Aaron Colverson, PhD | Institute for Health and Aging

Postdoc Scholar

M_Neuro-Memory and Aging

Aaron's postdoctoral work includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a music-based intervention for the UCSF Age-Friendly Emergency Department, community-based music interventions for older adults living with and without cognitive impairments, and the study of musical rhythm production in the brains of healthy and cognitively impaired older adults.

Publications

Age moderates association between set shifting and complex rhythm performance in healthy adults.

Brain and cognition

Colverson A, Penhale S, Barsoum S, Velez X, Alicea S, Valerio R, Occhiuzzi M, Wu A, Allen IE, Britton M, Cohen R, Williamson JB

Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain.

Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews

Ibanez A, Roth N, Colverson A, Bailey C, Miller B, Durón-Reyes DE, Johnson N, Castaner O, Sacco PL, Cotter E, Melloni L

Relationships between arts participation, social cohesion, and well-being: an integrative review of evidence.

Frontiers in public health

Sonke J, Pesata V, Colverson A, Morgan-Daniel J, Rodriguez AK, Carroll GD, Burch S, Abraham A, Akram S, Marjani S, Belden C, Karim H

Frontal GABA levels associate with musical rhythm production in healthy aging adults.

Brain and cognition

Britton MK, Colverson A, Cohen RA, Velez X, Lamb DG, Porges EC, Williamson JB

Sex and gender differences in cognitive resilience to aging and Alzheimer's disease.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association

Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Boyle R, Casaletto K, Anstey KJ, Vila-Castelar C, Colverson A, Palpatzis E, Eissman JM, Kheng Siang Ng T, Raghavan S, Akinci M, Vonk JMJ, Machado LS, Zanwar PP, Shrestha HL, Wagner M, Tamburin S, Sohrabi HR, Loi S, Bartrés-Faz D, Dubal DB, Vemuri P, Okonkwo O, Hohman TJ, Ewers M, Buckley RF, Reserve, Resilience and Protective Factors Professional Interest Area, Sex and Gender Professional I

Rhythmic musical activities may strengthen connectivity between brain networks associated with aging-related deficits in timing and executive functions.

Experimental gerontology

Colverson A, Barsoum S, Cohen R, Williamson J

Social prescribing outcomes: a mapping review of the evidence from 13 countries to identify key common outcomes.

Frontiers in medicine

Sonke J, Manhas N, Belden C, Morgan-Daniel J, Akram S, Marjani S, Oduntan O, Hammond G, Martinez G, Davidson Carroll G, Rodriguez AK, Burch S, Colverson AJ, Pesata V, Fancourt D