Natalie L. Denburg, PhD
Assistant Professor
Address
Office location: 2155 RCP
Phone: 319-356-2671
Fax: 319-356-4505
E-mail: natalie-denburg@uiowa.edu
Clinical Specialty
- Normal Aging
- Dementia
- Differential Diagnosis of Demential Syndromes
- Learning Disabilities
Research Interests
- Decision-Making Abilities in Older Adults
- Human Frontal Lobe Dysfunction
- Public Policy in Older Adulthood
- Cancer Survivorship
- Social and Affective Neuroscience
Education
B.A. (Psychology), State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A. (Clinical Psychology), Michigan State University
Internship (Adult and Child Neuropsychology), University of California, San Diego
PhD (Clinical Psychology), Michigan State University
Fellowship
Fellowship (Clinical Neuropsychology), University of Iowa College of Medicine, 1997-2000
Honors and Awards
- AARP Andrus Foundation Fellowship in Gerontology, $15,000. (1996-1997)
- Michigan State University Excellence-In-Teaching Award. (1996-1997)
- University of Iowa Excellence-In-Teaching Award (Nomination, 2004-2005)
- Research featured in Illumine, The Business and Biology of Consumer Fraud, Fall 2004
- Research featured in Spectator, Fraught with Fraud, Summer 2004
- Featured as a UI CCOM Faculty Profile, February 2006
- Faculty Award in Medical Education, UI CCOM, November 2008
- Keynote Speaker, 5th Annual Elder Abuse Conference, Oakland, CA, June 2010
- ICRU Distinguished Mentor Award, University of iowa , March 2011
- Doris Duke Mentor, UI CCOM, 2008-2009 and 2011-2012
Grants
1996-1997
AARP Andrus Foundation Fellowship in Gerontology, $15,000,
"Attentional Abilities in the Able Elderly: Examination of Structure, Correlates and Self-Report."
1998-2000
National Institute of Aging (NIA) Postdoctoral NRSA Research Award, "Emotional Memory in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease."
2004-2010
Principal Investigator, National Institute of Aging (NIA) K01,
"Prefrontal Brain Structures, Aging, and Decision-Making."
Mentors: Hanna Damasio, M.D. and Robert Wallace, M.D., M.S.
2005-2007
Principal Investigator, American Cancer Society Seed Grant Program, $19,000, "Neuropsychological Sequelae of Anthracycline- and Non-Anthracycline-Containing Chemotherapy Regimens in Follicular Indolent Lymphoma Survivors."
2007-Present
Co-Investigator, National Cancer Institute (NIH) R01, Elderly Cancer Survivors: Cognitive Outcomes and Markers of Neurodegeneration. Dr. Susan Schultz, Principal Investigator.
2007-Present
Principal Investigator, Dana Foundation Program in Brain and Immuno-Imaging, $100,000, Neural Mechanisms of Age-Related Decision-Making: Direct Evidence from Physiology.
2009-Present
Principal Investigator, Univ. of Iowa HCCC Population Science Pilot Project Awards, $25,000, Neurological Outcomes in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Leukemia: A Cohort Study.
2010-Present
Principal Investigator, Univ. of Iowa Social Science Funding Program (SSFP), $25,000, Exploring Brain Mechanisms for Consumer Decision-Making in Older Adults
Professional Service
University Committees
Member, DSMB Committee for E. Chrischilles' Living Well Study (2008-Present)
Member, HCCC Research Review Committee (2007-Present)
Member, UI Cancer and Aging Program Steering Committee (2006-Present)
Member, HCCC Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee (2006-Present)
Faculty Member, University of Iowa Hillel Board (2002-2005)
Editorship
Associate Editor, Frontiers in Psychopathology (2010-Present)
Consulting Editor (Neuropsychology), Clinician's Research Digest (2002-2006)
Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer
Brain
British Journal of Psychology
The Clinical Neuropsychologist
Cortex
Developmental Neuropsychology
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society
Neurobiology of Aging
Neurology
Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, and Behavioral Neurology
Neuropsychologia
Neuropsychology
Psychological Bulletin
Psychology and Aging
Grant Reviewer
National Science Foundation (Fall 2009)
CONICYT (Chile National Grant Foundation) (Fall 2009)
Professional Affiliations
Professional Memberships
American Psychological Association (Divisions 2, 12, 20, and 40)
Gerontological Society of America
International Neuropsychological Society
Society for Neuroscience
Lectures
"Recent Research Advances in Alzheimer's Disease: Part II." Talk delivered at the Annual Conference for Caregivers, Alzheimer's Association Leatherstocking Chapter of Northeastern New York, State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, April 2005.
"The Affective Neuroscience of Aging." Symposia presenter at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Dallas, Texas, November 2006.
"Orbitofrontal Cortex, Normal and Pathological Aging." Invited talk delivered at the New York Academy of Sciences, Linking Affect to Action: Critical Contributions of the Orbitofrontal Cortex, New York City, New York, March 14, 2007.
"Chemotherapeutic Treatment in Older Adults with Lymphoma Has Considerable Impact on Cognitive Functioning." Invited talk delivered to the monthly HCCC Forum, 2189 MERF, Iowa City, Iowa, September 2007.
