Ian M. McDonough, Ph.D.

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

Primary Concentration

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 870315
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
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Secondary Concentration

Developmental Psychology
​Clinical Geropsychology

Courses

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

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
Alabama Advanced Imaging Consortium - Network of Alabama universities
Aging Mind Laboratory - The University of Texas at Dallas
Memory Research Laboratory - The University of Chicago

Selected Recent Publications

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

McDonough, I. M., & Popp, T. E. (2020). Linear and non-linear relationships between cognitive subdomains of ability discrepancy and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers. Neuropsychology.

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.

McDonough, I. M., McDougall, G. J., LaRocca, M., George, S., Lyon, L., & Arheart, K. (2019) Refining the Metamemory in Adulthood Questionnaire: A 20-item version of change and capacity designed for research and clinical settings. Aging & Mental Health.

​McDonough, I. M., Wood, M. M., & Miller, W. S. (2019). A review on the trajectory of attentional mechanisms in aging and the Alzheimer’s disease continuum through the attention network test. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine.

​McDonough, I. M., & Allen, R. S. (2018). Factors that increase protection and risk to the aging brain: A seed and soil model of neurocognitive disorders. Aging & Mental Health.

Kraemer, K. R., Enam, T., & McDonough, I. M. (2018). Cognitive reserve moderates older adults’ memory errors in an autobiographical reality monitoring task. Special Issue: Neuropsychology of Aging.

McDougall, G. J., McDonough, I. M., & LaRocca, M. (2018). Memory training for adults with probable mild cognitive impairment: A pilot study. Aging and Mental Health.

​McDonough, I. M. (2017). Beta-amyloid and cortical thickness reveal racial disparities in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroimage: Clinical.