Laura Korthauer, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a clinical neuropsychologist at Brown University Health. She received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Dr. Korthauer completed residency training in the neuropsychology track of the Brown Clinical Psychology Internship Training Program. She completed an Aging and Dementia fellowship at Rhode Island Hospital as part of Brown’s Clinical Neuropsychology Specialty Training Program. Dr. Korthauer investigates cognitive and neural factors that confer risk for and resilience to Alzheimer's disease pathology as well as behavioral interventions for dementia prevention.
| Blujus JK, Korthauer LE, Awe E, Frahmand M, Driscoll I. "BDNF and KIBRA Polymorphisms Are Related to Altered Resting State Network Connectivity in Middle Age." Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD, vol. 88, no. 1, 2022, pp. 323-334. |
| Korthauer LE, Blujus JK, Awe E, Frahmand M, Prost R, Driscoll I. "Brain-behavior investigation of potential cognitive markers of Alzheimer's disease in middle age: a multi-modal imaging study." Brain Imaging and Behavior, vol. 16, no. 3, 2022, pp. 1098-1105. |
| Fortel I, Butler M, Korthauer LE, Zhan L, Ajilore O, Sidiropoulos A, Wu Y, Driscoll I, Schonfeld D, Leow A. "Inferring excitation-inhibition dynamics using a maximum entropy model unifying brain structure and function." Network neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.), vol. 6, no. 2, 2022, pp. 420-444. |
| Korthauer LE, Giugliano RP, Guo J, Sabatine MS, Sever P, Keech A, Atar D, Kurtz C, Ruff CT, Mach F, Ott BR. "No association between APOE genotype and lipid lowering with cognitive function in a randomized controlled trial of evolocumab." PLoS ONE, vol. 17, no. 4, 2022, pp. e0266615. |
| Korthauer, Laura E., Denby, Charles, Molina, David, Wanjiku, Janet, Daiello, Lori A., Drake, Jonathan D., Grill, Josh D., Ott, Brian R. "Pilot study of an Alzheimer's disease risk assessment program in a primary care setting." Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, vol. 13, no. 1, 2021, pp. e12157. |
| Fortel, Igor, Korthauer, Laura E, Morrissey, Zachery, Zhan, Liang, Ajilore, Olusola, Wolfson, Ouri, Driscoll, Ira, Schonfeld, Dan, Leow, Alex. "Connectome Signatures of Hyperexcitation in Cognitively Intact Middle-Aged Female APOE-ε4 Carriers." Cerebral Cortex, vol. 30, no. 12, 2020, pp. 6350-6362. |
| Korthauer, Laura E., Heindel, William C., Lai, Leslie Y., Tremont, Geoffrey, Ott, Brian R., Festa, Elena K. "Impaired integration of object feature knowledge in amnestic mild cognitive impairment." Neuropsychology, vol. 34, no. 6, 2020, pp. 699-712. |
| Blujus, Jenna K., Korthauer, Laura E., Awe, Elizabeth, Frahmand, Marijam, Driscoll, Ira. "Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Genes Are Associated with Intrinsic Connectivity in Middle Age." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 78, no. 1, 2020, pp. 309-320. |
| Blujus, Jenna K., Prevalska, Ina, Quevedo, Silvia F., Auchter, Allison, Korthauer, Laura E., Dunk, Michelle M., Monfils, Marie H., Driscoll, Ira. "Updating mechanisms using an olfactory cue were not successful in improving memory in a rodent model of cognitive aging or in older adults." Psychology & Neuroscience, vol. 13, no. 3, 2020, pp. 406-423. |
| Margolis SA, Festa EK, Papandonatos GD, Korthauer LE, Gonsalves MA, Oberman L, Heindel WC, Ott BR. "A pilot study of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in primary progressive aphasia." Brain Stimulation, vol. 12, no. 5, 2019, pp. 1340-1342. |
| Korthauer, Laura E., Salmon, David P., Festa, Elena K., Galasko, Douglas, Heindel, William C. "Alzheimer’s disease and the processing of uncertainty during choice task performance: Executive dysfunction within the Hick–Hyman law." Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 41, no. 4, 2019, pp. 380-389. |
| Korthauer, L.E., Zhan, L., Ajilore, O., Leow, A., Driscoll, I. "Disrupted topology of the resting state structural connectome in middle-aged APOE ε4 carriers." NeuroImage, vol. 178, 2018, pp. 295-305. |
| Korthauer, Laura E., Awe, Elizabeth, Frahmand, Marijam, Driscoll, Ira. "Genetic Risk for Age-Related Cognitive Impairment Does Not Predict Cognitive Performance in Middle Age." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 64, no. 2, 2018, pp. 459-471. |
| Korthauer, L.E, Nowak, N.T, Frahmand, M., Driscoll, I. "Cognitive correlates of spatial navigation: Associations between executive functioning and the virtual Morris Water Task." Behavioural Brain Research, vol. 317, 2017, pp. 470-478. |
| Korthauer, Laura E, Goveas, Joseph, Espeland, Mark A, Shumaker, Sally A, Garcia, Katelyn R, Tindle, Hilary, Salmoirago-Blotcher, Elena, Sink, Kaycee M, Vaughan, Leslie, Rapp, Stephen R, Resnick, Susan M, Driscoll, Ira. "Negative Affect Is Associated With Higher Risk of Incident Cognitive Impairment in Nondepressed Postmenopausal Women." The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, vol. 73, no. 4, 2017, pp. 506-512. |
| Korthauer, Laura E., Nowak, Nicole T., Moffat, Scott D., An, Yang, Rowland, Laura M., Barker, Peter B., Resnick, Susan M., Driscoll, Ira. "Correlates of virtual navigation performance in older adults." Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 39, 2016, pp. 118-127. |
| Zhang, Aifeng, Ajilore, Olusola, Zhan, Liang, GadElkarim, Johnson, Korthauer, Laura, Yang, Shaolin, Leow, Alex, Kumar, Anand. "White Matter Tract Integrity of Anterior Limb of Internal Capsule in Major Depression and Type 2 Diabetes." Neuropsychopharmacology, vol. 38, no. 8, 2013, pp. 1451-1459. |
| Gallo, David A., Korthauer, Laura E., McDonough, Ian M., Teshale, Salom, Johnson, Elizabeth L. "Age-related positivity effects and autobiographical memory detail: Evidence from a past/future source memory task." Memory, vol. 19, no. 6, 2011, pp. 641-652. |
Dr. Korthauer's research focuses on identification of factors that confer risk for or resilience to Alzheimer's disease. She uses a multi-method approach that includes cognitive neuroscience methods, clinical neuropsychological assessment, functional and structural MRI, electroencephalography (EEG), and pupil measurement to probe neural and behavioral changes in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. She also investigates novel behavioral interventions to improve maintenance of health behaviors for dementia risk reduction.
Title: Novel electrophysiological markers of risk and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease (Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute). 8/2023-7/2025
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Title: Cultural adaptation of a health behavior change program to lower Alzheimer’s risk in Latino adults (NIH-NIGMS; Advance-CTR). 8/2023-7/2024
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Title: Development of a Personalized Intervention to Motivate Health Behavior Change in Midlife Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease (NIH R21 AG075328). 8/2022-4/2024
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Title: Novel neurocognitive markers of risk for and resilience to cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (NIH K23 AG065382). 8/2020-4/2025
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Title: Brain network connectivity and genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease (NIH F31 AG050407). 8/2016-7/2017
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| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | PhD | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 2010 | AM | University of Chicago |
| 2009 | BA | Marquette University |
