Ryan Dougherty

🚨 PhD Opportunity – Fall 2026 🚨 Join the Rutgers Exercise, Aging & Brain Health Lab! We study how physical activity supports brain health & reduces dementia risk 📍 Rutgers Kinesiology 🌐 kines.rutgers.edu ✉️ ryan.j.dougherty@rutgers.edu #PhDOpportunity #BrainHealth

Is exercise the answer for neuroprotection? 🧠 Learn more about muscle-brain crosstalk in A&D: Transitional Research & Clinical Intervention review article #TRCI #AlzResearch Full Article: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr…

🔔Call for Papers: #TRCI Physical Activity and Exercise: Pathways Influencing Risk of ADRD🔔 ⏰Updated Submission Deadline: Sept. 30, 2025 More Information: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/23…

#TRCI call for papers- Physical Activity and Exercise: Pathways Influencing Risk of ADRD Special Issue 🔔Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025 More Information: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/23… #AlzResearch

So excited to welcome Dr Claudia Kawas back to ⁦@JohnsHopkinsSPH⁩ and ⁦@HopkinsMedicine⁩ as our featured speaker for the 17th ⁦@jhu_coah⁩ #ResearchOnAging Showcase

🧠🚶‍♀️Reduced #Walking Efficiency is Associated With #Alzheimers #Brain Changes. Findings suggest walking efficiency may be an early indicator of #AD-related #brain #changes as well as a possible target for future therapeutic #interventions. #JHMemoryResearch #BrainHealth #Dementia

Congratulations to Dr. Marilyn Albert on receiving the Raymond D. Adams Lectureship at #ANA2023 for her work on #Alzheimer’s research and the major impact it has had on understanding and treating the disease. bit.ly/45TH4sI

My lab is hiring a scientist and looking for a postdoc to join our team and work on our recently funded R01 investigating multi-cohort factors that contribute to the timing of AD events! Apply for the Scientist position here: go.wisc.edu/46soa2 email me for postdocs!

🧠⚕️ #BrainHealth 🌟Don't lose that motivation to stay physically active! 🤷‍♀️Why? ▶️Because #PhysicalActivity is important for #Cognitive function, reducing #Dementia risk, and #Brain #Health. Learn more from @RJ_Dougherty's #JHMemoryMatters talk: youtu.be/1I6murfpnYI

Certain alterations in everyday movement hold potential in helping provide insight into dementia risk. Press release: tinyurl.com/mtbmmn23 Article: tinyurl.com/2p8cnaer @SylviaOnTheRoad @jurbane2 @adamspira @RJ_Dougherty @jenschrack @JohnsHopkinsEPI @NIHAging #BLSA

Today is National Health and Fitness Day! Did you know that #exercise declines in older adults, especially in those at risk for developing #AlzheimersDisease? #APNMjournal @RJ_Dougherty et al: buff.ly/3ahz8ta #LetsMoveCanada @NHFDcan

"We should be conscientious about our behaviors and try to decrease sedentary time and increase physical activity," says @JohnsHopkinsSPH's @RJ_Dougherty. "Television viewing is just one type of sedentary behavior, but it's an easily modifiable one." hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2021/…

Greater #television viewing in early to mid-adulthood may be associated with lower gray matter volume in #middleage. Read more in @BrainImggBehvr! bit.ly/3zZx696

Congrats to @RJ_Dougherty on winning the Health Sciences Research Award from @geronsociety for 2021! A great accomplishment. This is the 3rd year an @ENGAGE_jhu / @JohnsHopkinsEPI /@jhu_coah affiliate has won! 2020: @JerryHopkinsSP1 2019: @AmalForResearch 🎉🥳

How efficiently you move can tell us about your #dementia risk. Great work by @RJ_Dougherty linking the physiology of walking with #Alzheimers pathology: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… @AmalForResearch @SylviaOnTheRoad @bilgelm

Excited about #AAIC2021! Join us at 1PM MST/3PM EST at the Physical Activity and Prevention of Dementia oral session. Looking forward to these great talks and a lively discussion! #endalzheimers @RJ_Dougherty @drbelindambrown

@KristineYaffe @NIH Well deserved! Congratulations, Kristine!

I am beyond honored to be receiving the @NIH Robert S. Gordon Jr. Lectureship Award on February 10th. I sincerely hope that my lecture inspires researchers to value observational studies as a tool to unlocking cognitive aging. bit.ly/2NWK6cs

@JaneSenior @ACSMNews Congrats Jane! Thanks for all your contributions to the college

Monday is my 22nd anniversary @ACSMNews...exactly 1/3 of my life. Thanks to all of our terrific members & staff for such a great ride! More to come...Yes! #workhardplayhard #Gratitude #Blessings #WorkLifeBalance

Smoking mediates the relationship between SES and brain volume: The CARDIA study. Targeting smoking cessation could be an efficacious means to reduce the health disparity of low SES on brain volume & may decrease vulnerability for dementia. bit.ly/3qct5tk @KristineYaffe

New postdoctoral position available in our lab @UWMadison @uwmadKines investigating cerebral blood flow regulation in humans! Come work with us! #Physiology #ExercisePhysiology #HealthyAging