
Core Faculty
Center for Population Brain Health
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Dr. Gardner is a board-certified behavioral neurologist with specific expertise in the evaluation and management of individuals with mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and older adult traumatic brain injury.
Her clinical research program focuses on traumatic brain injury in older adults with the goal of improving short and long-term outcomes in this population. Her work is supported by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Publications
Alzheimer's pathology is associated with altered cognition, brain volume, and plasma biomarker patterns in traumatic encephalopathy syndrome.
Alzheimer's research & therapy
Association between Insomnia and Mental Health and Neurocognitive Outcomes Following Traumatic Brain Injury.
Journal of neurotrauma
Prognostic Value of Frailty for Outcome Following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
Journal of neurotrauma
Telehealth delivery of group-format cognitive rehabilitation to older veterans with TBI: a mixed-methods pilot study.
Applied neuropsychology. Adult
Neuroinflammatory Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis and Prognosis: A TRACK-TBI Pilot Study.
Neurotrauma reports
Blood Biomarkers in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Implications for the Clinical Neurologist.
Neurology
Medical and Psychiatric Risk Factors for Dementia in Veterans with and without Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Nationwide Cohort Study.
The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease
Characteristics and Outcomes of Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Adults with and without Pre-injury Dementia: an Israel National Trauma Registry Study.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Medical and Psychiatric Risk Factors for Dementia in Veterans with and without Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): A Nationwide Cohort Study.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Population Attributable Risk of Dementia Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Civilians and Veterans.
Journal of neurotrauma
Effects of age and time since injury on traumatic brain injury blood biomarkers: a TRACK-TBI study.
Brain communications
Feasibility and Utility of a Flexible Outcome Assessment Battery for Longitudinal Traumatic Brain Injury Research: A TRACK-TBI Study.
Journal of neurotrauma
Comparison Groups Matter in Traumatic Brain Injury Research: An Example with Dementia.
Journal of neurotrauma
Associations of Preexisting Vascular Risk Factors With Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.
The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Multimodal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A Clinico-Pathological Case Series.
Journal of neurotrauma
Abstract 024: Traumatic Brain Injury And Long-term Risk Of Stroke Among U.S. Military Veterans.
Circulation
Cognitive Outcome 1 Year After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Results From the TRACK-TBI Study.
Neurology
Effect of frailty on 6-month outcome after traumatic brain injury: a multicentre cohort study with external validation.
The Lancet. Neurology
Trajectories of Insomnia in Adults After Traumatic Brain Injury.
JAMA network open
The Effect of Sex and Wealth on Population Attributable Risk Factors for Dementia in South Africa.
Frontiers in neurology
FAIR Data Reuse in Traumatic Brain Injury: Exploring Inflammation and Age as Moderators of Recovery in the TRACK-TBI Pilot.
Frontiers in neurology
Depression in Older Adults 12 Months Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Neurodegenerative Disorder.
Biological psychiatry
Association of remote mild traumatic brain injury with cortical amyloid burden in clinically normal older adults.
Brain imaging and behavior
Novel insights into risk of dementia after traumatic brain injury: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and heterogeneity analysis.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Feasibility and Utility of a Flexible Outcome Assessment Battery for Use in Longitudinal Traumatic Brain Injury Research.
Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
Prevalence of Lifetime History of Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Male Veterans Compared to Civilians: A Nationally Representative Study.
Journal of neurotrauma
Physical and Functional Impairment Among Older Adults With a History of Traumatic Brain Injury.
The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Screening for Lifetime History of Traumatic Brain Injury Among Older American and Irish Adults at Risk for Dementia: Development and Validation of a Web-Based Survey.
Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
Tau PET and multimodal brain imaging in patients at risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
NeuroImage. Clinical
Linguistic and Cultural Acceptability of a Spanish Translation of the Ohio State University Traumatic Brain Injury Identification Method Among Community-Dwelling Spanish-Dominant Older Adults.
Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation
AGENT ORANGE EXPOSURE AND DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS IN VIETNAM VETERANS: A CHRONIC EFFECTS OF NEUROTRAUMA CONSORTIUM STUDY.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
COGNITIVE DECLINE ONE YEAR AFTER MILD TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: A TRACK-TBI STUDY.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Neuropathological correlates of structural and functional imaging biomarkers in 4-repeat tauopathies.
Brain : a journal of neurology
PRE-INJURY MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT IN OLDER ADULTS PRESENTING ACUTELY WITH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: THE TRANSFORMING RESEARCH AND CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE IN GERIATRIC TBI PILOT STUDY (TRACK-GERI PILOT).
