Yaakov Stern, PhD
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology

Head, Cognitive Neuroscience Division,
Taub Institute and Sergievsky Center


Dr. Stern directs the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Taub Institute and is Associate Director of the Alzheimer’s Center at Columbia University. He also directs the Neuropsychology and Cognition in Aging post-doctoral training program. Dr. Stern is a member of the Alzheimer’s Association’s Medical & Scientific Advisory Council. Dr. Stern has published more than 350 journal articles and has served as a reviewer for more than 40 journals. He is also an Associate Editor for JINS.
Undergraduate:  Touro College, B.A., 1971-1975
Graduate:  CUNY, Experimental Cognition, Ph.D., 1978-1983
• Neuropsychology
• Aging and Dementia
• Cognitive Neuroimaging

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Phone: 212-342-1350
Fax: 212-342-1838
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Cognitive experimental and neuroimaging studies in aging and dementia

1. Stern Y: Cognitive Reserve.  Neuropsychologia  2009;47: 2015–2028

1. Steffener J, Brickman AM, Brian C. Rakitin BC, Gazes Y, Stern Y. : The impact of age-related changes on working memory functional activity..  Brain Imaging Behav  2009;3: 142-153

2. Kumar A, Rakitin BC, Nambisan R, Habeck C, Stern Y.: The response-signal method reveals age-related changes in object working memory.  Psychology and Aging  2008;23: 315-329

3. Habeck C, Foster NL, Perneczky R, Kurz A, Alexopoulos P, Koeppe RA, Drzezga A, Stern Y. : Multivariate and univariate neuroimaging biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease..  Neuroimage   2008 ;40: 1503-15

4. Stern Y, Zarahn E, Habeck C, Holtzer R, Rakitin BC, Kumar A, Flynn J, Steffener J, Brown T. : A common neural network for cognitive reserve in verbal and object working memory in young but not old.  Cerebral Cortex  2008;18: 959--967

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