Nancy Donovan, MD presented a talk, titled “Social Connection, Aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease,” at the Rush University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Woman’s Board Grand Rounds on April 17th, 2025.
You can view a recording of her presentation at this link (note: the presentation begins at 13:35min) .
Soyoung Lee, MD, David Adamowicz, MD, and Nancy Donovan, MD led the session: “Biomarkers of Transitional Cognitive and Non-cognitive symptoms from the A4/LEARN studies and the new Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnostic and Staging Criteria,” at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, March 2025.
Nancy Donovan, MD, presented a talk, titled “Bench to Bedside: Advances in Late-Life Psychiatry,” at the 19th Annual Seminar of the MGH Leadership Council for Psychiatry, Feb. 2025.
You can view a recording of her presentation at this link.
Soyoung Lee, MD, presented the talk: Atrophy Network Mapping of Anxiety in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults in Preclinical AD.
Benjamin Zide, MSt, presented the poster: Living alone, medial temporal tau pathology, and loneliness in cognitively normal older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Specific Association of Worry With Amyloid-β But Not Tau in Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults was published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, May 2024.
The link to the manuscript is here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1064748124003270
Nancy J. Donovan, MD was interviewed by Dana Smith of the New York Times about the effects of loneliness on the aging brain.
The New York Times Article, “Loneliness Can Change the Brain,” is available here.
Nancy J. Donovan, MD presented at the Mass General Brigham and Lurie Family Center for Autism conference on Aging Well with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Challenges, Opportunities, and Insights. She gave her presentation, entitled “Cognitive and Emotional Well-being in Aging,” and participated in a panel discussion with other leaders in detecting and managing age-associated cognitive and neuropsychiatric changes.
A remotely delivered, personalized music therapy pilot intervention for lonely older adults during the Covid-19 pandemic was published in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry: Open Science, Education, and Practice, March 2024.
Read the manuscript here: https://www.oseponline.org/article/S2950-3868(24)00003-0/fulltext
Nancy J. Donovan, MD presented a talk, titled “Social Connection and Aging,” at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds on February 8th, 2024.
You can view her presentation at this link (note: the presentation begins at 2:45min).
Social activity mediates locus coeruleus tangle-related cognition in older adults was published in Molecular Psychiatry, January 2024.
Read the manuscript here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02467-y