Alzheimer's & Dementia
THE PREVALENCE AND ATTRIBUTABLE RISK OF COMMON IMPORTANT RISK FACTORS TO INFORM STRATEGIES FOR THE POPULATION-BASED PREVENTION OF DEMENTIA IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Divergent 6-Month Functional Recovery Trajectories and Predictors after Traumatic Brain Injury: Novel Insights from the COBRIT Study.
Journal of neurotrauma
Age and sex-mediated differences in six-month outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury in young adults: a TRACK-TBI study.
Neurological research
Pre-injury Comorbidities Are Associated With Functional Impairment and Post-concussive Symptoms at 3- and 6-Months After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.
Frontiers in neurology
Traumatic brain injury in older adults: do we need a different approach?
Concussion (London, England)
Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans.
JAMA neurology
EARLY COGNITIVE DECLINE WITHIN ONE YEAR AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY: A TRACK-TBI STUDY.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
THE NATIONAL ALZHEIMER’S COORDINATING CENTER UNIFORM DATA SET TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) EXPOSURE SCREEN MISSES MORE THAN HALF OF TBI EXPOSURES IDENTIFIED USING A COMPREHENSIVE TBI INTERVIEW.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
THE ROLE OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMENTIA: VALIDATION OF A WEB-BASED SELF-ADMINISTERED TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY EXPOSURE SURVEY FOR USE IN COGNITIVE AGING RESEARCH.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Age-Related Differences in Diagnostic Accuracy of Plasma GFAP and Tau For Identifying Acute Intracranial Trauma on CT: A TRACK-TBI Study.
Journal of neurotrauma
Mild TBI and risk of Parkinson disease: A Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium Study.
Neurology
Geriatric Traumatic Brain Injury: Epidemiology, Outcomes, Knowledge Gaps, and Future Directions.
Journal of neurotrauma
Preinjury employment status as a risk factor for symptomatology and disability in mild traumatic brain injury: A TRACK-TBI analysis.
NeuroRehabilitation
Remote Traumatic Brain Injury Is Associated with Motor Dysfunction in Older Military Veterans.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences
FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF NON-DEMENTED COMMUNITY-DWELLING OLDER ADULTS WITH PRIOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY.
Innovation in Aging
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI) SEVERITY AND AGE OF DEMENTIA DIAGNOSIS AMONG VETERANS.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
The Traumatic Brain Injury Endpoints Development (TED) Initiative: Progress on a Public-Private Regulatory Collaboration to Accelerate Diagnosis and Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury.
Journal of neurotrauma
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia
Neurobehavioral Characteristics of Older Veterans With Remote Traumatic Brain Injury.
The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Timing and significance of pathological features in C9orf72 expansion-associated frontotemporal dementia.
Brain : a journal of neurology
PRIOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IS ASSOCIATED WITH SUBJECTIVE BUT NOT OBJECTIVE MEMORY IMPAIRMENT AMONG NON-DEMENTED OLDER ADULTS IN THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
COMT Val 158 Met polymorphism is associated with nonverbal cognition following mild traumatic brain injury.
Neurogenetics
Evaluating and treating neurobehavioral symptoms in professional American football players: Lessons from a case series.
Neurology. Clinical practice
Cavum Septum Pellucidum in Retired American Pro-Football Players.
Journal of neurotrauma
Clinical profile of older veterans with remote tbi.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Traumatic brain injury in later life increases risk for Parkinson disease.
Annals of neurology
Epidemiology of mild traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative disease.
Molecular and cellular neurosciences
Dementia risk after traumatic brain injury vs nonbrain trauma: the role of age and severity.
JAMA neurology
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND DEMENTIA RISK: AGE AND SEVERITY MATTER.
Alzheimer's & Dementia
Traumatic brain injury may increase risk of young onset dementia.
Annals of neurology
Dementia in the oldest old: a multi-factorial and growing public health issue.
Alzheimer's research & therapy
Intrinsic connectivity network disruption in progressive supranuclear palsy.
Annals of neurology
Reply.
Annals of neurology
Arginine test is not reliable for diagnosing cerebellar multiple system atrophy.
Annals of neurology
Development of a brief ataxia rating scale (BARS) based on a modified form of the ICARS.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
Transient exacerbation of ataxia with smoking: a prevalence survey.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society
Ataxia and cerebellar atrophy--a novel manifestation of neuro-Behçet disease?
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society