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Melissa Lamar

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    2017Arthur Benton Award for Mid-Career Research, The International Neuropsyological Society
    2016Society for Clinical Neuropsychology Fellow (Division 40), American Psychological Association
    2015Early Career Reviewer, The Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
    2016Lecturer (courtesy appointment), Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
    2014Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Minority Research, University of Illinois
    2014Affiliated Investigator, Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos
    2013Associate Professor (courtesy appointment), Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
    2012 - 2016Research Associate, Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health Career Development Programs, University of Illinois at Chicago
    2014 - 2016Scholar, Advanced Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry, National Institute of Mental Health
    2014 - 2015Member, Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology Year Seven Class, Committe on Women in Psychology, American Psychological Association
    2014Travel Scholarship, The Emory Center for AIDS Research and Atlanta Geriatric Education Center
    2014 - 2015Member, Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology, American Psychological Association
    2014Travel Scholarship, The Emory Center for AIDS Research and Atlanta Geriatric Education Center
    2013Featured Researcher, Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnerships , Healthy City Collaborative, University of Illinois at Chicago
    2009 - 2011Honorary Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiary King's College London, London, England
    2009Fellow, 15th Annual NIMH Summer Research Institute in Geriatric Psychiatry
    2009Travel Grant, Brain
    2007 - 2009Honorary Research Scientist, Department of Cardiac & Vascular Sciences' , Centre for Clinical Neuroscience, St. George's University of London, London, England
    2000 - 2002Scientific Director's Award in Research, National Institute on Aging
    2000Butters and Rennick Award Finalist, International Neuropsychological Society
    1998Henry Hecaen Neuropsychology Scholar, Amer. Psych. Fo. & the Amer. Psych. Assoc. Division 40: Clinical Pathology
    1998President's Award, Philadelphia Neuropsychological Society
    1997Recipient, Neuropsychiatric Institute Student Dissertation Fellowship
    1996President's Award, Philadelphia Neuropsychological Society
    1996Graduate Student Research Award, National Academy of Neuropsychology

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    Melissa Lamar, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Rush University Medical Center, and a Clinical Neuropsychologist in the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Neuropsychology from Drexel University and completed her postdoctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience within the intramural program of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. She worked at the Institute of Psychiatry King’s College London and the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to joining the Rush faculty in 2016. Her research focuses on cardiovascular disease risk factors, brain aging and cognition with a particular focus on Latinos and African Americans. Dr. Lamar employs novel neuroimaging and data analytic techniques to identify modifiable factors associated with health disparities in brain aging. Additionally, she incorporates translational tasks and digital technology into her work assessing cognitive functioning in order to strengthen the accuracy of her work. Together with the Boston Process Approach to Neuropsychology, Dr. Lamar is able to detect subtle alterations in behavior and pin-point their roots in brain. Dr. Lamar has published extensively on brain-behavior profiles of risk and disease in aging and has received numerous honors and awards for her work including Fellows status of the American Psychological Association and the 2017 Arthur Benton Award for Mid-Career Research from the International Neuropsychological Society.

    My Scopus ID is 6701739395.

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    1. Lamar M, Arfanakis K, Evia A, Makkinejad N, Capuano AW, Kim N, Leurgans SE, Fleischman DA, Duke Han S, Poole V, Barnes LL. Changes in an in-vivo classifier of ARTerioloSclerosis (ARTS) with simultaneous change in cognition for older African Americans. Neurobiol Aging. 2024 Feb; 134:21-27. PMID: 37979249.
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    2. Lamar M, Arfanakis K, Yu L, Kapasi A, Duke Han S, Fleischman DA, Bennett DA, Boyle P. The Relationship of MRI-Derived Alzheimer's and Cerebrovascular-Related Signatures With Level of and Change in Health and Financial Literacy. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2023 12; 31(12):1129-1139. PMID: 37541932.
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    3. Fleischman DA, Arfanakis K, Leurgans SE, Zhang S, Lamar M, Han SD, Poole VN, Kim N, Bennett DA, Barnes LL. Late-life depressive symptoms and white matter structural integrity within older Black adults. Front Aging Neurosci. 2023; 15:1138568. PMID: 37205056.
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    4. Weissberger GH, Han SD, Yu L, Barnes LL, Lamar M, Bennett DA, Boyle PA. Subjective socioeconomic status is associated with risk aversion in a community-based cohort of older adults without dementia. Front Psychol. 2022; 13:963418. PMID: 36420395.
