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Alan B. Zonderman, Ph.D. Alan B. Zonderman, Ph.D., Senior Investigator
Chief, Cognition Section
Laboratory of Personality and Cognition
E-mail: zonderman@nih.gov

Education:

1973 - B.S., University of Massachusetts
1974 - M.S., University of Colorado, Boulder (Psychology)
1977 - Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder (Psychology)

Brief Chronology of Employment:

1977-79 - NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Multivariate Statistics, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

1978 - Lecturer, Department of Psychology, California State University, Hayward

1978-79 - Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

1979-83 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

1983-90 - Senior Staff Fellow, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore

1990-1997 - Research Psychologist, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore

1997 - Chief, Research Resources Branch, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore

Chief, Cognition Section, Laboratory of Personality and Cognition, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore

Honors:

1973 - B.S., Magna cum laude
1977 - Psi Chi Graduate Honors Society
1979 - Invited speaker, Behavior Genetics Association Symposium on Testing Hypotheses about Familial Resemblance
1983 - Mensa Award for Excellence in Published Research on Cognitive Abilities
1985 - Keynote speaker, MacArthur Research Network Conference on Multivariate Behavioral Genetics and Development

Bibliography:

  1. Zonderman AB, Vandenberg SG, Spuhler KP, Fain PR. Assortative marriage for cognitive abilities. Behav Genet. 1977;7:261-271. Abstract

  2. Zonderman AB. MOP: Matrix operations program. Behav Res Meth Instrum. 1979;11:453-454.

  3. Hogan RT, Zonderman AB. Vive la difference: Review of Willerman's The Psychology of Individual and Group Differences. Contemp Psychol. 1980;25:101-102.

  4. Johnson JA, Hogan RT, Zonderman AB, Callens C, Rogolsky S. Moral judgment, personality, and attitudes toward authority. J Personality Soc Psychol. 1981;40:370-373.

  5. Zonderman AB. Differential heritability and consistency: A reanalysis of the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) California Psychological Inventory (CPI) data. Behav Genet. 1982;12:193-208. Abstract

  6. Benbow CP, Stanley JC, Kirk MK, Zonderman AB. Structure of intelligence in intellectually precocious children and in their parents. Intelligence. 1983;7:129-152. Abstract

  7. Benbow CP, Zonderman AB, Stanley JC. Assortative marriage and the familiality of cognitive abilities in families of extremely gifted students. Intelligence. 1983;7:153-161. Abstract

  8. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, Engel BT, Baile WF, Brimlow DL, Brinker J. The relation of chest pain symptoms to angiographic findings of coronary artery stenosis and neuroticism. Psychosom Med. 1985;47:285-93. Abstract

  9. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR. Longitudinal course of social support among men in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. In: Sarason IG, Sarason BR, eds. Social Support: Theory, Research, and Applications. The Hague, The Netherlands: Nijhoff; 1985:137-154.

  10. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR, Williams RB. Content and comprehensiveness in the MMPI: An item factor analysis in a normal adult sample. J Personality Soc Psychol. 1985;48:925-933. Abstract

  11. Zonderman AB, Heft MW, Costa PT. Does the Illness Behavior Questionnaire measure abnormal illness behavior? Health Psychol. 1985;4:425-436. Abstract

  12. Costa PT, Busch CM, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR. Correlations of MMPI factor scales with measures of the five factor model of personality. J Personality Assess. 1986;50:640-650. Abstract

  13. Costa PT, Jr., McCrae RR, Zonderman AB, Barbano HE, Lebowitz B, Larson DM. Cross-sectional studies of personality in a national sample: 2. Stability in neuroticism, extraversion, and openness. Psychol Aging. 1986;1:144-9. Abstract

  14. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR, Williams RB. Cynicism and paranoid alienation in the Cook and Medley HO Scale. Psychosom Med. 1986;48:283-285. Abstract

  15. Zonderman AB. Twins, families, and the psychology of individual differences: The legacy of Steven G. Vandenberg. Behav Genet. 1986;16:11-24. Abstract

