Ellen Grober

Ellen Grober, Ph.D.

Area of research

  • I study cognitive aging and dementia. My work includes longitudinal studies that link cognitive performance to biomarkers, neuroimaging and Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology.

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  • 30 Beechwood Terrace Yonkers, NY 10705


Professional Interests

Ellen Grober, Ph.D. is Clinical Professor in the Neurology Department at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.  She earned a PhD in psychology from Johns Hopkins University and continued her training in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at New York University Medical School.  Her scientific efforts are directed at identifying preclinical and very early dementia.  Her NIA funded research has developed accurate and efficient strategies for identifying early Alzheimer’s Disease in educationally and racially diverse primary care settings.

She is implementing these strategies in a model screening and intervention program whose long term objective is to change physician’s detection and treatment practices for early dementia. Her clinical practice includes the neuropsychological assessment of seniors and forensic neuropsychological assessment of adults. 

Selected Publications

  • Grober, E., Dickson, D., Sliwinski, M. J., Buschke, H., Katz, M., Crystal, H., & Lipton, R. B. (1999). Memory and mental status correlates of modified Braak staging. Neurobiol Aging, 20(6), 573-579. doi:10.1016/s0197-4580(99)00063-9
  • Grober, E., & Kawas, C. (1999). Learning and retention in preclinical and early Alzheimer's Disease. Psychology and Aging, 12, 183-188.
  • Grober, E., Lipton, R. B., Hall, C., & Crystal, H. (2000). Memory impairment on free and cued selective reminding predicts dementia. Neurology, 54(4), 827-832
  • Crystal, H. A., Dickson, D., Davies, P., Masur, D., Grober, E., Lipton, R. B. (2000). The relative frequency of "dementia of unknown etiology" increases with age and is nearly 50% in nonagenarians. Archives of Neurology, 57, 713-9.
  • Grober, E. (2008). Screening for early dementia in primary care. Geriatrics and Aging, 11(7), 405-409.
  • Grober, E., Hall, C., Lipton, R. B., & Teresi, J. (2008). Primary care screen for early dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56, 206-213.
  • Grober, E., Hall, C., McGinn, M., Nicholls, T., Stanford, S., Ehrilich, A., . . . . (2008). Neuropsychological strategies for detecting early dementia. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14, 130-142.
  • Grober, E., Hall, C., Sanders, A., & Lipton, R. B. (2008). Free and Cued Selective Reminding distinguishes Alzherimer's disease from vascular dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 56(5), 944-946.
  • Grober, E., Hall, C. B., Lipton, R. B., Zonderman, A. B., Resnick, S. M., & Kawas, C. (2008). Memory impairment, executive dysfunction, and intellectual decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease. J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 14(2), 266-278.
  • Grober, E., Ocepek-Welikson, K., & Teresi, J. (2009). The Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test: Evidence of Psychometric Adequacy. Psychology Science Quarterly, 51(3), 266-282.
  • Grober, E., Sanders, A. E., Hall, C., & Lipton, R. B. (2010). Free and cued selective reminding identifies very mild dementia in primary care. Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders, 24(3), 284-290.
  • Grober, E., Sanders, A. E., Hall, C., Ehrlich, A., & Lipton, R. B. (2012). Very mild dementia and medical comorbitiy independently predict health care use in the elderly. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health, 3(1), 23-28.
  • Grober, E., Ehrlich, A., DaVila, M., Troche, Y., & Lipton, R. (2013). Memory Screening for aMCI and Dementia in Latinos (P07.144). Neurology, 80(1_MeetingAbstracts), P07.144-. Retrieved from http://www.neurology.org
  • Grober, E., Mowrey, W., Hall, C., Katz, M., Zimmerman, M., & Lipton, R. (2013). Lessons for predicting incident dementia by memory testing. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9(4, Supplement), P536-P537. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2013.04.288
