Jessica Foley, PhD, PsyD
Beh Program Crd
Neurology
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology

Dr. Jessica Foley is a board certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology, who has served within the Memory and Aging Center of the UCSF School of Medicine since 2014. Dr. Foley was awarded a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2002, followed by a Ph.D. and Psy.D. from Nova Southeastern University (2007) with a specialization in clinical neuropsychology. She completed predoctoral internship training specializing in neuropsychology at Brown Medical School Department of Psychiatry, and postdoctoral fellowship training in neuropsychology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neurosciences and Human Behavior. She previously (2009-2014) served as a Neuropsychologist and Instructor of Psychiatry within the Harvard Medical School Department of Psychiatry and the Boston VA Medical Center, where she functioned as the senior Neuropsychologist within the Brockton division (specialized in the assessment of medically complex older adults). She also served as faculty within the Boston Consortium in Clinical Psychology and Training Leader for neuropsychology training within the geropsychology internship and fellowship programs.

Dr. Foley currently functions as an Attending Neuropsychologist within the UCSF Department of Neurology Memory and Aging Center, in which capacity she serves a multidisciplinary team and performs neuropsychological evaluations for patients presenting with suspicion of neurodegenerative illness. She also performs comprehensive neuropsychological evaluations of adults with a variety of known or suspected neurologic illnesses through the Department of Neurology Adult Outpatient Neuropsychology Clinic. Dr. Foley also serves as a faculty mentor for neuropsychology students in training, supporting clinical and research skills among developing scientist-practitioners in clinical neuropsychology.

Dr. Foley’s primary research interest concerns preclinical detection of Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions by exploring genetic, metabolic, and cognitive factors that predict brain white matter deterioration. An additional interest entails understanding factors that moderate cognitive and white matter changes in older adults with HIV-infection.

Funded Grants:

1. Preferential white matter degeneration among individuals at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease vs. Healthy Older Controls: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging study Role: Principal Investigator Funding Source: American Psychological Association Division 40 (Neuropsychology) Funding Period: February, 2011-August, 2014 2. Effects of Aging on White Matter Pathology in HIV versus other Neurodegenerative Illnesses Role: Principal Investigator Funding Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Institutes of Aging (NIA) Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program (LRP; declined due to conflict) Funding Period: August, 2009- August, 2011

3. White matter pathology, cognition and functional abilities in geriatric HIV Role: Principal Investigator Funding Source: UCLA AIDS Institute and the UCLA Center for AIDS Research (AI28697) Funding Period: June, 2008-June, 2009

4. The influence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) on Cognition: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) study (PI: Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D.) Role: Co-Investigator (replacement) Funding Source: UCLA Faculty Senate Grant (FAU 56199 AQ 19914) Funding Period: January, 2007-June, 2009

Ad Hoc Review Journals: The Clinical Neuropsychologist, AIDS and Behavior, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, Child Neuropsychology, European Journal of Neurology, American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias Abstracts: National Academy of Neuropsychology, HIV Prevention Conference

Grant Review Reviewer Alzheimer’s Association International Research Grants Program (2014-current) Reviewer APA Division 40 (Neuropsychology) Pilot Grants (2012-2014) Reviewer Benton Meier Neuropsychology Scholarship ( 2012-2014) Reviewer APA Division 40 (Neuropsychology) Blue Ribbon Award (2012-2014) Reviewer Society for Clinical Neuropsychology Early Career Award (2012-2014)

Board Certification Work Sample Review Reviewer American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN) (2015-current)

