Associate Professor of Psychology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Funded Research
- Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Ethnic Factors: The Case of Arab Americans
- Brain Health and Ethnic Disparities in ADRD Risk: The Case of Arab Americans
- Exploring the Use of Deep Learning Neural Networks to Improve Dementia Detection: Automating Coding of the Clock-Drawing Test
- Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD)
- Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging
- Racial/Ethnic Disparities in ADRD Risk: The Impact of Social Relations
- Risk and resilience mechanisms underlying race disparities in ADRD: An examination of neighborhood resources, social networks, brain integrity, and cognition
Publications
- Kindratt, Tiffany B., Moncriffe, Berford, Kristine J Ajrouch, Laura Beth Zahodne, Dallo, Florence J.. 2023. Diabetes Among Racial and Ethnically Diverse Older Adults in the United States with Cognitive Limitations. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Neika Sharifian, A. Zarina Kraal, Emily P. Morris, Ketlyne Sol, Afsara B. Zaheed, Meister,Lindsey, Richard Mayeux, Nicole Schupf, Jennifer J. Manly, Adam M. Brickman. 2023. Longitudinal associations between racial discrimination and hippocampal and white matter hyperintensity volumes among older Black adults. Social Science & Medicine 316:114789.
- Tiffany B. Kindratt, Florence J. Dallo, Laura Beth Zahodne, Kristine J Ajrouch. 2022. Cognitive Limitations Among Middle Eastern and North African Immigrants. Journal of Aging and Health
- Abbey M. Hamlin, A. Zarina Kraal, Ketlyne Sol, Emily P. Morris, Alexa G. Martino, Afsara B. Zaheed, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2022. Social engagement and its links to cognition differ across non-Hispanic Black and White older adults. Neuropsychology 36(7):640-650.
- Kraal, A Zarina, Dotterer, Hailey L, Sharifian, Neika, Morris, Emily P, Ketlyne Sol, Zaheed, Afara B, Jacqui Smith, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2021. Physical Activity in Early- and Mid-Adulthood Are Independently Associated With Longitudinal Memory Trajectories in Later Life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 76(8):1495-1503.
- Kraal, A Zarina, Dotterer, Hailey L, Sharifian, Neika, Morris, Emily P, Ketlyne Sol, Zaheed, Afara B, Jacqui Smith, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2021. Physical Activity in Early- and Mid-Adulthood Are Independently Associated With Longitudinal Memory Trajectories in Later Life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 76(8):1495-1503.
- Melissa Y. Wei, Deborah A. Levine, Laura Beth Zahodne, Mohammed U. Kabeto, Kenneth M Langa. 2020. Multimorbidity and Cognitive Decline Over 14 Years in Older Americans. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 75(6)
- A. Zarina Kraal, Hailey L. Dotterer, Neika Sharifian, Emily P. Morris, Ketlyne Sol, Afara B. Zaheed, Jacqui Smith, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2020. Physical Activity in Early- and Mid-Adulthood are Associated with Longitudinal Memory Trajectories in Later-Life. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 76(8):1495-1503.
- Neika Sharifian, Ketlyne Sol, Laura Beth Zahodne, Toni C Antonucci. 2020. Social Relationships and Adaptation in Later Life. Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Fieo, Robert , Tang, Ming X, Manly, Jennifer J, Cohen, Ron , Stern, Yaakov . 2019. The Historical Progression From ADL Scrutiny to IADL to Advanced ADL: Assessing Functional Status in the Earliest Stages of Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Schupf, Nicole , Brickman, Adam M. 2019. Control beliefs are associated with preserved memory function in the face of low hippocampal volume among diverse older adults. Brain Imaging and Behavior
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Sol, Ketlyne , Kraal, Zarina . 2019. Psychosocial Pathways to Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Late-Life Memory Trajectories. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Kraal, A Zarina, Zaheed, Afsara B, Sol, Ketlyne . 2019. Inflammatory mechanisms underlying the effects of everyday discrimination on age-related memory decline. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 75:149-154.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Zaheed, Afsara B, Kraal, A Zarina, Sol, Ketlyne , Hence, Alyssia . 2019. Unique Effects of Perceived Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Social Cohesion on Episodic Memory and Semantic Fluency. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
- Laura Beth Zahodne. 2019. Social Media Bytes: Daily Associations Between Social Media Use and Everyday Memory Failures Across the Adult Life Span. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Kenneth M Langa, Wei, Melissa Y., Levine, Deborah A, Kabeto, Mohammed U. 2019. Multimorbidity and Cognitive Decline Over 14 Years in Older Americans. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Kristine J Ajrouch, Toni C Antonucci. 2019. Social relations and age-related change in memory. Psychology and Aging 34(6):751-765.
- Toni C Antonucci, Kristine J Ajrouch, Noah J Webster, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2019. Social Relations Across the Life Span: Scientific Advances, Emerging Issues, and Future Challenges. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology 1:313-336.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Watson, Caitlin W.-M., Seehra, Sonia , Martinez, Michelle N. 2018. Positive Psychosocial Factors and Cognition in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 24(3):294-304.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Power, Melinda C, Mormino, Elizabeth , Soldan, Anja , James, Bryan D, Yu, Lei , Armstrong, Nicole M, Bangen, Katherine J, Delano-Wood, Lisa , Lamar, Melissa , Lim, Yen Ying, Nudelman, Kelly , Gross, Alden L, Mungas, Dan , Widaman, Keith F, Schneider, Julie . 2018. Combined neuropathological pathways account for age-related risk of dementia. Annals of Neurology 84(1):10-22.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Kraal, A Zarina, Zaheed, Afsara , Sol, Ketlyne . 2018. Subjective Social Status Predicts Late-Life Memory Trajectories through Both Mental and Physical Health Pathways. Gerontology 64:466-474.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Jacqui Smith, Manly, Jennifer J, Seeman, Teresa , Lachman, Margie E. 2017. Socioeconomic, health, and psychosocial mediators of racial disparities in cognition in early, middle, and late adulthood. Psychology and aging 32(2):118-130.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Gilsanz, Paola , Glymour, M Maria, Gibbons, Laura E, Brewster, Paul , Hamilton, Jamie , Mez, Jesse , Marden, Jessica R, Nho, Kwangsik , Larson, Eric B, Crane, Paul K, Gross, Alden L. 2017. Comparing Variability, Severity, and Persistence of Depressive Symptoms as Predictors of Future Stroke Risk. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 25(2):120-128.
- Kristine J Ajrouch, Laura Beth Zahodne, Toni C Antonucci. 2017. Arab American Cognitive Aging: Opportunities for Advancing Research on Alzheimer's Disease Disparities. Innovation in Aging 1(3)
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Meyer, Oanh L, Sisco, Shannon M, Harvey, Danielle , Glymour, M Maria, Manly, Jennifer J, Marsiske, Michael . 2017. Neighborhood Predictors of Cognitive Training Outcomes and Trajectories in ACTIVE. Research on Aging 39(3):443-467.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Mez, Jesse , Marden, Jessica R, Mukherjee, Shubhabrata , Walter, Stefan , Gibbons, Laura E, Gross, Alden L, Gilsanz, Paola , Brewster, Paul , Nho, Kwangsik , Crane, Paul K, Larson, Eric B, Glymour, M Maria. 2017. Alzheimer's disease genetic risk variants beyond APOE ε4 predict mortality. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring 8:188-195.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Manly, Jennifer J, Azar, Martina , Brickman, Adam M, Glymour, M M. 2016. Racial Disparities in Cognitive Performance in Mid- and Late Adulthood: Analyses of Two Cohort Studies. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64(5):959-964.