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Clinical Psychology

Collaborative on Aging Research and Multicultural Assessment (CARMA)

Contacts

CARMA
University of Houston
Department of Psychology
3695 Cullen Blvd
126 Heyne Building
Houston, Texas 77204-5022
713-743-9318
CARMA@central.uh.edu 
X (formerly Twitter): @CARMA_lab_UH

Recent Publications

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  • Lai, V. D., Paoletti-Hatcher, J., Wu-Chung, E. L., Mahant, I., Brice, K. N., Denny, B. T., Green, C., Medina, L. D., Schulz, P. E., Stinson, J. M., Heijnen, C. J., Fagundes, C. P. (in press). Perceived partner responsiveness alters the association between marital distress and well-being in dementia spousal caregivers. Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology.

  • Miyawaki, C. E., *Garcia, J. M., Medina, L. D., Nguyen, K. N., Meyer, O. L., & Markides, K. S. (in press). Associations between functional disability and chronic conditions with depressive symptoms in Vietnamese-origin older refugees. Health & Social Work.

  • *Ochoa Lopez, A. P., *Garcia, J. M., Williams, M. W., O’Bryant, S., & Medina, L. D. (in press). Differential item functioning and clinical utility of the Subjective Memory Complaints Questionnaire in a multi-ethnic cohort. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders.

  • Woods, S. P., Matchanova, A., Thompson, J., Beltran-Najera, I., Alex, C., Medina, L. D., Neighbors, C., Podell, K., Babicz, M. (in press). Neuropsychological and health literacy correlates of science knowledge in older and younger healthy adults. Perceptual & Motor Skills.

  • *Argueta, D. L., Wu-Chung, E. L., Chen, M. A., Lai, V. D., Paoletti-Hatcher, J., Denny, B. T., Green, C., Medina, L. D., Schulz, P., Stinson, J., Heijnen, C., & Fagundes, C. P. (2024). LPS-induced whole-blood cytokine production and depressive symptoms in dementia spousal caregivers: The moderating effect of childhood trauma. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 168, ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107140

  • *Thompson, J. L., Woods, S. P., Webber, T. A., Medina, L. D., Podell, K., Yoshida, H., Evans, D., *Ridgely, N. C., *Babicz, M. A., *Gomez, E. M., & *Mustafa, A. (2024). Development of the Telephone-based Daily Instrumental Activities of Life (T-DIAL) to assess financial management remotely in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, & Cognition, ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1080/13825585.2024.2352900

  • *Wu-Chung, E. L., Medina, L. D., Paoletti, J., Lai, V., Stinson, J. M., Mahant, I., Schulz, P. E., Heijnen, C. J., Fagundes, C. P. (2024). Mitochondrial function, physical functioning, and daily affect: Bioenergetic mechanisms of dementia caregiver well-being. Psychosomatic Medicine, 86, 512-522. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000001312

  • *Gomez, E. M., *Mustafa, A., *Beltran-Najera, I., *Ridgely, N. R., *Thompson, J. L., Medina, L. D., & Woods, S. P. (2024). Health literacy mediates the association between cognition and healthcare provider interactions among gay and bisexual men with HIV disease. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1080/13854046.2024.2319902

  • *Gonzalez, A. S., Escamilla, K. J., & Medina, L. D. (2024). Measures of performance validity for Hispanic/Latin American adults: A PRISMA systematic review. Psychology & Neuroscience. ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1037/pne0000330

  • *Thompson, J.L., Woods, S.P., Medina, L. D., *Garcia, J., & Teixeira, A.L. (2024). Apathy in HIV disease: A systematic narrative review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 350, 133-147. doi. 10.1016/j.jad.2024.01.016

  • *Tureson, K, Beam, C. R., Medina, L. D., Segal-Gidan, F., D’Orazio, L. M., Chui, H., Torres, M., Varma, R., & Ringman, J. M. (2023). Use of the Spanish English Neuropsychological Assessment Scale in older adult Latines and those at risk for autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 45, 553-569. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2023.2284971