• Increased frontal-subcortical neural activity among HIV+ individuals during a lexical retrieval task
  Neurobiology of Disease 2015 Thames, A.D., Sayegh, P., Terashima, J., Foley, J., Cho, A., Arentoft, A., Hinkin, C.H., & Bookheimer, S.Y
• GeroCentral [Internet]
  Decision Making Capacity Clinical Toolbox. Introduction: Decision Making Capacity 2014 Foley J & Moye J
• Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging: A Primer on DSM-5 Changes and Framework for Application to Practice
  The Clinical Gerontologist 2014 Foley, J. & Heck, A.L
• The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology
  California Verbal Learning Test 2014 Foley, J & Kramer, J
• Interactive effects of apolipoprotein E4 and diabetes risk on later myelinating white matter regions in neurologically healthy older aged adults.
  American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias 2013 Foley JM, Salat DH, Stricker NH, Zink TA, Grande LJ, McGlinchey RE, Milberg WP, Leritz EC
• Decision making among HIV+ adults: the influence of neurocognition, sensation seeking and personality
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2013 Arentoft, A., Thames, A.D., Foley, J., Arentsen, N., Arbid, S., Panos, S., Patel, S., Ballard, R., Castellon, S.A. & Hinkin, C.H
• Decreased White Matter Integrity in Neuropsychologically-Defined Mild Cognitive Impairment is Independent of Cortical Thinning
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2013 Stricker, N.H., Salat, D.H., Foley, J., Zink, T.A., Kellison, I.L., McFarland, C.P., Grande, L.J., McGlinchey, R.E., Milberg, W.P. & Leritz, E.C
• Implicit Learning among patients with HIV/AIDS: The Role of Cognitive Reserve
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2013 Arbid, J.N., Arentsen, T.J., Thames, A.D., Foley, J., Panos, S.E., Ballard, R.Z., Castellon, S.A., & Hinkin, C.H
• Probabilistic Learning and Basal Ganglia Integrity among HIV+ Older Adults: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2013 Arentsen, T.J., Thames, A.D., Foley, J., Arbid, N., Panos, S.E., Patel, S., Ballard, R., Castellon, S.A., & Hinkin, C.H
• Visuospatial and attentional abilities predict driving simulator performance among older HIV-infected adults
  American Journal of Alzheimer’s disease and Other Dementias 2013 Foley, J., Gooding, A. L., Thames, A.D., Ettenhofer, M.L., Kim, M. S., Castellon, S. A., Marcotte, T.D., Sadek, J.R., Heaton, R. K., van Gorp, W.G., & Hinkin, C.H
• Basal ganglia differentially contribute to verbal fluency among HIV-infected adults
  Neuropsychologia 2012 Thames, A. D., Foley, J., Wright, M. J., Panos, S. E., Ettenhofer, M. E., Ramezani, A., Patel, V., Streiff, V., El-Saden, S., Goodwin, S., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Hinkin, C. H
• Cognitive reserve in older neurocognitively unimpaired HIV-infected patients at risk for decline
  Applied Neuropsychology 2012 Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M., Kim, M. S., Behdin, N., Castellon, S., & Hinkin, C
• Antiretroviral adherence and the nature of HIV-associated verbal memory impairment
  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2011 Wright, M. J., Woo, E., Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M. L., Cottingham, M. E., Gooding, A. L., Jang, J., Kim, M. S., Castellon, S. A., Miller, E. N. & Hinkin, C. H
• Cognitive reserve masks the neurobehavioral expression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-associated neurological disorder among older patients
  Neurobehavioral HIV Medicine 2011 Thames, A.D., Foley, J., Panos, S., Singer, E.J. & Hinkin, C. H
• Comparison of Verbal Fluency Switching Measures in HIV
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2011 Nzerem, C., Kim, M.S., Martinez, F.W., Woo, E., Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M.L., Castellon, S.A., Hinkin, C.H. & Wright, M.J
• Depression, cognition, and self-appraisal of functional abilities in HIV: an examination of subjective appraisal versus objective performance
  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2011 Thames, A. D., Becker, B. W., Marcotte, T. D., Hines, L. J., Foley, J., Ramezani, A., Singer, E. J., Castellon, S. A., Heaton, R. K., Hinkin, C. H
• Gray matter integrity among older adults with HIV: the effects of age and immunological compromise
  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2011 Thames, A.D., Iriana, S., Foley, J., Panos, S., Patel, V., Streiff, V., El Saden, S., Goodwin, S., Bookheimer, S. Y., & Hinkin C.H
• Medication and Finance Management among HIV-infected adults: The impact of age and cognition
  Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2011 Thames, A. D., Kim, M. S., Becker, B. W., Foley, J., Hines, L. J., Singer, E. J., Heaton, R. K. Castellon, S. A., & Hinkin, C. H
• Neuroimaging of lexico-semantic retrieval impairments among older HIV-infected adults: An FMRI study
