Brianne Bettcher, PhD ABPP-CN. Dr. Bettcher is a board-certified neuropsychologist in the Department of Neurology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Sheobtained a PhD from Temple University in Clinical Psychology with a specialization in Neuroscience, and she completed her fellowship at the University of California San Francisco’s Memory and Aging Center. She is the director of neuropsychology research at the University of Colorado Alzheimer’s & Cognition Center and the director of the Colorado Aging Brain Laboratory. The overarching goal of her research laboratory is to elucidate modifiable, immune-associated factors that will inform early treatments for cognitive decline for a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases. She leverages her background in cognitive neuroscience methods, blood- and CSF-based biomarkers of immune dysfunction, and multi-modal neuroimaging analyses to clarify peripheral-central immune crosstalk and how it maps on to Alzheimer’s disease-related risk and pathology in both normal aging and AD populations. Her research on immune dysregulation in normal aging is funded by the National Institute on Aging and the Department of Defense.