  • Carlisle, T., Medina, L. D., & Holden, S. K. (2023). Initial development of a pragmatic tool to estimate cognitive decline risk focusing on potentially modifiable factors in Parkinson's disease. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1278817

  • *Garcia, J. M., *Sehgal, J., *Thompson, J. L., Woods, S. P., & Medina, L. D. (2023). The relationship between apathy and cognitive impairment among Hispanics/Latin Americans: A PRISMA Systematic Review. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1177/08919887231207640 
      
  • Kiselica, A. M., Karr, J. E., Mikula, C. M., Ranum, R. M., Benge, J. F., Medina, L. D., & Woods, S. P. (2023). Recent advances in neuropsychological test interpretation for clinical practice. Neuropsychology Review, ePub ahead of print, doi: 10.1007/s11065-023-09596-1 

  • Carlisle, T. C., Fought, A., Olson, K., Lopez-Esquibel, N., Simpson, A., Medina, L. D., & Holden, S. K. (2023). Longitudinal evaluation of cognitive demanding daily function using performance-based functional assessment highlights heterogeneous trajectories in cognitive and functional abilities in people with Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1200347

  • *Matchanova, A., Woods, S. P., Neighbors, C., *Beltran-Najera, I., Medina, L. D., Podell, K., *Alex, C., *Babicz, M. A., & *Thompson, J. L. (in press). Are accuracy discernment and sharing of COVID-19 misinformation associated with older age and lower neurocognitive functioning? Current Psychology. ePub ahead of print doi: 10.1007/s12144-023-04464-w

  • Medina, L. D., Woods, S. P., Mullen, R., John, S. E., Kunik, M. Pressman, P., *Moeller, S., *Martinez, M., *Arroyo Miranda, M., Stocker, M., Lopez-Esquibel, N., & Vardeman, J. (2023). A boot camp translation of Alzheimer’s disease in Hispanic/Latino communities. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 9:e12390. doi: 10.1002/trc2.12390

  • Arce Renteria, M., *Mobley, T. M., *Evangelista, N. D., Medina, L. D., Deters, K. D., *Fox-Fuller, J. T., *Minto, L. R., Avila-Rieger, J., & Bettcher, B. M. (2023). Representativeness of samples enrolled in Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 15:e12450. doi: 10.1002/dad2.12450

  • Medina, L. D., *Henry, S., *Torres, S. MacDonald, B., & Strutt, A. M. (2023). The measurement of acculturation in neuropsychological evaluations of Hispanic/Latino individuals across the lifespan: A scoping review of the literature. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology. ePub ahead of print doi: 10.1093/arclin/acac114

  • *Matchanova, A., *Babicz, M. A., *Kordovski, V. M., *Tierney, S. M., *Rahman, S., Medina, L. D., Cushman, C., & Woods, S. P. (2023). Does neurocognition contribute to age-related deficits in the online navigation of electronic patient health portals? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29, 662-669. doi: 10.1017/S1355617722000650.

  • Wylie, K. P., Medina, L. D., Holden, S., Kronberg, E., Tregellas, J. R., Kluger, B. M., & Buard, I. (2023) Hippocampal, basal ganglia, and olfactory connectivity contribute to cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s disease. European Journal of Neuroscience. ePub ahead of print doi: 10.1111/ejn.15899

  • *Matchanova, A., *Sheppard, D. P., Medina, L. D., Morgan, E. E., & Woods, S. P. (2023). Health literacy mediates the effects of educational attainment on online pharmacy navigation skills in older adults with HIV disease. Psychology and Health, 38, 348-368. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1960990

  • *Garcia, J. M., *Morales Mejia, Y.L., *Ochoa Lopez, A.P., Woods, S.P., Valier, H., & Medina, L. D. (2022) Evidence for the reliability and validity of a Spanish translation of the Medication Management Ability Assessment administered via tele-assessment. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult. ePub ahead of print doi: 10.1080/23279095.2022.2114356

