Dr. Katherine P. Rankin PH.D.
Psychologist
350 Parnassus Ave Suite 706 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Katherine Rankin is a neuropsychologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center who assesses cognitive and emotional symptoms in patients with memory disorders. In her research, she examines neurological ...
Education and Training
Fuller Graduate School of Psychology, Psychology 2000
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Double dissociation of social functioning in frontotemporal dementia.
- Cinguloparietal atrophy distinguishes Alzheimer disease from semantic dementia.
- Patterns of cognitive and emotional empathy in frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
- Medial versus lateral frontal lobe contributions to voluntary saccade control as revealed by the study of patients with frontal lobe degeneration.
- The early neuropsychological and behavioral characteristics of frontotemporal dementia.
- Spontaneous social behaviors discriminate behavioral dementias from psychiatric disorders and other dementias.
- A case study of an emerging visual artist with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Neural basis of interpersonal traits in neurodegenerative diseases.
- Interpersonal traits change as a function of disease type and severity in degenerative brain diseases.
- The diagnostic challenge of psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease:
- Tracking emotional valence: the role of the orbitofrontal cortex.
- Neuropsychological correlates of dominance, warmth, and extraversion in neurodegenerative disease.
- BDNF serum concentrations show no relationship with diagnostic group or medication status in neurodegenerative disease.
- Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration.
- Comprehension of insincere communication in neurodegenerative disease: lies, sarcasm, and theory of mind.
Fellowships
- UCSF Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychology 2002
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