Peter Pressman, MD

Professional Titles

• Associate Professor

Research Interests

I'm interested in developing new technology to ease access to appropriate resources and care for patients with cognitive conditions and their loved ones.

Publications

• Binney RJ, Henry ML, Babiak M, Pressman PS, Santos-Santos MA, Narvid J, Mandelli ML, Strain PJ, Miller BL, Rankin KP, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML. Reading words and other people: A comparison of exception word, familiar face and affect processing in the left and right temporal variants of primary progressive aphasia. Cortex. 2016 Sep;82:147-63. PubMed PMID: 27389800
• 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
• Pressman PS, Noniyeva Y, Bott N, Dutt S, Sturm V, Miller BL, Kramer JH. Comparing Volume Loss in Neuroanatomical Regions of Emotion versus Regions of Cognition in Healthy Aging. PLoS One. 2016 Aug 23;11(8):e0158187. PubMed PMID: 27552103
• Pressman PS, Simpson M, Gola K, Shdo, SM, Spinelli E, Miller B, Rankin K, Levenson RW. Observing conversational laughter in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, (in press).
• Gola KA, Shany-UR T, Pressman PS, Sulman I, Galeana E, Paulsen H, Nguyen L, Wu T, Adhimoolam B, Poorzand P, Miller BL, Rankin KP. A neural network underlying intentional emotional facial expression in neurodegenerative disease. Neuroimage: Clinical (in press)
• Schonhaut DR, McMillan CT, Spina S, Dickerson BC, Siderowf A, Devous MD Sr, Tsai R, Winer J, Russell DS, Litvan I, Roberson ED, Seeley WW, Grinberg LT, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Pressman P, Nasrallah I, Baker SL, Gomperts SN, Johnson KA, Grossman M, Jagust WJ, Boxer AL, Rabinovici GD. (18) F-flortaucipir tau positron emission tomography distinguishes established progressive supranuclear palsy from controls and Parkinson disease: A multicenter study. Ann Neurol. 2017 Oct;82(4):622-634. PubMed PMID: 28980714
• Gola KA, Shany-Ur T, Pressman P, Sulman I, Galeana E, Paulsen H, Nguyen L, Wu T, Adhimoolam B, Poorzand P, Miller BL, Rankin KP. A neural network underlying intentional emotional facial expression in neurodegenerative disease. Neuroimage Clin. 2017;14:672-678. PubMed PMID: 28373956
• Pressman PS, Simpson M, Gola K, Shdo SM, Spinelli EG, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rankin K, Levenson RW. Observing conversational laughter in frontotemporal dementia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017 May;88(5):418-424. PubMed PMID: 28235777
• Pressman PS, Noniyeva Y, Bott N, Dutt S, Sturm V, Miller BL, Kramer JH. Comparing Volume Loss in Neuroanatomical Regions of Emotion versus Regions of Cognition in Healthy Aging. PLoS One. 2016;11(8):e0158187. PubMed PMID: 27552103
• 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
• Binney RJ, Henry ML, Babiak M, Pressman PS, Santos-Santos MA, Narvid J, Mandelli ML, Strain PJ, Miller BL, Rankin KP, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML. Reading words and other people: A comparison of exception word, familiar face and affect processing in the left and right temporal variants of primary progressive aphasia. Cortex. 2016 Sep;82:147-163. PubMed PMID: 27389800
• 1. Ducharme S, … Pressman PS et al. Recommendations to Distinguish Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia from Psychiatric Disorders, Brain (accepted, in press)
• 2. Cohen KB, Hunter LE, Pressman PS. P-Hacking Lexical Richness Through Definitions of "Type" and Token." Stud Health Technol Inform: August 2019 doi: 10.3233/SHTI190470
• Jarrold W, Rofes A, Wilson S, Pressman P, Stabler E, Gorno-Tempini M. A "Verbal Thermometer" for the Assessment of Neurodegenerative Disease: Automated Measurement of Pronoun and Verb Ratio from Speech,Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2020, doi 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176185
• Ducharme S, … Pressman PS et al. Recommendations to Distinguish Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia from Psychiatric Disorders, Brain; March 2020
• Peter S. Pressman, Christopher O’Neill Jr, Elliott Ross, Semantic and Logopenic Primary Progressive Aphasia Differ in Pitch Variation During a Motor Speech Task, Alzheimer's Association International Conference,2020
• Zachary Macchi, Peter S. Pressman, Perspectives on dementia care amongst primary care providers, Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 2020
• Jakob Mrozewski, Samantha Holden, Peter Pressman, Are Routine, Outpatient Electroencephalograms Over-utilized in Dementia with Lewy Bodies? American Academy of Neurology, 2020
• Zachary Macchi, Peter S. Pressman, Anticholinergic Use and Delirium in Hospitalized Patients with Dementia, American Neuropsychiatric Association, 2020
• Eric Lemieux, Peter S. Pressman, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Terry Katz, Katherine Pickard, Christopher M. Filley, Recorded Characteristics of Adults with Autism in the University of Colorado Health System, International Neuropsychology Society, 2020
• Zachary Lubline, Kelly Darrow, Brianne Bettcher, Christopher M. Filley, Peter S. Pressman, Primary Progressive Aphasia with Probable Alzheimer's Disease and a Left Temporal Arachnoid Cyst,International Neuropsychology Society, 2020
• Luis D Medina, Rebecca Mullen, Peter S. Pressman, Steven P. Woods, Boot Camp Translation of Alzheimer's Disease and the Engaging Communities of Hispanics for Aging Research (ECHAR) Network, Alzheimer's Association International Conference, 2020
• 3. Bateman JR, Filley CM, Ross ED, Bettcher B, Hubbard HI, Babiak M, Pressman PS, Aprosodia and Prosoplegia with Right Frontal Neurodegeneration. Neurocase; Oct 2019 doi: 10.1080/134554794.2019.1646291
• Rajic AJ, Pressman PS, Woodcock JH, Chial HJ, Filley CM. Use of coffee grounds to test olfaction for predicting cognitive dysfunction and decline. J Neurol Sci. 2021 Aug 15;427:117516. PubMed PMID: 34111761
• Pressman PS, Matlock D, Ducharme S. Distinguishing Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia From Primary Psychiatric Disorders: A Review of Recently Published Consensus Recommendations From the Neuropsychiatric International Consortium for Frontotemporal Dementia. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2021 Spring;33(2):152-156. PubMed PMID: 33441015
• 4. Pressman PS, Ross ED, Cohen KB, Chen KH, Miller BL, Hunter LE, Gorno-Tempini ML, Levenson RW. Interpersonal Prosodic Correlation in Frontotemporal Dementia. Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, June 2019; https://doi.org/10.1002/-acn3.50816
• 5. Pressman PS, Gola K, Shdo S, Miller BL, Fredericks C, Mielke C, Pelak V, Rankin K, Relative Preservation of Affect Recognition in Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Neurology, March 2019; 92(10):e1064-e71. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000007075
• Pressman PS, Chen KH, Casey J, Sillau S, Chial HJ, Filley CM, Miller BL, Levenson RW. Incongruences Between Facial Expression and Self-Reported Emotional Reactivity in Frontotemporal Dementia and Related Disorders. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2022 Aug 22;:appineuropsych21070186. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35989572
• 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
• Pressman PS, Molden J, Wortzel HS, Plys E, Woodcock JH, Filley CM, Arciniegas DB. Psychiatric Screening Measures in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2024 Spring;36(2):160-165. PubMed PMID: 37981780
• Pelak VS, Krishnan V, Serva S, Pressman P, Mahmood A, Noteboom L, Bettcher BM, Sillau SH, Callen AL, Thaker AA. Lobar Microbleeds in the Posterior Cortical Atrophy Syndrome: A Comparison to Typical Alzheimer's Disease. Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep. 2024 Feb;24(2):27-33. PubMed PMID: 38261145
• Thaker AA, McConnell BV, Rogers DM, Carlson NE, Coughlan C, Jensen AM, Lopez-Paniagua D, Holden SK, Pressman PS, Pelak VS, Filley CM, Potter H, Solano DA, Heffernan KS, Bettcher BM. Astrogliosis, neuritic microstructure, and sex effects: GFAP is an indicator of neuritic orientation in women. Brain Behav Immun. 2023 Oct;113:124-135. PubMed PMID: 37394144
• Asken BM, Ljubenkov PA, Staffaroni AM, Casaletto KB, Vandevrede L, Cobigo Y, Rojas-Rodriguez JC, Rankin KP, Kornak J, Heuer H, Shigenaga J, Appleby BS, Bozoki AC, Domoto-Reilly K, Ghoshal N, Huey E, Litvan I, Masdeu JC, Mendez MF, Pascual B, Pressman P, Tartaglia MC, Kremers W, Forsberg LK, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Kramer JH. Plasma inflammation for predicting phenotypic conversion and clinical progression of autosomal dominant frontotemporal lobar degeneration. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Jul;94(7):541-549. PubMed PMID: 36977552
• Geraudie A, Pressman PS, Pariente J, Millanski C, Palser ER, Ratnasiri BM, Battistella G, Mandelli ML, Miller ZA, Miller BL, Sturm V, Rankin KP, Gorno-Tempini ML, Montembeault M. Expressive Prosody in Patients With Focal Anterior Temporal Neurodegeneration. Neurology. 2023 Aug 22;101(8):e825-e835. PubMed PMID: 37400244
• Hale EW, Macchi ZA, Pressman PS. Delirium Following Anticholinergic Use in Hospitalized Patients With Dementia. Neurohospitalist. 2023 Apr;13(2):153-155. PubMed PMID: 37064926

