I lead neuropsychology research at the Rocky Mountain Alzheimer's Center.
Publications
Holden SK, Pelak VS, Sooy T, Heffernan KS, McConnell BV, Pressman PS, Bettcher BM. Development of the Colorado posterior cortical questionnaire within an Alzheimer's disease study cohort. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2022 Apr;44(3):226-236. PubMed PMID: 35913095
McConnell BV, Kronberg E, Medenblik LM, Kheyfets VO, Ramos AR, Sillau SH, Pulver RL, Bettcher BM. The Rise and Fall of Slow Wave Tides: Vacillations in Coupled Slow Wave/Spindle Pairing Shift the Composition of Slow Wave Activity in Accordance With Depth of Sleep. Front Neurosci. 2022;16:915934. PubMed PMID: 35812239
Daddato AE, Staton EW, Bettcher BM, Shanbhag P, Lum HD. Human-Centered Design of an Advance Care Planning Group Visit for Mild Cognitive Impairment. Gerontologist. 2022 Sep 7;62(8):1226-1237. PubMed PMID: 34940855
Bettcher BM, Tansey MG, Dorothée G, Heneka MT. Peripheral and central immune system crosstalk in Alzheimer disease - a research prospectus. Nat Rev Neurol. 2021 Sep 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34522039
McConnell BV, Kronberg E, Teale PD, Sillau SH, Fishback GM, Kaplan RI, Fought AJ, Dhanasekaran AR, Berman BD, Ramos AR, McClure RL, Bettcher BM. The Aging Slow Wave: A Shifting Amalgam of Distinct Slow Wave and Spindle Coupling Subtypes Define Slow Wave Sleep Across the Human Lifespan. Sleep. 2021 May 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33999194
Bettcher BM, Olson KE, Carlson NE, McConnell BV, Boyd T, Adame V, Solano DA, Anton P, Markham N, Thaker AA, Jensen AM, Dallmann EN, Potter H, Coughlan C. Astrogliosis and episodic memory in late life: higher GFAP is related to worse memory and white matter microstructure in healthy aging and Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging. 2021 Jul;103:68-77. PubMed PMID: 33845398
Memel M, Staffaroni AM, Cobigo Y, Casaletto KB, Fonseca C, Bettcher BM, Yassa MA, Elahi FM, Wolf A, Rosen HJ, Kramer JH. APOE moderates the effect of hippocampal blood flow on memory pattern separation in clinically normal older adults. Hippocampus. 2021 Aug;31(8):845-857. PubMed PMID: 33835624
Medina LD, Heffernan K, Holden S, Simpson A, Bettcher BM. Neural correlates of daily function: A pilot study of the white matter retrogenesis hypothesis and three separate performance-based functional assessments. Neuropsychology. 2021 Jan;35(1):103-110. PubMed PMID: 33393804
Altendahl M, Cotter DL, Staffaroni AM, Wolf A, Mumford P, Cobigo Y, Casaletto K, Elahi F, Ruoff L, Javed S, Bettcher BM, Fox E, You M, Saloner R, Neylan TC, Kramer JH, Walsh CM. REM sleep is associated with white matter integrity in cognitively healthy, older adults. PLoS One. 2020;15(7):e0235395. PubMed PMID: 32645032
Coughlan C, Bruce KD, Burgy O, Boyd TD, Michel CR, Garcia-Perez JE, Adame V, Anton P, Bettcher BM, Chial HJ, Königshoff M, Hsieh EWY, Graner M, Potter H. Exosome Isolation by Ultracentrifugation and Precipitation and Techniques for Downstream Analyses. Curr Protoc Cell Biol. 2020 Sep;88(1):e110. PubMed PMID: 32633898
Shdo SM, Ranasinghe KG, Sturm VE, Possin KL, Bettcher BM, Stephens ML, Foley JM, You SC, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Kramer JH, Rankin KP. Depressive Symptom Profiles Predict Specific Neurodegenerative Disease Syndromes in Early Stages. Front Neurol. 2020;11:446. PubMed PMID: 32547476
Suemoto CK, Gibbons LE, Thacker EL, Jackson JD, Satizabal CL, Bettcher BM, Launer L, Phillips C, White LR, Power MC. Incident prolonged QT interval in midlife and late-life cognitive performance. PLoS One. 2020;15(2):e0229519. PubMed PMID: 32097438
Holden SK, Bettcher BM, Pelak VS. Update on posterior cortical atrophy. Curr Opin Neurol. 2020 Feb;33(1):68-73. PubMed PMID: 31688098
Bettcher BM, Gross AL, Gavett BE, Widaman KF, Fletcher E, Dowling NM, Buckley RF, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Zahodne LB, Hohman TJ, Vonk JMJ, Rentz DM, Mungas D. Dynamic change of cognitive reserve: associations with changes in brain, cognition, and diagnosis. Neurobiol Aging. 2019 Aug 21;83:95-104. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31585371
