James Levy
- Neuropsychologist
- Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research
- Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
- Member, The Brain Institute
- The University of Utah
Research Interests
Dr. Levy is interested in a wide gamut of issues and problems facing older persons, ranging from the cognitive neuroscience of learning and memory to psychosocial issues of adapting and coping to dementing disorders associated with aging. Regarding the latter, he is actively working with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the University of Utah and Utah State University to systematically explore the use of caregiver mastery to improve health outcomes in dementia care recipients.
Recent Publications
Cannon-Spoor HE, Levy JA, Zubenko GS, Zubenko WW, Cohen RM, Mirza N, Putnam K, Sunderland T. (2005). Effects of previous major depressive illness on cognition in Alzheimer disease patients. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13(4), 312-8.
Greenwood PM, Sunderland T, Putnam K, Levy JA, Parasuraman R. (2005). Scaling of visuospatial attention undergoes differential longitudinal change as a function of APOE genotype prior to old age: Results from the NIMH BIOCARD study. Neuropsychology, 19, 830-840.
Levy JA, Bergeson J, Putnam K, Rosen V, Cohen R, Lalonde F, Mirza N, Linker G, Sunderland T. (2004). Context-specific memory and apolipoprotein E (ApoE) epsilon 4: cognitive evidence from the NIMH prospective study of risk for Alzheimer's disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10(3), 362-70.
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Levy JA, Parasuraman R, Greenwood PM, Dukoff R, Sunderland T. (2000). Acetylcholine affects the spatial scale of attention: evidence from Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology, 14(2), 288-98.
