Melanie Stephens, PhD
Associate Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Melanie Stephens is the Clinic Director of the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• Neuropsychology Fellowship University of California 09/2015

Websites

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• UCSF Memory and Aging Center Clinic (memory.ucsf.edu)

Publications (19)

Top publication keywords:
TauopathiesSpace PerceptionCognitionPlaque, AmyloidNeuropsychiatrytau ProteinsExecutive FunctionFederal GovernmentMathematicsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus ProteinsCerebrospinal FluidChronic Traumatic EncephalopathyFrontotemporal DementiaCognitive DysfunctionTuberous Sclerosis

• Feasibility and Acceptability of a Multidisciplinary Academic Telemedicine System for Memory Care in Response to COVID-19.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2022 Rini JF, Tsoy E, Peet B, Best J, Tanner JA, Asken BM, Sanchez A, Apple AC, VandeVrede L, Stephens ML, Erkkinen M, Kramer JH, Miller BL
• Risk factors and abnormal cerebrospinal fluid associate with cognitive symptoms after mild COVID-19.
  Annals of clinical and translational neurology 2022 Apple AC, Oddi A, Peluso MJ, Asken BM, Henrich TJ, Kelly JD, Pleasure SJ, Deeks SG, Allen IE, Martin JN, Ndhlovu LC, Miller BL, Stephens ML, Hellmuth J
• Persistent COVID-19-associated neurocognitive symptoms in non-hospitalized patients.
  Journal of neurovirology 2021 Hellmuth J, Barnett TA, Asken BM, Kelly JD, Torres L, Stephens ML, Greenhouse B, Martin JN, Chow FC, Deeks SG, Greene M, Miller BL, Annan W, Henrich TJ, Peluso MJ
• Depressive Symptom Profiles Predict Specific Neurodegenerative Disease Syndromes in Early Stages.
  Frontiers in neurology 2020 Shdo SM, Ranasinghe KG, Sturm VE, Possin KL, Bettcher BM, Stephens ML, Foley JM, You SC, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Kramer JH, Rankin KP
• Tau PET and multimodal brain imaging in patients at risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
  NeuroImage. Clinical 2019 Lesman-Segev OH, La Joie R, Stephens ML, Sonni I, Tsai R, Bourakova V, Visani AV, Edwards L, O'Neil JP, Baker SL, Gardner RC, Janabi M, Chaudhary K, Perry DC, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, …

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• Legal and Policy Challenges to Addressing Cognitive Impairment in Federal Officials.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Arias JJ, Stephens ML, Rabinovici GD
• Prevalence of Mathematical and Visuospatial Learning Disabilities in Patients With Posterior Cortical Atrophy.
  JAMA neurology 2018 Miller ZA, Rosenberg L, Santos-Santos MA, Stephens M, Allen IE, Hubbard HI, Cantwell A, Mandelli ML, Grinberg LT, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Rabinovici GD, Gorno-Tempini ML
• Multiproteinopathy, neurodegeneration and old age: a case study.
  Neurocase 2018 Rojas JC, Stephens ML, Rabinovici GD, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Seeley WW
• Linking tuberous sclerosis complex, excessive mTOR signaling, and age-related neurodegeneration: a new association between TSC1 mutation and frontotemporal dementia.
  Acta neuropathologica 2017 Olney NT, Alquezar C, Ramos EM, Nana AL, Fong JC, Karydas AM, Taylor JB, Stephens ML, Argouarch AR, Van Berlo VA, Dokuru DR, Sherr EH, Jicha GA, Dillon WP, Desikan RS, De May M, Seeley WW, Coppola G, …
• Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage.
  Neurology 2016 Bertoux M, Sarazin M, Pasquier F, Bottlaender M, de Souza LC, Mioshi E, Hornberger M, Ranasinghe KG, Rankin KP, Lobach IV, Kramer JH, Sturm VE, Bettcher BM, Possin K, You SC, Lamarre AK, Shany-Ur T, …
• Neuroanatomical substrates of executive functions: Beyond prefrontal structures.
  Neuropsychologia 2016 Bettcher BM, Mungas D, Patel N, Elofson J, Dutt S, Wynn M, Watson CL, Stephens M, Walsh CM, Kramer JH
• Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage.
  Neurology 2016 Ranasinghe KG, Rankin KP, Lobach IV, Kramer JH, Sturm VE, Bettcher BM, Possin K, Christine You S, Lamarre AK, Shany-Ur T, Stephens ML, Perry DC, Lee SE, Miller ZA, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rosen HJ, Boxer A,…
• Learning disability status within the posterior cortical atrophy syndrome.
  Alzheimer's & Dementia 2015 Zachary A. Miller, Lynne M. Rosenberg, Melanie Stephens, Maria Luisa Mandelli, Gil D. Rabinovici, Bruce L. Miller, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini
• Executive dysfunction.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2015 Rabinovici GD, Stephens ML, Possin KL
• A novel mutation P112H in the TARDBP gene associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration without motor neuron disease and abundant neuritic amyloid plaques.
  Acta neuropathologica communications 2015 Moreno F, Rabinovici GD, Karydas A, Miller Z, Hsu SC, Legati A, Fong J, Schonhaut D, Esselmann H, Watson C, Stephens ML, Kramer J, Wiltfang J, Seeley WW, Miller BL, Coppola G, Grinberg LT
• Executive Function.
  Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences 2014 J.H. Kramer, M.L. Stephens
• Frontotemporal dementia: diagnosis, deficits and management.
  Neurodegenerative disease management 2014 Bott NT, Radke A, Stephens ML, Kramer JH
• Memory, Overview.
  Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences 2014 J.H. Kramer, M.L. Stephens
• Global landscape of HIV-human protein complexes.
  Nature 2011 Jäger S, Cimermancic P, Gulbahce N, Johnson JR, McGovern KE, Clarke SC, Shales M, Mercenne G, Pache L, Li K, Hernandez H, Jang GM, Roth SL, Akiva E, Marlett J, Stephens M, D'Orso I, Fernandes J, Fahey…