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    5. McSorley VE, Lamar M, Yu L, Bennett DA, Barnes LL, Boyle PA. Decision Making and Blood Sugar Indicators in Older African American Adults. J Aging Health. 2023 03; 35(3-4):221-229. PMID: 35997533.
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    6. Tussing-Humphreys L, Lamar M, McLeod A, Schiffer L, Blumstein L, Dakers R, Karstens A, Hemphill NON, Strahan D, Siegel L, Flack JS, Antonic M, Restrepo L, Berbaum M, Fitzgibbon M. Effect of Mediterranean diet and Mediterranean diet plus calorie restriction on cognition, lifestyle, and cardiometabolic health: A randomized clinical trial. Prev Med Rep. 2022 Oct; 29:101955. PMID: 36161108.
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    7. Lamar M, Yu L, Leurgans S, Aggarwal NT, Wilson RS, Han SD, Bennett DA, Boyle P. Self-reported fraud victimization and objectively measured blood pressure: Sex differences in post-fraud cardiovascular health. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 11; 70(11):3185-3194. PMID: 35920078.
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    8. Poole VN, Dawe RJ, Lamar M, Esterman M, Barnes L, Leurgans SE, Bennett DA, Hausdorff JM, Buchman AS. Dividing attention during the Timed Up and Go enhances associations of several subtask performances with MCI and cognition. PLoS One. 2022; 17(8):e0269398. PMID: 35921260.
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    9. Posis AIB, Tarraf W, Gonzalez KA, Soria-Lopez JA, L?ger GC, Stickel AM, Daviglus ML, Lamar M, Zeng D, Gonz?lez HM. Anticholinergic Drug Burden and Neurocognitive Performance in the Study of Latinos-Investigation of Neurocognitive Aging. J Alzheimers Dis. 2022; 86(1):53-65. PMID: 35001889.
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    10. Breton J, Stickel AM, Tarraf W, Gonzalez KA, Keamy AJ, Schneiderman N, Marquine MJ, Zlatar ZZ, Salmon DP, Lamar M, Daviglus ML, Lipton RB, Gallo LC, Goodman ZT, Gonz?lez HM. Normative data for the Brief Spanish-English Verbal Learning Test for representative and diverse Hispanics/Latinos: Results from the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2021; 13(1):e12260. PMID: 34934802.
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    11. Bangen KJ, Delano-Wood L, Deoni SCL, Clark AL, Evangelista ND, Hoffman SN, Sorg SF, Holmqvist S, Osuna J, Weigand AJ, Jak AJ, Bondi MW, Lamar M. Decreased myelin content of the fornix predicts poorer memory performance beyond vascular risk, hippocampal volume, and fractional anisotropy in nondemented older adults. Brain Imaging Behav. 2021 Oct; 15(5):2563-2571. PMID: 33638111.
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    12. Emrani S, Lamar M, Price C, Baliga S, Wasserman V, Matusz EF, Saunders J, Gietka V, Strate J, Swenson R, Baliga G, Libon DJ. Neurocognitive Constructs Underlying Executive Control in Statistically-Determined Mild Cognitive Impairment. J Alzheimers Dis. 2021; 82(1):5-16. PMID: 34219736.
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    13. Choi SE, Mukherjee S, Gibbons LE, Sanders RE, Jones RN, Tommet D, Mez J, Trittschuh EH, Saykin A, Lamar M, Rabin L, Foldi NS, Sikkes S, Jutten RJ, Grandoit E, Mac Donald C, Risacher S, Groot C, Ossenkoppele R, Crane PK. Development and validation of language and visuospatial composite scores in ADNI. Alzheimers Dement (N Y). 2020; 6(1):e12072. PMID: 33313380.
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    14. Blanco-Campal A, Diaz-Orueta U, Navarro-Prados AB, Burke T, Libon DJ, Lamar M. Features and psychometric properties of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment: Review and proposal of a process-based approach version (MoCA-PA). Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2021 Nov-Dec; 28(6):658-672. PMID: 31718290.
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    15. Emrani S, Wasserman V, Matusz E, Miller D, Lamar M, Price CC, Ginsberg TB, Au R, Swenson R, Libon DJ. Visual versus Verbal Working Memory in Statistically Determined Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment: On behalf of the Consortium for Clinical and Epidemiological Neuropsychological Data Analysis (CENDA). J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2019 11; 25(10):1001-1010. PMID: 31543085.
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    16. Bronas UG, Steffen A, Dion C, Boots EA, Arfanakis K, Marquez DX, Lamar M. Sedentary Time and White Matter Hyperintensity Volume in Older Adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 08; 51(8):1613-1618. PMID: 30817720.
