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Overview

R. Scott Mackin is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within medicine and psychology, particularly focusing on psychiatry, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical psychology. The subfields where they have contributed include psychiatry and mental health, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

The main topics addressed in their work cover a broad scope in neuroscience and mental health research:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Alzheimer's Disease Research and Treatments
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Mental Health Research Topics

The scientist's recent publications reflect an emphasis on neuroimaging, late-life depression, and Alzheimer's disease. These include:

  • Characterizing Heterogeneity in Neuroimaging, Cognition, Clinical Symptoms, and Genetics Among Patients With Late-Life Depression (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)
  • Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults (2021, JAMA Network Open)
  • Late-Life Depression Is Associated With Reduced Cortical Amyloid Burden: Findings From the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Depression Project (2020, Biological Psychiatry)
  • Effects of sex, race, ethnicity, and education on online aging research participation (2020, Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions)
  • Association of Midlife Depressive Symptoms with Regional Amyloid-β and Tau in the Framingham Heart Study (2021, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease)

Frequent publication venues for R. Scott Mackin include:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Translational Research & Clinical Interventions
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Collaboration plays a significant role in their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Michael W. Weiner
  • Rachel L. Nosheny
  • Miriam T. Ashford
  • Monica R. Camacho
  • Diana Truran

This combination of collaborations, publication venues, and topics suggests a focus on the intersection of depression, cognitive aging, and neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Alzheimer's disease. The integration of neuroimaging and genetic data features prominently in their research approach. Their expertise contributes to understanding mental health and neurological conditions in older adult populations.

Best Publications

  • Development and assessment of a composite score for memory in the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI)

    Paul K. Crane;Adam Carle;Laura E. Gibbons;Philip Insel

  • A composite score for executive functioning, validated in Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants with baseline mild cognitive impairment

    Laura E. Gibbons;Adam C. Carle;R. Scott Mackin;Danielle J Harvey

  • Problem-Solving Therapy and Supportive Therapy in Older Adults With Major Depression and Executive Dysfunction

    Patricia A. Areán;Patrick Raue;R. Scott Mackin;Dora Kanellopoulos

  • Problem Solving Therapy and Supportive Therapy in Older Adults with Major Depression and Executive Dysfunction: Effect on Disability

    George S. Alexopoulos;Patrick J. Raue;Dimitris N. Kiosses;R. Scott Mackin

  • Determining clinically meaningful decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease

    Philip S. Insel;Michael Weiner;Michael Weiner;R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;Elizabeth Mormino

  • Evidence-Based Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Geriatric Depression

    R. Scott Mackin;Patricia A. Areán

  • Neuroimaging abnormalities in adults with sickle cell anemia Associations with cognition

    R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;Philip Insel;Diana Truran;Elliot P. Vichinsky

  • Chronic Depressive Symptomatology in Mild Cognitive Impairment Is Associated with Frontal Atrophy Rate which Hastens Conversion to Alzheimer Dementia

    Simona Sacuiu;Simona Sacuiu;Simona Sacuiu;Philip S Insel;Susanne Mueller;Susanne Mueller;Duygu Tosun;Duygu Tosun

  • Association of Sleep and β-Amyloid Pathology Among Older Cognitively Unimpaired Adults.

    Philip S. Insel;Philip S. Insel;Brian S. Mohlenhoff;Brian S. Mohlenhoff;Thomas C. Neylan;Thomas C. Neylan;Andrew D. Krystal

  • Assessing risk for preclinical β-amyloid pathology with APOE, cognitive, and demographic information

    Philip S. Insel;Philip S. Insel;Philip S. Insel;Sebastian Palmqvist;R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;Rachel L. Nosheny

  • The transitional association between β-amyloid pathology and regional brain atrophy

    Philip S. Insel;Niklas Mattsson;Niklas Mattsson;Niklas Mattsson;Michael C. Donohue;R. Scott Mackin

  • Unsupervised online neuropsychological test performance for individuals with mild cognitive impairment and dementia: Results from the Brain Health Registry.

    R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;Philip S. Insel;Diana Truran;Shannon Finley

  • Late-Life Depression Is Associated With Reduced Cortical Amyloid Burden: Findings From the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Depression Project

    R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;Philip S. Insel;Philip S. Insel;Susan Landau;David Bickford

  • Cognitive functioning in individuals with severe compulsive hoarding behaviors and late life depression.

    R. Scott Mackin;Patricia A. Areán;Kevin L. Delucchi;Carol A. Mathews

  • Association of age at depression onset with cognitive functioning in individuals with late-life depression and executive dysfunction.

    R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;J. Craig Nelson;Kevin L. Delucchi;Patrick J. Raue

  • Patterns of Reduced Cortical Thickness in Late-Life Depression and Relationship to Psychotherapeutic Response

    R. Scott Mackin;Duygu Tosun;Susanne G. Mueller;Jun-Young Lee

  • Cognitive outcomes after psychotherapeutic interventions for major depression in older adults with executive dysfunction.

    R. Scott Mackin;R. Scott Mackin;J. Craig Nelson;Kevin Delucchi;Patrick Raue

  • Patterns of Alcohol and Drug Use Among Depressed Older Adults Seeking Outpatient Psychiatric Services

    Derek D. Satre;Derek D. Satre;Stacy A. Sterling;R. Scott Mackin;Constance M. Weisner;Constance M. Weisner

  • Cognitive and psychiatric predictors of medical treatment adherence among older adults in primary care clinics

    R. Scott Mackin;Patricia A. Areán

  • Accelerating rates of cognitive decline and imaging markers associated with β-amyloid pathology

    Philip S. Insel;Niklas Mattsson;R. Scott Mackin;Michael Schöll

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin L. Delucchi
Kevin L. Delucchi University of California, San Francisco
Patricia A. Areán
Patricia A. Areán University of Washington
Derek D. Satre
Derek D. Satre University of California, San Francisco
Paul Maruff
Paul Maruff University of Melbourne
Kristine Yaffe
Kristine Yaffe University of California, San Francisco
Thomas C. Neylan
Thomas C. Neylan University of California, San Francisco
Dan M Mungas
Dan M Mungas University of California, Davis
Anne Richards
Anne Richards Birkbeck, University of London
Sudha Seshadri
Sudha Seshadri The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Judith A. Badner
Judith A. Badner Rush University Medical Center

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