Susan M. Landau PhD

Susan Landau, Ph.D. is a Research Neuroscientist at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on the longitudinal evaluation of multiple biomarkers in aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. Recent work with the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) has examined the predictive role of amyloid PET imaging, and other genetic, cerebrospinal fluid, and imaging biomarkers in cognitive decline at different phases of the disease. Other recent work has examined the role of cognitive activity and lifestyle factors in aging and amyloid deposition, and the impact of chemotherapy on neural and cognitive function.

Dr. Landau studied cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Wesleyan University and completed a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, where she also received a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship award. She has carried out research on learning, working memory, and dopamine in healthy aging and dementia using PET and functional MRI. She has received additional training in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging at Dartmouth University, in neuropsychological evaluation at the Memory and Aging Center at the University of California San Francisco, and in electrophysiology at the Center for the Neural Basis of Behavior at the University of Pittsburgh.