Anna MacKay-Brandt amackay-brandt

Dr. Anna MacKay-Brandt is a licensed clinical psychologist with specialized training in neuropsychology and geriatrics. She received her PhD from Washington University in St Louis and completed her clinical internship at the Warren Alpert Brown Medical School of Brown University. As a T32 NIMH postdoctoral fellow within the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Taub Institute at Columbia University, her research focused on age-associated differences in executive control; cognitive and functional change associated with normative aging, health factors, and underlying Alzheimer’s disease; and interventional approaches to optimize cognition. Dr. MacKay-Brandt’s research investigates biopsychosocial factors that affect cognitive performance and mental health within the context of the aging process. A goal of this work is to facilitate the development and translation of cognitive neuroscience advances to applications with clinical and public health utility. Multidisciplinary, open-science collaboration and the advancement of measurement tools are critical to further these goals and are the focus of current projects. Interventional approaches aimed to alter brain structure and function to optimize cognitive and mental health are concurrent lines of active research.

Orangeburg, NY, USA

Research Scientist

Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research