Katya Rascovsky - Faculty Biosketch

Katya Rascovsky, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Steering Committee, Penn Latin America Center

Member, Hospital University Hospital (HUP) Neurology Inclusion and Diversity (iDARE) Community and Social Action Committee, University of Pennsylvania

Member, Committee on Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, Penn Memory Center

Member, Penn Neuropsychology Internship Committee

Department: Neurology

Contact information

Department of Neurology - Gates 3
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-4283

Office: (215) 6152489
Fax: (215) 3495579
Lab: (215) 6622680

Email:
katyaras@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Publications

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US Consortium of Aging, Dementia & Latino Studies
Penn FTD Center Biography
NACC FTLD Module (Spanish)
Spanish translation and adaptation of the clinical and neuropsychological instruments developed by the National Alzheimer Coordinating Center (NACC) for Remote Evaluation of Alzheimer’s disease and Related Disorders.

Education:
B.A. (Biological Basis Behavior & Psychology)
University of Pennsylvania , 1993.
M.A. (Psychology)
New York University , 1995.
M.S. (Clinical Psychology)
San Diego State University, 2004.
Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology / Neuropsychology)
University of California, San Diego / San Diego State University , 2005.

Post-Graduate Training
Internship for Clinical Psychology, University of California, 2005-2005.
Neuropsychology, University of California, San Francisco , 2005-2007.

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Description of Clinical Expertise

Neuropsychology, Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer’s Disease, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Traumatic Brain Injury, Behavior, Latino assessment, Spanish neuropsychology.

Description of Research Expertise

Frontotemporal degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Traumatic Brain Injury, Diagnostic criteria, Neuropsychology, Behavior, Latino Populations, Spanish Neuropsychology.

Selected Publications

McMillan, C.T., Irwin, D.J., Nasrallah, I., Phillips, J.S., Spindler, M., Rascovsky, K., Ternes, K., Jester, C., Wolk, D.A., Kwong, L.K., Lee, V.M., Lee, E.B., Trojanowski, J.Q., Grossman, M.: Multimodal evaluation demonstrates in vivo 18F-AV-1451 uptake in autopsy-confirmed corticobasal degeneration. Acta Neuropathologica 132(6): 935-937, Dec 2016.

McMillan, C.T., Boyd, C., Gross, R.G., Weinstein, J., Firn, K., Toledo, J.B., Rascovsky, K., Shaw, L., Wolk, D.A., Irwin, D.J., Lee, E.B., Trojanowski, J.Q., Grossman, M.: Multimodal imaging evidence of pathology-mediated disease distribution in corticobasal syndrome. Neurology 87(12): 1227-34, Sep 2016.

Gervits, F., Ash, S., Coslett, H.B., Rascovsky, K., Grossman, M., Hamilton, R.: Transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of primary progressive aphasia: An open-label pilot study. Brain and Language 162: 35-41, Aug 2016.

Spotorno, N., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Clark, R., Grossman, M.: Beyond words: Pragmatic inference in behavioral variant of frontotemporal degeneration. Neuropsychologia 75: 556-64, Aug 2015.

Massimo, L., Zee, J., Xie, S.X., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Kolanowski, A., Grossman, M.: Occupational attainment influences survival in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal degeneration. Neurology 84(20): 2070-5, May 2015.

Evans, J., Olm, C., McCluskey, L.F., Elman, L.B., Boller, A., Moran, E., Rascovsky, K., Bisbing, T., McMillan, C.T., Grossman, M.: Impaired cognitive flexibility in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology : Official Journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology 28(1): 17-26, Mar 2015.

Healey, M., McMillan, C.T., Golob, S., Spotorno, N., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Clark, R., Grossman, M.: Getting on the same page: the neural basis for social coordination deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration. Neuropsychologia 69: 56-66, Mar 2015.

Massimo, L., Powers, J.P., Evans, L.K., McMillan, Corey. T., Rascovsky, K., Eslinger, P., Ersek, M., Irwin, D.J., Grossman, M.: Apathy in Frontotemporal Degeneration: neuroanatomical evidence of impaired goal-directed behavior. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9: 611, Nov 2015 Notes: doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00611.

Spotorno, N., Healey, M., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin D.J., Clark, R., Grossman M.: Processing ambiguity in a linguistic context: decision-making difficulties in non-aphasic patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9: 583, 2015.

Bisbing, T. A., Olm, C. A., McMillan, C. T., Rascovsky, K., Baehr, L., Ternes, K., Irwin, D. J., Clark, R., Grossman, M.: Estimating frontal and parietal involvement in cognitive estimation: a study of focal neurodegenerative diseases. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9: 317, Jun 2015 Notes: doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00317.