Bernadette A. Fausto, PhD

Scientist, Educator, and Director of the B.R.A.I.N. Collaborative

Publications


ABCA7-80 moderates vascular stiffness--p-tau217 association in older African Americans


Miray Budak, Kevin S Heffernan, Martina Ishaq, Victoria Paruzel, Demiana Abdalla, Soodeh Moallemian, Bernadette A Fausto, Fanny M Elahi, Mark A Gluck

Alzheimer's \& Dementia: Translational Research \& Clinical Interventions, vol. 12, Wiley Online Library, 2026, pp. e70297


ABCA7 rs115550680 risk allele carriers have lower medial temporal lobe dynamic network flexibility than APOE-$\varepsilon$4 allele carriers among older African Americans


Miray Budak, Bernadette A Fausto, Victoria Paruzel, Payton White, Martina Ishaq, Soodeh Moallemian, Kelly N Nudelman, Mark A Gluck

Neurobiology of aging, Elsevier, 2026


Lower CD8+ T-cell senescence partially mediates the neuroprotection of higher aerobic fitness


Bernadette A Fausto, Elizabeth Akbulut, Mustafa Sheikh, Diana Grass, Nica Aquino, Luis Garza-Martinez, Fanyu Hercules-Tawe, Stephanie Ghaly, Alicia Codrington, Andrew Gamil, others

Alzheimer's \& Dementia: Translational Research \& Clinical Interventions, vol. 12, Wiley Online Library, 2026, pp. e70202


Machine learning for missing data imputation in Alzheimer’s research: predicting medial temporal lobe dynamic flexibility


Soodeh Moallemian, Abolfazl Saghafi, Rutvik Deshpande, Jose M Perez, Miray Budak, Bernadette A Fausto, Fanny M Elahi, Mark A Gluck

Cognitive neurodynamics, vol. 20, Springer, 2026, p. 51


Multi-Level Variable Selection Using a BART-Enhanced Mixed-Effects Framework


Keming Zhang, Yaoyao Li, Jungang Zou, Sijian Wang, Bernadette A Fausto, Liangyuan Hu

Statistics in Medicine, vol. 45, Wiley Online Library, 2026, pp. e70593


Vascular stiffness predicts plasma markers of neurodegeneration among older African Americans


Miray Budak, Kevin S Heffernan, Victoria Paruzel, Soodeh Moallemian, Bernadette A Fausto, Nicholas Ashton, Henrik Zetterberg, Fanny M Elahi, Mark A Gluck

The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 13, Elsevier, 2026, p. 100523


Biomarkers


Bernadette A Fausto, Elizabeth Akbulut, Mustafa Sheikh, Stephanie Ghaly, Alicia Codrington, Andrew Gamil, Imran Arshad, Darian A Napoleon, Robert Perna, Wiktoria Piaszczynska, others

Alzheimer's and Dementia, vol. 21, John Wiley and Sons Inc., 2025, pp. e107391


Cognitively Unimpaired Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes have Higher Levels of Plasma p-tau217


Darian A Napoleon, Bernadette A Fausto, Wiktoria Piaszczynska, Ashley Powell, Stanley Romain, Mc Derby Ceneus, Bisma Iqbal, Andrea Dickantone, Salma Abedullah, Maureen Gichura, others

Alzheimer's \& Dementia, vol. 21, Wiley Online Library, 2025, pp. e108860


Neighborhood environment and late-life cognition: Exploring the mediating effect of sleep and differential pathways by race


Bernadette A Fausto, Victoria Paruzel, Kexin Yu, Diana Grass, Joshua L Gills, Paul R Duberstein

AJPM focus, Elsevier, 2025, p. 100435


A Bayesian machine learning approach to Nature vs. Nurture: Predicting a cognitive marker of Alzheimer’s risk in a deeply-phenotyped cohort of cognitively unimpaired older African Americans


Bernadette A Fausto, Miray Budak, Mustafa Sheikh, Jos{\'e} Mojica Perez, Shengguo Li, Liangyuan Hu, Mark A Gluck

Alzheimer's \& Dementia, vol. 20, Wiley Online Library, 2024, pp. e091357


A mini-review of strategies for recruiting older African Americans to Alzheimer’s disease research


Darlingtina Esiaka, Christina C Yarborough, Bernadette A Fausto, Mark A Gluck

Community health equity research \& policy, vol. 44, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 2024, pp. 419--428


Elevated plasma p-tau231 is associated with reduced generalization and medial temporal lobe dynamic network flexibility among healthy older African Americans


Miray Budak, Bernadette A Fausto, Zuzanna Osiecka, Mustafa Sheikh, Robert Perna, Nicholas Ashton, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Mark A Gluck

Alzheimer's Research \& Therapy, vol. 16, Springer, 2024, p. 253


Higher Number of Children Is Associated With Increased Risk of Generalization Deficits in Older African American Women


Salma M Abedullah, Bernadette A Fausto, Zuzanna Osiecka, Mark A Gluck

The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 79, Oxford University Press US, 2024, pp. gbae110


Hypertension is associated with reduced resting-state medial temporal lobe dynamic network flexibility in older African Americans


Joshua L Gills, Darian A Napoleon, Miray Budak, Bernadette A Fausto, Mark A Gluck, Steven K Malin

Physiological Reports, vol. 12, Wiley Online Library, 2024, pp. e16084


Lower plasma p-tau levels and larger hippocampi may protect African American SuperAgers from age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease


Wiktoria Piaszczynska, Miray Budak, Bernadette A Fausto, Payton G White, Robert Perna, Patricia Fitzgerald-Bocarsly, Fanyu Hercules Tawe, Nicholas J Ashton, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, others

