Alzheimer's Cooperative Study

Dr. Ryan received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 1986 and went on to obtain her Master’s Degree in Psychology from Loyola College in Maryland in 1991. Following completion of her Master’s degree, she attended Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge for doctoral training in clinical psychology with specialty training in neuropsychology. During her doctoral training at LSU, she maintained an active research program focusing on the nature and sequelae of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Dr.

Dr. Buckholtz is the Director of the Division of Neuroscience (DN) at the National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Dr. Buckholtz holds a doctorate in physiological psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and was a faculty member at the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Psychiatry, from 1970 to 1983 before coming to NIH.