Grace J. Goodwin (Clinical Psychology) coauthored an article, "Neuropsychiatric symptoms predict rate of change in executive function in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias," where she and fellow Cognitive Aging and Neuropsychological Equity (CANE) lab members Katie T. Singsank (Clinical Psychology), Denise Ruiz de Mendoza Lafont-Tanner (former staff), Myjae Maloy-Robertson (Interdisciplinary Neuroscience), and Samantha E. John (Brain Health), along with University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor D. A. Briley found that older adults with higher baseline neuropsychiatric symptom severity exhibited greater rapid executive function decline over four years. This study used latent growth curve analysis to examine neuropsychiatric symptom trends and highlights the prognostic importance of early neuropsychiatric symptom intervention in Alzheimer’s disease and related data (ADRD). The study on executive functioning in predicting ADRD was published in the journal of International Neuropsychological Society.
