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Laura Korthauer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (Research) in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School. She is also a clinical neuropsychologist affiliated with Brown University Health. Dr. Korthauer earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She completed her residency training on the neuropsychology track through the Brown Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program and a fellowship in Aging Dementia at Rhode Island Hospital, which is part of Brown's Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Training Program. Her research interests center on investigating cognitive and neural factors that confer risk and resilience related to Alzheimer's disease pathology and behavioral interventions aimed at dementia prevention. Dr. Korthauer employs a multi-method approach that includes cognitive neuroscience techniques, clinical neuropsychological assessment, functional and structural MRI, electroencephalography (EEG), and pupil measurement to probe neural and behavioral changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. Some of her funded research projects focus on identifying novel electrophysiological markers of risk and resilience for Alzheimer's disease and adapting health behavior change programs for Latino adults to reduce their risk for Alzheimer's disease.
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