Division of Geriatric Psychiatry: Grants and Publications

Active Grants:

• HRSA-19-007 Reinhardt (PD) Geriatrics Academic Career Award
A four-year career development award from HRSA. This award is focused on the development of interprofessional education skills and the creation of a novel curriculum utilizing artificial intelligence / machine learning, telehealth, and “big data” to improve interprofessional geriatrics education and healthcare in Brooklyn NY
• HRSA-19-008 Cohen (PD), Reinhardt (Co-Director) Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program
A five-year effort to expand and improve interprofessional geriatrics education and healthcare quality in Brooklyn, NY.
• NYS DOH01-COEAD-2015 Cohen (PD), Reinhardt (Assoc. Dir); Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.
A five-year effort to expand and improve the clinical services, care quality, and care outcomes for patients / caregivers with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias across the New York City region.

Recent Research Programs:

• NCT02420756 Sponsor: American College of Radiology Imaging Network
Study: Imaging Dementia – Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study

Recent Partnerships:

• Sunnyside Community Services (PD) Alzheimer’s Disease Caregiver Support Initiative - partnership provides mutual support in Alzheimer's Programming, including 1 to 2 embedded dementia caregiver support specialists on-site at SUNY Downstate from Sunnyside Community Services.

Recent Publications and Presentations from the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry

1. Cohen CI, Reinhardt, MM. Political economy and neoliberalism: their influence on community mental health practice, research, and policy. In Rosenberg J, Rosenberg S (Eds), Community Mental Health, 3rd Edition. New York, Routledge, 2018, pp 328-341.
2. Vahia IV, Cohen CI: Geriatric Psychiatry: Schizophrenia and Delusional Disorders. In Sadock, BJ & Sadock VA (Eds), Kaplan and Sadock’s Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry. Philadelphia, Pa, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017.
3. Cohen CI, Elmouchtari M, Ahmed I . Working with elderly persons across cultures, in Bhugra, D, Bhui K (ed), Transcultural Psychiatry.2nd Edition. London, Cambridge, 2018, pp 552-569.
4. Murante T, Cohen CI. Cognitive functioning in older adults with schizophrenia. Focus 15 (1): 26-34, 2017.
5. Cohen CI, Vengassery, A., Garcia Aracena EF. A longitudinal analysis of quality of life and associated factors in older adults with schizophrenia spectrum disorder. Am J Geriatric Psychiatry 25(7):755-765, 2017.
6. Cohen CI: Schizoaffective disorder in later life—"Beware the Jabberwock" American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 25:951-952, 2017.
7. Reinhardt, M., Ghoneim, D., Huggins, B., Mani, A., Murante, T., & Cohen, C. (2018). Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders. In Psychiatric Disorders Late in Life (pp. 205-216). Springer, Cham..
8. Freeman K, Cohen C, Reinhardt M, Mani A, Ghoneim D: Pharmacogenetic guided treatment of mental illness in later life. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 25(3)(suppl 1) S144-S145, 2017
9. Mani A, Cohen C. Clinical correlates of insight in older adults in schizophrenia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 25(3)(suppl 1) S147-S148, 2017.
10.Cohen, C. I., & Murante, T. (2018). A prospective analysis of the role of cognition in three models of aging and schizophrenia. Schizophrenia research, 196, 22-28.
11. Cohen CI, Freeman K, Ghoneim D, Vengassery A, Ghezelaiagh B, Reinhardt MM. Advances in the conceptualization and study of schizophrenia in later life. Psychiatric Clinics of North America 41:39-53, 2018.
12. Cohen CI. Assessing Outcomes in Schizophrenia in Later Life, in Cohen CI, Meesters PD (Eds) Schizophrenia and Psychoses in Later Life: New Perspectives on Treatment, Research, and Policy. London, Cambridge University Press.
13. Copeli, F, Cohen CI. Medical Issues in Older Persons with Schizophrenia , in Cohen CI, Meesters PD (Eds) Schizophrenia and Psychoses in Later Life: New Perspectives on Treatment, Research, and Policy. London, Cambridge University Press, in press.
14. Ghoneim D. A Comparison of Early and Late-Onset Schizophrenia, in Cohen CI, Meesters PD (Eds) Schizophrenia and Psychoses in Later Life: New Perspectives on Treatment, Research, and Policy. London, Cambridge University Press, in press.
15. Reinhardt M. Assessment and Diagnosis of Psychotic Symptoms in Older Adults, in Cohen CI, Meesters PD (Eds) Schizophrenia and Psychoses in Later Life: New Perspectives on Treatment, Research, and Policy. London, Cambridge University Press, in press.
16. Cohen CI. Very late-onset schizophrenia-like psychosis: positive findings but questions remain unanswered. Lancet Psychiatry. In press.