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Andreana P. Haley, Ph.D Andreana P. Haley, Ph.D. Professor & Director of Clinical Training Phone: (512) 232-0863 Department of Psychology Fax: (512) 471-6175 The University of Texas at Austin E-mail: [email protected] https://labs.la.utexas.edu/haley/ Academic Degrees Ph.D., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2001 - 2005 Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) Dissertation: Effects of orally administered glucose on hippocampal metabolites and cognition in Alzheimer’s disease Committee: Eric Turkheimer, Ph.D. (Advisor), Carol Manning, Ph.D., Jack Knight-Scott, Ph.D., Patricia Lewellyn, Ph.D., Milton Brown, Ph.D. M.A., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 1998 - 2001 Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology) Thesis: Age-related elevations in cerebral metabolites in the hippocampus: A short echo time proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study Committee: Eric Turkheimer, Ph.D. (Advisor), Irving Gottesman, Ph.D. B.A., Concord University, Athens, WV 1992 - 1996 Major: Psychology Summa cum laude, Outstanding Psychology Major Award Professional Appointments Professor 2019 - present Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin Associate Professor 2014 - 2019 Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin Assistant Professor 2007- 2014 Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin Other affiliations at the University of Texas at Austin Biomedical Imaging Center Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuropsychology (Dementia Research) 2005 - 2007 Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI Advisors: Ronald Cohen, Ph.D., Lawrence Sweet, Ph.D., Paul Malloy, Ph.D. Visiting Research Fellow 2006 - 2007 Center for Neurological Imaging Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Advisor: Charles Guttmann, M.D. Andreana P. Haley, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Page 2 of 20 Publications ‡ Senior and/or communicating author * Graduate student advisee; ** Undergraduate student advisee Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (citations: 5288, h-index: 31, i10-index: 54) 1. Foret, J.T.*, Oleson, S., Hickson, B.*, Valek, S.**, Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2020). Metabolic Syndrome and cognition in midlife. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. [in press] 2. Foret, J.T.*, Dekhtyar, M.*, Birdsill, A.C., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2020). Metabolic Syndrome moderates the association between executive function and functional connectivity in the default mode network. Brain Imaging and Behavior. [in press] 3. Tanaka, H. ‡, Gourley, D.*, Dehktyar, M.*, Haley, A.P. (2020). Obesity and related disorders on cognition, brain structure and function. Current Obesity Reports. [in press] 4. Haley, A.P. (2020). Obesity and the brain: Another brain-body vs. body-brain conundrum. Psychosomatic Medicine, 82(3), 258-260. 5. Gourley, D.*, Pasha, E.P., Kaur, S., Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2020). Association of dementia and vascular risk scores with cortical thickness and cognition in low-risk, middle- aged adults. Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders, May 27: doi: 10.1097/WAD.0000000000000392. [Epub ahead of print] 6. Henneghan, A. ‡, Haley, A.P., Kessler, S. (2020). Exploring relationships among peripheral amyloid beta, tau, cytokines, cognitive function and psychosocial symptoms in breast cancer survivors. Biological Research for Nursing, 22(1), 126-138. 7. Oleson, S.*, Eagan, D.E.*, Kaur, S.*, Hertzing, W.J.**, Alkatan, M.*, Davis, J.N., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2018). Apolipoprotein E genotype moderates the relationship between dietary polyunsaturated fat and brain function: an exploration of cerebral glutamate and cognitive performance. Nutritional Neuroscience, Nov 22:1-10: doi: 10.1080/1028415X.2018.1547857. [Epub ahead of print] 8. Haley, A.P. ‡, Oleson, S.*, Pasha, E.*, Birdsill, A.*, Kaur, S.*, Thompson, T.*, Tanaka, H. (2018). Phenotypic heterogeneity of obesity-related brain vulnerability: One size interventions will not fit all. [Special issue: Health Neuroscience]. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences, 1428(1), 89-102. Review. 9. Pasha, E.P.*, Birdsill, A.C.*, Oleson, S.*, Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2018). Midlife carotid arterial compliance and white matter diffusion metrics during midlife: Modulation by sex. Neurobiology of Aging, 66, 59-67. 10. Pasha, E.P.*, Birdsill, A.C.*, Oleson, S.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2018). Physical activity mitigates adverse effects of Metabolic Syndrome on vessels and brain. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 12(6), 1658-1668. 11. Cassill, C.**, Steward, K.**, Eagan, D.*, Kaur, S.*, Kruzliak, P., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2018). Depressive symptoms exacerbate the effects of HSV-1 infection on cognitive function in middle age. Journal of Clinical and Infectious Disease and Practice, 3:1. doi: 10.4172/2476- 213X.1000122 Andreana P. Haley, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Page 3 of 20 12. Pasha, E.P.