Jenna R. Groh

Background

Jenna is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Behavioral Neuroscience at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. She received her BA in Psychology and Neuroscience from Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. After graduation, she worked at the Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (IADRC) coordinating the Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease Study. She currently conducts her dissertation research under the guidance of Dr. Michael Alosco utilizing structural and diffusion neuroimaging techniques to examine the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts on the white matter.

Research Interests

Jenna’s research interests are focused on multi-modal neuroimaging techniques to examine the risk factors for white matter injury in former contact sport athletes to better understand the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy and Alzheimer’s disease.

Noteworthy Publications

1. Olfactory Function Is Reduced in a Subset of Former Elite American Football Players with Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome
2. Health outcomes of former division I college athletes (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39306858/)
3. Examination of plasma biomarkers of amyloid, tau, neurodegeneration, and neuroinflammation in former elite American football players (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39351900/)
4. Cognition mediates the association between cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers of amyloid and p-tau and neuropsychiatric symptoms (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38995786/)
5. Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarkers for the Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39496102/)
6. Association of brain amyloidosis with the incidence and frequency of neuropsychiatric symptoms in ADNI: a multisite observational cohort study (https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/12/e031947.abstract)
7. Sex‐associated differences in pathology burden in early‐onset Alzheimer’s disease: Neuroimaging: Sex and ethnoracial differences–Biomarkers; AAIC Presentation (https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/alz.046532)
8. Data-driven Characterization of Tau Accumulation across the Alzheimer’s disease spectrum; AAIC Poster Presentation (https://alz.confex.com/alz/20amsterdam/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/45397)