Alireza Atri, MD, PhD
- Lab Phone: 781-687-3360
- Neurology Access Center: 1-855-644-6387
Research Investigator Profile
Biography
Affiliations

Alireza Atri, MD, PhD
- Instructor in Neurology,
Harvard Medical School - Assistant in Neurology,
Massachusetts General Hospital - Director, Outpatient Memory Disorders
& Dementia Units - Associate Director, Clinical,
GRECC, ENRM VA Medical Center
Research Description
Dr. Atri’s MIND BrAIN Lab at MGH & Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital (ENRM VA) Bedford Medical Center focuses on translational and clinical research by combining multidisciplinary methods and the tools of cognitive neuroscience, clinical pharmacology, and computational modeling to detect and track cognitive aging, impairment and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). More specifically, the lab endeavors to:
- Develop quantitative methods to integrate and optimize noninvasive, sensitive and accurate pharmaco-neuroimaging biomarkers for risk-stratifying, detecting, staging, and tracking healthy cognitive aging, cognitive impairment & neurodegenerative dementias, and
- Construct methods and quantitative tools that allow better prediction of clinical course and treatment response, and optimization of clinical effect, efficacy and effectiveness studies in cognitive reserve and aging, cognitive impairment and AD.
| Research interests | Alzheimer’s disease (AD), memory, healthy cognitive aging, cognitive reserve, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), Rapidly Progressive Dementias (RPDs: Prion diseases, Hashimoto’s/Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy), cholinergic and glutaminergic neuropharmacology of memory and cognition, pro-active interference. |
| Research techniques | Cognitive neuroscience, MRI, fMRI, sMRI, ERP, eye-tracking, pharmacology, mathematical/statistical/computational modeling. |
| Diseases studied | Alzheimer’s disease, MCI, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA), Dementia with Parkinsonism, Prion diseases (CJD), Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy (Steroid Responsive Encephalopathy), Encephalopathy/Delirium. |
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| NCBI PubMed link | NCBI PubMed Publications |
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E-mail address Lab E-mail |
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| Lab mailing address | Bedford VA Hospital Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience GRECC, Bldg. 62, Rm B30 200 Springs Rd. Bedford, MA 01730 Phone 781-687-3360 Fax 781-687-3366 |
| Lab website | MIND BrAIN Lab (Multimodal Imaging of Neurodegenerative Dementias & Brain Aging Integrative Neurosciences Lab |
| Clinical interests | Healthy cognitive aging, cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Dementia with Parkinsonism |
| Clinical mailing address | Massachusetts General Hospital Memory Disorders Unit Neurology, Suite 835 Wang Ambulatory Care Center 55 Fruit Street Boston, MA 02114 USA |
| Clinical website address | Memory Disorders Unit |
updated 11/22/2010


