Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang
@rongxiang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @TAMU. Aging, Cognitive Control, Alzheimer's Disease, Non-pharmacological Interventions 🧠🍨🫖🍰. Views are my own.
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✨I am recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my lab at TAMU in Fall 2026! The lab focuses on cognitive neuroscience of aging and early risk prediction for AD. For more information about the lab, please visit: lifespanhealthneuro.weebly.com.
✨I am recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my lab at TAMU in Fall 2026! The lab focuses on cognitive neuroscience of aging and early risk prediction for AD. For more information about the lab, please visit: lifespanhealthneuro.weebly.com.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
✨I am recruiting PhD students this cycle to join my lab at TAMU in Fall 2026! The lab focuses on cognitive neuroscience of aging and early risk prediction for AD. For more information about the lab, please visit: lifespanhealthneuro.weebly.com.
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We're hiring! We have an open TT faculty position in lifespan neuroscience. I'm not on the committee but happy to answer questions about the department and TAMU more generally (I also co-chaired similar searches the last two years). Come join us, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/172150
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September 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We're hiring! We have an open TT faculty position in lifespan neuroscience. I'm not on the committee but happy to answer questions about the department and TAMU more generally (I also co-chaired similar searches the last two years). Come join us, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/172150
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New paper out from the lab, demonstrating a robust non-linear relationship between age at menopause and dementia risk. Fantastic work by post-doc Dr. Ursula Saelzler. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Age of menopause and dementia risk in 10,832 women from the Swedish Twin Registry
INTRODUCTION
An earlier age of menopause (AOM) is hypothesized to increase vulnerability to the neuropathological processes of dementia, which begin in midlife.
METHODS
We tested this hypothesis i.....
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August 8, 2025 at 3:48 AM
New paper out from the lab, demonstrating a robust non-linear relationship between age at menopause and dementia risk. Fantastic work by post-doc Dr. Ursula Saelzler. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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New study out in Nature Medicine: Education does not protect against age-related decline of memory. Read more here: Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries - Nature Medicine
In a large cross-national study, education was linked to better memory and larger brain volumes but not to slower cognitive or brain decline with age, suggesting that the association reflects early-li...
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July 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New study out in Nature Medicine: Education does not protect against age-related decline of memory. Read more here: Reevaluating the role of education on cognitive decline and brain aging in longitudinal cohorts across 33 Western countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Happy to share a new published study link.springer.com/article/10.1...
on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
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July 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Happy to share a new published study link.springer.com/article/10.1...
on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
Reposted by Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang
A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
Programming for Psychology and Neuroscience – PPN
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April 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A collection of modules, datasets, and other resources for learning to program in R, geared toward students in psychology and neuroscience: ritcheym.github.io/ppn/
Reposted by Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang
Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials.
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
March 12, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials.
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
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THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!
Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Advancing the science of women’s health
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March 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!
Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.
Head Motion in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quantification, Mitigation, and Structural Associations in Large, Cross‐Sectional Datasets Across the Lifespan
We characterized motion during diffusion MRI scans across 16,995 image sessions and find that (1) modern preprocessing pipelines effectively mitigate motion to the point where biases are not detectab....
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February 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.
Reposted by Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang
Check out our review highlighting the importance of monoamines towards understanding Alzheimer's disease. We describe promising neuroimaging and daily life sampling approaches to better elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying AD.
'Examining resilience to Alzheimer’s disease through the lens of monoaminergic neuromodulator systems'
Trends in Neurosciences Review by Jennifer Crawford & Anne Berry @anneberry.bsky.social
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Trends in Neurosciences Review by Jennifer Crawford & Anne Berry @anneberry.bsky.social
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Examining resilience to Alzheimer’s disease through the lens of monoaminergic neuromodulator systems
The monoaminergic nuclei are thought to be some of the earliest sites of Alzheimer’s
disease (AD) pathology in the brain, with tau-containing pretangles appearing in these
nuclei decades before the on...
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January 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Check out our review highlighting the importance of monoamines towards understanding Alzheimer's disease. We describe promising neuroimaging and daily life sampling approaches to better elucidate the neurobiological mechanisms underlying AD.
Reposted by Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang
Lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 years estimated to be 42%, based on a community-based, prospective cohort study of 15,043.
Policies that enhance healthy aging urgently needed
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@natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Policies that enhance healthy aging urgently needed
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@natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Lifetime risk and projected burden of dementia - Nature Medicine
A cohort study of over 15,000 US adults found that the lifetime risk of developing dementia from ages 55 to 95 is 42%, with the highest risk in APOE ε4 carriers, women and Black adults, and projected ...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Lifetime risk of dementia after age 55 years estimated to be 42%, based on a community-based, prospective cohort study of 15,043.
Policies that enhance healthy aging urgently needed
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@natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Policies that enhance healthy aging urgently needed
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@natureportfolio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Glad to share the paper on this new platform😀. A continuation of my work on examining socioeconomic disadvantages across the lifespan on later-life brain and cognition!
New article led by @rongxiang.bsky.social examining the effects of childhood disadvantage on late midlife cortical surface area (SA) profile and general cognitive ability (GCA). Cortical SA was found to be the mediator of childhood disadvantage-GCA association.
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Cortical Surface Area Profile Mediates Effects of Childhood Disadvantage on Later-Life General Cognitive Ability
AbstractObjectives. Childhood disadvantage is associated with lower general cognitive ability (GCA) and brain structural differences in midlife and older a
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December 6, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Glad to share the paper on this new platform😀. A continuation of my work on examining socioeconomic disadvantages across the lifespan on later-life brain and cognition!
Learning how BlueSky works!😀
November 17, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Learning how BlueSky works!😀