About Us
at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
Geriatric Psychiatry Research Program
Chelsea Reichert Plaska, Ph.D.
Dr. Reichert is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at NKI. She recently completed her doctorate in Cognitive Neuroscience with a focus on memory and neuroimaging. Dr. Reichert has been working with Dr. Pomara on the Memory Education and Research Initiative (MERI) Program for the last 12 years.
More to come soon.
Recent Publications
The MERI Program
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Reichert C, Sidtis JJ, Pomara (2016). A Model for Neurocognitive Evaluation in a Community-Based Sample: The MERI Project. In: The Preservation of Memory edited by Bruno D: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis.
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Bruno, D., Reichert, C., Pomara, N. (2016). The recency ratio as an index of cognitive performance and decline in elderly individuals. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol., 38(9), 967-973. DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2016.1179721. PubMed PMID: 27187491.
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Reichert Plaska, C., Bruno, D., Ramos Cejudo, J., Osorio, Zetterberg, H., Kaj Blennow K., Pomara, N. (2024). The Effect of Loneliness on Plasma AD Biomarkers in Cognitively Normal Elderly. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 20, e092634.
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Reichert Plaska, C., Bruno, D., Lee, S., Cystal Novi, G., Orefice, A., Zetterberg, H., Blennow K., Pomara, N. (2024). Effect of Cognitive Reserve on Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease in Non-Demented Elderly. Society for Neuroscience Conference, Chicago, IL.
Alzheimer’s Disease Risk
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Reichert Plaska, C., Heslegrave, A., Bruno, D., Ramos-Cejudo, J., Lee, S.H., Osorio, R., …& Pomara, N. (2024). Evidence for Reduced Anti-Inflammatory Microglial Phagocytic Response in Late-Life Major Depression. Brain, Behavior and Immunity 120, 248-255. Doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2024.05.030. PMCID: PMC11270917.
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Pomara, N., Bruno, D., Reichert Plaska, C., Pillai, A., Ramos-Cejudo, J., Osorio, R., ... & Blennow, K. (2021). Evidence of upregulation of the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway in late-life depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 286, 275-281. PMCID: PMC8058311.
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Teipel, S., Bruno, D., Plaska, C. R., Heslegrave, A., Ramos-Cejudo, J., Osorio, R. S., ... & Pomara, N. (2021). Association of CSF sTREM2, a marker of microglia activation, with cholinergic basal forebrain volume in major depressive disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 293, 429-434.
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Pillai, A., Bruno, D., Nierenberg, J., Pandya, C., Feng, T., Reichert, C., ... & Pomara, N. (2019). Complement component 3 levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of cognitively intact elderly individuals with major depressive disorder. Biomarkers in neuropsychiatry, 1, 100007.