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    17. Stewart CC, Yu L, Lamar M, Wilson RS, Bennett DA, Boyle PA. Associations of health and financial literacy with mortality in advanced age. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2020 May; 32(5):951-957. PMID: 31273677.
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    18. Karstens AJ, Tussing-Humphreys L, Zhan L, Rajendran N, Cohen J, Dion C, Zhou XJ, Lamar M. Associations of the Mediterranean diet with cognitive and neuroimaging phenotypes of dementia in healthy older adults. Am J Clin Nutr. 2019 02 01; 109(2):361-368. PMID: 30698630.
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    19. James BD, Wilson RS, Capuano AW, Boyle PA, Shah RC, Lamar M, Ely EW, Bennett DA, Schneider JA. Cognitive decline after elective and nonelective hospitalizations in older adults. Neurology. 2019 02 12; 92(7):e690-e699. PMID: 30635482.
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    20. Lamar M, Yu L, Rubin LH, James BD, Barnes LL, Farfel JM, Gaiteri C, Buchman AS, Bennett DA, Schneider JA. APOE genotypes as a risk factor for age-dependent accumulation of cerebrovascular disease in older adults. Alzheimers Dement. 2019 02; 15(2):258-266. PMID: 30321502.
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    21. Wilson RS, Capuano AW, Yu L, Yang J, Kim N, Leurgans SE, Lamar M, Schneider JA, Bennett DA, Boyle PA. Neurodegenerative disease and cognitive retest learning. Neurobiol Aging. 2018 06; 66:122-130. PMID: 29558667.
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    22. V?squez E, Strizich G, Isasi CR, Echeverria SE, Sotres-Alvarez D, Evenson KR, Gellman MD, Palta P, Qi Q, Lamar M, Tarraf W, Gonz?lez HM, Kaplan R. Is there a relationship between accelerometer-assessed physical activity and sedentary behavior and cognitive function in US Hispanic/Latino adults? The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). Prev Med. 2017 Oct; 103:43-48. PMID: 28765082.
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    23. Camacho A, Tarraf W, Jimenez DE, Gallo LC, Gonzalez P, Kaplan RC, Lamar M, Khambaty T, Thyagarajan B, Perreira KM, Hernandez R, Cai J, Daviglus ML, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Gonz?lez HM. Anxious Depression and Neurocognition among Middle-Aged and Older Hispanic/Latino Adults: Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) Results. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018 02; 26(2):238-249. PMID: 28684241.
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    24. Karstens AJ, Ajilore O, Rubin LH, Yang S, Zhang A, Leow A, Kumar A, Lamar M. Investigating the separate and interactive associations of trauma and depression on brain structure: implications for cognition and aging. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2017 Nov; 32(11):1190-1199. PMID: 28643948.
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    25. Tussing-Humphreys L, Lamar M, Blumenthal JA, Babyak M, Fantuzzi G, Blumstein L, Schiffer L, Fitzgibbon ML. Building research in diet and cognition: The BRIDGE randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 08; 59:87-97. PMID: 28600159.
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    26. Gonzales MM, Ajilore O, Charlton RC, Cohen J, Yang S, Sieg E, Bhaumik DK, Kumar A, Lamar M. Divergent Influences of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor Domains on Cognition and Gray and White Matter Morphology. Psychosom Med. 2017 Jun; 79(5):541-548. PMID: 28498826.
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    27. Lamar M, Wu D, Durazo-Arvizu RA, Brickman AM, Gonzalez HM, Tarraf W, Daviglus ML. Cognitive Associates of Current and More Intensive Control of Hypertension: Findings From the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Am J Hypertens. 2017 Jun 01; 30(6):624-631. PMID: 28402388.
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    28. Charlton RA, Lamar M, Zhang A, Ren X, Ajilore O, Pandey GN, Kumar A. Associations between pro-inflammatory cytokines, learning, and memory in late-life depression and healthy aging. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018 Jan; 33(1):104-112. PMID: 28271543.
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    29. Karstens AJ, Rubin LH, Shankman SA, Ajilore O, Libon DJ, Kumar A, Lamar M. Investigating the separate and interactive associations of trauma and depression on neurocognition in urban dwelling adults. J Psychiatr Res. 2017 06; 89:6-13. PMID: 28130995.
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    30. Tarraf W, Rodr?guez CJ, Daviglus ML, Lamar M, Schneiderman N, Gallo L, Talavera GA, Kaplan RC, Fornage M, Conceicao A, Gonz?lez HM. Blood Pressure and Hispanic/Latino Cognitive Function: Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Results. J Alzheimers Dis. 2017; 59(1):31-42. PMID: 28582859.
