
Assistant Professor
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Willa Brenowitz, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry. She received her PhD in epidemiology and MPH in health services from the University of Washington School of Public health. She is broadly interested understanding the role of multimorbidity in cognitive decline; her current research focuses on the relationship between sensory impairments (e.g. hearing and vision loss) and dementia in older adults.
Publications
Association of genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease with late-life body mass index in all of us: Evaluating reverse causation.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Do type, timing and duration of life course non-employment differentially predict dementia risk? An application of sequence analysis.
Social science & medicine (1982)
LONGITUDINAL ASSOCIATIONS OF HEARING IMPAIRMENT WITH SOCIAL ISOLATION AMONG BLACK AND WHITE OLDER ADULTS.
Innovation in Aging
The relationship between APOE genotype and dementia varies by genetic ancestry and race/ethnicity.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Dementia risk scores, apolipoprotein E, and risk of Alzheimer's disease: One size does not fit all.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
State Schooling Policies and Cognitive Performance Trajectories: A Natural Experiment in a National US Cohort of Black and White Adults.
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
Modifiable risk factors, APOE and risk of Alzheimer disease: one size does not fit all.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Visual Impairment, Eye Conditions, and Diagnoses of Neurodegeneration and Dementia.
JAMA network open
Genetic risk score for Alzheimer's disease predicts brain volume differences in mid and late life in UK biobank participants.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Olfactory Dysfunction and Depression Trajectories in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
ASSOCIATIONS OF VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS AND OCULAR DISEASE WITH BRAIN VOLUMES AND DEMENTIA IN UK BIOBANK.
Innovation in Aging
Snoring and risk of dementia: a prospective cohort and Mendelian randomization study.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Education, incident cancer, and rate of memory decline in a national sample of US adults in mid-to-later-life.
Journal of geriatric oncology
Alzheimer's Disease Genetic Risk, Cognition, and Brain Aging in Midlife.
Annals of neurology
Observational studies in Alzheimer disease: bridging preclinical studies and clinical trials.
Nature reviews. Neurology
Associations of dual sensory impairment with long-term depressive and anxiety symptoms in the United States.
Journal of affective disorders
Associations Between Handgrip Strength and Dementia Risk, Cognition, and Neuroimaging Outcomes in the UK Biobank Cohort Study.
JAMA network open
Examining the Combined Estimated Effects of Hearing Loss and Depressive Symptoms on Risk of Cognitive Decline and Incident Dementia.
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
Association of Genetic Variants Linked to Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease With Cognitive Test Performance by Midlife.
JAMA network open
Associations of dual sensory impairment with incident mobility and ADL difficulty.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Body mass index and risk of dementia - potential explanations for lifecourse differences in risk estimates and future research directions.
American journal of epidemiology
Assessing bidirectional associations between cognitive impairment and late age-related macular degeneration in the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Extension of Mendelian Randomization to Identify Earliest Manifestations of Alzheimer's Disease: Genetic Risk Score for Alzheimer's Disease Reduces BMI by Age 50.
American journal of epidemiology
Current Alzheimer disease research highlights: evidence for novel risk factors.
Chinese medical journal
The Association Between Cancer and Spousal Rate of Memory Decline: A Negative Control Study to Evaluate (Unmeasured) Social Confounding of the Cancer-memory Relationship.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Methods to Address Self-Selection and Reverse Causation in Studies of Neighborhood Environments and Brain Health.
International journal of environmental research and public health
Amyloid-PET imaging offers small improvements in predictions of future cognitive trajectories.
NeuroImage. Clinical
Does Hearing Impairment Affect Physical Function?: Current Evidence, Potential Mechanisms, and Future Research Directions for Healthy Aging.
JAMA network open
THE BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VISION AND COGNITION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS.
Ophthalmology
Effect of reductions in amyloid levels on cognitive change in randomized trials: instrumental variable meta-analysis.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Depressive Symptoms Imputed Across the Life Course Are Associated with Cognitive Impairment and Cognitive Decline.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Association Between Alzheimer Disease and Cancer With Evaluation of Study Biases: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
JAMA network open
Genetic Risk of Alzheimer's Disease and Sleep Duration in Non-Demented Elders.
Annals of neurology
Incident dementia and faster rates of cognitive decline are associated with worse multisensory function summary scores.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Dual sensory impairment in older adults and risk of dementia from the GEM Study.
Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Difficulty and help with activities of daily living among older adults living alone with cognitive impairment.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
State School Policies as Predictors of Physical and Mental Health: A Natural Experiment in the REGARDS Cohort.
American journal of epidemiology
Concordance of Clinical Alzheimer Diagnosis and Neuropathological Features at Autopsy.
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology
Intention to Screen for Alzheimer's Disease by Residential Locale.
International journal of environmental research and public health
Life course biopsychosocial effects of retrospective childhood social support and later-life cognition.
Psychology and aging
Reserve and Alzheimer's disease genetic risk: Effects on hospitalization and mortality.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Rate of Memory Change Before and After Cancer Diagnosis.
JAMA network open
Multiple Sensory Impairment Is Associated With Increased Risk of Dementia Among Black and White Older Adults.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
Treated hypothyroidism is associated with cerebrovascular disease but not Alzheimer's disease pathology in older adults.
Neurobiology of aging
Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change, Lewy body disease, and vascular brain injury in clinic- and community-based samples.
Neurobiology of aging
Mixed neuropathologies and estimated rates of clinical progression in a large autopsy sample.
Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and its co-occurrence with Alzheimer's disease and other cerebrovascular neuropathologic changes.
Neurobiology of aging
Social relationships and risk of incident mild cognitive impairment in U.S. Alzheimer's disease centers.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Body mass index, weight change, and clinical progression in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Hippocampal sclerosis of aging is a key Alzheimer's disease mimic: clinical-pathologic correlations and comparisons with both alzheimer's disease and non-tauopathic frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Arteriolosclerosis that affects multiple brain regions is linked to hippocampal sclerosis of ageing.
Brain : a journal of neurology