Kamalini Ranasinghe, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Professor
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Dr. Kamalini Ranasinghe received her medical degree from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and completed her internship training in general medicine and general surgery. She earned her doctorate degree in Cognition and Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas, under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Kilgard.

Dr. Ranasinghe is an assistant professor at the Memory and Aging Center. Her research centers on the network dysfunction of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Much of her work has been devoted to identifying the spatial and temporal characteristics network dysfunction using MEG-imaging of the brain.

Publications

Quantitative Amyloid-PET in Real-World Practice: Lessons from the Imaging Dementia—Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) study.

Renaud La Joie, Nidhi S. Mundada, Ganna Blazhenets, Jhony Alejandro Mejía-Perez, Daniel R Schonhaut, Ehud Zeltzer, David N. Soleimani-Meigooni, Hanna Cho, Kamalini G Ranasinghe, Charles Windon, Golnaz Yadollahikhales, Leonardo Iaccarino, Robert Koeppe, Maria C. Carrillo, Lucy Hanna, Constantine Gatsonis, Andrew March, Barry A Siegel, Bruce E Hillner, Rachel A. Whitmer, Gil D. Rabinovici

Distinct Subtypes of Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia Based on Patterns of Network Degeneration.

Ranasinghe KG, Rankin KP, Pressman PS, Perry DC, Lobach IV, Seeley WW, Coppola G, Karydas AM, Grinberg LT, Shany-Ur T, Lee SE, Rabinovici GD, Rosen HJ, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, Miller ZA, Chiong W, DeMay M, Kramer JH, Possin KL, Sturm VE, Bettcher BM, Neylan M, Zackey DD, Nguyen LA, Ketelle R, Block N, Wu TQ, Dallich A, Russek N, Caplan A, Geschwind DH, Vossel KA, Miller BL