  16. Zonderman AB, Leu VL, Costa PT. Effects of age, hypertension history, and neuroticism on health perceptions. Exper Geron. 1986;21:449-458. Abstract

  17. Costa PT, McCrae RR, Zonderman AB. Environmental and dispositional influences on well-being: Longitudinal follow-up of an American national sample. Br J Psychol. 1987;78:299-306. Abstract

  18. Costa PT, Jr., Zonderman AB, McCrae RR, Cornoni-Huntley J, Locke BZ, Barbano HE. Longitudinal analyses of psychological well-being in a national sample: stability of mean levels. J Gerontol. 1987;42:50-5. Abstract

  19. Emmons CA, Fetting JH, Zonderman AB. A comparison of the symptoms of medical and psychiatric patients matched on the Beck Depression Inventory. Gen Hosp Psych. 1987;9:398-404. Abstract

  20. Whitehead WE, Bosmajian L, Zonderman AB, Costa PT, Schuster MM. Symptoms of psychologic distress associated with irritable bowel syndrome. Comparison of community and medical clinic samples. Gastroenterology. 1988;95:709-14. Abstract

  21. Zonderman AB, Costa PT, McCrae RR. Depression as a risk for cancer morbidity and mortality in a nationally representative sample. JAMA. 1989;262:1191-1195. Abstract

  22. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR. "Cancer and psychosocial traits, continued": Reply. JAMA. 1990;263:514. Abstract

  23. Fleg JL, Gerstenblith G, Zonderman AB, Becker LC, Weisfeldt ML, Costa PT, Lakatta EG. Prevalence and prognostic significance of exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia detected by thallium scintigraphy and electrocardiography in asymptomatic volunteers. Circ. 1990;81:428-36. Abstract

  24. Siegler IC, Zonderman AB, Barefoot JC, Williams RB, Costa PT, Jr., McCrae RR. Predicting personality in adulthood from college MMPI scores: implications for follow-up studies in psychosomatic medicine. Psychosom Med. 1990;52:644-52. Abstract

  25. Whitehead WE, Crowell MD, Bosmajian L, Zonderman AB, Costa PT, Benjamin C, Robinson JC, Heller BR, Schuster MM. Existence of irritable bowel syndrome supported by factor analysis of symptoms in two community samples. Gastroenterology. 1990;98:336-340. Abstract

  26. Almada SJ, Zonderman AB, Shekelle RB, Dyer AR, Daviglus ML, Costa PT, Stamler J. Neuroticism and cynicism and risk of death in middle-aged men: the Western Electric Study. Psychosom Med. 1991;53:165-75. Abstract

  27. Costa PT, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR. Personality, defense, coping, and adaptation in older adulthood. In: Cummings EM, Greene AL, Karraker KK, eds. Life-span development psychology: Perspectives on stress and coping. Hillsdale, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates; 1991.

  28. Metter EJ, Metter EL, Costa PT, Brant LJ, Zonderman AB, Fozard JL. Response stability and reliability in longitudinal health evaluations. Aging. 1992;4:43-52. Abstract

  29. Zonderman AB, Herbst JH, Schmidt C, Costa PT, McCrae RR. Depressive symptoms as a nonspecific, graded risk for psychiatric diagnoses. J Abnorm Psychol. 1993;102:544-52. Abstract

  30. Zonderman AB, Siegler IC, Barefoot JC, Williams RB, Costa PT. Age and gender differences in the content scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Experiment Aging Research. 1993;19:241-57. Abstract

  31. Busch CM, Zonderman AB, Costa PT. Menopausal transition and psychological distress in a nationally representative sample: Is menopause associated with psychological distress? J Aging Health. 1994;6:209-228. Abstract

  32. Resnick SM, Zonderman AB, Golski S, Metter EJ, Bryan RN, Costa PT. Memory change as a predictor of regional brain structure and function. Biomedical Gerontology. 1994;18:206-210.

