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McKenna Williams, M.A., M.S.

Pronouns: she, her

Doctoral Student

SDSU / UC San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
Neuropsychology

San Diego

Accounts

Areas of Research

Genetic and Environmental Influences, Cognitive Aging, Early (Midlife) Markers, Alzheimer’s Disease, Related Dementias, Physiological Markers, Risk Factors, Protective Factors, Healthy Aging

Bio

Broadly, I’m interested in the relation between genetic and environmental influences on cognitive aging. My research focuses on characterizing early (i.e., midlife) cognitive and physiological markers of risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, along with identifying protective factors associated with healthy aging.

Mentors

William Kremen, Ph.D., UC San Diego

Details

Education
  1. M.S., Clinical Psychology
    San Diego State University
  2. M.A., Psychology
    San Diego State University
  3. B.A., Cognitive Science
    UC San Diego
Publications
  1. Williams, M. E., Graves, L. V., DeJesus, S. Y., Holden, H. M., DeFord, N. E., & Gilbert, P. E. (2019). Spatial memory ability during middle age may depend on level of spatial similarity. Learning & Memory, 16(1), 20-23. doi:10.1101/lm.048280.118
  2. Graves, L. V., Simone, S., Williams, M. E., Courville, T., Mattson, S. N., Delano-Wood, L., Bondi, M. W., Salmon, D. P., Corey-Bloom, J., Delis, D. C., & Gilbert, P. E. (2019). Revisiting total recognition discriminability in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease: New insights from the CVLT-3. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2019.1605993
  3. Van Etten, E.J., Graves., L.V., Taylor, B.P., Holden, H.M., Lopez, F.V., Williams, M.E., Pirogovsky-Turk, E., Corey-Bloom, J. Filoteo, J.V., Delis, D.C., & Gilbert, P.E. (2019, in press). Recall and recognition discriminability in Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. Journal of Huntington’s disease.