  • Grober, E., Troche, Y., Eimicke, J., & Lipton, R. (2013). Memory screening for aMCI and dementia in Latinos. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 9(4, Supplement), P322-P323. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalz.2013.04.155
  • Grober, E., Troche, Y., Eimicke, J., & Lipton, R. B. (2013). Screening for aMCI and dementia in Latino primary care patients. Paper presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Boston, Mass.
  • Grober, E., Ehrlich, A., Troche, Y., Hahn, S., & Lipton, R. B. (2014). Screening Older Latinos for Dementia in the Prinary Care Setting. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 20, 1-8.
  • Grober, E., Mowrey, W., Katz, M., Derby, C., & Lipton, R. B. (2015). Conventional and robust norming in identifying preclinical dementia. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 37(10), 1098-1106.
  • Grober, E., Mowrey, W. B., Ehrlich, A. R., Mabie, P., Hahn, S., & Lipton, R. B. (2016). Two-stage screening for early dementia in primary care. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 38(9), 1038-1049. doi:10.1080/13803395.2016.1187117
  • Grober, E., Veroff, A., & Lipton, R. (2016). Longitudinal Analysis of the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test in Pre-Clinical and Clinical Alzheimer's Disease: Temporal Unfolding of Stages of Memory Impairment. Alzheimer's Association International Conference, P1-362.
  • Grober, E., Wakefield, D., Ehrlich, A. R., Mabie, P., & Lipton, R. B. (2017). Identifying memory impairment and early dementia in primary care. Alzheimer's & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, 6(Supplement C), 188-195. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dadm.2017.01.006
  • Schindler, S. E., Jasielec, M. S., Weng, H., Hassenstab, J. J., Grober, E., McCue, L. M., . . . Fagan, A. M. (2017). Neuropsychological measures that detect early impairment and decline in preclinical Alzheimer disease. Neurobiol Aging, 56, 25-32. doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2017.04.004
  • Grober, E., Veroff, A. E., & Lipton, R. B. (2018). Temporal unfolding of declining episodic memory on the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test in the predementia phase of Alzheimer's disease: Implications for clinical trials. Alzheimers Dement (Amst), 10, 161-171. doi:10.1016/j.dadm.2017.12.004
  • Grober, E., An, Y., Lipton, R. B., Kawas, C., & Resnick, S. M. (2019). Timing of onset and rate of decline in learning and retention in the pre-dementia phase of Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S1355617719000304
  • Grober, E., Lipton, R. B., Sperling, R., Papp, K., Johnson, D. K., Rentz, D. M., . . . Ezzati, A. (2021). Association of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment (SOMI) with amyloid PET and structural MRI: The A4 study. Neurology, 98 (13). 
  • Grober, E., Papp, K. V., Rentz, D. M., Sperling, R. A., Johnson, K. A., Amariglio, R. E., . . . Ezzati, A. (2021). Neuroimaging correlates of Stages of Objective Memory Impairment (SOMI) system. Alzheimers Dement (Amst), 13(1), e12224-e12224. doi:10.1002/dad2.12224
  • Grober, E., Qi, Q., Kuo, L., Hassenstab, J., Perrin, R. J., & Lipton, R. B. (2021). Stages of Objective Memory Impairment Predict Alzheimer’s Disease Neuropathology: Comparison with the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale–Sum of Boxes. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 80, 185-195. doi:10.3233/JAD-200946
  • Grober, E., Qi, Q., Kuo, L., Hassenstab, J., Perrin, R. J., & Lipton, R. B. (2021). The Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test Predicts Braak Stage. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, 80, 175-183. doi:10.3233/JAD-200980
  • Petersen, K. K., Grober, E., Lipton, R. B., Sperling, R. A., Buckley, R. F., Aisen, P. S., & Ezzati, A. (2022). Impact of sex and APOE ε4 on the association of cognition and hippocampal volume in clinically normal, amyloid positive adults. Alzheimers Dement (Amst), 14(1), e12271-e12271. doi:10.1002/dad2.12271