  33. Giambra LM, Arenberg D, Kawas CH, Zonderman AB, Costa PT. Adult life span changes in immediate visual memory and verbal intelligence. Psychol Aging. 1995;10:123-39. Abstract

  34. Lethbridge-Cejku M, Scott WW Jr, Reichle R, Ettinger WH, Zonderman AB, Costa P, Plato CC, Tobin JD, Hochberg MC. Association of radiographic features of osteoarthritis of the knee with knee pain: data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Arthritis Care Res. 1995;8:182-188. Abstract

  35. Resnick SM, Trotman KM, Kawas C, Zonderman AB. Age-associated changes in specific errors on the Benton Visual Retention Test. J Gerontol. 1995;50b:P171-P178. Abstract

  36. Zonderman AB. Symptoms of depression are not a risk for cancer morbidity and mortality. In: Stein M, Baum A, eds. Perspectives on Behavioral Medicine. Hillsdale, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates; 1995.

  37. Zonderman AB, Giambra LM, Arenberg D, Resnick SM, Costa PT. Changes in immediate visual memory predict cognitive impairment. Archiv Clin Neuropsychol. 1995;10:111-123. Abstract

  38. McCrae RR, Zonderman AB, Costa PT, Bond MH, Paunonen SV. Evaluating replicability of factors in the Revised NEO Personality Inventory: Confirmatory factor analysis versus Procrustes rotation. J Personality Soc Psychol. 1996;70:552-566. Abstract

  39. Kawas CH, Resnick SM, Morrison A, Brookmeyer R, Corrada M, Zonderman AB, Baccall C, Lingle D, Metter E. A prospective study of estrogen replacement therapy and the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Neurology 1997;48:1517-1521. Abstract

  40. Vandenbergh DJ, Zonderman AB, Wang J, Uhl GR, Costa PT. No association between novelty seeking and dopamine D4 receptor (D4DR) exon III seven repeat alleles in Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging participants. Mol Psychiatry 1997;2:417-419. Abstract

  41. Resnick SM, Metter EJ, Zonderman AB. Estrogen replacement therapy and longitudinal decline in visual memory: A possible protective effect? Neurology 1997;49:1491-1497. Abstract

  42. Golski S, Zonderman AB, Malamut BL, Resnick SM. Verbal and figural recognition memory: Task development and age associations. Exp Aging Res 1998;24:359-385. Abstract

  43. Rasmusson DX, Zonderman AB, Kawas CH, Resnick SM. Effects of age and dementia on the Trail Making Test. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 1998;2:169-178. Abstract

  44. Resnick SM, Maki P, Golski S, Kraut M, Zonderman AB. Estrogen effects on PET-CBF and neuropsychological performance. Horm Behav 1998;34:171-182. Abstract

  45. Maki PM, Zonderman, AB, Weingartner, H. Age differences in implicit memory: Fragmented object identification and category exemplar generation. Psychol Aging 1999;14:284-294. Abstract

  46. Kawas C, Gray S, Brookmeyer R, Fozard J, Zonderman AB. Age-specific incidence rates of Alzheimer's disease: The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Neurology 2000;54:2072-7. Abstract

  47. Resnick SM, Goldszal AF, Davatzikos C, Golski S, Kraut MA, Metter EJ, Bryan RN, Zonderman AB. One-year age changes in MRI brain volumes in older adults. Cereb Cortex 2000;10:464-472. Abstract

  48. Moffat SD, Szekely CA, Zonderman AB, Kabani NJ, Resnick SM. Longitudinal change in hippocampal volume as a function of apolipoprotein E genotype. Neurology 2000;55(1):134-136. Abstract

  49. Moffat SD, Zonderman AB, Harman SM, Blackman MR, Resnick SM. The relationship between longitudinal declines in dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate concentrations and cognitive performance in older men. Arch. Intern. Med. 2000;160(14):2193-2198. Abstract

  50. Herbst JH, Zonderman AB, McCrae RR, Costa PT Jr. Do the dimensions of the temperament and character inventory map a simple genetic architecture? Evidence from molecular genetics and factor analysis. Am J Psychiatry. 2000;157(8):1285-1290. Abstract

