Publications

2024

Rudisch, D. M., Krasko, M. N., Barnett, D. G., Mueller, K. D., Russell, J. A., Connor, N. P., & Ciucci, M. R. (2024). Early ultrasonic vocalization deficits and related thyroarytenoid muscle pathology in the transgenic TGF344-AD rat model of alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1294648

2023

Bruno, D., Gicas, K., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Mueller, K. D., & Lamar, M. (2023). Delayed Primacy Recall Performance Predicts Post Mortem Alzheimers Disease Pathology from Unimpaired Ante Mortem Cognitive Baseline. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.26.546225

Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Langhough, R., Johnson, S., Mueller, K., & Bruno, D. (2023). Comparison of the 10-, 14- and 20-Item CES-D Scores as Predictors of Cognitive Decline. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1427.v1 

Hale, M. R., Langhough, R., Du, L., Hermann, B. P., Van Hulle, C. A., Carboni, M., Kollmorgen, G., Basche, K. E., Bruno, D., Sanson-Miles, L., Jonaitis, E. M., Chin, N. A., Okonkwo, O. C., Bendlin, B. B., Carlsson, C. M., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Betthauser, T. J., Johnson, S. C., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). Associations between recall of proper names in story recall and CSF amyloid and tau in adults without cognitive impairment. Neurobiology of Aging. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2023.09.018

Bruno, D., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Kollmorgen, G., Carboni, M., Wild, N., Carlsson, C., Bendlin, B., Okonkwo, O., Chin, N., Hermann, B. P., Asthana, S., Blennow, K., Langhough, R., Johnson, S. C., Pomara, N., Zetterberg, H., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). A comparison of diagnostic performance of word-list and story recall tests for biomarker-determined alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2023.2240060

Bruno, D., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Pomara, N., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Koscik, R. L., Carlsson, C., Bendlin, B., Okonkwo, O., Hermann, B. P., Johnson, S. C., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). Cross-sectional associations of CSF tau levels with Rey’s AVLT: A recency ratio study. Neuropsychology, 37(6), 628–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000821

Bruno, D., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Kollmorgen, G., Carboni, M., Wild, N., Carlsson, C., Bendlin, B., Okonkwo, O., Chin, N., Hermann, B. P., Asthana, S., Blennow, K., Langhough, R., Johnson, S. C., Pomara, N., Zetterberg, H., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). A comparison of diagnostic performance of word-list and story recall tests for biomarker-determined alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2023.2240060

Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, A. L., Block, L. M., Benson, C., Fehland, J., Botsch, M., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). Impact of episodes of lucidity on people living with dementia and their caregivers: A qualitative study. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(S5). https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.067155

Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Bruno, D., Betthauser, T. J., Langhough, R., Asthana, S., Chin, N. A., Hermann, B. P., Johnson, S. C., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). A comparison of story-recall metrics to predict hippocampal volume in older adults with and without cognitive impairment. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2023.2223389

Du, L., Langhough, R., Hermann, B. P., Jonaitis, E., Betthauser, T. J., Cody, K. A., Mueller, K., Zuelsdorff, M., Chin, N., Ennis, G. E., Bendlin, B. B., Gleason, C. E., Christian, B. T., Plante, D. T., Chappell, R., & Johnson, S. C. (2023). Associations between self-reported sleep patterns and health, cognition, and amyloid measures: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for alzheimer’s prevention (WRAP). Brain Communications. https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad039

Bruno, D., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Kollmorgen, G., Suridjan, I., Wild, N., Carlsson, C., Bendlin, B., Okonkwo, O., Chin, N., Hermann, B. P., Asthana, S., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Langhough, R., Johnson, S. C., & Mueller, K. D. (2023). The recency ratio assessed by story recall is associated with cerebrospinal fluid levels of neurodegeneration biomarkers. Cortex, 159, 167–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.12.004

Bruno, D., Gicas, K., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Mueller, K. D., & Lamar, M. (2023). Delayed Primacy Recall Performance Predicts Post Mortem Alzheimers Disease Pathology from Unimpaired Ante Mortem Cognitive Baseline. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.26.546225

2022

Gilmore‐Bykovskyi, A., Griffin, J. M., Mueller, K. D., Parnia, S., & Kolanowski, A. (2022). Toward harmonization of strategies for investigating lucidity in AD/ADRD: A preliminary research framework. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 19(1), 343–352. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12709 

Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Griffin, J., Mueller, K., Parnia, S., & Kolanowski, A. (2022). Approaches to investigating lucidity in ADRD: A preliminary research framework to guide operational harmonization. Innovation in Aging6(Supplement_1), 89–89. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.355

Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Block, L., Benson, C., Fehland, J., Botsch, M., Mueller, K., & Coulson, A. (2022). Feasibility of a longitudinal audiovisual observation protocol to characterize lucidity in advanced AD/ADRD. Innovation in Aging6(Supplement_1), 88–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.351

Mueller, K. D., Du, L., Bruno, D., Betthauser, T., Christian, B., Johnson, S., Hermann, B., & Koscik, R. L. (2022). Item-level story recall predictors of amyloid-beta in late middle-aged adults at increased risk for alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.908651

Dillard, L. K., Pinto, A., Mueller, K. D., Schubert, C. R., Paulsen, A. J., Merten, N., Fischer, M. E., Tweed, T. S., & Cruickshanks, K. J. (2022). Associations of hearing loss and hearing aid use with cognition, health-related quality of life, and depressive symptoms. Journal of Aging and Health, 089826432211381. https://doi.org/10.1177/08982643221138162

Cody, K. A., Koscik, R. L., Erickson, C. M., Berman, S. E., Jonaitis, E. M., Williams, V. J., Mueller, K. D., Christian, B. T., Chin, N. A., Clark, L. R., Betthauser, T. J., & Johnson, S. C. (2022). Associations of the lifestyle for Brain Health Index with longitudinal cognition and brain amyloid beta in clinically unimpaired older adults: Findings from the Wisconsin Registry for alzheimer’s prevention. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12351

Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Block, L., Benson, C., Fehland, J., Botsch, M., Mueller, K. D., Werner, N., & Shah, M. J. (2022). “it’s you”: Caregiver and clinician perspectives on lucidity in people living with dementia. The Gerontologisthttps://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnac095

Liebzeit, D., Kuo, W.-chin, Carlson, B., Mueller, K., Koscik, R. L., Smith, M., Johnson, S., & Bratzke, L. (2022). Relationship of cognitive and social engagement to health and psychological outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. Nursing Research, 71(4), 295–302. https://doi.org/10.1097/nnr.0000000000000589

Gilmore-Bykovskyi, A., Griffin, J. M., Mueller, K. D., Parnia, S., & Kolanowski, A. (2022). Toward harmonization of strategies for investigating lucidity in AD/ADRD: A preliminary research framework. Alzheimer’s & Dementiahttps://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12709

Bruno, D., Jauregi Zinkunegi, A., Pomara, N., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Koscik, R. L., Carlsson, C., Bendlin, B., Okonkwo, O., Hermann, B. P., Johnson, S. C., & Mueller, K. D. (2022). Cross-sectional associations of CSF tau levels with Rey’s AVLT: A recency ratio study. Neuropsychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000821

Du, L., Koscik, R. L., Chin, N. A., Bratzke, L. C., Cody, K., Erickson, C. M., Jonaitis, E., Mueller, K. D., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. C. (2022). Prescription medications and co-morbidities in late middle-age are associated with greater cognitive declines: Results from wrap. Frontiers in Aging, 2https://doi.org/10.3389/fragi.2021.759695

Norman, R. S., Mueller, K. D., Huerta, P., Shah, M. N., Turkstra, L. S., & Power, E. (2022). Discourse performance in adults with mild traumatic brain injury, orthopedic injuries, and moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, and healthy controls. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(1), 67–83. https://doi.org/10.1044/2021_ajslp-20-00299

Stegmann, G., Hahn, S., Bhandari, S., Kawabata, K., Shefner, J., Duncan, C. J., Liss, J., Berisha, V., & Mueller, K. (2022). Automated semantic relevance as an indicator of cognitive decline: Out‐of‐sample validation on a large‐scale longitudinal dataset. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12294

 

2021

Ambadi, P. S., Basche, K., Koscik, R. L., Berisha, V., Liss, J. M., & Mueller, K. D. (2021). Spatio-semantic graphs from picture description: Applications to detection of cognitive impairment. Frontiers in Neurology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2021.795374

Koscik, R.L., Hermann, B.P., Allison, S., Clark, L.R., Jonaitis, E.M., Mueller, K.D., Betthauser, T.J., Christian, B.T., Du, L., Okonkwo, O., Birdsill, A., Chin, N., Gleason, C., & Johnson, S.C. (2021). Validity evidence for the research category, “cognitively unimpaired – declining,” as a risk marker for mild cognitive impairment and alzheimer’s disease. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2021.688478

