Chirles;Katherine Reiter;Lauren R. Weiss;Alfonso J. Alfini

  • Semantic memory functional MRI and cognitive function after exercise intervention in mild cognitive impairment.

    J. Carson Smith;J. Carson Smith;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Piero Antuono;Jeri Annette Lyons

  • Interactive Effects of Physical Activity and APOE-ε4 on BOLD Semantic Memory Activation in Healthy Elders

    J. Carson Smith;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;John L. Woodard;Michael Seidenberg

  • Beta-adrenergic receptor antagonist antihypertensive medications impair arousal-induced modulation of working memory in Elderly Humans

    Kristy A. Nielson;Robert A. Jensen

  • Memory enhancement by a semantically unrelated emotional arousal source induced after learning

    Kristy A. Nielson;Douglas Yee;Kirk I. Erickson

  • Frontal recruitment during response inhibition in older adults replicated with fMRI.

    Scott Aaron Langenecker;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson

  • Semantic memory activation in amnestic mild cognitive impairment

    John L. Woodard;Michael Seidenberg;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Piero Antuono

  • Medial temporal lobe activity for recognition of recent and remote famous names: an event-related fMRI study.

    Kelli Douville;John L. Woodard;Michael Seidenberg;Sarah K. Miller

  • Cognitive-emotional processing in alexithymia: an integrative review.

    Olivier Luminet;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson;Nathan Ridout

  • Physical activity and brain function in older adults at increased risk for Alzheimer's disease

    J. Carson Smith;Kristy A. Nielson;John L. Woodard;Michael Seidenberg

  • Arousal-induced modulation of memory storage processes in humans.

    Kristy A. Nielson;Robert C. Radtke;Robert A. Jensen

  • The progression of β-amyloid deposition in the frontal cortex of the aged canine

    Takao Satou;Brian J Cummings;Elizabeth Head;Kristy A Nielson

  • Apolipoprotein-E genotyping of diabetic dementia patients: is diabetes rare in Alzheimer's disease?

    Kristy A. Nielson;Jennifer H. Nolan;Nicole C. Berchtold;Curt A. Sandman

  • A Review of Minority Stress as a Risk Factor for Cognitive Decline in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Elders.

    Anthony N. Correro;Kristy A. Nielson;Kristy A. Nielson

  • Psychiatric Complications of Dementia: Impact on Caregivers

    Jeff Victoroff;Wendy J. Mack;Kristy A. Nielson

  • Improved Cardiorespiratory Fitness Is Associated with Increased Cortical Thickness in Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Katherine Reiter;Kristy A. Nielson;Theresa J. Smith;Lauren R. Weiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Rao
Stephen M. Rao Cleveland Clinic
John L. Woodard
John L. Woodard Wayne State University
Scott A. Langenecker
Scott A. Langenecker University of Utah
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Olivier Luminet
Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain
Curt A. Sandman
Curt A. Sandman University of California, Irvine
Lisa J. Rapport
Lisa J. Rapport Wayne State University
Patricia J. Deldin
Patricia J. Deldin University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dan M Mungas
Dan M Mungas University of California, Davis
Huda Akil
Huda Akil University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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