Munoz E, Filshtein T, Bettcher BM, McLaren D, Hedden T, Tommet D, Mungas D, Therneau T. Cognitive function and neuropathological outcomes: a forward-looking approach. J Neurol. 2019 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31435771
Bateman JR, Filley CM, Kaplan RI, Heffernan KS, Bettcher BM. Lifetime surgical exposure, episodic memory, and forniceal microstructure in older adults. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2019 Dec;41(10):1048-1059. PubMed PMID: 31370773
Bateman JR, Filley CM, Ross ED, Bettcher BM, Hubbard HI, Babiak M, Pressman PS. Aprosodia and prosoplegia with right frontal neurodegeneration. Neurocase. 2019 Oct;25(5):187-194. PubMed PMID: 31335278
Bettcher BM, Neuhaus J, Wynn MJ, Elahi FM, Casaletto KB, Saloner R, Fitch R, Karydas A, Kramer JH. Increases in a Pro-inflammatory Chemokine, MCP-1, Are Related to Decreases in Memory Over Time. Front Aging Neurosci. 2019;11:25. PubMed PMID: 30814948
Holden SK, Bettcher BM, Pelak VS. Update on posterior cortical atrophy. Curr Opin Neurol. 2019 Nov 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31688098
Casaletto KB, Staffaroni AM, Elahi F, Fox E, Crittenden PA, You M, Neuhaus J, Glymour M, Bettcher BM, Yaffe K, Kramer JH. Perceived Stress is Associated with Accelerated Monocyte/Macrophage Aging Trajectories in Clinically Normal Adults. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2018 Sep;26(9):952-963. PubMed PMID: 30017239
Casaletto KB, Elahi FM, Fitch R, Walters S, Fox E, Staffaroni AM, Bettcher B, Zetterberg H, Karydas A, Rojas JC, Boxer AL, Kramer JH. A comparison of biofluid cytokine markers across platform technologies: Correspondence or divergence?. Cytokine. 2018 Nov;111:481-489. PubMed PMID: 29908923
Bettcher BM, Johnson SC, Fitch R, Casaletto KB, Heffernan KS, Asthana S, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Carlsson CM, Neuhaus J, Bendlin BB, Kramer JH. Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma Levels of Inflammation Differentially Relate to CNS Markers of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology and Neuronal Damage. J Alzheimers Dis. 2018;62(1):385-397. PubMed PMID: 29439331
Hamlett ED, Ledreux A, Potter H, Chial HJ, Patterson D, Espinosa JM, Bettcher BM, Granholm AC. Exosomal biomarkers in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Free Radic Biol Med. 2018 Jan;114:110-121. PubMed PMID: 28882786
Casaletto KB, Ward ME, Baker NS, Bettcher BM, Gelfand JM, Li Y, Chen R, Dutt S, Miller B, Kramer JH, Green AJ. Retinal thinning is uniquely associated with medial temporal lobe atrophy in neurologically normal older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Mar;51:141-147. PubMed PMID: 28068565
Casaletto KB, Elahi FM, Bettcher BM, Neuhaus J, Bendlin BB, Asthana S, Johnson SC, Yaffe K, Carlsson C, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Kramer JH. Neurogranin, a synaptic protein, is associated with memory independent of Alzheimer biomarkers. Neurology. 2017 Oct 24;89(17):1782-1788. PubMed PMID: 28939668
Hamlett ED, Ledreux A, Potter H, Chial HJ, Patterson D, Espinosa JM, Bettcher BM, Granholm AC. Exosomal biomarkers in Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease. Free Radic Biol Med. 2017 Sep 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28882786
Bettcher BM, Ard MC, Reed BR, Benitez A, Simmons A, Larson EB, Sonnen JA, Montine TJ, Li G, Keene CD, Crane PK, Mungas D. Association between Cholesterol Exposure and Neuropathological Findings: The ACT Study. J Alzheimers Dis. 2017;59(4):1307-1315. PubMed PMID: 28731431
Parthasarathy V, Frazier DT, Bettcher BM, Jastrzab L, Chao L, Reed B, Mungas D, Weiner M, DeCarli C, Chui H, Kramer JH. Triglycerides are negatively correlated with cognitive function in nondemented aging adults. Neuropsychology. 2017 Sep;31(6):682-688. PubMed PMID: 28604016
Bott NT, Bettcher BM, Yokoyama JS, Frazier DT, Wynn M, Karydas A, Yaffe K, Kramer JH. Youthful Processing Speed in Older Adults: Genetic, Biological, and Behavioral Predictors of Cognitive Processing Speed Trajectories in Aging. Front Aging Neurosci. 2017;9:55. PubMed PMID: 28344553
Casaletto KB, Ward ME, Baker NS, Bettcher BM, Gelfand JM, Li Y, Chen R, Dutt S, Miller B, Kramer JH, Green AJ. Retinal thinning is uniquely associated with medial temporal lobe atrophy in neurologically normal older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2017 Mar;51:141-147. PubMed PMID: 28068565