*, Tarumi, T.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2017c). Transcranial Doppler of the middle cerebral artery indicates regional gray matter cerebral perfusion. Physiological Measurement, 38(12), 2176-2185. 13. Laosiripisan, J.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2017). Steady state vs. pulsatile blood pressure component and regional cerebral perfusion. American Journal of Hypertension, 30(11), 1100-1105. 14. Pasha, E.P.*, Birdsill, A.C.*, Oleson, S.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2017b). Impacts of Metabolic Syndrome scores on cerebrovascular conductance are mediated by arterial stiffening. American Journal of Hypertension, 31(1), 72-79. 15. Vargas, E.**, Barrett, D.W., Saucedo, C.L.*, Huang, L-D.*, Abraham, J.A., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P., Gonzalez-Lima, F. ‡ (2017). Beneficial neurocognitive effects of transcranial laser in older adults. Lasers in Medical Science, 32(5), 1153-1162. 16. Birdsill, A.C.*, Kaur, S.*, Pasha, E.*, Oleson, S.*, Ireton, A.**, Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P.‡ (2017). Obesity-related differences in regional white matter microstructure in midlife. Human Brain Mapping, 38, 3337-3344. 17. Kaur, S.*, Birdsill, A.C.*, Steward, K.**, Pasha, E.*, Kruzliak, P., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P.‡ (2017) Higher visceral fat is associated with lower cerebral N-acetyl-aspartate ratios in middle-aged adults. Metabolic Brain Disease, 32(3), 727-733. 18. Pasha, E.P.*, Birdsill, A.*, Parker, P.**, Elmenshawy, A.*, Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2017a). Visceral adiposity predicts subclinical white matter hyperintensities in middle-aged adults. Obesity Research and Clinical Practice, 11(2),177-187. 19. Oleson, S.*, Tarumi, T.*, Gonzales, M.M.**, Davis, J., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2016). Nutrient intake and cerebral metabolism in healthy middle-aged adults: implications for cognitive aging. Nutritional Neuroscience, 20(8), 489-496. 20. Kaur, S.*, Gonzales, M.M.*, Tarumi, T.*, Villaplando, A.**, Alkatan, M.*, Pyron, M., Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2016). Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor mediates the relationship between abdominal obesity and executive function in middle age. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 22(5), 493-500. 21. Haley, A. P. ‡, Alosco, M.L.*, Gunstad, J. (2015). Surgical and non-surgical interventions for obesity in service of preserving cognitive function. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77, 679-687. 22. Laosiripisan, J.*, Tarumi, T.*, Gonzales, M.M.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2015). Association between cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity and basal cerebral perfusion at hippocampus. Clinical Autonomic Research, 25(4), 213-218. 23. Kaur, S.*, Gonzales, M. M., Pasha, E., Tanaka, H., Haley, A. P. ‡ (2015b). Central adiposity and cortical thickness in mid-life. Psychosomatic Medicine, 77(6), 671-678. 24. Tarumi, T.*, Gonzales, M. M.*, Fallow, B.*, Nualnim, N.*, Lee, J.*, Pyron, M., Tanaka, H., Haley, A. P. ‡ (2015). Cerebral/peripheral vascular reactivity and neurocognition in middle- aged athletes. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 47(12), 2595-603. 25. Kruzliak, P. ‡, Haley, A.P., Starcevic, J.N., Gaspar, L., Petrovic, D. (2015). Polymorphisms of the Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-γ (rs1801282) and its coactivator-1 (rs8192673) are associated with obesity indexes in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cardiovascular Diabetology, Apr 28,14:42. doi: 10.1186/s12933-015-0197-0. Andreana P. Haley, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae Page 4 of 20 26. Strasser, B., Arvandi, M., Pasha, E.P.*, Haley, A.P., Stanforth, P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2015). Abdominal obesity is associated with arterial stiffness in middle-aged adults. Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases, 25, 495-502. 27. Pasha, E.P.*, Kaur, S.*, Gonzales, M.M.*, Machin, D.R.*, Kasischke, K.**, Tarumi, T.*, Tanaka, H., Haley, A.P. ‡ (2015b). Vascular function, cerebral cortical thickness, and cognitive performance in middle-aged Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Caucasian adults. Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 17(4), 306-312. 28. Pasha, E.P.*, Haley, A.P., Tanaka, H. ‡ (2015a). Ethnoracial disparities in Alzheimer’s disease: Target on cardiovascular risks via lifestyle changes? Journal of Gerontology and Geriatric Research, 3, 5. 29. Kaur, S.*, Eagan, D. E.*, Gonzales, M. M.*, Tarumi, T.*, Tanaka, H., Haley, A. P. ‡ (2015a). Inflammation mediates reductions in cortical thickness in adults with Metabolic Syndrome. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 9(4), 737-43. 30. Haley, A. P. ‡ (2014). Vascular functions and brain integrity in midlife: Effects of obesity and metabolic syndrome. Advances in Vascular Medicine. Volume 2014, Article ID 653482, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/653482. 31. Gonzales, M. M.*, Kaur, S.*, Eagan, D.*, Goudarzi, K.K., Pasha, E.*, Doan, D.**,
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