  • Buard, I., Lopez-Esquibel, N., Carey, F. J., Brown, M. S., Medina, L. D., Kronberg, E., Martin, C. S., Rogers, S., Holden, S. K., Greher, M. R., & Kluger, B. M. (2022). Does prefrontal glutamate index cognitive changes in Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16:809905. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.809905

  • *Tierney, S. M., *Kordovski, V. M., *Rahman, S., Medina, L. D., Damian, R. I., Collins, R. L., Cushman, C., & Woods, S. P. (2022). Neuropsychological aspects of Internet-based transit navigation skills in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology & Cognition, 29, 87-103. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2020.1852164

  • Quiroz, Y. T., Solis, M., Aranda, M. P., Arbaje, A. I., *Arroyo-Miranda, M., Cabrera, L. Y., Carrasquillo, M. M., Corrada, M. M., Crivelli, L., Diminich, E. D., Dorsman, K. A., Gonzales, M., Gonzalez, H., Gonzalez-Seda, A. L., Grinberg, L. T., Guerrero, L., Hill, C. V., Jimenez-Velazquez, I. Z., Llibre Guerra, J. J., Lopera, F., Maestre, G., Medina, L. D., O’Bryant, S., Peñaloza, C., Mora Pinzon, M., Pirela Mavarez, R. V., Pluim, C. F., Raman, R., Rascovsky, K., Rentz, D. M., Reyes, R. Rosselli, M., Tansey, M. G., Vila-Castelar, C., Zuelsdorff, M., Carrillo, M., & Sexton, C. (2022). Addressing the disparities in dementia risk, early detection and care in Latino populations: Highlights from the Second Latinos and Alzheimer’s Symposium. Alzheimer’s and Dementia. doi: 10.1002/alz.12589

  • *Thompson, J. L., Woods, S. P., Medina, L. D., & Webber, T. A. (2022). Combined effects of age and HIV disease on changes in everyday functioning over one year. Journal of NeuroVirology. 28, 133-144. doi: 10.1007/s13365-021-01034-3

  • *Kordovski, V. M., *Tierney, S. M., *Rahman, S., Medina, L. D., *Babicz, M. A., Yoshida, H., Holcomb, E. M., Cushman, C., & Woods, S. P. (2021). Older age and online health information search behaviors: The mediating influence of executive functions. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. 43 (17), 689-703. doi: 1080/13803395.2021.1990866

  • *Matchanova, A., *Sheppard, D. P., Medina, L. D., Morgan, E. E., & Woods, S. P. (2021). Health literacy mediates the effects of educational attainment on online pharmacy navigation skills in older adults with HIV disease. Psychology and Health. doi: 10.1080/08870446.2021.1960990 (epub ahead of print)

  • *Ochoa Lopez, A., *Martinez, M. N., Garcia, J., Kunik, M. E., & Medina, L. D. (2021). Self-report depression screening measures for older Hispanic/Latin American adults: A PRISMA systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 294, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.06.049

  • *Garcia, J. M*, Gallagher, M. W., O’Bryant, S. E., & Medina, L. D. (2021). Differential item functioning of the Beck Anxiety Inventory in a rural, multi-ethnic cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 293, ­36-42. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.06.005

  • *Babicz, M. A., Woods, S. P., *Matchanova, A. Medina, L. D., Podell, K., Walker, R. L., Fetterman, A., *Rahman, S., *Johnson, B., *Thompson, J. L., *Sullivan, K. L., *Beltran-Najera, I., *Brooks, J., & *Morales, Y. (2021). How did individual differences in neurocognition and health literacy influence the initial uptake and use of health-related information about COVID-19? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 43 (5), 497-513. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2021.1937579

  • *Halverson, K., Derrick, J. L., Medina, L. D., & Cirino, P. T. (2021). Executive functioning with the NIH EXAMINER and inference making in struggling readers. Developmental Neuropsychology, 46, 213-231. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2021.1908291

