Jeremy Elman, PhD
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Associate Editor
Term Expiration:
12/31/2024
Affiliation(s):
University of California San Diego
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Areas of Interest:
Alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging, genetic risk
Biography & Research:
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego with extensive experience integrating cognitive, neuroimaging, biomarker, and genetic data to study Alzheimer’s disease and aging. I received my PhD in cognitive neuroscience at the University of California Berkeley, where my research focused on investigating contributions of the posterior parietal cortex to episodic memory using functional neuroimaging. I completed post-doctoral fellowships at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory focused on the effects of beta-amyloid accumulation on brain and cognition using MRI and amyloid-PET imaging. I then completed a second post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California San Diego investigating the genetic and environmental influences on measures of cognitive and brain aging.
I am a co-director of the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA), a longitudinal study of twins that collects neuropsychological, biomedical, psychosocial and genetic data to explore factors influencing cognitive and brain aging, as well as risk for Alzheimer’s disease. As part of this project, I oversee the MRI substudy of the VETSA with a particular focus on sensitive measures of early risk, such as diffusion imaging of cortical microstructure and neuromelanin-sensitive imaging of the locus coeruleus. I received a K01 career development award to receive additional training in molecular genetics. This line of research concentrates on characterizing the genetic heterogeneity of Alzheimer’s disease risk and identifying genetic disease subtypes. A consistent theme spanning my current and previous work is a focus on the early identification of Alzheimer’s disease risk, as well as the exploration of resilience-related factors that may enable individuals to preserve functioning despite the presence of such risk.