  51. Scuteri A, Bos AJ, Zonderman AB, Brant LJ, Lakatta EG, Fleg JL. Is the apoE4 allele an independent predictor of coronary events? Am J Med. 2001;110(1):28-32. Abstract

  52. Maki P, Zonderman A, Resnick S. Enhanced verbal memory in nondemented elderly women receiving hormone-replacement therapy. Am J Psychiatry. 2001;158(2):227-233. Abstract

  53. Hough CD, Cho KR, Zonderman AB, Schwartz DR, Morin PJ. Coordinately up-regulated genes in ovarian cancer. Cancer Res. 2001;61(10):3869-3876. Abstract

  54. Moffat SD, Zonderman AB, Resnick SM. Age differences in spatial memory in a virtual environment navigation task. Neurobiol Aging. 2001;22(5):787-796. Abstract

  55. Lamar M, Zonderman AB, Resnick S. Contribution of specific cognitive processes to executive functioning in an aging population. Neuropsychology. 2002;16(2):156-162. Abstract

  56. Moffat SD, Zonderman AB, Metter EJ, Blackman MR, Harman SM, Resnick SM. Longitudinal assessment of serum free testosterone concentration predicts memory performance and cognitive status in elderly men. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002;87(11):5001-5007. Abstract

  57. Lamar M, Resnick SM, Zonderman AB. Longitudinal changes in verbal memory in older adults: distinguishing the effects of age from repeat testing. Neurology. 2003;60(1):82-86. Abstract

  58. Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Johnson WR. C-reactive protein in the prediction of cardiovascular events. N Engl J Med. 2003;348(11):1059-1061. Abstract

  59. Kawas CH, Corrada MM, Brookmeyer R, Morrison A, Resnick SM, Zonderman AB, Arenberg D. Visual memory predicts Alzheimer's disease more than a decade before diagnosis. Neurology. 2003;60(7):1089-1093. Abstract

  60. Resnick SM, Pham DL, Kraut MA, Zonderman AB, Davatzikos C. Longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging studies of older adults: a shrinking brain. J Neurosci. 2003;23(8):3295-3301. Abstract

  61. Merritt MM, Sollers JJ 3rd, Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Thayer JF. Relationships among spectral measures of baroreflex sensitivity and indices of cardiac vagal control. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2003;39:193-198. Abstract

  62. Lopez de Silanes I, Fan J, Yang X, Zonderman AB, Potapova O, Pizer ES, Gorospe M. Role of the RNA-binding protein HuR in colon carcinogenesis. Oncogene. 2003;22(46):7146-7154. Abstract

  63. Thayer JF, Merritt MM, Sollers JJ 3rd, Zonderman AB, Evans MK, Yie S, Abernethy DR. Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion polymorphism DD genotype on high-frequency heart rate variability in African Americans. Am J Cardiol. 2003;92(12):1487-1490. Abstract

  64. Terracciano A, Merritt M, Zonderman AB, Evans MK. Personality traits and sex differences in emotion recognition among African Americans and Caucasians. Ann NY Acad Sci. 2003;1000:309-312. Abstract

  65. Moffat SD, Zonderman AB, Metter EJ, Kawas C, Blackman MR, Harman SM, Resnick SM. Free testosterone and risk for Alzheimer disease in older men. Neurology. 2004;62(2):188-193. Abstract

  66. Mager DE, Merritt MM, Kasturi J, Witkin LR, Urdiqui-Macdonald M, Sollers JJ 3rd, Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Abernethy DR, Thayer JF. Kullback-Leibler clustering of continuous wavelet transform measures of heart rate variability. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2004;40:337-342. Abstract

  67. Nguyen HT, Kitner-Triolo M, Evans MK, Zonderman AB. Factorial invariance of the CES-D in low socioeconomic status African Americans compared with a nationally representative sample. Psychiatry Res. 2004;126(2):177-187. Abstract

