Jennifer Manly
American neuropsychologist
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Manly completed her graduate training in neuropsychology through the Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. She completed a clinical internship at Brown University as well as a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Columbia University.
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Manly joined the faculty at the G.H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease at Columbia in 1998. There, she studied Alzheimer's disease (AD) among racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse populations. She demonstrated that childhood educational experiences, such as quality of schooling, location and setting of school, reading level, and academic achievement, was a strong predictor of cognitive decline risk across groups, and that disparities in dementia prevalence between racial groups could be explained by educational disparities. Manly and her research team led a subsequent study of 3,000 middle-aged adults to understand the differential contribution of AD risk factors to cognitive decline in different racial groups. They found that cognitive decline in Latinos and African Americans was associated more with vascular and social biomarkers than with genetic pathways affecting amyloid deposition as seen in white counterparts. She also led a study which demonstrated that found that dementia prevalence was inversely correlated with access to more schooling and better education growing up. Manly is now Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology at Columbia University.