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2011 Thames, A. D., Foley, J., Culbertson, C., Ettenhofer, M., Kim, M., Cole, M., Bookheimer, S. Y., Brody, A., El-Saden, S., Goodwin, S., & Hinkin, C.
• Past stimulant abuse is associated with basal ganglia and hippocampal integrity in older HIV+ adults: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging study
  Journal of AIDS and Clinical Research 2011 Thames, A.D., Foley, J., Panos, S.E., Singer, E.J., Patel, S.M. & Hinkin, C.H
• Review of the book Neuropsychology and cardiovascular disease]. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
  A comprehensive update on the neuropsychology of cardiovascular disease 2011 Foley, J
• The Encyclopedia of Neuropsychological Disorders
  Wallenberg Syndrome 2011 Foley J & Golden C
• The Encyclopedia of Neuropsychological Disorders
  Zellweger Syndrome 2011 Foley J & Golden C
• HAART adherence and the expression of verbal memory impairment in HIV
  Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2010 Wright, M. J., Woo, E., Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M. L., Cottingham, M. E., Gooding, A. L., Jang, J., Kim, M. S., Castellon, S. A., Miller, E. N. & Hinkin, C. H
• Intraindividual Variability, Age, and Driving Ability in HIV+ Adults
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Hines, L., Foley, J., Thames, A., Ramezani, A., Miller, S., Marcotte, T., Sadek,, J., Heaton, R., van Gorp, W. & Hinkin, C
• Longitudinal study of neurocognition in aging HIV+ adults
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Ramezani, A., Ettenhofer, M., Becker, B, Hines, L., Thames, A., Foley, J., Castellon, S., Kim, S., Lawrence, S., Jang, J. & Hinkin, C
• Neurocognitive Deficits Among HIV + Hypertensive Adults
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Thames, A. D., Foley, J., Hines, L., Ramezani, A., Kim, M. S., Castellon, S. A., & Hinkin, C. H
• Neurocognitive functioning in HIV-1-infection: effects of cerebrovascular risk factors and age
  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2010 Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M., Wright, M. J., Siddiqi, I., Mason, K., Castellon, S. & Hinkin, C
• Operationalization of the updated diagnostic algorithm for classifying HIV-related cognitive impairment and dementia
  International Psychogeriatrics, 2010 Foley, J., Wright, M., Gooding, A., Ettenhofer, M., Kim, M. S., Choi, M., Castellon, S. A., Sadek, J., Heaton, R. K., van Gorp, W. G., Marcotte, T. D. & Hinkin, C
• Reaction Time Variability in HIV+ Individuals
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2010 Ettenhofer, M. L., Foley, J., Behdin, N., Castellon, S. A., & Hinkin, C
• Reciprocal Prediction of Medication Adherence and Neurocognition in HIV/AIDS
  Neurology 2010 Ettenhofer, M. L., Foley, J., Castellon, S. A., & Hinkin, C
• Aging, Neurocognition, and Medication Adherence in HIV Infection: A Latent Modeling Approach
  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2009 Ettenhofer, M., Hinkin, C., Castellon, S., Durvasula, R., Ullman, J., Lam, M., Myers, H., Wright, M., & Foley, J
• Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology
  Microstructural brain pathology and its effect upon cognition and functional abilities in older HIV 2009 Becker, B., Foley, J., Kim, M., Hines, L., Thames, A., Hinkin, C. H
• Changes in cerebral volumes among healthy older adults with and without the Apolipoprotein Epsilon 4 genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease: a longitudinal study
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2009 Foley, J., Siddarth, P., Bookheimer, S., Bartzokis, G., Hayashi, K. M., Thompson, P. M, Small, G. W., & Ercoli, L. M
• Corollary and discrepancy-based approaches for examining the appropriateness of premorbid cognitive estimation in geriatric schizophrenia
  International Journal of Neuroscience 2009 Foley, J., Golden, C., Simco, E., Schneider, B., McCue, R & Shaw, L
• Effects of cerebrovascular risk versus age upon cognitive functioning in HIV-1-infected patients
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2009 Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M., Wright, M., Siddiqi, I., Mason, K., Myers, H., Singer, E., Castellon, S., & Hinkin, C
• Functional consequences of HIV-1 infection
  Neuropsychology Review 2009 Gorman, A., Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M., Hinkin, C. & van Gorp, W
• IQ predicts neuropsychological performance in children
  International Journal of Neuroscience 2009 Foley, J., Garcia, J. Shaw, L., Golden, C
• Longitudinal Changes in Medication Adherence among HIV+ Adults: Relationship with Neurocognition and Changes in Psychiatric Functioning
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2009 Panos, S. E., Becker, B., Kim, M., Foley, J., Jang, J., Chung, J., Castellon, S., & Hinkin, C. H
• Pattern of memory performance in HIV/AIDS when compared to psychiatric, neuropsychiatric, and normal control groups