  68. Davey A, Halverson CF Jr, Zonderman AB, Costa PT Jr. Change in depressive symptoms in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2004;59(6):P270-P277. Abstract

  69. Scuteri A, Najjar SS, Muller D, Andres R, Morrell CH, Zonderman AB, Lakatta EG. APOE4 allele and the natural history of cardiovascular risk factors. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2005;289(2):E322-E327. Abstract

  70. Dal Forno G, Palermo MT, Donohue JE, Karagiozis H, Zonderman AB, Kawas CH. Depressive symptoms, sex, and risk for Alzheimer's disease. Ann Neurol. 2005;57(3):381-387. Abstract

  71. Waldstein SR, Giggey PP, Thayer JF, Zonderman AB. Nonlinear relations of blood pressure to cognitive function: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. Hypertension. 2005;45(3):374-379. Abstract

  72. Sollers JJ 3rd, Merritt MM, Silver RA, Evans MK, Zonderman AB, Thayer JF. Understanding blood pressure variability: spectral indices as a function of gender and age. Biomed Sci Instrum. 2005;41:43-47. Abstract

  73. Brant LJ, Sheng SL, Morrell CH, Zonderman AB. Data from a longitudinal study provided measurements of cognition to screen for Alzheimer's disease. J Clin Epidemiol. 2005;58(7):701-707. Abstract

  74. Zonderman AB. Predicting Alzheimer's disease in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol. 2005;18(4):192-195. Abstract

  75. Nguyen HT, Zonderman AB. Relationship between age and aspects of depression: consistency and reliability across two longitudinal studies. Psychol Aging. 2006;21(1):119-126. Abstract

  76. Driscoll I, Resnick SM, Troncoso JC, An Y, O'Brien R, Zonderman AB. Impact of Alzheimer's pathology on cognitive trajectories in nondemented elderly. Ann Neurol. 2006;60(6):688-695. Abstract

  77. Gamaldo A, Moghekar A, Kilada S, Resnick SM, Zonderman AB, O'Brien R. Effect of a clinical stroke on the risk of dementia in a prospective cohort. Neurology. 2006;67(8):1363-1369. Abstract

  78. Pilia G, Chen WM, Scuteri A, Orru M, Albai G, Dei M, Lai S, Usala G, Lai M, Loi P, Mameli C, Vacca L, Deiana M, Olla N, Masala M, Cao A, Najjar SS, Terracciano A, Nedorezov T, Sharov A, Zonderman AB, Abecasis GR, Costa P, Lakatta E, Schlessinger D. Heritability of cardiovascular and personality traits in 6,148 Sardinians. PLoS Genet. 2006;2(8). Abstract

  79. Beason-Held LL, Moghekar A, Zonderman AB, Kraut MA, Resnick SM. Longitudinal changes in cerebral blood flow in the older hypertensive brain. Stroke. 2007;38(6):1766-1773. Abstract

  80. Costa PT Jr, Terracciano A, Uda M, Vacca L, Mameli C, Pilia G, Zonderman AB, Lakatta E, Schlessinger D, McCrae RR. Personality traits in sardinia: testing founder population effects on trait means and variances. Behav Genet. 2007;37(2):376-387. Abstract

  81. Lustig A, Weeraratna AT, Wood WW 3rd, Teichberg D, Bertak D, Carter A, Poosala S, Firman J, Becker KG, Zonderman AB, Longo DL, Taub DD. Transcriptome analysis of age-, gender- and diet-associated changes in murine thymus. Cell Immunol. 2007;245(1):42-61. Abstract

  82. Nguyen HT, Evans MK, Zonderman AB. Influence of medical conditions on executive and memory functions in low socioeconomic status African Americans. Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2007 June; [Epub ahead of print]. Abstract

  83. Riudavets MA, Iacono D, Resnick SM, O'Brien R, Zonderman AB, Martin LJ, Rudow G, Pletnikova O, Troncoso JC. Resistance to Alzheimer's pathology is associated with nuclear hypertrophy in neurons. Neurobiol Aging. 2007;28(10):1484-1492. Abstract

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