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Katherine P. Rankin, Ph.D.

Neuropsychologist

Katherine Rankin is a neuropsychologist at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center who assesses cognitive and emotional symptoms in patients with memory disorders. In her research, she examines neurological changes than can alter personality and social behavior in dementia, and is working to develop tests of social and emotional cognition that will allow earlier, more accurate diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration.

Rankin earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at the Fuller Graduate School of Psychology in Los Angeles. She completed an internship at the Veteran's Administration Clinic in Martinez and at UC Davis Medical Center, followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at UCSF. She is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology.

Conditions & Treatments

Clinics

Memory and Aging Center
400 Parnassus Ave., Eighth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 476-6880
Fax: (415) 476-4800

Hours: Monday to Friday
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

More about Katherine P. Rankin

Additional Languages

French

Education

Fuller Theological Seminary 2000

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Neuropsychology 2002

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Khan BK, Yokoyama JS, Takada LT, Sha SJ, Rutherford NJ, Fong JC, Karydas AM, Wu T, Ketelle RS, Baker MC, Hernandez MD, Coppola G, Geschwind DH, Rademakers R, Lee SE, Rosen HJ, Rabinovici GD, Seeley WW, Rankin KP, Boxer AL, Miller BL. Atypical, slowly progressive behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia associated with C9ORF72 hexanucleotide expansion. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2012 Apr; 83(4):358-64.
  2. Khan BK, Woolley JD, Chao S, See T, Karydas AM, Miller BL, Rankin KP. Schizophrenia or neurodegenerative disease prodrome? Outcome of a first psychotic episode in a 35-year-old woman. Psychosomatics. 2012 May; 53(3):280-4.
  3. Shany-Ur T, Rankin KP. Personality and social cognition in neurodegenerative disease. Curr Opin Neurol. 2011 Dec; 24(6):550-5.
  4. Rankin KP, Mayo MC, Seeley WW, Lee S, Rabinovici G, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, Weiner MW, Trojanowski JQ, Dearmond SJ, Miller BL. Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia with Corticobasal Degeneration Pathology: Phenotypic Comparison to bvFTD with Pick's Disease. J Mol Neurosci. 2011 Nov; 45(3):594-608.
  5. Rascovsky K, Hodges JR, Knopman D, Mendez MF, Kramer JH, Neuhaus J, van Swieten JC, Seelaar H, Dopper EG, Onyike CU, Hillis AE, Josephs KA, Boeve BF, Kertesz A, Seeley WW, Rankin KP, Johnson JK, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rosen H, Prioleau-Latham CE, Lee A, Kipps CM, Lillo P, Piguet O, Rohrer JD, Rossor MN, Warren JD, Fox NC, Galasko D, Salmon DP, Black SE, Mesulam M, Weintraub S, Dickerson BC, Diehl-Schmid J, Pasquier F, Deramecourt V, Lebert F, Pijnenburg Y, Chow TW, Manes F, Grafman J, Cappa SF, Freedman M, Grossman M, Miller BL. Sensitivity of revised diagnostic criteria for the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia. Brain. 2011 Sep; 134(Pt 9):2456-77.
  6. Lee SE, Rabinovici GD, Mayo MC, Wilson SM, Seeley WW, DeArmond SJ, Huang EJ, Trojanowski JQ, Growdon ME, Jang JY, Sidhu M, See TM, Karydas AM, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, Weiner MW, Geschwind MD, Rankin KP, Miller BL. Clinicopathological correlations in corticobasal degeneration. Ann Neurol. 2011 Aug; 70(2):327-40.
  7. Goodkind MS, Sollberger M, Gyurak A, Rosen HJ, Rankin KP, Miller B, Levenson R. Tracking emotional valence: The role of the orbitofrontal cortex. Hum Brain Mapp. 2012 Apr; 33(4):753-62.
  8. Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Ketelle R, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Neuhaus J, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Rankin KP. Neuropsychological correlates of dominance, warmth, and extraversion in neurodegenerative disease. Cortex. 2011 Mar 10.
  9. Woolley JD, Khan BK, Murthy NK, Miller BL, Rankin KP. The diagnostic challenge of psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease: rates of and risk factors for prior psychiatric diagnosis in patients with early neurodegenerative disease. J Clin Psychiatry. 2011 Feb; 72(2):126-33.
  10. Sollberger M, Neuhaus J, Ketelle R, Stanley CM, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Miller BL, Rankin KP. Interpersonal traits change as a function of disease type and severity in degenerative brain diseases. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2011 Jul; 82(7):732-9.
  11. Sollberger M, Stanley CM, Wilson SM, Gyurak A, Beckman V, Growdon M, Jang J, Weiner MW, Miller BL, Rankin KP. Neural basis of interpersonal traits in neurodegenerative diseases. Neuropsychologia. 2009 Nov; 47(13):2812-27.
  12. Rankin KP, Salazar A, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sollberger M, Wilson SM, Pavlic D, Stanley CM, Glenn S, Weiner MW, Miller BL. Detecting sarcasm from paralinguistic cues: anatomic and cognitive correlates in neurodegenerative disease. Neuroimage. 2009 Oct 1; 47(4):2005-15.
  13. Narvid J, Gorno-Tempini ML, Slavotinek A, Dearmond SJ, Cha YH, Miller BL, Rankin K. Of brain and bone: the unusual case of Dr. A. Neurocase. 2009 Jun; 15(3):190-205.
  14. Liu A, Werner K, Roy S, Trojanowski JQ, Morgan-Kane U, Miller BL, Rankin KP. A case study of an emerging visual artist with frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurocase. 2009 Jun; 15(3):235-47.
  15. Wittenberg D, Possin KL, Rascovsky K, Rankin KP, Miller BL, Kramer JH. The early neuropsychological and behavioral characteristics of frontotemporal dementia. Neuropsychol Rev. 2008 Mar; 18(1):91-102.
  16. Rankin KP, Santos-Modesitt W, Kramer JH, Pavlic D, Beckman V, Miller BL. Spontaneous social behaviors discriminate behavioral dementias from psychiatric disorders and other dementias. J Clin Psychiatry. 2008 Jan; 69(1):60-73.
  17. Woolley JD, Gorno-Tempini ML, Seeley WW, Rankin K, Lee SS, Matthews BR, Miller BL. Binge eating is associated with right orbitofrontal-insular-striatal atrophy in frontotemporal dementia. Neurology. 2007 Oct 2; 69(14):1424-33.
  18. deIpolyi AR, Rankin KP, Mucke L, Miller BL, Gorno-Tempini ML. Spatial cognition and the human navigation network in AD and MCI. Neurology. 2007 Sep 4; 69(10):986-97.
  19. Brambati SM, Rankin KP, Narvid J, Seeley WW, Dean D, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Ashburner J, Gorno-Tempini ML. Atrophy progression in semantic dementia with asymmetric temporal involvement: a tensor-based morphometry study. Neurobiol Aging. 2009 Jan; 30(1):103-11.
  20. Du AT, Schuff N, Kramer JH, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Rankin K, Miller BL, Weiner MW. Different regional patterns of cortical thinning in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia. Brain. 2007 Apr; 130(Pt 4):1159-66.

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