  • Babulal, G. M., Torres, V. L., Acosta, D., Agüero, C., Aguilar-Navarro, S., Amariglio, R., Aya Ussui, J., Baena, A., Bocanegra, Y., Dozzi Brucki, S. M., Bustin, J., Cabrera, D. M., Custodio, N. Diaz, M. M., Duque Peñailillo, L, Franco, I., Gatchel, J. R., Garza-Naveda, A. P., González Lara, M., Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, L, Guzmàn-Vélez, E., Hanseeuw, B. J., Jimenez-Velazquez, I. Z., León Rodriguez, T., Llibre-Guerra, J., Marquine, M. J., Martinez, J., Medina, L. D., Miranda-Castillo, C., Morlett Paredes, A., Munera, D., Nuñez-Herrera, A., Okada de Oliveira, M., Palmer-Cancel, S. J., Pardilla-Delgado, E., Perales-Puchalt, J., Pluim, C., Ramirez-Gomez, L., Rentz, D. M., Rivera-Fernández, C., Rosselli, M., Serrano, C. M., Suing-Ortega, m. J., Slachevsky, A., Soto-Añari, M., Sperling, R. A., Torrente, F., Thumala, D., Vannini, P., Vila-Castelar, C., Yañez-Escalante, T., & Quiroz, Y. T. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 on older adults in the United States and Latin America. EClinicalMedicine, 35, 100848. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100848

  • *Jin, J., Nowakowski, S., Taylor, A., Medina, L. D., & Kunik, M. E. (2021). Cognitive behavioral therapy for mood and insomnia in persons with dementia: A systematic review. Alzheimer’s Disease & Associated Disorders. (epub ahead of print) doi: 10.1097/wad.0000000000000454

  • *Goodman, Z. T., Llabre, M. M, Gonzalez, H. M., Lamar, M., Gallo, L. C., Tarraf, W., Perreira, K. M., López-Cevallos, D. F., Vásquez, P. M., Medina, L. D., Perera, M. J., Zeng, D., Bainter, S. A. (2021). Testing measurement equivalence of neurocognitive assessments across language in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos. Neuropsychology, 35, 423-433. doi: 10.1037/neu0000725

  • *Sullivan, K. L., *Sheppard, D. P., *Johnson, B., *Thompson, J. L., Medina, L. D., Neighbors, C., Hasbun, R., Morgan, E. E., Loft, S., & Woods, S. P. (2021). Future and past autobiographic memory in persons with HIV disease. Neuropsychology, 35, 461-471. doi: 10.1037/neu0000727

  • Medina, L. D., Woo, E., Rodriguez-Agudelo, Y., Yi, D., Coppola, G., Cummings, J.L., & Ringman, J.M. (2021). Attention and working memory in familial Alzheimer’s disease. Brain and Cognition, 147. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105656

  • *Kraal, A. , Massimo, L., Fletcher, E., Carrion, C. I., Medina, L. D., Mungas, D., Gavett, B. E., & Farias, S. T. (2021). Functional reserve: The residual variance in instrumental activities of daily living not explained by brain structure, cognition, and demographics. Neuropsychology, 35, 19-32. doi: 10.1037/neu0000705

  • Medina, L. D., *Heffernan, K., Holden, S., *Simpson, A., & Bettcher, B. M. (2021). The white matter retrogenesis hypothesis and daily function: Neural correlates of three performance-based functional assessments. Neuropsychology, 35, 103-110. doi: 10.1037/neu0000649

  • Medina, L. D., *Torres, S., *Gioia, A., *Ochoa Lopez, A., *Wang, J., & Cirino, P. T. (2020). Reporting of demographic variables in neuropsychological research: Update of O’Bryant et al.’s Trends in the current literature. Journal of International Neuropsychological Society (ePub ahead of print) doi: 10.1017/S1355617720001083

