Faculty

Katheryn Alexandra Quilico Cousins-Gershenson, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Neurology

Department: Neurology

Graduate Group Affiliations

Neuroscience

Contact information

Richards Medical Building, Suite 600B
3700 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Email:
katheryn.cousins@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Education:
BA ( Biological Sciences)
University of Chicago, 2007.
PhD (Neuroscience)
Brandeis University, 2015.

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Description of Research Expertise

Biofluid markers of neuropathology

Selected Publications

Boyle, Xu, Cousins, Dehghani, Morse, Verma, Shaw, Massimo, Zhou, Wolk, McMillan, & the Penn Medicine Biobank: Epigenetic age acceleration is faster in Black adults and is associated with plasma amyloid (Invited talk) Penn Population Aging Research Center Aging Retreat – Limits of Chronological Age May 2025.

Kac, Cousins, Shaw, Karikari, Turton, van Deerlin, Harrison, McMillan, Kvartsberg, Zetterberg, Wolk, Lee, Irwin, & Blennow: MTBR-Tau368 improves diagnostic accuracy for FTLD-TAU from FTLD-TDP. International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases and Related Neurological Disorders (AD/PD), Vienna, Austria April 2025.

Serper M, Schaubel DE, Cousins KAQ, McMillan C, Asrani S, Boike J, Yoshino Benavente J, Wolf MS.: Hepatic encephalopathy predicts early post-transplant cognitive and functional impairment: The Livcog cohort study. Hepatol Commun 9: e0696, Apr 2025.

Albuja, Irwin, Shaw, Korecka, Lee, Wolk, McMillan, Chen-Plotkin, Tropea, & Cousins: Maximizing sensitivity of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers to detect Alzheimer’s co-pathology in autopsy-confirmed Lewy Body Disease (LBD). International Lewy Body Dementia Conference (ILBDC) Jan 2025.

Brown CA, Das SR, Cousins KAQ, Tropea TF, Plotkin AC, Detre JA, Yushkevich PA, McMillan CT, Lee EB, Shaw LM, Nasrallah IM; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative; Wolk DA.: Tau Burden is Best Captured by Magnitude and Extent: Tau-MaX as a Measure of Global Tau. medRxiv Jan 2025.

Phillips, Kamel, Temirova, Hareras, Ibe, Hlava, Xie, Cousins, Shaw, Das, Maneval, Manning, Brown, McMillan, Irwin, Li, Nasrallah, & Wolk: PI-2620 uptake in the medial temporal lobes discriminates Alzheimer’s disease from normal cognition and non-Alzheimer’s dementias. Human Amyloid Imaging (HAI), San Juan, Puerto Rico Jan 2025.

Cousins KAQ, Shaw LM.: Transitioning Alzheimer Disease Blood Biomarkers into Primary Care: Are We There Yet? Clin Chem 71: 435-437, Dec 2024.

Boyle, Dehghani, Nelson, Shen, Spencer, Rhodes, Cousins, Irwin, Massimo, Quinn, Amado, Baer, Elman, & McMillan: Neighborhood deprivation and functional impairment in ALS. International Symposium on ALS/MND Montreal, Canada Dec 2024.

Cohen JS, Phillips J, Das SR, Olm CA, Radhakrishnan H, Rhodes E, Cousins KAQ, Xie SX, Nasrallah IM, Yushkevich PA, Wolk DA, Lee EB, Weintraub D, Irwin DJ, McMillan CT.: Posterior hippocampal sparing in Lewy body disorders with Alzheimer's copathology: An in vivo MRI study. Neuroimage Clin 45: 103714, Dec 2024.

Shaw LM, Korecka M, Lee EB, Cousins KAQ, Vanderstichele H, Schindler SE, Tosun D, DeMarco ML, Brylska M, Wan Y, Burnham S, Sciulli A, Vulaj A, Tropea TF, Chen-Plotkin A, Wolk DA; Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.: ADNI Biomarker Core: A review of progress since 2004 and future challenges. Alzheimers Dement Nov 2024.