Katya Rascovsky, PhD
Neuropsychology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Neuroscience Center - Neurology
Penn Medicine Provider
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.
My education and training
- Graduate School: University of California, San Diego
Spoken languages
English
English
Español
Spanish
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
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
Qualifications and experience
- ADC Latino Special Interest Group, National
- ALLFTD Clinical Evaluation Squad, National
- ALLFTD Neuropsychology Working Group, National
- Alzheimer’s Association International Society to Advance Alzheimer’s Research and Treatment (ISTAART), International
- American Academy of Neurology, National
- Clinical Detection of Limbic-predominant Age-related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE), International
- Hispanic Neuropsychological Society, International
- International Neuropsychological Society, International
- International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias, International
- Latino Leadership Initiative on Alzheimer's, Latinos Against Alzheimer's Coalition, National
- Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Multisite Study of AD (MESA-MIND), National
- National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN), National
- Phenotype and Genotype of Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer's Disease in Jalisco, Mexico (RO1), National
- South Texas Alzheimer Disease Center, National
- The Alzheimer’s & Dementia Disparities Engagement Network (ADDEN), National
- US Against Alzheimer's National Alzheimer's Disease Index Working Group, National
- US Consortium of Aging, Dementia & Latino Studies (CADLAS), National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
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