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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
Office: 215-746-2855
Education:
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.
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Selected Publications

Crane, P.K., Li, C., Cohen, T., Seitz, A., Rhodes, E., Choi, S.E., Lee, M., Mukherjee, S., Nakano, C., Albertson, S., Asadollahi, A., Velderrain-Lopez, K., Gallee, J., Rabin, L., Gaynor, L., Dumitrescu, L., Turner, S., Hohman, T.J., Gibbons, L.E., Trittschuh, E.H., Saykin, A.J. & Mez, J. : Cognitive data harmonization in the ADRC Network and beyond — Past, present, and future. Alzheimers & Dementia January 2026.

Holmqvist, S., Shou, H., Halberstadter, K., Kalpan, M., Chaturvedi, R., Rhodes, E. & Giovannetti, T. : Bidirectional associations of daily mood and subjective cognition in older adults using Ecological Momentary Assessment. Aging and Mental Health December 2025.

Ulugut, H., Bertoux, M., Younes, K., Montembeault, M., Fumagalli, G. G., Samanci, B., Illán-Gala, I., Kuchcinski, G., Leroy, M., Thompson, J. C., Kobylecki, C., Santillo, A. F., Englund, E., Waldö, M. L., Riedl, L., Van den Stock, J., Vandenbulcke, M., Vandenberghe, R., Laforce, R., Jr, Ducharme, S., Rhodes, E. … International rtvFTD Working Group (2024): Clinical recognition of frontotemporal dementia with right temporal predominance: a consensus statement from the International Working Group. Communications Medicine 5(523), December 2025.

Boyle, R., Dehghani, N., Emrani, S., Wadhwani, A.R., Matyi, M., Cousins, K.A.Q., Rhodes, E., Stites, S.D., Nelson, B., Irwin, D., McMillan, C.T. & Massimo, L.: Higher neighborhood deprivation is associated with accelerated disease progression in behavioral-variant frontotemporal degeneration. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging November 2025.

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.

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