Dr. Grace conducts research in the area of behavior change related to subcortical-frontal systems dysfunction. She is co-author of a scale assessing these behaviors. She also has an interest in sports related concussion.
| Carvalho, Janessa O., Buelow, Melissa T., Ready, Rebecca E., Grace, Janet. "Associations Between Original and a Reduced Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe), Cognition, and Activities of Daily Living in a Large Neurologic Sample." Applied neuropsychology. Adult, vol. 23, no. 2, 2015, pp. 125-32. |
| Buelow, Melissa T., Amick, Melissa M., Queller, Sarah, Stout, Julie C., Friedman, Joseph H., Grace, Janet. "Feasibility of use of probabilistic reversal learning and serial reaction time tasks in clinical trials of Parkinson's disease." Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, vol. 21, no. 8, 2015, pp. 894-898. |
| Buelow MT, Frakey LL, Grace J, Friedman JH. "The contribution of apathy and increased learning trials to risky decision-making in Parkinson's disease." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, vol. 29, no. 1, 2014, pp. 100-9. |
| Buelow MT, Tremont G, Frakey LL, Grace J, Ott BR. "Utility of the cognitive difficulties scale and association with objective test performance." American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, vol. 29, no. 8, 2014, pp. 755-61. |
| Carvalho JO, Ready RE, Malloy P, Grace J. "Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale (FrSBe)." Assessment, vol. 20, no. 5, 2013, pp. 632-641. |
| Tremont G, Papandonatos GD, Springate B, Huminski B, McQuiggan MD, Grace J, Frakey L, Ott BR. "Use of the telephone-administered Minnesota Cognitive Acuity Screen to detect mild cognitive impairment." American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, vol. 26, no. 7, 2011, pp. 555-562. |
| Grace J, Amick MM, Friedman JH. "A double-blind comparison of galantamine hydrobromide ER and placebo in Parkinson disease." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 80, no. 1, 2009, pp. 18-23. |
| Ott BR, Festa EK, Amick MM, Grace J, Davis JD, Heindel WC. "Computerized maze navigation and on-road performance by drivers with dementia." Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, vol. 21, no. 1, 2008, pp. 18-25. |
| Grace J, Mendelsohn A, Friedman JH. "A comparison of fatigue measures in Parkinson's disease." Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, vol. 13, no. 7, 2007, pp. 443-5. |
| Williams VG, Bruce JM, Westervelt HJ, Davis JD, Grace J, Malloy PF, Tremont G. "Boston naming performance distinguishes between Lewy body and Alzheimer's dementias." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, vol. 22, no. 8, 2007, pp. 925-931. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J. "Factor structure of patient and caregiver ratings on the dementia quality of life instrument." Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, vol. 14, no. 2, 2007, pp. 144-54. |
| Malloy P, Tremont G, Grace J, Frakey L. "The Frontal Systems Behavior Scale discriminates frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer’s disease." Alzheimer's & Dementia, vol. 3, no. 3, 2007, pp. 200-3. |
| Amick MM, Grace J, Ott BR. "Visual and cognitive predictors of driving safety in Parkinson's disease patients." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, vol. 22, no. 8, 2007, pp. 957-67. |
| Amick MM, Grace J, Chou KL. "Body side of motor symptom onset in Parkinson's disease is associated with memory performance." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, vol. 12, no. 5, 2006, pp. 736-40. |
| Amick MM, Grace J. "Deep brain stimulation surgery for Parkinson's disease: the role of neuropsychological assessment." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 89, no. 4, 2006, pp. 130-3. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J. "Insight and cognitive impairment: effects on quality-of-life reports from mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease patients." American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, vol. 21, no. 4, 2006, pp. 242-8. |
| Malloy P, Grace J. "A review of rating scales for measuring behavior change due to frontal systems damage." Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, vol. 18, no. 1, 2005, pp. 18-27. |
| Grace J, Amick MM. "Cognitive screening of older adults." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 88, no. 1, 2005, pp. 8-11. |
