Jessica Foley

Jessica Foley is a neuropsychologist who evaluates patients for neurodegenerative or neurological illnesses. She specializes in syndromes involving nervous system degeneration, such as mild cognitive impairment, frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and HIV-associated neurodegenerative diseases. Her expertise includes Parkinson's disease and other neurodegenerative syndromes that affect movement.

Foley's research focuses on normal and disease-associated brain aging. She looks at risk factors for cognitive impairment, particularly in people with Alzheimer's disease or HIV.

Foley earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University. At Nova Southeastern University, she earned her doctorate and doctor of psychology degree in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology. She completed a predoctoral internship specializing in clinical neuropsychology at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a postdoctoral research fellowship in clinical neuropsychology at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.