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

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Department: Neurology

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

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Email:
katyaras@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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Links
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6f US Consortium of Aging, Dementia & Latino Studies
7e Penn FTD Center Biography
84 NACC FTLD Module (Spanish)
144 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.
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13 Education:
21 9 B.A. 33 (Biological Basis Behavior & Psychology) c
34 University of Pennsylvania , 1993.
21 9 M.A. 17 (Psychology) c
2d New York University , 1995.
21 9 M.S. 20 (Clinical Psychology) c
33 San Diego State University, 2004.
21 a Ph.D. 32 (Clinical Psychology / Neuropsychology) c
5a University of California, San Diego / San Diego State University , 2005.
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1f Post-Graduate Training
24 5a Internship for Clinical Psychology, University of California, 2005-2005.
24 57 Neuropsychology, University of California, San Francisco , 2005-2007.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

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

d3 Frontotemporal degeneration, Alzheimer's disease, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Traumatic Brain Injury, Diagnostic criteria, Neuropsychology, Behavior, Latino Populations, Spanish Neuropsychology.
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Selected Publications

1a8 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.

17a 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.

136 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.

11a 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.

135 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.

190 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.

157 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.

183 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.

16b 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.

18b 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.

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