Alzheimer's \& Dementia, vol. 20, Wiley Online Library, 2024, pp. e091490


Examining the efficacy of a cardio-dance intervention on brain health and the moderating role of ABCA7 in older African Americans: a protocol for a randomized controlled trial


Mark A Gluck, Joshua L Gills, Bernadette A Fausto, Steven K Malin, Paul R Duberstein, Kirk I Erickson, Liangyuan Hu

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, vol. 15, Frontiers Media SA, 2023, p. 1266423


High-quality sleep mitigates ABCA7-related generalization deficits in healthy older African Americans


Neha Sinha, Bernadette A Fausto, Bryce Mander, Mark A Gluck

Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, vol. 94, SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England, 2023, pp. 281--290


Indicators of crash risk in older adults: A longitudinal analysis from the ACTIVE study


Karlene K Ball, Olivio J Clay, Jerri D Edwards, Bernadette A Fausto, Katie M Wheeler, Cynthia Felix, Lesley A Ross

Journal of aging and health, vol. 35, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 2023, pp. 19S--25S


Obesity reduces hippocampal structure and function in older African Americans with the APOE-$\varepsilon$4 Alzheimer’s disease risk allele


Zuzanna Osiecka, Bernadette A Fausto, Joshua L Gills, Neha Sinha, Steven K Malin, Mark A Gluck

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, vol. 15, Frontiers Media SA, 2023, p. 1239727


Relationship between generalization performance and plasma markers pTau231, pTau181 and NfL in cognitively healthy older African Americans


Zuzanna Osiecka, Mustafa Sheikh, Miray Budak, Nicholas J Ashton, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Bernadette A Fausto, Mark A Gluck

Alzheimer's \& Dementia, vol. 19, Wiley Online Library, 2023, pp. e082899


Association between violent crime incident proximity and cognitive function in older african americans


Genesis Tan, Alejandro Gimenez-Santana, Zuzanna Osiecka, Darlingtina Esiaka, Bernadette Fausto, Mark Gluck

Innovation in Aging, vol. 6, Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 501--502


Cardio-dance exercise to improve cognition and mood in older African Americans: A propensity-matched cohort study


Bernadette A Fausto, Solaleh Azimipour, Lisa Charles, Christina Yarborough, Keyla Grullon, Emily Hokett, Paul R Duberstein, Mark A Gluck

Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol. 41, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 2022, pp. 496--505


Cognitive impairment and World Trade Centre-related exposures


Sean AP Clouston, Charles B Hall, Minos Kritikos, David A Bennett, Steven DeKosky, Jerri Edwards, Caleb Finch, William C Kreisl, Michelle Mielke, Elaine R Peskind, others

Nature Reviews Neurology, vol. 18, Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2022, pp. 103--116


Low body mass and high-quality sleep maximize the ability of aerobic fitness to promote improved cognitive function in older African Americans


Bernadette A Fausto, Mark A Gluck

Ethnicity \& health, vol. 27, Taylor \& Francis, 2022, pp. 909--928


Are auditory processing and cognitive performance assessments overlapping or distinct? Parsing the auditory behaviour of older adults


Jennifer L O’Brien, Jennifer J Lister, Bernadette A Fausto, David G Morgan, Hannah Maeda, Ross Andel, Jerri D Edwards

International Journal of Audiology, vol. 60, Taylor \& Francis, 2021, pp. 123--132


A systematic review and meta-analysis of older driver interventions


Bernadette A Fausto, Pedro F Adorno Maldonado, Lesley A Ross, Martin Lavalli{\`e}re, Jerri D Edwards

Accident Analysis \& Prevention, vol. 149, Elsevier, 2021, p. 105852


Loneliness, Sleep Quality, and Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults


Kexin Yu, Bernadette Fausto

Innovation in Aging, vol. 5, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp. 171--171


Increasing Physical Activity and Reducing Dementia Risk in Older African American Residents of Public Housing


Bernadette Fausto, Paul Duberstein, Shou-En Lu, Mark Gluck

Innovation in Aging, vol. 4, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 587--587


Interventions to Improve Older Driver Safety


Bernadette A Fausto

University of South Florida, 2019


Comparison of subjective and objective measures of hearing, auditory processing, and cognition among older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment


Bernadette A Fausto, Adrian NS Badana, Michelle L Arnold, Jennifer J Lister, Jerri D Edwards

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, vol. 61, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2018, pp. 945--956


Newer model years are associated with reduced risk of motor vehicle crash fatalities among older drivers


Bernadette A Fausto, Brian C Tefft

Transportation research record, vol. 2672, SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 2018, pp. 101--108


Systematic review and meta-analyses of useful field of view cognitive training


Jerri D Edwards, Bernadette A Fausto, Amber M Tetlow, Richard T Corona, Elise G Vald{\'e}s

Neuroscience \& Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 84, Elsevier, 2018, pp. 72--91


Cognitive training enhances auditory attention efficiency in older adults


Jennifer L O’Brien, Jennifer J Lister, Bernadette A Fausto, Gregory K Clifton, Jerri D Edwards

Frontiers in aging neuroscience, vol. 9, Frontiers Media SA, 2017, p. 322


Examination of heart failure as a predictor of driving cessation


Bernadette A Fausto, Adrian NS Badana, Olivia M Valdes, Ponrathi Athilingam, Jerri D Edwards

Journal of transport \& health, vol. 7, Elsevier, 2017, pp. 202--208


Neuropsychological tests and measurement of comorbidity in predicting driving competence among memory clinic patients


Bernadette A Fausto, Bonnie McIntosh, Celisa Bonner, Angela M McBride

Journal of Psychology Research, vol. 6, 2016