Erica Kornblith, PhD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Her research program broadly focuses on understanding the impact of traumatic brain injury and social determinants of health on cognitive aging; characterizing cognitive and functional impairment in older adults with traumatic brain injury; and leveraging telehealth technology to increase access to effective treatment for as many TBI patients as possible regardless of demographics. She currently serves as PI of a VA-funded clinical trial adapting an existing cognitive rehabilitation intervention for telehealth delivery to Veterans with TBI, and also leads other projects funded by the Alzheimer’s Association and the UCSF Academic Senate.

• Association of Race and Ethnicity With Incidence of Dementia Among Older Adults.
  JAMA 2022 Kornblith E, Bahorik A, Boscardin WJ, Xia F, Barnes DE, Yaffe K
• Traumatic brain injury, cardiovascular disease, and risk of dementia among older US Veterans.
  Brain injury 2022 Kornblith E, Bahorik A, Li Y, Peltz CB, Barnes DE, Yaffe K
• Improvement in executive functioning after Goal-Oriented Attentional Self-Regulation training is associated with reduction in PTSD hyperarousal symptoms among veterans with comorbid PTSD and mild TBI.
  Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2021 Maruyama BA, Abrams G, Kornblith E, Posecion LF, McQuaid JR, Neylan TC, Groberio J, Chen AJ, Novakovic-Agopian T
• Goal-Oriented Attention Self-Regulation Training Improves Executive Functioning in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2020 Novakovic-Agopian T, Posecion L, Kornblith E, Abrams G, McQuaid JR, Neylan TC, Burciaga J, Joseph J, Carlin G, Groberio J, Maruyama B, Chen AJW
• Sex, race, and risk of dementia diagnosis after traumatic brain injury among older veterans.
  Neurology 2020 Kornblith E, Peltz CB, Xia F, Plassman B, Novakovic-Apopain T, Yaffe K
• Prevalence of Lifetime History of Traumatic Brain Injury among Older Male Veterans Compared with Civilians: A Nationally Representative Study.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2020 Kornblith ES, Yaffe K, Langa KM, Gardner RC
• Physical and Functional Impairment Among Older Adults With a History of Traumatic Brain Injury.
  The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation 2020 Kornblith ES, Langa KM, Yaffe K, Gardner RC
• Long-Term Effect of Cognitive Rehabilitation Regardless of Prerehabilitation Cognitive Status for Veterans with TBI.
  Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2019 Kornblith E, Posecion L, Abrams G, Chen AJ, Burciaga J, D'Esposito M, Novakovic-Agopian T
• Long-term effects of executive function training among veterans with chronic TBI.
  Brain injury 2019 Novakovic-Agopian T, Kornblith E, Abrams G, McQuaid JR, Posecion L, Burciaga J, D'Esposito M, Chen AJW
• Goal-Oriented Attention Self-Regulation (GOALS) training in older adults.
  Aging & mental health 2019 Turner GR, Novakovic-Agopian T, Kornblith E, Adnan A, Madore M, Chen AJW, D'Esposito M
• Impact of baseline neurocognitive functioning on outcomes following rehabilitation of executive function training for veterans with history of traumatic brain injury.
  Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2018 Kornblith E, Abrams G, Chen AJ, Burciaga J, D'Esposito M, Novakovic-Agopian T
• Training in Goal-Oriented Attention Self-Regulation Improves Executive Functioning in Veterans with Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury.
  Journal of neurotrauma 2018 Novakovic-Agopian T, Kornblith E, Abrams G, Burciaga-Rosales J, Loya F, D'Esposito M, Chen AJW
• Environmental exposure to manganese in air: Tremor, motor and cognitive symptom profiles.
  Neurotoxicology 2017 Kornblith ES, Casey SL, Lobdell DT, Colledge MA, Bowler RM
• Police officers who responded to 9/11: Comorbidity of PTSD, depression, and anxiety 10-11 years later.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2016 Bowler RM, Kornblith ES, Li J, Adams SW, Gocheva VV, Schwarzer R, Cone JE
• Marital status, social support, and depressive symptoms among lesbian and heterosexual women.
  Journal of lesbian studies 2016 Kornblith E, Green RJ, Casey S, Tiet Q
• Environmental exposure to manganese in air: Associations with tremor and motor function.
  The Science of the total environment 2015 Bowler RM, Beseler CL, Gocheva VV, Colledge M, Kornblith ES, Julian JR, Kim Y, Bollweg G, Lobdell DT
• Environmental exposure to manganese in air: Associations with cognitive functions.
  Neurotoxicology 2015 Bowler RM, Kornblith ES, Gocheva VV, Colledge MA, Bollweg G, Kim Y, Beseler CL, Wright CW, Adams SW, Lobdell DT
• Chronic probable PTSD in police responders in the world trade center health registry ten to eleven years after 9/11.
  American journal of industrial medicine 2015 Cone JE, Li J, Kornblith E, Gocheva V, Stellman SD, Shaikh A, Schwarzer R, Bowler RM