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Highlighted Faculty – Prof. Laura A. Rabin

April 13, 2021

Laura A. Rabin is a Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the cognitive and neurophysiological changes associated with preclinical dementia stages. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is preceded by a transitional phase known as mild cognitive impairment, during which individuals present with cognitive deficits and subjective cognitive complaints that may reflect underlying neurodegeneration. Dr. Rabin works to characterize mild cognitive impairment and its possible precursor condition, in which individuals present with subjective cognitive decline in the context of intact neuropsychological functioning to facilitate earlier diagnosis and intervention. She also actively engages in educational research that broadly seeks to develop innovative teaching approaches to improve outcomes in challenging undergraduate courses and identify psychological and behavioral predictors of students’ academic and emotional success.

In her role as principal investigator, in 2020 Prof. Rabin received an NIH R15 award for her work titled “Novel multimodal assessment of practical judgment across the Alzheimer's continuum: Toward a better understanding of how to predict risk in the elderly.” This is a three-year award for a total of $478,342.

Her success continued in 2021 when she received a three-year NSF REU award for her work titled “Intensive mentored Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in psychology and neuroscience at an urban public college.” The amount of this grant is $335,505.

Prof. Rabin has also enjoyed success with eight peer-reviewed manuscripts in 2020 plus two book chapters and ten peer-reviewed manuscripts thus far in 2021. Notably, most of her publications include undergraduate and/or graduate student authors.

Rabin, L.A., Wang, C., Katz, M., Sliwinski, M., & Lipton, R. (2021, in press). Optimizing classification of subjective cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults based on diagnostic conversion: Results from the Einstein Aging Study. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

Rabin, L., Miles, R., Kamata, A., Krishnan, A., Stewart, G., Elbulok-Charcape, & Compton, M. (2021, in press). Development, item analysis, and initial reliability and validity of three parallel forms of a multiple-choice mental health literacy test for college students. Psychiatry Research.

Rabin, L.A., Krishnan, A., Bergdoll, R., & Fogel, J. (2021, in press). Correlates of exam performance in an introductory statistics course: Basic math skills along with self-reported psychological/behavioral and demographic variables. Statistics Education Research Journal.

Guayara-Quinn, C.G., Paré, N., Scott, R., ... & Rabin, L.A. (2021, in press). Development and psychometric evaluation of the Test of Practical Judgment Alternate Form (TOP-J Form B). Applied Neuropsychology. 

Rabin, L., Guayara-Quinn, C., Nester, C., Ellis, L., Paré, N. (2021, in press). Informant report of judgment ability in a clinical sample of older adults with subjective cognitive decline, mild cognitive impairment, and dementia. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition,  doi: 10.1080/13825585.2020.1859081.

Chi, S.Y., Chua, E.F., Kieschnick, D., & Rabin, L.A. (2021, in press). Retrospective metamemory monitoring of semantic memory in community-dwelling older adults with subjective cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.

Katz, M., Wang, C., Nester, C., … & Rabin, L. (2021, in press).  T-MoCA: A valid phone screen for cognitive impairment in diverse community-samples. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring.

Guayara-Quinn, C., Nester, C.O., Katz, M. J., … &  Rabin, L.A. (2021, in press). Re-evaluation of psychometric evidence and update of normative data for the Test of Practical Judgment. The Clinical Neuropsychologist.

Carmasin, J.S., Roth, R.M., Rabin, L.A., Englert, J.J., Flashman, L.A., & Saykin, A.J. (2021, in press). Stability of subjective executive functioning in older adults with aMCI and subjective cognitive decline. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.

Choi, S.-E., Mukherjee, S., Gibbons, L.E., Sanders, R.E., Jones, R.N., Tommett, D., Mez, J., Trittschuh, E., Saykin, A., Lamar, M., Rabin, L.A., … & Crane, P.K. (2021, in press) Development and validation of language and visuospatial composite scores in ADNI. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 2020;6:e12072. doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12072.

Rabin, L.A., Brodale, D.L., Elbulok-Charcape, M., & Barr, W.B. (2020). Challenges in the neuropsychological assessment of ethnic minorities (pp. 55-80).  In. O. Pedraza (Ed.), Clinical cultural neuroscience: An integrative approach to cross-cultural neuropsychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Dick, K. & Rabin, L. (2020). Dementia. In T.M. Buttaro, P. Polgar-Bailey, J. Sandberg-Cook, & Trybulski, J. (Eds.), Primary care: A collaborative practice (6th ed., pp. 1065-1071). London: Elsevier.

Miles, R., Rabin, L., Krishnan, A., Grandoit, E., & Kloskowski, K. (2020). Mental health literacy in a diverse sample of undergraduate students: Demographic, psychological, and academic correlates. BMC Public Health 20 (1699). doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09696-0.

Nester, C., Ayers, E., Rabin, L., & Verghese, J. (2020). Non-memory subjective cognitive concerns predict incident motoric cognitive risk syndrome. European Journal of Neurology, 27(7), 1146-1154. doi: 10.1111/ene.14271.

Singh, A., Zeig-Owens, R., Rabin, L., … & Hall, C.B. (2020). PTSD and depressive symptoms as potential mediators of the association between World Trade Center exposure and subjective cognitive concerns in rescue/recovery workers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(16), 5683. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17165683

Singh, A., Zeig-Owens, R., Hall, C.B., Liu, Y., Rabin, L., … & Prezant, D.J. (2020). World Trade Center exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder, and subjective cognitive concerns in a cohort of rescue/recovery workers. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 141(3), 275-284. doi: 10.1111/acps.13127.

Jutten, R.J., Grandoit, E., Foldi, N.S., … & Rabin, L.A. (2020). Lower practice effects as a marker of cognitive performance and dementia risk: A literature review.  Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 12(1), e12055. doi: 10.1002/dad2.12055.

Jessen, F., Amariglio, R.E., Buckley, R.F., van der Flier, W.M., Han, Y., Molinuevo, J.L., Rabin, L., … & Wagner, M. (2020). The characterisation of subjective cognitive decline. Lancet Neurology, 19(3), 271-278. doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(19)30368-0.

Elbulok-Charcape, M., Mandelbaum, F., Miles, R., … & Rabin, L.A. (2020). Reducing stigma surrounding mental health: Diverse undergraduate students speak out. Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/87568225.2020.1737853.

West, R.K., Rabin, L.A., Silverman, J.M., Moshier, E., Sano, M., & Beeri, M.S. (2020). Short-term computerized cognitive training does not improve cognition compared to an active control in non-demented adults aged 80 years and above. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(1), 65-73. doi: 10.1017/S1041610219000267.