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    31. Piers RJ, Devlin KN, Ning B, Liu Y, Wasserman B, Massaro JM, Lamar M, Price CC, Swenson R, Davis R, Penney DL, Au R, Libon DJ. Age and Graphomotor Decision Making Assessed with the Digital Clock Drawing Test: The Framingham Heart Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2017; 60(4):1611-1620. PMID: 29036819.
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    32. Jenkins LM, Barba A, Campbell M, Lamar M, Shankman SA, Leow AD, Ajilore O, Langenecker SA. Shared white matter alterations across emotional disorders: A voxel-based meta-analysis of fractional anisotropy. Neuroimage Clin. 2016; 12:1022-1034. PMID: 27995068.
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    33. Yang S, Wu M, Ajilore O, Lamar M, Kumar A. Metabolic Aberrations Impact Biophysical Integrity of Macromolecular Protein Pools in the Default Mode Network. Diabetes. 2016 Nov; 65(11):3464-3472. PMID: 27543086.
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    34. Nation DA, Preis SR, Beiser A, Bangen KJ, Delano-Wood L, Lamar M, Libon DJ, Seshadri S, Wolf PA, Au R. Pulse Pressure Is Associated With Early Brain Atrophy and Cognitive Decline: Modifying Effects of APOE-e4. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2016 Jul-Sep; 30(3):210-5. PMID: 27556935.
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    35. Lamar M, Ajilore O, Leow A, Charlton R, Cohen J, GadElkarim J, Yang S, Zhang A, Davis R, Penney D, Libon DJ, Kumar A. Cognitive and connectome properties detectable through individual differences in graphomotor organization. Neuropsychologia. 2016 05; 85:301-9. PMID: 27037044.
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    36. Souillard-Mandar W, Davis R, Rudin C, Au R, Libon DJ, Swenson R, Price CC, Lamar M, Penney DL. Learning Classification Models of Cognitive Conditions from Subtle Behaviors in the Digital Clock Drawing Test. Mach Learn. 2016 Mar; 102(3):393-441. PMID: 27057085.
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    37. Ahmed S, Brennan L, Eppig J, Price CC, Lamar M, Delano-Wood L, Bangen KJ, Edmonds EC, Clark L, Nation DA, Jak A, Au R, Swenson R, Bondi MW, Libon DJ. Visuoconstructional Impairment in Subtypes of Mild Cognitive Impairment. Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2016; 23(1):43-52. PMID: 26397732.
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    38. Peters AT, Jacobs RH, Crane NA, Ryan KA, Weisenbach SL, Ajilore O, Lamar M, Kassel MT, Gabriel LB, West AE, Zubieta JK, Langenecker SA. Domain-specific impairment in cognitive control among remitted youth with a history of major depression. Early Interv Psychiatry. 2017 10; 11(5):383-392. PMID: 26177674.
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    39. Lamar M, Rubin LH, Ajilore O, Charlton R, Zhang A, Yang S, Cohen J, Kumar A. What Metabolic Syndrome Contributes to Brain Outcomes in African American & Caucasian Cohorts. Curr Alzheimer Res. 2015; 12(7):640-7. PMID: 26239040.
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    40. Bezdicek O, Libon DJ, Stepankova H, Panenkova E, Lukavsky J, Garrett KD, Lamar M, Price CC, Kopecek M. Development, validity, and normative data study for the 12-word Philadelphia Verbal Learning Test [czP(r)VLT-12] among older and very old Czech adults. Clin Neuropsychol. 2014; 28(7):1162-81. PMID: 25247611.
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    41. Charlton RA, Leow A, GadElkarim J, Zhang A, Ajilore O, Yang S, Lamar M, Kumar A. Brain connectivity in late-life depression and aging revealed by network analysis. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2015 Jun; 23(6):642-50. PMID: 25154538.
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    42. Eppig J, Wambach D, Nieves C, Price CC, Lamar M, Delano-Wood L, Giovannetti T, Bettcher BM, Penney DL, Swenson R, Lippa C, Kabasakalian A, Bondi MW, Libon DJ. Dysexecutive functioning in mild cognitive impairment: derailment in temporal gradients. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2012 Jan; 18(1):20-8. PMID: 22014116.
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    43. Hohman TJ, Beason-Held LL, Lamar M, Resnick SM. Subjective cognitive complaints and longitudinal changes in memory and brain function. Neuropsychology. 2011 Jan; 25(1):125-30. PMID: 20919769.
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