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Ian M. McDonough, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Associate, Alabama Research Institute on Aging
​Adjunct, Department of Neurobiology, UAB
Ian McDonough

Curriculum Vitae
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Primary Subarea

Cognitive Psychology
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Contact Information

Office: Gordon Palmer 410A
Phone: 205-737-3442    
Email: immcdonough@ua.edu

Mailing Address: 
The University of Alabama
BOX 870348
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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Secondary Subarea

Developmental Psychology
​Clinical Geropsychology

Courses

  • Introduction to Psychology (UG)
  • Junior/Senior Honors Seminar (UG)
  • Introduction to Cognitive Neuroscience (UG)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Episodic Memory​ (G)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging (G)
  • Biological Bases of Behavior (G)

Research Interests

  • Episodic Memory
  • Aging
  • Structural and Functional Neuroimaging
  • Dynamic Fluctuations of Brain Activity
  • Biomarkers of Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease
  • Health Disparities

Research Affiliations

Alabama Research Institute on Aging - The University of Alabama
Center for Convergent Bioscience & Medicine - The University of Alabama
Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium - Network of Alabama universities using neuroimaging
Cognition/Cognitive Neuroscience SIG - APA Division 20 (Aging)
Aging Mind Laboratory - The University of Texas at Dallas
Memory Research Laboratory - The University of Chicago

Selected Recent Publications

McDonough, I. M., Nolan, S. A.*, & Visscher, K. M. (2022). 25 Years of Neurocognitive Aging Theories: What Have We Learned? Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience.

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Harrell, E. R., & McDonough, I. M. (2022). Episodic memory and cognition in normative aging and dementia. In T. J. Farrer & E. K. Eifert (Eds.), Dementia and Memory: Introduction for Professionals in Health and Human Services. (pp. 37-54). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

McDonough, I. M., Byrd, D., & Choi, S. L. (2022). Resilience Resources May Buffer Some Middle-Aged and Older Black Americans from Memory Decline even in the Face of Discrimination. Social Science & Medicine.

Chen, Y.-T., McDonough, I. M., Faig, K. E., Norman, G. J., & Gallo, D. A. (2022). Impact of Stereotype Threat on Brain Activity During Memory Tasks in Older Adults. Neuroimage.

Bolling, A. J., King, V. L., Enam, T., & McDonough, I. M. (2021). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to promote long-term foreign language vocabulary learning. Brain & Cognition.

McDonough, I. M., Harrell, E. R., Black, S. R., Allen, R. S., & Parmelee, P. A. (2021). Sources of Nonreplicability in Aging Ethnoracial Health Disparities Research. Psychology and Aging.

McDonough, I. M., & Madan, C. R. (2021). Structural Complexity is Negatively Associated with Brain Activity: A Novel Multimodal Test of Compensation Theories of Aging. Neurobiology of Aging, 98, 185-196.

McDonough, I. M., Festini, S. B., & Wood, M. M. (2020). Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease: A Review of Long-term Episodic Memory Encoding and Retrieval fMRI Studies. Ageing Research Reviews.

McDonough, I. M., Letang, S. K., & Stinson, E. A. (2019). Dementia risk elevates brain activity during memory retrieval: An fMRI analysis of middle aged and older adults. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease.
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