Yunglin Gazes, PhD
- Assistant Professor of Neuropsychology (in Neurology and in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain)

With an engineering bachelor's degree, Dr. Gazes studied Cognitive Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and joined the Cognitive Neuroscience Division in the Neurology department. Dr. Gazes' main research focuses on understanding the neural decline that occurs with aging and its relationship to the accompanying cognitive changes. Using neuroimaging tools such as fMRI and DWI, she examines questions such as 'what is the mechanism that enables the maintenance of crystallized abilities, which are abilities previously found to resist aging decline?' and 'which novel measures of grey and white matter health better explain the differences between individuals with varying levels of reserve, which has been found to serve as a protective factor in aging?' Her other research interests include clinical application of white matter imaging techniques and combining different imaging techniques to understand cognitive aging.
Departmental Appointments
- Department of Neurology
Division of Cognitive Neuroscience
Education & Training
- BS, Engineering, Cooper Union
- PhD, Experimental Psychology, City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center
- Fellowship: Columbia University Medical Center
Links
Committees/Societies/Memberships
Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society of Neuroscience
Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Research Interests
- Multimodal imaging of age-related decline, such as fMRI and DTI
NIH Grants
NEUROANATOMICAL ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE FACTOR STRUCTURE UNDERLYING NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS IN ALZHEIMER S DISEASE (Federal Gov)
Sep 30 2018 - May 31 2023
EXPLORING COGNITIVE AGING USING REFERENCE ABILITY NEURAL NETWORKS (Federal Gov)
Aug 1 2016 - Jun 30 2021
LONGITUDINAL CHANGES IN WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY PREDICTING COGNITIVE CHANGES IN REASONING AND VOCABULARY ABILITIES (Federal Gov)
Sep 15 2016 - May 31 2021
NODDI VS. DTI METRICS IN PREDICTING AMYLOID AND TAU PATHOLOGY (Private)
Nov 1 2017 - Oct 31 2020
PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM: NEUROCOGNITIVE FEATURES (Federal Gov)
Jul 9 2015 - Jun 30 2018
PARKINSON S DISEASE FOUNDATION (PDF) RESEARCH CENTER GRANT (Private)
Jul 1 2016 - Jun 30 2017
IMAGING OF COGNITION, LEARNING AND MEMORY IN AGING (Federal Gov)
Sep 1 2011 - May 31 2017
PREDICTORS OF SEVERITY IN ALZHEIMER S DISEASE (Federal Gov)
Sep 1 2011 - May 31 2017
EXERCISE, AGING, AND COGNITION: EFFECT AND MECHANISMS (Federal Gov)
Aug 1 2010 - May 31 2017
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITION IN AGING (Federal Gov)
Jun 15 1998 - Apr 30 2015
EFFECT OF SLEEP DEPRIVATION ON FMRI-MEASURED COGNITIVE NETWO RKS (Federal Gov)
Mar 15 2002 - Oct 31 2010