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Helena Blumen, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Bronx, New York, United States

I’m a cognitive scientist with expertise and training in cognitive and motor aging, magnetic resonance imaging and clinical research methods. I completed my Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology at Stony Brook University in 2008 and an MS in Clinical Research Methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2018. I also completed a T32 NIH/NIA postdoctoral fellowship in the Neuropsychology of Cognition in Aging Training Program at Columbia University Medical Center in 2011, and a neuroimaging fellowship at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013. I’m currently an associate professor of Medicine (Geriatrics) and Neurology (Division of Cognitive and Motor Aging) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. I am also the Associate Director of the Resnick Gerontology Center and a cofounder of the Resnick Women in Aging Research Initiative.

The overall theme of my research is to optimize gait and cognition in aging. I examine the potential for using collaboration, computer-based actions games, motor imagery and social dancing as a tool to improve cognition and mobility in aging and pre-dementia.

I'm currently the principal investigator of a study that examines trajectories and modifiable risk factors of brain, gait and cognitive decline in aging and pre-dementia (1R01AG062659-01A1). I also coordinate the processing and analysis of neuroimaging data of a number ongoing NIH/NIA funded studies in the division of Cognitive and Motor Aging at Einstein.

I was the recipient of a career development award from the National Institute on Aging (1K01AG049829-01A1). I was also awarded the 2015 Outstanding Junior Research Manuscript Award from the American Geriatrics Society for the paper: Blumen, H.M. Holtzer, R., Brown, L.L, Gazes, Y & Verghese, J. (2014). Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Imagined Walking and Walking-While-Talking in the Elderly. Human Brain Mapping, 35(8), 4090-104. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22461. PubMed PMID: 24522972; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4106989.

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