Practice Locations

UCHealth Neurosciences Center - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
4th Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-2080

CU Memory Disorders Clinic - Central Park
3055 Roslyn Street
Suite 120
Denver, CO 80238
720-848-2080

Rocky Mountain Regional Veterans Administration Medical Center
1700 Wheeling St
Aurora, CO 80045
303-399-8020

Hospital Affiliation

• University of Colorado Hospital
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Center Affiliations

• Alzheimer's Disease Research and Clinical Center

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Neurology, Board Certification
• Behavioral Neurology
• United Council of Neurological Subspecialties Certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Board Certification (2016)

Conditions & Treatments

• Brain and Nervous System - Alzheimer's Disease
• Brain and Nervous System
• Brain and Nervous System - Cognitive Changes
• Brain and Nervous System - Dementia with Lewy Bodies
• Brain and Nervous System - Down Syndrome
• Brain and Nervous System - Frontotemporal Dementia
• Brain and Nervous System - Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)
• Brain and Nervous System - Lewy Body Dementia
• Brain and Nervous System - Language Disorders
• Brain and Nervous System - Intellectual Disability
• Brain and Nervous System - Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Brain and Nervous System - Memory Loss
• Brain and Nervous System - Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Brain and Nervous System - Parkinson's Disease Dementia
• Brain and Nervous System - Posterior Cortical Atrophy
• Brain and Nervous System - Traumatic Brain Injury
• Brain and Nervous System - Vascular Dementia