Emma Rhodes, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Department: Neurology
Contact information
3700 Hamilton Walk, Suite B601
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-2855
Email:
rhodesem@upenn.edu
rhodesem@upenn.edu
Education:
BA (Psychology)
Kenyon College, 2007.
MA (Counseling Psychology)
Northwestern University, 2009.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Temple University, 2019.
BA (Psychology)
Kenyon College, 2007.
MA (Counseling Psychology)
Northwestern University, 2009.
PhD (Clinical Psychology)
Temple University, 2019.
Post-Graduate Training
Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 2018-2019.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center/University of California San Francisco, 2019-2021.
Permanent linkPredoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, 2018-2019.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center/University of California San Francisco, 2019-2021.
Selected Publications
Mayti, M., Rhodes, E., Emrani, S., Jin, H.A., Irwin, D.J, & McMillan, C.T.: Racial/Ethnic Differences in Neuropsychological Test Performance in Frontotemporal Degeneration. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 17(4), October 2025.Rhodes, E., Insel, P.S., Kassel, M., Kryza-Lacombe, M., Butters, M.A., Bickford, D., Tosun, D., Morin, R., Aisen, P., Rosen, H., Raman, R., Landau, S., Saykin, A., Toga, A.W., Jack, C.R., Weiner, M.W., Nelson, J.C. & Mackin, R.S.: Accelerated cognitive decline in late life depression: The role of Amyloid-β, cortico-limbic volume, and white matter hyperintensities. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry August 2025 Notes: Published online ahead of print in August 2025, print version in press.
Matyi, M.A., Radhakrishnan, H., Olm, C.A., Phillips, J.S., Cook, P.A., Rhodes, E., Gee, J.C., Irwin, D.J., McMillan, C.T. & Massimo, L.: Executive dysfunction relates to salience network desegregation in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia. Neuroimage: Clinical 48, July 2025.
Rhodes, E., Jones, R., Emrani, S., Crane, P.K. & Choi, S.: Bi-factor Model of Neuropsychiatric Symptom Measurement in National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Toronto, ON 2025.
Cousins, K.A.Q, Irwin, D.J., Tropea, T.F., Rhodes, E., Phillips, J.S., Chen-Plotkin, A.S., Brumm, M.C., Coffey, C.S., Kang, J.H., Simuni, T., Foroud, T., Toga, A.W., Tanner, C.M., Kieburtz, K., Mollenhauer, B., Galasko, D.R., Hutten, S., Weintraub, D., Siderowf, A., Marek, K., Kollmorgen, G., Poston, K.L., Shaw, L.M. & The Parkinson’s Progression Marker Initiative: Evaluation of ATN-PD Framework and Biofluid Markers to Predict Cognitive Decline in Early Parkinson Disease. Neurology 102(4), Feb 2024
Cohen, J.S., Phillips, J., Das, S.R., Olm, C.A., Radhakrishnan, H., Rhodes, E., Cousins, K.A.Q, Xie, S.X., Nasrallah, I.M., Yushkevich, P.A., Wolk, D.A., Lee, E.B., Weintraub, D., Irwin, D.J., McMillan, C.T.: Posterior hippocampal sparing in Lewy body disorders with Alzheimer’s copathology: An in vivo MRI study. NeuroImage: Clinical 45, December 2024.
Mackin, R.S., Rhodes, E., Kassel, M., Kryza-Lacombe, M., Burns, E., Bickford, D., Morin, R., Tosun, D., Landau, S., Butters, M.A., Aisen, P., Raman, R., Saykin, A.J., Toga, A., Koeppe, R., Jack, C., Weiner, M.W., Nelson, J.C. & Insel, P.S.: Cortico-limbic volume abnormalities in late life depression are distinct from β amyloid and white matter pathologies. Molecular Psychiatry 30: 1267–1276, November 2024.
Fisher, L., Munsterman, E., Rajpal, N., Rhodes, E., Hodgson, N., Hirschman, K.B. & Massimo, L.: Caregiving in the face of empathy loss in Frontotemporal Dementia: An integrative review. Aging & Mental Health 29(2): 1-11, August 2024.
Rhodes, E., Alfa, S., Jin, H., Massimo, L., Elman, L., Amado, D., Baer, M., Quinn, C. & McMillan, C.T.: Cognitive reserve in ALS: The role of occupational skills and requirements. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration 25: 1-10, April 2024.
Alfa, S., Jin, H., Massimo, L., Ellman, L., Quinn, C., McMillan, C., & Rhodes, E. : Cognitive reserve in ALS: The role of occupational skills and requirements. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 29(S1): 603-604, December 2023.