Mark Sanderson-Cimino, MS
Specialist
Neurology
School of Medicine

Publications (47)

Top publication keywords:
Executive FunctionMemory, Short-TermNeurodegenerative DiseasesLeukoencephalopathiesCognitive DysfunctionCognition DisordersComputers, HandheldSmartphoneVeteransWhite MatterNeuropsychological TestsBrain ConcussionCognitionCognitive AgingMemory, Episodic

• In-clinic validation of a smartphone-based finger tapping test for use in neurodegenerative and neurological populations.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2026 O'Connor M, Sanderson-Cimino ME, Li Z, Dhanam S, Sadarangani A, Downer J, Fregly R, Taylor J, Wise AB, Casaletto KB, Forsberg LK, Gorno-Tempini ML, Heuer HW, Kramer JH, Kornak J, Miller B, Paolillo EW…
• Clinical Associations of Cerebrospinal Fluid TMEM106B in Familial and Sporadic Frontotemporal Dementia.
  JAMA neurology 2026 Olzinski M, Downer J, Cobigo Y, Rajbanshi B, Li J, Loureiro J, Worringer KA, Heuer H, Ljubenkov P, Vandevrede L, Staffaroni A, Lario-Lago A, Leichter D, Wolf A, Wise A, Sanderson-Cimino M, Barragan E,…
• Development and validation of a harmonized memory score for multicenter Alzheimer's disease and related dementia research.
  Alzheimer's research & therapy 2026 Sanderson-Cimino M, Gross AL, Gaynor LS, Paolillo EW, Saloner R, Albert MS, Apostolova LG, Boersema B, Boxer AL, Boeve BF, Casaletto KB, Heuer HW, Forsberg LK, Hallgarth SR, Diaz VE, Clark LR, Eloyan …
• Remote, self-administered, smartphone cognitive testing in a registry-based cohort: Feasibility, reliability, and validity findings.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2026 Dhanam S, Sanderson-Cimino M, Taylor JC, Paolillo EW, Fregly R, Kwang W, Maruff P, Wise A, Heuer HW, Forsberg LK, Kramer JH, Boeve BF, Rosen HJ, Mackin RS, Weiner MW, Nosheny RL, Boxer AL, Staffaroni …
• Development and validation of the TabCAT-EXAMINER: A tablet-based executive functioning battery for research and clinical trials.
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2025 Sanderson-Cimino M, Possin KL, Mungas DM, Paolillo EW, Asken BM, Tsoy E, Jarrott S, Cobigo Y, Saloner R, Casaletto KB, Considine C, Fields JA, Molden J, Rascovsky K, Weintraub S, Wong B, Heuer HW, …

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• Remote, self-administered, smartphone cognitive testing in a registry-based cohort: Feasibility, reliability, and validity findings.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Dhanam S, Sanderson-Cimino M, Taylor JC, Paolillo EW, Fregly R, Kwang W, Maruff P, Wise A, Heuer HW, Forsberg LK, Kramer JH, Boeve BF, Rosen HJ, Mackin RS, Weiner MW, Nosheny RL, Boxer AL, Staffaroni …
• Moderating effects of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein along the Alzheimer's disease continuum.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2025 Lee SY, Diaz VE, Emanuel OM, Matusz EF, Webb J, Chan B, Lago AL, Wang WE, DeSimone J, Rojas JC, VandeVrede L, La Joie R, Levy SA, Arias F, Wiens BA, Velez-Uribe I, Barker WW, Paolillo EW, Sanderson-…
• Practice effects persist over two decades of cognitive testing: Implications for longitudinal research.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Elman JA, Buchholz E, Chen R, Sanderson-Cimino M, Bell TR, Whitsel N, Bangen KJ, Cronin-Golomb A, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Franz CE, Gillespie NA, Granholm EL, Gustavson DE, Hagler DJ, …
• History of chronic pain and opioid use is associated with cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment.
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2025 Bell TR, Elman JA, Gustavson DE, Lyons MJ, Fennema-Notestine C, Williams ME, Panizzon MS, Pearce RC, Reynolds CA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Toomey R, Jak A, Franz CE, Kremen WS
• Development and validation of a harmonized memory score for multicenter Alzheimer's disease and related dementia research.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2025 Sanderson-Cimino M, Gross AL, Gaynor LS, Paolillo EW, Saloner R, Albert MS, Apostolova FG, Boersema B, Boxer AL, Boeve BF, Casaletto KB, Hallgarth SR, Diaz VE, Clark LR, Maillard P, Eloyan A, Farias …
• Detection of Alzheimer Neuropathology in Alzheimer and Non-Alzheimer Clinical Syndromes With Blood-Based Biomarkers.