| GRACE, JANET, AMICK, MELISSA M., D'ABREU, ANELYSSA, FESTA, ELENA K., HEINDEL, WILLIAM C., OTT, BRIAN R. "Neuropsychological deficits associated with driving performance in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease." Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, vol. 11, no. 6, 2005, pp. 766-75. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J. "Patient versus informant perspectives of Quality of Life in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer's disease." International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 19, no. 3, 2004, pp. 256-65. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J. "Validity of informant reports about AD and MCI patients' memory." Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, vol. 18, no. 1, 2004, pp. 11-6. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J. "Amnestic behavior in dementia: symptoms to assist in early detection and diagnosis." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 51, no. 1, 2003, pp. 32-7. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J, Cahn-Weiner DA. "Apathy and executive dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease." The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol. 11, no. 2, 2003, pp. 222-8. |
| Cahn-Weiner DA, Williams K, Grace J, Tremont G, Westervelt H, Stern RA. "Discrimination of dementia with lewy bodies from Alzheimer disease and Parkinson disease using the clock drawing test." Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, vol. 16, no. 2, 2003, pp. 85-92. |
| Stout JC, Ready RE, Grace J, Malloy PF, Paulsen JS. "Factor analysis of the frontal systems behavior scale (FrSBe)." Assessment, vol. 10, no. 1, 2003, pp. 79-85. |
| Grace J, Cahn-Weiner D. "Behavioral issues in Alzheimer's disease." Medicine and health, Rhode Island, vol. 85, no. 7, 2002, pp. 213-5. |
| Zawacki TM, Grace J, Paul R, Moser DJ, Ott BR, Gordon N, Cohen RA. "Behavioral problems as predictors of functional abilities of vascular dementia patients." The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences, vol. 14, no. 3, 2002, pp. 296-302. |
| Cahn-Weiner DA, Grace J, Ott BR, Fernandez HH, Friedman JH. "Cognitive and behavioral features discriminate between Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease." Neuropsychiatry, neuropsychology, and behavioral neurology, vol. 15, no. 2, 2002, pp. 79-87. |
| Zawacki TM, Grace J, Friedman JH, Sudarsky L. "Executive and emotional dysfunction in Machado-Joseph disease." Mov. Disord., vol. 17, no. 5, 2002, pp. 1004-10. |
| Ready RE, Ott BR, Grace J, Fernandez I. "The Cornell-Brown Scale for Quality of Life in dementia." Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, vol. 16, no. 2, 2002, pp. 109-15. |
| Zawacki T, Friedman JH, Grace J, Shetty N. "Cerebellar toxicity of cytosine arabinoside: clinical and neuropsychological signs." Neurology, vol. 55, no. 8, 2000, pp. 1234. |
| Fernandez HH, Friedman JH, Grace J, Beason-Hazen S. "Donepezil for Huntington's disease." Mov. Disord., vol. 15, no. 1, 2000, pp. 173-6. |
| Grace J, Stout JC, Malloy PF. "Assessing frontal lobe behavioral syndromes with the frontal lobe personality scale." Assessment, vol. 6, no. 3, 1999, pp. 269-84. |
| Suhr J, Grace J, Allen J, Nadler J, McKenna M. "Quantitative and qualitative performance of stroke versus normal elderly on six clock drawing systems." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, vol. 13, no. 6, 1998, pp. 495-502. |
| Nadler JD, Grace J, White DA, Butters MA, Malloy PF. "Laterality differences in quantitative and qualitative Hooper performance." Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists, vol. 11, no. 3, 1996, pp. 223-9. |
| Grace J, Nadler JD, White DA, Guilmette TJ, Giuliano AJ, Monsch AU, Snow MG. "Folstein vs modified Mini-Mental State Examination in geriatric stroke. Stability, validity, and screening utility." Archives of Neurology, vol. 52, no. 5, 1995, pp. 477-84. |
| Richardson ED, Malloy PF, Grace J. "Othello syndrome secondary to right cerebrovascular infarction." Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, vol. 4, no. 3, 1991, pp. 160-5. |
Grace, J. Frontal Systems Behavior Scale. Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology Springer-Verlag 2010
Grace J, Amick MM, Friedman JH. A Double Blind Comparison of Galantamine Hydrobromide ER and Placebo in Parkinson's Disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2009; 80:18-23.
Malloy PF, Tremont G, Grace J. Comparison of frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease on the Frontal Systems Behavior Scale. Alzheimer's and Dementia 2007; 3:200-203
Amick MA, Grace J, Chou KC. Body Side of Motor Symptom Onset in Parkinson's Disease Influences Memory Performance. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2006, 12: 736-740.
Grace J, Amick MM, D'Abreu A, Festa-Martino E, Heindel W, Ott BR. Neuropsychological Deficits Associated with Driving Performance in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's Disease Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2005; 11 (6): 766-775.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | PhD | Cornell University |
| 1974 | BA | Wellesley College |
