Co-Investigator Health and Retirement Study
Contact Information
CUMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic
622 West 168th Street
New York, NY 10032
Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of California, San Diego, 1996
Research and Projects
Dr. Manly aims to improve the diagnostic accuracy of neuropsychological tests when used to detect cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease among African American and Hispanic elders. She is an Associate Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research in Aging and Alzheimer's disease at Columbia University.
Selected Recent Publications
Adkins-Jackson PB, Tejera CH, Cotton-Samuel D, et al. "Rest of the folks are tired and weary": The impact of historical lynchings on biological and cognitive health for older adults racialized as Black. Soc Sci Med. 2025;364:117537. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117537
Adkins-Jackson PB, Kim B, Tejera C, et al. “Hang Ups, Let Downs, Bad Breaks, Setbacks”: Impact of Structural Socioeconomic Racism and Resilience on Cognitive Change Over Time for Persons Racialized as Black. Health Equity. 2024;8:254-268. doi:10.1089/heq.2023.0151
Lao P, Young CB, Ezeh C, et al. Loneliness, cerebrovascular and Alzheimer’s disease pathology, and cognition. Alzheimers Dement. 2024. doi:10.1002/alz.14196
Avila-Rieger J, Adkins-Jackson PB, Hill-Jarrett TG, et al. Early life exposure to structural sexism and late-life memory trajectories among black and white women and men in the United States. Alzheimers Dement. 2024. doi:10.1002/alz.14410
Briceño EM, Rentería MA, Gross AL, et al. A cultural neuropsychological approach to harmonization of cognitive data across culturally and linguistically diverse older adult populations. Neuropsychology. 2023;37(3):247-257. doi:10.1037/neu0000816