  JAMA neurology 2025 VandeVrede L, Cho H, Sanderson-Cimino M, Wekselman F, Cobigo Y, Gorno-Tempini ML, Heuer HW, Kramer JH, Lario Lago A, Leichter D, Ljubenkov P, Miller BL, Perry DC, Rabinovici GD, Rojas JC, Rosen HJ, …
• Examining Associations Between Smartphone Use and Clinical Severity in Frontotemporal Dementia: Proof-of-Concept Study.
  JMIR aging 2024 Paolillo EW, Casaletto KB, Clark AL, Taylor JC, Heuer HW, Wise AB, Dhanam S, Sanderson-Cimino M, Saloner R, Kramer JH, Kornak J, Kremers W, Forsberg L, Appleby B, Bayram E, Bozoki A, Brushaber D, …
• Associations of cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease pathology with cognitive decline: Analysis of the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Uniform Data Set.
  Neurobiology of aging 2024 Chatterjee A, Lee S, Diaz V, Saloner R, Sanderson-Cimino M, deCarli C, Maillard P, Hinman J, Vossel K, Casaletto KB, Staffaroni AM, Paolillo EW, Kramer JH
• Reliability and Validity of Smartphone Cognitive Testing for Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration.
  JAMA network open 2024 Staffaroni AM, Clark AL, Taylor JC, Heuer HW, Sanderson-Cimino M, Wise AB, Dhanam S, Cobigo Y, Wolf A, Manoochehri M, Forsberg L, Mester C, Rankin KP, Appleby BS, Bayram E, Bozoki A, Clark D, Darby RR…
• Higher cortical thickness/volume in Alzheimer's-related regions: protective factor or risk factor?
  Neurobiology of aging 2023 Williams ME, Elman JA, Bell TR, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Franz CE, Gillespie NA, Hagler DJ, Lyons MJ, McEvoy LK, Neale MC, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Kremen WS
• Misinterpreting cognitive change over multiple timepoints: When practice effects meet age-related decline.
  Neuropsychology 2023 Sanderson-Cimino M, Chen R, Tu XM, Elman JA, Jak AJ, Kremen WS
• Four year practice effects on the RBANS in a longitudinal study of older adults.
  Applied neuropsychology. Adult 2023 Reed C, Calamia M, Sanderson-Cimino M, DeVito A, Toups R, Keller J
• Associations Between Depression and Cardiometabolic Health: A 27-Year Longitudinal Study - Corrigendum.
  Psychological medicine 2022 Ditmars HL, Logue MW, Toomey R, McKenzie RE, Franz CE, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Cuthbert KN, Vandiver R, Gustavson DE, Eglit GML, Elman JA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Williams ME, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, …
• Genetic and Environmental Influences on Structural and Diffusion-Based Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Signatures Across Midlife and Early Old Age.
  Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging 2022 Williams ME, Gillespie NA, Bell TR, Dale AM, Elman JA, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Franz CE, Hagler DJ, Lyons MJ, McEvoy LK, Neale MC, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Kremen WS
• Cognitive Reserve and Related Constructs: A Unified Framework Across Cognitive and Brain Dimensions of Aging.
  Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022 Kremen WS, Elman JA, Panizzon MS, Eglit GML, Sanderson-Cimino M, Williams ME, Lyons MJ, Franz CE
• Practice Effects in Mild Cognitive Impairment Increase Reversion Rates and Delay Detection of New Impairments.
  Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2022 Sanderson-Cimino M, Elman JA, Tu XM, Gross AL, Panizzon MS, Gustavson DE, Bondi MW, Edmonds EC, Eppig JS, Franz CE, Jak AJ, Lyons MJ, Thomas KR, Williams ME, Kremen WS
• Cognitive practice effects delay diagnosis of MCI: Implications for clinical trials.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.) 2022 Sanderson-Cimino M, Elman JA, Tu XM, Gross AL, Panizzon MS, Gustavson DE, Bondi MW, Edmonds EC, Eglit GML, Eppig JS, Franz CE, Jak AJ, Lyons MJ, Thomas KR, Williams ME, Kremen WS, Alzheimer's Disease …
• Long-term associations of cigarette smoking in early mid-life with predicted brain aging from mid- to late life.
