Katya Rascovsky, PhD
Neuropsychology
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Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
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About me

  • Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Rascovsky earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the Memory and Aging Center, University of California San Francisco, where she also worked as an Instructor and Assistant Professor. Dr. Rascovsky’s research focuses on identifying the cognitive and behavioral markers of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD). Her research also includes studies of survival and clinical progression of patients with frontotemporal degeneration. Dr. Rascovsky is a native Spanish speaker and has broad experience in research and care of Latino dementia patients both in Latin America and the US. She has a clinical interest in young-onset dementia, traumatic brain injury and cognitive assessment of Spanish-speaking patients.

Education and training

  • Graduate School: University of California, San Diego

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My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Advanced Practice Provider
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Advanced Practice Provider
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Advanced Practice Provider
Dr. Rascovsky is a Penn Medicine provider.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

McMillan, C.T., Irwin, D.J., Nasrallah, I., Phillips, J.S., Spindler, M., Rascovsky, K., Ternes, K., Jester, C., Wolk, D.A., Kwong, L.K., Lee, V.M., Lee, E.B., Trojanowski, J.Q., Grossman, M. Multimodal evaluation demonstrates in vivo 18F-AV-1451 uptake in autopsy-confirmed corticobasal degeneration , Acta Neuropathologica, 132(6): 2016,935-937

McMillan, C.T., Boyd, C., Gross, R.G., Weinstein, J., Firn, K., Toledo, J.B., Rascovsky, K., Shaw, L., Wolk, D.A., Irwin, D.J., Lee, E.B., Trojanowski, J.Q., Grossman, M. Multimodal imaging evidence of pathology-mediated disease distribution in corticobasal syndrome. , Neurology, 87(12): 2016,1227-34

Gervits, F., Ash, S., Coslett, H.B., Rascovsky, K., Grossman, M., Hamilton, R. Transcranial direct current stimulation for the treatment of primary progressive aphasia: An open-label pilot study. , Brain and Language, 162: 2016,35-41

Spotorno, N., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Clark, R., Grossman, M. Beyond words: Pragmatic inference in behavioral variant of frontotemporal degeneration. , Neuropsychologia, 75: 2015,556-64

Massimo, L., Zee, J., Xie, S.X., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Kolanowski, A., Grossman, M. Occupational attainment influences survival in autopsy-confirmed frontotemporal degeneration. , Neurology, 84(20): 2015,2070-5

Evans, J., Olm, C., McCluskey, L.F., Elman, L.B., Boller, A., Moran, E., Rascovsky, K., Bisbing, T., McMillan, C.T., Grossman, M. Impaired cognitive flexibility in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. , Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology : Official Journal of the Society for Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology, 28(1): 2015,17-26

Healey, M., McMillan, C.T., Golob, S., Spotorno, N., Rascovsky, K., Irwin, D.J., Clark, R., Grossman, M. Getting on the same page: the neural basis for social coordination deficits in behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration. , Neuropsychologia, 69: 2015,56-66

Massimo, L., Powers, J.P., Evans, L.K., McMillan, Corey. T., Rascovsky, K., Eslinger, P., Ersek, M., Irwin, D.J., Grossman, M. Apathy in Frontotemporal Degeneration: neuroanatomical evidence of impaired goal-directed behavior. , Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9: 2015,611

Spotorno, N., Healey, M., McMillan, C.T., Rascovsky, K., Irwin D.J., Clark, R., Grossman M. Processing ambiguity in a linguistic context: decision-making difficulties in non-aphasic patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal degeneration. , Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9: 2015,583

Bisbing, T. A., Olm, C. A., McMillan, C. T., Rascovsky, K., Baehr, L., Ternes, K., Irwin, D. J., Clark, R., Grossman, M. Estimating frontal and parietal involvement in cognitive estimation: a study of focal neurodegenerative diseases. , Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9: 2015,317

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