Evans, E., Coley, S. L., Gooding, D. C., Norris, N., Ramsey, C. M., Green-Harris, G., & Mueller, K. D. (2021). Preliminary assessment of connected speech and language as marker for cognitive change in late middle-aged Black/African American adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Aphasiology, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2021.1931801

Mueller, K. D., Van Hulle, C. A., Koscik, R. L., Jonaitis, E., Peters, C. C., Betthauser, T. J., Christian, B., Chin, N., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. (2021). Amyloid beta associations with connected speech in cognitively unimpaired adults. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/dad2.12203

Allison, S. L., Jonaitis, E. M., Koscik, R. L., Hermann, B. P., Mueller, K. D., Cary, R. P., Ma, Y., Rowley, H. A., Carlsson, C. M., Asthana, S., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Bendlin, B. B., & Johnson, S. C. (2021). Neurodegeneration, alzheimer’s disease biomarkers, and longitudinal verbal learning and memory performance in late middle age. Neurobiology of Aging, 102, 151–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.01.030

2020

Fields, T. N., Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Johnson, S. C., Okonkwo, O. C., & Litovsky, R. Y. (2020). Self-Reported Hearing Loss and Longitudinal Cognitive Function in a Cohort Enriched with Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease : JAD78(3), 1109–1117. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-200701

Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Du, L., Bruno, D., Jonaitis, E. M., Koscik, A. Z., Christian, B. T., Betthauser, T. J., Chin, N. A., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. C. (2020). Proper names from story recall are associated with beta-amyloid in cognitively unimpaired adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Cortex, 131, 137–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.07.008

Mueller, K. D., Norton, D., Koscik, R. L., Morris, M. C., Jonaitis, E. M., Clark, L. R., Fields, T., Allison, S., Berman, S., Kraning, S., Zuelsdorff, M., Okonkwo, O., Chin, N., Carlsson, C. M., Bendlin, B. B., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. C. (2020). Self-reported health behaviors and longitudinal cognitive performance in late middle age: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention. PLOS ONE, 15(4), e0221985. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221985

Betthauser, T. J., Koscik, R. L., Jonaitis, E. M., Allison, S. L., Cody, K. A., Erickson, C. M., Rowley, H. A., Stone, C. K., Mueller, K. D., Clark, L. R., Carlsson, C. M., Chin, N. A., Asthana, S., Christian, B. T., & Johnson, S. C. (2020). Amyloid and tau imaging biomarkers explain cognitive decline from late middle-age. Brain : a journal of neurology143(1), 320–335. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz378

Zemla, J. C., Cao, K., Mueller, K. D., & Austerweil, J. L. (2020). SNAFU: The Semantic Network and Fluency Utility. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1681–1699. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01343-w

Bruno, D., Mueller, K. D., Betthauser, T., Chin, N., Engelman, C. D., Christian, B., Koscik, R. L., & Johnson, S. C. (2020). Serial position effects in the logical memory test: Loss of primacy predicts amyloid positivity. Journal of Neuropsychology, 15(3), 448–461. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12235

Liebzeit, D., Kuo, W.-chin, Carlson, B., Mueller, K., & Bratzke, L. (2020). Examination of advanced function and its correlates in a cohort of community-dwelling older adults. Innovation in Aging, 4(Supplement_1), 201–202. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.652

Sikkes, S. A., Tang, Y., Jutten, R. J., Wesselman, L. M., Turkstra, L. S., Brodaty, H., Clare, L., Cassidy-Eagle, E., Cox, K. L., Chetelat, G., Dautricourt, S., Dhana, K., Dodge, H., Droes, R., Hampstead, B. M., Holland, T., Lampit, A., Laver, K., Lutz, A., Lautenschlager, N. T., McCurry, S. M., Meiland, F. J., Morris, M. C., Mueller, K. D., Peters, R., Ridel, G., Spector, A., van der Steen, J. T., Tamplin, J., Thompson, Z., & Bahar-Fuchs, A. (2020). Toward a theory-based specification of non-pharmacological treatments in aging and dementia: Focused reviews and methodological recommendations. Alzheimers & Dementia, 17(2), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12188