  Addiction (Abingdon, England) 2021 Whitsel N, Reynolds CA, Buchholz EJ, Pahlen S, Pearce RC, Hatton SN, Elman JA, Gillespie NA, Gustavson DE, Puckett OK, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Hagler DJ, Hauger RL, McEvoy LK, McKenzie…
• Paradoxical cognitive trajectories in men from earlier to later adulthood.
  Neurobiology of aging 2021 Eglit GML, Elman JA, Panizzon MS, Sanderson-Cimino M, Williams ME, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Gillespie NA, Gustavson DE, Hatton SN, Hagler DJ, Hauger RL, Jak AJ, Logue MW, McEvoy LK, …
• White matter integrity, suicidal ideation, and cognitive dysfunction in combat-exposed Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.
  Psychiatry research. Neuroimaging 2021 Davey DK, Jurick SM, Crocker LD, Hoffman SN, Sanderson-Cimino M, Tate DF, Velez CS, Delano-Wood L, Jak AJ
• Lifestyle and the aging brain: interactive effects of modifiable lifestyle behaviors and cognitive ability in men from midlife to old age.
  Neurobiology of aging 2021 Franz CE, Hatton SN, Elman JA, Warren T, Gillespie NA, Whitsel NA, Puckett OK, Dale AM, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Hagler DJ, Hauger RL, McKenzie R, Neale MC, Panizzon MS, Pearce RC, Reynolds CA, …
• 12-year prediction of mild cognitive impairment aided by Alzheimer's brain signatures at mean age 56.
  Brain communications 2021 Williams ME, Elman JA, McEvoy LK, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Eglit GML, Eyler LT, Fennema-Notestine C, Franz CE, Gillespie NA, Hagler DJ, Hatton SN, Hauger RL, Jak AJ, Logue MW, Lyons MJ, McKenzie RE, …
• Periventricular and deep abnormal white matter differ in associations with cognitive performance at midlife.
  Neuropsychology 2021 Sanderson-Cimino M, Panizzon MS, Elman JA, Tu X, Gustavson DE, Puckett O, Cross K, Notestine R, Hatton SN, Eyler LT, McEvoy LK, Hagler DJ, Neale MC, Gillespie NA, Lyons MJ, Franz CE, Fennema-Notestine…
• MRI-assessed locus coeruleus integrity is heritable and associated with multiple cognitive domains, mild cognitive impairment, and daytime dysfunction.
  Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2021 Elman JA, Puckett OK, Beck A, Fennema-Notestine C, Cross LK, Dale AM, Eglit GML, Eyler LT, Gillespie NA, Granholm EL, Gustavson DE, Hagler DJ, Hatton SN, Hauger R, Jak AJ, Logue MW, McEvoy LK, …
• Independent and Synergistic Associations Between TBI Characteristics and PTSD Symptom Clusters on Cognitive Performance and Postconcussive Symptoms in Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.
  The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2021 Jurick SM, Crocker LD, Merritt VC, Sanderson-Cimino ME, Keller AV, Glassman LH, Twamley EW, Rodgers CS, Schiehser DM, Aupperle RL, Jak AJ
• Associations between depression and cardiometabolic health: A 27-year longitudinal study.
  Psychological medicine 2021 Ditmars HL, Logue MW, Toomey R, McKenzie RE, Franz CE, Panizzon MS, Reynolds CA, Cuthbert KN, Vandiver R, Gustavson DE, Eglit GML, Elman JA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Williams ME, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, …
• Cognitive Practice Effects Delay Diagnosis; Implications for Clinical Trials.
  medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2020 Sanderson-Cimino M, Elman JA, Tu XM, Gross AL, Panizzon MS, Gustavson DE, Bondi MW, Edmonds EC, Eglit GML, Eppig JS, Franz CE, Jak AJ, Lyons MJ, Thomas KR, Williams ME, Kremen WS, Alzheimer’s Disease …
• Interaction between Alcohol Consumption and Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) Genotype with Cognition in Middle-Aged Men.
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2020 Slayday RE, Gustavson DE, Elman JA, Beck A, McEvoy LK, Tu XM, Fang B, Hauger RL, Lyons MJ, McKenzie RE, Sanderson-Cimino ME, Xian H, Kremen WS, Franz CE
• Association of baseline semantic fluency and progression to mild cognitive impairment in middle-aged men.
