Stacy Andersen
Assistant Professor, Affiliate, Center for Brain Recovery
About
Stacy Andersen, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the co-director of the New England Centenarian Study. She is a multiple PI of the Resilience/Resistance to Alzheimer’s Disease in Centenarians and Their Offspring (RADCO) project and leads neurocognitive phenotyping protocols across multiple studies of longevity and healthy aging. As a behavioral neuroscientist, her research focuses on characterizing cognitive profiles of older adults, identifying factors associated with resilience to Alzheimer’s disease among centenarians and their family members, and developing novel methods of detecting cognitive change using digital technologies and behavioral features of cognitive test performance.