Biosketch
I joined the Park Aging Mind Lab in 2016 as a Ph.D. student at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Clinical Psychology/Adult Neuropsychology. I previously worked for over three years at the Harvard Aging Brain study at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. I received a bachelor’s in Psychology from Boston University in 2013, with minors in Human Physiology and Spanish.
Research Interests
My primary research aim is to investigate new neuroimaging biomarkers for preclinical Alzheimer’s disease and to study differences between normal aging and neurodegenerative disease. My recent research has focused on functional neuroimaging & its relationship to psychiatric and cognitive variables in healthy older adults and in adults with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease and patterns of self-awareness of memory function in individuals with mild cognitive impairment and healthy older adults.
Selected Publications
Papp KV, Mormino B, Amariglio RE, Munro C, Dagley A, Schultz A, Johnson KA, Sperling RA, Rentz DM. Biomarker validation of a decline in semantic processing in preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease. Neuropsychology. 2016; 30(5): 624-30.
Munro CE, Donovan NJ, Guercio BJ, Wigman SE, Schultz AP, Amariglio RE, Rentz DM, Johnson KA, Sperling RA, Marshall GA. Neuropsychiatric symptoms and functional connectivity in mild cognitive impairment. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. 2015 Jun 25; 46(3):727-35. doi: 10.3233/JAD-150017
Farovik A, Place R, McKensie S, Porter B, Munro C, Eichenbaum H. Context-guided memory: Orbitofrontal cortex encodes memories within value-based schemas and represents contexts that guide memory retrieval. Journal of Neuroscience. 2015 May 27; 35(21):8333-44. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0134-15.2015.
Selected Presentations
Munro CE, Donovan NJ, Amariglio RE, Papp KV, Marshall GA, Rentz D, Pascual-Leone A, Sperling R, Vannini P. The impact of anosognosia and anosodiaphoria on the prediction of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, July 2016, Toronto, ON.
Munro CE, Hanseeuw B, Amariglio RE, Schultz AP, Marshall GA, Pascual-Leone A, Rentz DM, Johnson KA, Sperling RA, Vannini P. Mapping the metabolic correlates of subjective memory concerns in cognitively normal elderly individuals. Massachusetts General Hospital Clinical Research Day, October 2015, Boston, MA; International Neuropsychological Society Annual Meeting, February 2016, Boston, MA; 29th Annual MADRC, BUADRC, and HNDC Poster Session, March 2016, Boston, MA; and Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society Symposium, May 2016, Boston, MA.