  Neurology 2020 Gustavson DE, Elman JA, Panizzon MS, Franz CE, Zuber J, Sanderson-Cimino M, Reynolds CA, Jacobson KC, Xian H, Jak AJ, Toomey R, Lyons MJ, Kremen WS
• Extensive memory testing improves prediction of progression to MCI in late middle age.
  Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2020 Gustavson DE, Elman JA, Sanderson-Cimino M, Franz CE, Panizzon MS, Jak AJ, Reynolds CA, Neale MC, Lyons MJ, Kremen WS
• PTSD, but not history of mTBI, is associated with altered myelin in combat-exposed Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.
  The Clinical neuropsychologist 2020 Jak AJ, Jurick S, Hoffman S, Evangelista ND, Deford N, Keller A, Merritt VC, Sanderson-Cimino M, Sorg S, Delano-Wood L, Bangen KJ
• Amyloid-β Positivity Predicts Cognitive Decline but Cognition Predicts Progression to Amyloid-β Positivity.
  Biological psychiatry 2020 Elman JA, Panizzon MS, Gustavson DE, Franz CE, Sanderson-Cimino ME, Lyons MJ, Kremen WS, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• The Role of Pain Catastrophizing in Cognitive Functioning Among Veterans With a History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation 2019 Hoffman SN, Herbert MS, Crocker LD, DeFord NE, Keller AV, Jurick SM, Sanderson-Cimino M, Jak AJ
• Genetic and environmental architecture of processing speed across midlife.
  Neuropsychology 2019 Sanderson-Cimino M, Panizzon MS, Elman JA, Gustavson DE, Franz CE, Reynolds CA, Toomey R, Lyons MJ, Kremen WS
• Mild traumatic brain injury characteristics do not negatively influence cognitive processing therapy attendance or outcomes.
  Journal of psychiatric research 2019 Crocker LD, Jurick SM, Thomas KR, Keller AV, Sanderson-Cimino M, Hoffman SN, Boyd B, Rodgers C, Norman SB, Lang AJ, Twamley EW, Jak AJ
• Influence of young adult cognitive ability and additional education on later-life cognition.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2019 Kremen WS, Beck A, Elman JA, Gustavson DE, Reynolds CA, Tu XM, Sanderson-Cimino ME, Panizzon MS, Vuoksimaa E, Toomey R, Fennema-Notestine C, Hagler DJ, Fang B, Dale AM, Lyons MJ, Franz CE
• SMART-CPT for veterans with comorbid post-traumatic stress disorder and history of traumatic brain injury: a randomised controlled trial.
  Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2018 Jak AJ, Jurick S, Crocker LD, Sanderson-Cimino M, Aupperle R, Rodgers CS, Thomas KR, Boyd B, Norman SB, Lang AJ, Keller AV, Schiehser DM, Twamley EW
• Worse baseline executive functioning is associated with dropout and poorer response to trauma-focused treatment for veterans with PTSD and comorbid traumatic brain injury.
  Behaviour research and therapy 2018 Crocker LD, Jurick SM, Thomas KR, Keller AV, Sanderson-Cimino M, Boyd B, Rodgers C, Twamley EW, Jak AJ
• Contributions to Executive Dysfunction in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and History of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.
  The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation 2018 Jurick SM, Crocker LD, Sanderson-Cimino M, Keller AV, Trenova LS, Boyd BL, Twamley EW, Rodgers CS, Schiehser DM, Aupperle RL, Jak AJ
• Pilot investigation of a novel white matter imaging technique in Veterans with and without history of mild traumatic brain injury.
  Brain injury 2018 Jurick SM, Hoffman SN, Sorg S, Keller AV, Evangelista ND, DeFord NE, Sanderson-Cimino M, Bangen KJ, Delano-Wood L, Deoni S, Jak AJ
• Statistically Derived Subtypes and Associations with Cerebrospinal Fluid and Genetic Biomarkers in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Latent Profile Analysis.
  Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2017 Eppig JS, Edmonds EC, Campbell L, Sanderson-Cimino M, Delano-Wood L, Bondi MW, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
• Advanced neuroimaging to quantify myelin in vivo: Application to mild TBI.
  Brain injury 2016 Jurick SM, Bangen KJ, Evangelista ND, Sanderson-Cimino M, Delano-Wood L, Jak AJ