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, Stephens ML, Perry DC, Lee SE, Miller ZA, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rosen HJ, Boxer A, Seeley WW, Rabinovici GD, Vossel KA, Miller BL. Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage. Neurology. 2016 Oct 4;87(14):1523. PubMed PMID: 27698154
Bettcher BM, Fitch R, Wynn MJ, Lalli MA, Elofson J, Jastrzab L, Mitic L, Miller ZA, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Kao AW, Kosik KS, Kramer JH. MCP-1 and eotaxin-1 selectively and negatively associate with memory in MCI and Alzheimer's disease dementia phenotypes. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2016 Jun 22;3:91-7. PubMed PMID: 27453930
Ranasinghe KG, Rankin KP, Pressman PS, Perry DC, Lobach IV, Seeley WW, Coppola G, Karydas AM, Grinberg LT, Shany-Ur T, Lee SE, Rabinovici GD, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, Miller ZA, Chiong W, DeMay M, Kramer JH, Possin KL, Sturm VE, Bettcher BM, Neylan M, Zackey DD, Nguyen LA, Ketelle R, Block N, Wu TQ, Dallich A, Russek N, Caplan A, Geschwind DH, Vossel KA, Miller BL. Distinct Subtypes of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Based on Patterns of Network Degeneration. JAMA Neurol. 2016 Sep 1;73(9):1078-88. PubMed PMID: 27429218
Ossenkoppele R, Schonhaut DR, Schöll M, Lockhart SN, Ayakta N, Baker SL, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Lazaris A, Cantwell A, Vogel J, Santos M, Miller ZA, Bettcher BM, Vossel KA, Kramer JH, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD. Tau PET patterns mirror clinical and neuroanatomical variability in Alzheimer's disease. Brain. 2016 May;139(Pt 5):1551-67. PubMed PMID: 26962052
Bettcher BM, Mungas D, Patel N, Elofson J, Dutt S, Wynn M, Watson CL, Stephens M, Walsh CM, Kramer JH. Neuroanatomical substrates of executive functions: Beyond prefrontal structures. Neuropsychologia. 2016 May;85:100-9. PubMed PMID: 26948072
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, Seeley WW, Rabinovici GD, Vossel KA, Miller BL. Cognition and neuropsychiatry in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia by disease stage. Neurology. 2016 Feb 16;86(7):600-10. PubMed PMID: 26802093
Ossenkoppele R, Schonhaut DR, Baker SL, O'Neil JP, Janabi M, Ghosh PM, Santos M, Miller ZA, Bettcher BM, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Jagust WJ, Rabinovici GD. Tau, amyloid, and hypometabolism in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy. Ann Neurol. 2015 Feb;77(2):338-42. PubMed PMID: 25448043
Bettcher BM, Yaffe K, Boudreau RM, Neuhaus J, Aizenstein H, Ding J, Kritchevsky SB, Launer LJ, Liu Y, Satterfield S, Rosano C. Declines in inflammation predict greater white matter microstructure in older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2015 Feb;36(2):948-54. PubMed PMID: 25554492
Forner SA, Takada LT, Bettcher BM, Lobach IV, Tartaglia MC, Torres-Chae C, Haman A, Thai J, Vitali P, Neuhaus J, Bostrom A, Miller BL, Rosen HJ, Geschwind MD. Comparing CSF biomarkers and brain MRI in the diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Neurol Clin Pract. 2015 Apr;5(2):116-125. PubMed PMID: 26137420
Frazier DT, Bettcher BM, Dutt S, Patel N, Mungas D, Miller J, Green R, Kramer JH. Relationship between Insulin-Resistance Processing Speed and Specific Executive Function Profiles in Neurologically Intact Older Adults. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2015 Sep;21(8):622-8. PubMed PMID: 26272269
Lalli MA, Bettcher BM, Arcila ML, Garcia G, Guzman C, Madrigal L, Ramirez L, Acosta-Uribe J, Baena A, Wojta KJ, Coppola G, Fitch R, de Both MD, Huentelman MJ, Reiman EM, Brunkow ME, Glusman G, Roach JC, Kao AW, Lopera F, Kosik KS. Whole-genome sequencing suggests a chemokine gene cluster that modifies age at onset in familial Alzheimer's disease. Mol Psychiatry. 2015 Nov;20(11):1294-300. PubMed PMID: 26324103
Medina, L. D., Heffernan, K., Holden, S., Simpson, A., & Bettcher, B. M. (In Press). The white matter retrogenesis hypothesis and daily function: Neural correlates of three performance-based functional assessments. Neuropsychology.