victoria r. tennant

about  



P.h.D candidate in neuroscience
I study cognitive aging and dementia at the University of Southern California in the Braskie research group, a part of the Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. I started my neuroimaging training in Dr. William Jagust’s lab at UC Berkeley, where I learned multiple imaging modalities to study normal cognitive aging and dementia including amyloid and tau-PET, MRI, and fMRI. My current research focuses on understanding the effects of molecular, biological, and social factors on cognitive impairment across diverse ethnoracial groups to understand and predict cognitive trajectories in aging and disease. 

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  • Education
    • University of Southern California - 2021-present
    • University of California, Berkeley - 2016 graduation

  • Work
    PhD candidate - Imaging and Genetics Center, Braskie Lab - 2021-present
    Research Associate - Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Jagust Lab - 2017-2021
    Research Associate - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jagust Lab -  2017-2021

  • Awards
    Provost Fellowship, 2021
    Provost Research Travel Award, 2024

  • Skills
    R Python Matlab SPM12 Linux Office suite

projects & publications



Establishing tau-PET cut-points for cognitive diagnosis with 18F-PI-2620 in a multi-ethnoracial cohort
Victoria R. Tennant, Koral V. Wheeler, Noelle N. Lee, Jamie A. Terner, Rema Raman, Michael Donohue, Robert A. Rissman, Bradley T. Christian, Melissa Petersen, Ann D. Cohen, Beau M. Ances, Karin L. Meeker, Zhengyang Zhou, Rajesh R. Nandy, Kristine Yaffe, Sid E. O’Bryant, Arthur W. Toga, Meredith N. Braskie, 2024 in press

Reducing contamination from off-target binding in the meninges in PI-2620 tau PET scans
Maxwell W. Hand', Victoria Tennant, Noelle Lee, Meral Tubi, Sid O'Bryant, Bradley Christian, Arthur W Toga, Meredith N Braskie, for the HABS-HD study team, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2024

Associations between sleep apnea and tau in cognitively unimpaired older adults
V.R. Tennant, A. Tsiknia1, C. Peltz, N. Lee, M.W. Hand, Y. Leng, K.L. Stone, S. Redline, S.E. O’Bryant, M.N. Braskie , K. Yaffe, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2024

Establishing tau-PET cut-points for cognitive diagnosis with 18F-PI-2620 in a multi-ethnoracial cohort
Victoria R. Tennant, Koral V. Wheeler, Noelle N. Lee, Jamie A. Terner, Rema Raman, Michael Donohue, Robert A. Rissman, Bradley T. Christian, Melissa Petersen, Ann D. Cohen, Beau M. Ances, Karin L. Meeker, Zhengyang Zhou, Rajesh R. Nandy, Kristine Yaffe, Sid E. O’Bryant, Arthur W. Toga, Meredith N. Braskie, Poster Presentation at the Human Amyloid Imaging Conference, 2024

Assessing the associations between plasma C reactive protein, Ab 42/40 ratio, global amyloid and entorhinal tau PET
KV Wheeler, VR Tennant, N Lee, MA Tubi, E Matsiyevskiy, J Terner, Brandon J Hall, Marylan Davison, Arthur W Toga, Sid E O'Bryant, Kristine Yaffe, Meredith N Braskie, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, 2023

Association of Type‐2 diabetes mellitus with voxelwise tau uptake patterns
VR Tennant, KV Wheeler, N Lee, BJ Hall, B Ances, AW Toga, BT Christian, Sid E O'Bryant, Mark Mapstone, Kristine Yaffe, Meredith N Braskie, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, 2023

Depression and Hippocampal Subfield Volume in Older Adults
AM Twisselmann, VR Tennant, BJ Hall, JD Liu, N Hazra, KV Wheeler, Marylan Davison, Elizabeth Matsiyevskiy, James Hall, Matthew Borzage, Leigh Johnson, Kristine Yaffe, Arthur W Toga, Sid E O'Bryant, Meredith N Braskie, HABS‐HD Study Team, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, 2023

Independent and interactive effects of APOEε4 and β‐amyloid on cortical thickness in Alzheimer’s disease
VR Tennant, P Rajagopalan, SI Thomopoulos, PM Thompson, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, 2022

Different atrophy profiles detected in AD patients who carry APOE4 versus non-carriers: An ENIGMA-VMB Multicohort Analysis (N=1893)
Priya Rajagopalan, Victoria R Tennant, Sophia I Thomopoulos, Conor Owens‐Walton, Matthew Kempton, Shuqing Si, Paul M Thompson, Poster Presentation at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference, 2022

Elevated Dopamine Synthesis as a Mechanism of Cognitive Resilience in Aging
Claire J Ciampa, Jourdan H Parent, Molly R Lapoint, Kaitlin N Swinnerton, Morgan M Taylor, Victoria R Tennant, A J Whitman, William J Jagust, Anne S Berry, 2022

Fusiform gyrus phospho‐tau is associated with failure of proper name retrieval in aging
VR Tennant, TM Harrison, JN Adams, R La Joie, JR Winer, WJ Jagust, Annals of neurology, 2021

Conscientiousness is associated with less amyloid deposition in cognitively normal aging
By Yoon, Bora,Baker, Suzanne L.,Korman, Deniz, Tennant, Victoria R.,Harrison, Theresa M.,Landau, Susan,Jagust, William J.Psychology and Aging, 2020


The influence of dopamine synthesis capacity on reward learning and incidental encoding in aging
Anne S Berry, Theresa M Harrison, AJS Whitman, Kaitlin N Swinnerton, Victoria R Tennant, Laura E Fenton, Ming Hsu, William J Jagust, 2019

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