2019

Koscik, R. L., Norton, D. L., Allison, S. L., Jonaitis, E. M., Clark, L. R., Mueller, K. D., Hermann, B. P., Engelman, C. D., Gleason, C. E., Sager, M. A., Chappell, R. J., & Johnson, S. C. (2019). Characterizing the Effects of Sex, APOE ɛ4, and Literacy on Mid-life Cognitive Trajectories: Application of Information-Theoretic Model Averaging and Multi-model Inference Techniques to the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention Study. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS25(2), 119–133. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617718000954

Koscik, R. L., Jonaitis, E. M., Clark, L. R., Mueller, K. D., Allison, S. L., Gleason, C. E., Chappell, R. J., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. C. (2019). Longitudinal Standards for Mid-life Cognitive Performance: Identifying Abnormal Within-Person Changes in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS25(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617718000929

2018

Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Hermann, B. P., Johnson, S. C., & Turkstra, L. S. (2018). Declines in Connected Language Are Associated with Very Early Mild Cognitive Impairment: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention. Frontiers in aging neuroscience9, 437. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00437

Mueller, K. D., Hermann, B., Mecollari, J., & Turkstra, L. S. (2018). Connected speech and language in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease: A review of picture description tasks. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology40(9), 917–939. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2018.1446513

Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Clark, L. R., Hermann, B. P., Johnson, S. C., & Turkstra, L. S. (2018). The Latent Structure and Test-Retest Stability of Connected Language Measures in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention (WRAP). Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists33(8), 993–1005. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acx116

Johnson, S. C., Koscik, R. L., Jonaitis, E. M., Clark, L. R., Mueller, K. D., Berman, S. E., Bendlin, B. B., Engelman, C. D., Okonkwo, O. C., Hogan, K. J., Asthana, S., Carlsson, C. M., Hermann, B. P., & Sager, M. A. (2017). The Wisconsin Registry for alzheimer’s prevention: A review of findings and current directions. Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 10(1), 130–142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadm.2017.11.007

2017

Berman, S. E., Koscik, R. L., Clark, L. R., Mueller, K. D., Bluder, L., Galvin, J. E., & Johnson, S. C. (2017). Use of the Quick Dementia Rating System (QDRS) as an Initial Screening Measure in a Longitudinal Cohort at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease reports1(1), 9–13. https://doi.org/10.3233/ADR-170004

2016

Koscik, R. L., Berman, S. E., Clark, L. R., Mueller, K. D., Okonkwo, O. C., Gleason, C. E., Hermann, B. P., Sager, M. A., & Johnson, S. C. (2016). Intraindividual Cognitive Variability in Middle Age Predicts Cognitive Impairment 8-10 Years Later: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS22(10), 1016–1025. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135561771600093X

Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Turkstra, L. S., Riedeman, S. K., LaRue, A., Clark, L. R., Hermann, B., Sager, M. A., & Johnson, S. C. (2016). Connected Language in Late Middle-Aged Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease : JAD54(4), 1539–1550. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-160252

Racine, A. M., Clark, L. R., Berman, S. E., Koscik, R. L., Mueller, K. D., Norton, D., Nicholas, C. R., Blennow, K., Zetterberg, H., Jedynak, B., Bilgel, M., Carlsson, C. M., Christian, B. T., Asthana, S., & Johnson, S. C. (2016). Associations between Performance on an Abbreviated CogState Battery, Other Measures of Cognitive Function, and Biomarkers in People at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease. Journal of Alzheimer’s disease : JAD54(4), 1395–1408. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-160528

Clark, L. R., Koscik, R. L., Nicholas, C. R., Okonkwo, O. C., Engelman, C. D., Bratzke, L. C., Hogan, K. J., Mueller, K. D., Bendlin, B. B., Carlsson, C. M., Asthana, S., Sager, M. A., Hermann, B. P., & Johnson, S. C. (2016). Mild Cognitive Impairment in Late Middle Age in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention Study: Prevalence and Characteristics Using Robust and Standard Neuropsychological Normative Data. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists31(7), 675–688. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acw024

2015 …

Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., LaRue, A., Clark, L. R., Hermann, B., Johnson, S. C., & Sager, M. A. (2015). Verbal Fluency and Early Memory Decline: Results from the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer’s Prevention. Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists30(5), 448–457. https://doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acv030

Jonaitis, E., La Rue, A., Mueller, K. D., Koscik, R. L., Hermann, B., & Sager, M. A. (2013). Cognitive activities and cognitive performance in middle-aged adults at risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Psychology and aging28(4), 1004–1014. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034838