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Overview

Mindy J. Katz is affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and psychology, contributing extensively to the fields of psychiatry and mental health, as well as experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly work covers a range of topics including dementia and cognitive impairment research, health disparities and outcomes, cognitive functions and memory, aging and gerontology research, health, environment, and cognitive aging, nutritional studies and diet, and personality traits and psychology.

Mindy J. Katz has published extensively in key academic venues where their work is frequently featured. These venues include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Collabra Psychology
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Among their recent papers are:

  • "T-MoCA: A valid phone screen for cognitive impairment in diverse community samples" (2021) - Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • "Trajectories of Big Five Personality Traits: A Coordinated Analysis of 16 Longitudinal Samples" (2020) - European Journal of Personality
  • "Estimating prevalence of subjective cognitive decline in and across international cohort studies of aging: a COSMIC study" (2020) - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • "Sex differences in dementia risk and risk factors: Individual-participant data analysis using 21 cohorts across six continents from the COSMIC consortium" (2023) - Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • "Variability in Cognitive Performance on Mobile Devices Is Sensitive to Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results From the Einstein Aging Study" (2021) - Frontiers in Digital Health

Collaborations are a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Richard B. Lipton
  • Martin J. Sliwinski
  • Carol A. Derby
  • Perminder S. Sachdev
  • Laura A. Rabin

Their multidisciplinary approach bridges medicine and psychology, incorporating experimental and cognitive methods. This combined lens aids in studying dementia, cognitive decline, and aging processes while addressing health disparities and environmental factors influencing cognitive aging.

Best Publications

  • Leisure Activities and the Risk of Dementia in the Elderly

    Joe Verghese;Richard B. Lipton;Mindy J. Katz;Charles B. Hall

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • Abnormality of gait as a predictor of non-Alzheimer's dementia

    Joe Verghese;Richard B. Lipton;Charles B. Hall;Gail Kuslansky

  • Screening for dementia with the Memory Impairment Screen

    Herman Buschke;G. Kuslansky;M. Katz;W. F. Stewart

  • Epidemiology of Gait Disorders in Community-Residing Older Adults

    Joe Verghese;Aaron LeValley;Charles B. Hall;Mindy J. Katz

  • Validity of divided attention tasks in predicting falls in older individuals: a preliminary study.

    Joe Verghese;Herman Buschke;Lisa Viola;Mindy Katz

  • Subjective Cognitive Decline in Older Adults: An Overview of Self-Report Measures Used Across 19 International Research Studies

    Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Laura A. Rabin;Colette M. Smart;Paul K. Crane;Rebecca E. Amariglio

  • Leisure activities and the risk of amnestic mild cognitive impairment in the elderly

    Joe Verghese;Aaron LeValley;Carol Derby;Gail Kuslansky

  • Exceptionally low likelihood of Alzheimer’s dementia in APOE2 homozygotes from a 5,000-person neuropathological study

    Eric M Reiman;Joseph F Arboleda-Velasquez;Yakeel T Quiroz;Matthew J Huentelman

  • Age-specific and sex-specific prevalence and incidence of mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer dementia in blacks and whites: a report from the Einstein Aging Study.

    Mindy J. Katz;Richard B. Lipton;Charles B. Hall;Molly E. Zimmerman

  • Low blood pressure and the risk of dementia in very old individuals.

    J. Verghese;R. B. Lipton;C. B. Hall;G. Kuslansky

  • Cognitive activities delay onset of memory decline in persons who develop dementia

    C. B. Hall;R. B. Lipton;M. Sliwinski;M. J. Katz

  • The relationship between specific cognitive functions and falls in aging.

    Roee Holtzer;Rachel Friedman;Richard B. Lipton;Mindy Katz

  • The Prevalence of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Diverse Geographical and Ethnocultural Regions: The COSMIC Collaboration

    Perminder S. Sachdev;Darren M. Lipnicki;Nicole A. Kochan;John D. Crawford

  • Walking While Talking: Effect of Task Prioritization in the Elderly

    Joe Verghese;Gail Kuslansky;Roee Holtzer;Mindy Katz

  • Education delays accelerated decline on a memory test in persons who develop dementia

    C. B. Hall;C. Derby;A. LeValley;M. J. Katz

  • Memory and mental status correlates of modified Braak staging

    E. Grober;D. Dickson;M.J. Sliwinski;H. Buschke

  • Validation of the Perceived Stress Scale in a community sample of older adults

    Ali Ezzati;Julie Jiang;Mindy J. Katz;Martin J. Sliwinski

  • Screening for dementia by telephone using the Memory Impairment Screen

    Richard B. Lipton;Mindy J. Katz;Gail Kuslansky;Martin J. Sliwinski

  • Novel Alzheimer Disease Risk Loci and Pathways in African American Individuals Using the African Genome Resources Panel: A Meta-analysis

    Brian W. Kunkle;Michael Schmidt;Hans Ulrich Klein;Adam C. Naj

  • Chronic pain and obesity in elderly people: results from the Einstein aging study.

    Lucas H. McCarthy;Marcelo E. Bigal;Mindy Katz;Carol Derby

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Lipton
Richard B. Lipton Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Molly E. Zimmerman
Molly E. Zimmerman Fordham University
Martin J. Sliwinski
Martin J. Sliwinski Pennsylvania State University
Laura A. Rabin
Laura A. Rabin City University of New York
Perminder S. Sachdev
Perminder S. Sachdev University of New South Wales
Herman Buschke
Herman Buschke Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Henry Brodaty
Henry Brodaty University of New South Wales
Kaarin J. Anstey
Kaarin J. Anstey University of New South Wales
David A. Bennett
David A. Bennett Rush University Medical Center
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University

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