Bio Sketch

Dr. Daugherty is a cognitive neuroscientist with a specialty in aging, Alzheimer's disease and related dementia. Her research characterizes individual differences in aging across the adult lifespan to identify both risk and protective factors that modify changes in the brain, and related changes in thinking and memory functions. The long-term goal of her work is to reduce disparities in late-life cognitive health.

She directs the Detroit Aging Brain Study: a community-partnered longitudinal study going on over 22 years in the Metro Detroit area to study changes in brain structure and function across the healthy, adult lifespan.

Learn more about the Detroit Aging Brain Study.

 

She is affiliated faculty in the Michigan Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, lead of its Research Education Component, and co-investigator of the cener's Data Management and Statistical Analysis Core and NeuroImaging Core.

She is also affiliated faculty and serves on the steering committee of the Translational Neuroscience Program (Wayne State University School of Medicine).

 

Education

2015-2018, Postdoctoral Training, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

2014-2015, Postdoctoral Training, Institute of Gerontology,Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2011-2014, PhD, Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2008-2011, MA, Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2003-2007, BS, Neuroscience, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA

Research Focus

Dr. Daugherty directs the Healthy Brain Aging Laboratory that studies health factors and behaviors that shape changes in brain structures and functions across the lifespan. She has a particular interest in metabolic and vascular health, and studies both risk (e.g., hypertension, metabolic syndrome) and protective (e.g., aerobic exercise) factors. Towards this end, her studies include measures of brain structure from MRI, cognitive ability, blood serum biomarkers, genetics, and lifestyle behaviors. She works with adults of all ages, and in collaboration with other laboratories at the IOG, she studies the breadth of the human lifespan from childhood to late adulthood.

For a complete list of Dr. Daugherty's publications: MyBibliography on PubMed.

Office Location

IOG Office: 249 Knapp Building, 87 E Ferry

Psychology Office: 8307.1 Maccabees, 5057 Woodward Ave.

Laboratory: Suite 9, 100 E. Palmer St.

Areas of Expertise

Neural Cognitive Aging, Lifespan Development, Metabolic and Vascular Health, Spatial Navigation, Multimodal Neuroimaging, Structural Equation Modeling and Longitudinal Methods

Research Project Link

https://agingbrain.wayne.edu/

Courses Taught

Lead Instructor

Psychology of Perception: Fundamental Processes (PSY 3040, undergraduate seminar, Fall Semesters)

Functional Neuroanatomy (PSY 8060, graduate seminar with dissection lab, Fall Semesters)

Applied Multivariate Methods in Psychology (PSY 8150, graduate seminar with lab, Winter Semesters)

 Contributing Lecturer

Fundamentals of Neuropsychiatric Disorders (PYC7150, graduate seminar, Fall Semesters)

Fundamentals of Neuroimaging (PYC7140, graduate seminar, Winter Semesters)

 

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