"Case Presentation: Visual Variant of Alzheimer's Disease." Invited talk delivered to the University of Iowa Interdisciplinary Geriatric Grand Rounds lecture series, 3W19C Iowa City VA Medical Center, January 2008.
"Linkage of the Iowa Cancer Registry and the Benton Neuropsychology Laboratory." Invited talk delivered to the monthly HCCC Forum, 2189 MERF, Iowa City, Iowa, August 2008.
"Why So Many Seniors Get Swindled: Brain Anomalies and Poor Decision-Making in Older Adults." Invited talk delivered to the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, University of Chicago, May 2010.
"Why So Many Seniors Get Swindled: Brain Anomalies and Poor Decision-Making in Older Adults." Keynote speaker at 5th Annual Elder Abuse Conference, Oakland, California, June, 2010.
Publications
Denburg, N. L., Tranel, D., & Bechara, A. (2005). The ability to decide advantageously declines prematurely in some normal older persons. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1099-1106.
Tranel, D., Damasio, H., Denburg, N. L., & Bechara, A. (2005). Does gender play a role in functional asymmetry of ventromedial prefrontal cortex? Brain, 128, 2872-2881.
Denburg, N. L., Recknor, E. C., Bechara, A., & Tranel, D. (2006). Psychophysiological anticipation of positive outcomes promotes advantageous decision-making in normal older persons. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 61, 19-25.
Barrash, J., Denburg, N. L., Moser, D. J., Woolson, R. F., Schumacher, A. J., & Doebbeling, B. N. (2007). Credibility of neuropsychological performances of Gulf War veterans and military controls participating in clinical epidemiological research. Military Medicine, 172, 697-707.
Denburg, N. L., Cole, C. A., Hernandez, M., Yamada, T. H., Tranel, D., Bechara, A., & Wallace, R. B. (2007). The orbitofrontal cortex, real-world decision-making, and normal aging. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences,1121, 480-498.
McDade-Montez, E. A., Watson, D., O'Hara, M. W., & Denburg, N. L. (2008). The effect of symptom visibility on informant reporting. Psychology and Aging, 23, 940-946.
Krajbich, I., Adolphs, R., Tranel, D., Denburg, N. L., & Camerer, C. (2009).
Economic games quantify diminished sense of guilt in patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 2188-1292.
Gupta, R., Duff, M. C., Denburg, N. L., Cohen, N. J., Bechara, A., & Tranel, D. (2009) Declarative memory is critical for sustained advantageous complex decision-making. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1686-1693.
Denburg, N. L., Jones, R. D., & Tranel, D. (2009). Recognition without awareness in a patient with simultanagnosia. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72, 5-12.
Denburg, N. L., Weller, J. A., Kaup, A. R., LaLoggia, A., Yamada, T., Cole, C. A., Tranel, D., & Bechara, A. (2009). Poor decision-making among older adults is related to elevated levels of neuroticism. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 164-172.
Denburg, N. L. (2009). Why so many seniors get swindled: Brain anomalies and poor decision-making in older adults. Cerebrum: Emerging Ideas in Brain Science (Dana Foundation). http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=23106
Yamada, T. H., Denburg, N. L., Beglinger, L. J., & Schultz, S. K. (2010). Neuropsychological outcomes of older breast cancer survivors: Cognitive features ten or more years after chemotherapy. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 22, 48-54.
Hourcade, J. P., Nguyen, C. M., Perry, K. B., & Denburg, N. L. (2010). PointAssist for older adults: Analyzing sub-movement characteristics to aid in pointing tasks. Proceedings of CHI 2010, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, 1115-1124. [Honorable Mention]
Beglinger, L. J., Mills, J. A., Vik, S. M., Duff, K., Denburg, N. L., Weckmann, M. T., Paulsen, J. S., & Gingrich, R. (2011). The neuropsychological course of acute delirium in adult hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 26, 98-109.
Calamia, M., Markon, K., Denburg, N. L., & Tranel, D. (2011). Developing a short form of Benton's Judgment of Line Orientation Test: An item response theory approach. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 25, 670-684.
Weller, J., Levin, I., & Denburg, N. L. (in press). Trajectory of adaptive decision making for risky gains and losses from ages 5 to 85. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Nguyen, C. M., Koenigs, M., Yamada, T. H., Teo, S. H., Cavanaugh, J. E., & Denburg, N. L. (in press). Trustworthiness and negative affect predict economic decision-making. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Timpe, J., Rowe, K. C., Matsui, J., Magnotta, V. A., & Denburg, N. L. (in press). White matter integrity, as measured by diffusion tensor imaging, distinguishes between impaired and unimpaired older adult decision-makers: A preliminary investigation. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
Shih, R. A., Ghosh-Dastidar, B., Margolis, K. L., Slaughter, M. E. Jewell, A., Bird, C. E., Eibner, C., Denburg, N. L., Ockene, J., Messina, C. R., & Espeland, M. A. (in press). Neighborhood socioeconomic status and cognitive function in women. American Journal of Public Health.
Ramchandran, K., Nayakankuppam, D. J., Berg, J., Tranel, D., & Denburg, N. L. (in press). Can the market protect the aging brain? Neuropsychologia.