  • Avila, J. F., Arce Rentería, M., Jones, R., Vonk, J. M. J., Turney, I., Sol, K., Seblova, N., Arias, F., Hill-Jarrett, T., Levy, S.-A., Meyer, O., Racine, A., Tom, S. E., Melrose, R. J., Deters, K., Medina, L. D., Carrion, C., Diaz-Santos, M., Byrd, D., Chesebro, A., Colon, J., Igwe, K. C., Maas, B., Schupf, N., Mayeux, R., Brickman, A. M., & Manly, J. (2020). Education differentially contributes to cognitive reserve across racial/ethnic groups. Alzheimer’s & Dementia (ePub ahead of print) doi: 10.1002/alz.12176

  • *Matchanova, A., *Babicz, M., Medina, L. D., Fazeli, P. L., Vance, D. E., & Woods, S. P. (2020) Latent structure of health literacy and its association with health-related management and decision-making in HIV. Psychology and Health. (ePub ahead of print) doi: 10.1080/08870446.2020.1817453

  • Engebretson, E., Seale, R., Valdez, B., Vollmer, T. L., & Medina, L. D. (2020). Validation of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy – General Treatment Satisfaction (FACIT-TS-G) in multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 45. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2020.102413

  • *Torres, S., *Alexander, A., O’Bryant, S., & Medina, L. D. (2020). Cognition and the predictive utility of three risk scores in a multi-ethnic sample. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 75, 1049-1059. doi: 10.3233/JAD-191284

  • Medina, L. D., *Torres, S., Alvarez, E., Valdez, B., & Nair, K. (2019). Patient reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis: Validation of the Neurological Quality of Life (Neuro-QoL) Short Forms. Multiple Sclerosis Journal: Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 5. doi: 10.1177/2055217319885986
  • Poblete, J., Dokuru, D., Coppola, G., Ortiz, F., Medina, L. D., Vinters, H. V., & Ringman, J. M. (2019) Historical migration revealed through a case of autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease. Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, 8, 144-147.

  • Medina, L. D., Sadler, M., Yeh, M., Filoteo, J. V., Woods, S. P., & Gilbert, P. E. (2019). Collectivism is associated with greater neurocognitive fluency in older adults. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13:122, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00122

  • *Kletenik, I., Alvarez, E., Honce, J., Valdez, B., Vollmer, T. L., & Medina, L. D. (2019) Subjective cognitive concern in multiple sclerosis is associated with reduced thalamic and cortical gray matter volumes. Multiple Sclerosis Journal: Experimental, Translational and Clinical. doi: 10.1177/2055217319827618

  • Medina, L. D., Hirshberg, L., Gilbert, P. E., Taylor, M. J., & Heaton, R. K. (2019). Neuropsychological functioning in fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis patient samples. Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, 25, 252-257. doi: 10.1097/RHU.0000000000000837
  • Joe, E., Medina, L. D., Ringman, J. M., & O’Neill, J. (2019). 1H MRS spectroscopy in preclinical autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 13, 925-932. doi: 10.1007/s11682-018-9913-1
  • Holden, S. K., Medina, L. D., Hoyt, B., Sillau, S. H., Berman, B. D., Goldman, J. G., Weintraub, D., & Kluger, B. M. (2018). Validation of a performance-based assessment of functional ability related to cognition in Parkinson’s disease. Movement Disorders (ePub ahead of print) doi: 10.1002/mds.27487

  • Reyes, A., Salomonczyk, D., Teo, W., Medina, L. D., Bartlett, D., Pirogovsky-Turk, E., Zaenker, P., Corey-Bloom, J., Simmons, R., Ziman, M., Gilbert, P., & Cruickshank, T. (2018). Computerised dynamic posturography: A potential clinical endpoint for disease modifying trials in Huntington’s disease. Scientific Reports (ePub ahead of print) doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32924-y

  • Petok, J. R., Myers, C. E., Pa, J., Hobel, Z., Wharton, D. M., Medina, L. D., Casado, M., Coppola, G., Gluck, M. A., & Ringman, J. M. (2018). Impairment of memory generalization in preclinical autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease mutation carriers. Neurobiology of Aging, 65, 149-157. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2018.01.022