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Rosalinda Medrano's research focuses on neurological disorders, particularly Alzheimer's disease, and its impact on Latino populations. Her work investigates cognitive function, brain imaging outcomes, and behavioral characteristics associated with Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment in older Latino adults. Medrano has published studies examining the association between physical exercise, glucose metabolism, and cognition in this demographic. She also explores the adaptation of cognitive assessment tools for Spanish-speaking Latino individuals, such as the Latin American Spanish Preclinical Alzheimer's Cognitive Composite (LAS-PACC5).
Beyond Alzheimer's disease, Medrano's research interests extend to maternal and child health, including the impact of pregnancy weight gain on infants within Latina communities. She is also involved in community health initiatives, focusing on developing sustainable community health workforces and exploring experiences within healthy food incentive programs. Medrano's scholarship metrics include an h-index of 6, with 22 total publications and 128 citations.
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- h-index: 6
- Publications: 22
- Citations: 128
Selected Publications
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Developing a Sustainable Community Health Workforce in Arkansas (2025)
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Experiences of Farmers Market Vendors in a Healthy Food Incentive Program (2023)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Yakeel T. Quiroz
Harvard University (US)
13 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- LC‐EC Tract Degeneration is associated with Entorhinal Tau and Memory in Autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s Disease
Showing 5 of 13 shared publications
Jorge Alcina
Harvard University (US)
10 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Nikole A Bonillas Félix
Harvard University (US)
9 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- LC‐EC Tract Degeneration is associated with Entorhinal Tau and Memory in Autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s Disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Sex Differences in Associations Between White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Performance in the Boston Latino Aging Study
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Isabel Solis
Harvard University (US)
8 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Sex Differences in Associations Between White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Performance in the Boston Latino Aging Study
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Marta Gonzalez Catalan
Harvard University (US)
8 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Sex Differences in Associations Between White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Performance in the Boston Latino Aging Study
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Daniel G Saldana
Harvard University (US)
8 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Sex Differences in Associations Between White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Performance in the Boston Latino Aging Study
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Catarina Tristão‐Pereira
Boston University (US)
7 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Vincent Malotaux
Harvard University (US)
7 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Associations between Mild Behavioral Impairment and Functional Impairment in Cognitively Unimpaired Community‐dwelling Older Latinos
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Sergio Castro Álvarez
Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe (CO)
6 shared publications
- LC‐EC Tract Degeneration is associated with Entorhinal Tau and Memory in Autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s Disease
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Clara Vila‐Castelar
Harvard University (US)
6 shared publications
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Sex Differences in Associations Between White Matter Microstructure and Cognitive Performance in the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Associations between Mild Behavioral Impairment and Functional Impairment in Cognitively Unimpaired Community‐dwelling Older Latinos
- Associations between frequency of physical exercise and global cognition among community‐dwelling Latino older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Ana Baena
Universidad de Antioquia (CO)
5 shared publications
- LC‐EC Tract Degeneration is associated with Entorhinal Tau and Memory in Autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s Disease
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
Mónica Vidal
Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe (CO)
5 shared publications
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer’s disease
- Plasma biomarkers of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in relation to cerebral glucose hypometabolism in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Association among cerebral glucose metabolism, mild behavioral impairment and cognition in autosomal‐dominant Alzheimer's disease
- Sex differences in diffusion weighted imaging outcomes in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease
Lusiana Martínez
Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
4 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
Averi Giudicessi
Boston University (US)
4 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
Jairo E. Martínez
Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
4 shared publications
- Mild behavioral impairment and its relationship to cognition in community‐dwelling older adults from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- Proportion of life spent in the United States and cognitive functioning in Spanish-speaking migrants: Findings from the Boston Latino Aging Study
- B – 127 Development of a Novel Recognition Discriminability Task for the NEUROPSI Breve Semi-Complex Figure in the Boston Latino Aging Study (BLAST)
- Association between reproductive history, white matter integrity, and cognition in post-menopausal Latina women from the Boston Latino Aging Study
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