  International Journal of Neuroscience 2009 Schiller, A., Foley, J., Burns, W., Sellers, A., & Golden, C
• White matter integrity, age, and executive functioning: a diffusion tensor imaging study
  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2009 Foley, J., O’Neill, J., Siddarth, P., Bookheimer, S., Xu, A., Levitt, J., & Caplan, R
• Classification of HIV-related cognitive decline and dementia differs by functional assessment method
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2008 Foley, J., Wright, M. J., Jang, J., Gooding, A., Castellon, S. A., & Hinkin, C. H
• Current HIV/AIDS Reports
  Emerging Issues in the Neuropsychology of HIV-Infection 2008 Foley, J., Ettenhofer, M., Wright, M., & Hinkin, C
• Pattern of memory compromise in chronic geriatric schizophrenia, frontotemporal dementia, and normal geriatric controls
  Acta Neuropsychiatrica 2008 Foley, J., Golden, C., Simco, E., Schneider, B., McCue, R. & Shaw, L
• Cognitive Impairment, Hippocampal Volume, and White Matter Integrity in CADASIL
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2007 Patel, K., Correia, S., Foley, J., Schlicting, E., Zhang, S., Laidlaw, D., and Salloway, S
• Examination of Premorbid Intellectual Estimation in Geriatric Schizophrenia and Frontotemporal Dementia
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2007 Foley, J., Golden, C., Simco, E., Schneider, B., and McCue, R
• Nature and pattern of memory decline in Schizophrenia versus Frontotemporal Dementia
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2007 Foley, J., Golden, C., Simco, E., Schneider, B., and McCue, R
• Processing speed in CADASIL: Relationship to cingulum versus callosal fibers
  Poster presented at the 3rd annual conference of the International Society for Vascular Behavioral and Cognitive Disorders 2007 Correia, S., Foley, J., Zhang, S., Laidlaw, D., Malloy, P. & Salloway, S
• Can the MMPI-2 discriminate between mild-moderate TBI and other neurologic and psychiatric populations?
  International Journal of Neuroscience 2006 Foley, J., Garcia, J., Harris, K., Todd, M., and Golden, C
• Effects of age and education on cognitive processes and executive function performance in older women
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2006 Shaw, L., Foley, J., Figueroa, M., & Briker, L
• Evidence for a subcortical pattern of neuropsychological deficits in HIV/AIDS patients
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2006 Schiller, A., Foley, J., Burns, W., Golden, C., & Sellers, A
• Gender discrepancies in processing speed across the lifespan
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2006 Harvey, D., Foley, J., Proctor-Weber, Z, and Golden, C
• Nature and extent of neuropsychological compromise in older seriously mentally ill populations
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2006 Foley, J. and Golden, C
• Using community outreach to promote integrative health care: A pilot study
  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice 2006 Foley, J., Levant, R., Kleiver, A., Calzada, P., House, T., Kuemmel, A. & Kelleher, B
• Effects of Parkinson’s Disease on verbally mediated frontal lobe tasks
  The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2005 Scott, A., Foley, J., Tireman, E., Levy, S., Todd, M. & Golden, C
• Gender differences in verbal and visual memory on the WMS-III in an adult neuropsychiatric population
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2005 Durkin, M., Fogle, M., Foley, J., Briker, L., Figueroa, M. & Golden, C
• Neuropsychological impairment as a confound in the interpretation of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition, Infrequency Scale
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2005 Foley, J., Collins, M., Proctor-Weber, Z., and Golden, C
• PsycCRITIQUES--Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books
  (2005). Reinterpretation of the MMPI-2: A new direction? [Review of the book The Clinical Interpretation of the MMPI-2: A Content Cluster Approach 2005 Foley, J. & Golden, C
• The Sensitivity and specificity of the WCST to detect executive dysfunction in adults
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2005 Foley, J., Collins, M., Proctor-Weber, Z., and Golden, C
• Clinical relationship of coping deficits to frontal lobe damage
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2004 Foley, J., Collins, M., Sheehan, C., Rodriguez, K., Mohrland, M. & Golden, C
• Cognitive decline in normal older adults and adults with serious mental illness
  Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 2004 Borosh, B., Foley, J., Kelly, K., Collins, M., Faraldo, L., Stack, M. & Golden, C
• Empirically supported treatment endeavour: Successful future or an inevitable debacle?
  Clinical Psychologist 2004 Foley, J
• Independent Practitioner
  Review of the Book Addressing Cultural Complexities in Clinical Practice: A Framework for Clinicians and Counselors 2003 Foley, J