Adam Gazzaley, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Physiology
Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center at UCSF
Phone: 415-476-2162 (office) 415-476-2164 (lab)
Fax: 415-502-1655
Email: adam.gazzaley@ucsf.edu
Box #: 2240
Dr. Gazzaley was born and raised in New York City. He obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. His doctoral research focused on receptor plasticity in the hippocampus in normal aging. This research earned him the prestigious 1997 Cortical Scholar Award. He then completed a clinical residency in neurology at the University of Pennsylvania. Following residency, he traveled to UC Berkeley for a cognitive neuroscience research fellowship and a clinical fellowship in cognitive neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
Dr. Gazzaley is currently an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Physiology at UCSF and the Director of the UCSF Neuroscience Imaging Center (NIC). He is also the director of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the Mission Bay campus, which focuses on understanding the neural mechanisms of memory and attention in humans, how these processes change with normal aging and dementia, and how we might intervene to improve cognitive abilities.
Selected Publications
Gazzaley, A., Cooney, J.W., McEvoy, K., Knight, R. D'Esposito, M. Top-down enhancement and suppression of the magnitude and speed of neural activity. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17(3), 507-517. (2005)
Gazzaley, A., Cooney, J.W., Rissman, J., D'Esposito, M. Top-down suppression deficit underlies working memory impairment in normal aging. Nature Neuroscience 8(10), 1298-1300. (2005)
Gazzaley, A., Clapp, W., Kelley, J., McEvoy, K., Knight, R., D'Esposito, M. Age-related top-down suppression deficit in the early stages of cortical visual memory processing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA 105(35): 13122-13126. (2008)
Zanto, T. & Gazzaley, A. Neural suppression of irrelevant information underlies optimal working memory performance. Journal of Neuroscience 29 (10): 3059-3066 (2009)
Rutman, A.M., Clapp, W.C., Chadick, J.Z., Gazzaley, A. Early top-down control of visual processing predicts working memory performance. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (Epub ahead of print, 2009)
