Virginia Sturm, PhD

Professor
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Fields of Interest

Virginia Sturm, PhD, is the John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Endowed Professor at UCSF. She is a Professor in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and she is the director of the Clinical Affective Neuroscience (CAN) Laboratory that is located in the UCSF Memory and Aging Center and affiliated with the UCSF Center for Psychophysiology and Behavior (CPB).

After undergraduate work at Georgetown University, she received her PhD degree in clinical psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and completed her clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF in neuropsychology. Her research focuses on identifying the neural systems that support emotion and social behavior in neurodegenerative disease and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Publications

Functional Connectivity Associations With Markers of Disease Progression in GRN Pathogenic Variant Carriers.

Flagan TM, Chu SA, Häkkinen S, Zhang L, McFall D, Rohrer JD, Brown JA, Lee AJ, Fernhoff K, Pasquini L, Rankin KP, Mandelli ML, Gorno-Tempini ML, Yokoyama JS, Sturm VE, Appleby B, Dickerson BC, Domoto-Reilly K, Foroud T, Geschwind DH, Ghoshal N, Graff-Radford NR, Hsiung GR, Huang EJ, Huey E, Kantarci K, Litvan I, Mackenzie IR, Mendez MF, Onyike CU, Petrucelli L, Ramos EM, Roberson ED, Rojas JC, Tartaglia MC, Toga AW, Weintraub S, Forsberg LK, Heuer HW, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Moreno F, Seeley WW, Lee SE, ALLFTD Consortium

Neurodevelopment and neural environment inform Alzheimer's disease age at onset and phenotype.

Miller ZA, Ossenkoppele R, Graff-Radford NR, Allen IE, Shwe W, Rosenberg L, Olguin DJ, Erkkinen MG, Butler PM, Spina S, Yokoyama JS, Desikan RS, Scheltens P, van der Flier W, Pijnenburg Y, Wolters E, Rademakers R, Geschwind DH, Kramer JH, Rosen HJ, Rankin KP, Grinberg LT, Seeley WW, Sturm V, Perry DC, Miller BL, Rabinovici GD, Gorno-Tempini ML

Clinical recognition of frontotemporal dementia with right anterior temporal predominance: A multicenter retrospective cohort study.

Ulugut H, Bertoux M, Younes K, Montembeault M, Fumagalli GG, Samanci B, Illán-Gala I, Kuchcinski G, Leroy M, Thompson JC, Kobylecki C, Santillo AF, Englund E, Waldö ML, Riedl L, Van den Stock J, Vandenbulcke M, Vandenberghe R, Laforce R, Ducharme S, Pressman PS, Caramelli P, de Souza LC, Takada LT, Gurvit H, Hansson O, Diehl-Schmid J, Galimberti D, Pasquier F, Miller BL, Scheltens P, Ossenkoppele R, van der Flier WM, Barkhof F, Fox NC, Sturm VE, Miyagawa T, Whitwell JL, Boeve B, Rohrer JD, Gorno-Tempini ML, Josephs KA, Snowden J, Warren JD, Rankin KP, Pijnenburg YAL, International rtvFTD Working Group

Network connectivity alterations across the MAPT mutation clinical spectrum.

Zhang L, Flagan TM, Häkkinen S, Chu SA, Brown JA, Lee AJ, Pasquini L, Mandelli ML, Gorno-Tempini ML, Sturm VE, Yokoyama JS, Appleby BS, Cobigo Y, Dickerson BC, Domoto-Reilly K, Geschwind DH, Ghoshal N, Graff-Radford NR, Grossman M, Hsiung GR, Huey ED, Kantarci K, Lario Lago A, Litvan I, Mackenzie IR, Mendez MF, Onyike CU, Ramos EM, Roberson ED, Tartaglia MC, Toga AW, Weintraub S, Wszolek ZK, Forsberg LK, Heuer HW, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Rosen HJ, Miller BL, Seeley WW, Lee SE, ARTFL/LEFFTDS/ALLFTD Consortia

Radiogenomics of C9orf72 Expansion Carriers Reveals Global Transposable Element Derepression and Enables Prediction of Thalamic Atrophy and Clinical Impairment.

Bonham LW, Geier EG, Sirkis DW, Leong JK, Ramos EM, Wang Q, Karydas A, Lee SE, Sturm VE, Sawyer RP, Friedberg A, Ichida JK, Gitler AD, Sugrue L, Cordingley M, Bee W, Weber E, Kramer JH, Rankin KP, Rosen HJ, Boxer AL, Seeley WW, Ravits J, Miller BL, Yokoyama JS

Sex differences in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: A new window to executive and behavioral reserve.

Ignacio Illán-Gala, Kaitlin B. Casaletto, Sergi Borrego-Écija, Eider M Arenaza-Urquijo, Amy Wolf, Yann Cobigo, Sheng-Yang Matthew Goh, Adam M. Staffaroni, Daniel Alcolea, Juan Fortea, Rafael Blesa, Jordi Clarimon, M. Florencia Iulita, Anna Brugulat-Serrat, Albert Lladó, Lea T. Grinberg, Kate L Possin, Katherine P Rankin, Joel H Kramer, Gil D. Rabinovici, Adam L. Boxer, William W. Seeley, Virginia Sturm, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Bruce L. Miller, Raquel Sanchez-Valle, David C. Perry, Alberto Lleó, Howard J. Rosen

Sex differences in the behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia: A new window to executive and behavioral reserve.

Illán-Gala I, Casaletto KB, Borrego-Écija S, Arenaza-Urquijo EM, Wolf A, Cobigo Y, Goh SYM, Staffaroni AM, Alcolea D, Fortea J, Blesa R, Clarimon J, Iulita MF, Brugulat-Serrat A, Lladó A, Grinberg LT, Possin K, Rankin KP, Kramer JH, Rabinovici GD, Boxer A, Seeley WW, Sturm VE, Gorno-Tempini ML, Miller BL, Sánchez-Valle R, Perry DC, Lleó A, Rosen HJ

Brain volumetric deficits in MAPT mutation carriers: a multisite study.

Chu SA, Flagan TM, Staffaroni AM, Jiskoot LC, Deng J, Spina S, Zhang L, Sturm VE, Yokoyama JS, Seeley WW, Papma JM, Geschwind DH, Rosen HJ, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Heuer HW, Forsberg LK, Brushaber DE, Grossman M, Coppola G, Dickerson BC, Bordelon YM, Faber K, Feldman HH, Fields JA, Fong JC, Foroud T, Gavrilova RH, Ghoshal N, Graff-Radford NR, Hsiung GR, Huey ED, Irwin DJ, Kantarci K, Kaufer DI, Karydas AM, Knopman DS, Kornak J, Kramer JH, Kukull WA, Lapid MI, Litvan I, Mackenzie IRA, Mendez MF, Miller BL, Onyike CU, Pantelyat AY, Rademakers R, Marisa Ramos E, Roberson ED, Carmela Tartaglia M, Tatton NA, Toga AW, Vetor A, Weintraub S, Wong B, Wszolek ZK

NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DIFFERENCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL INSULTS INVERSELY CORRELATE WITH AGE OF ONSET IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE.

Zachary A. Miller, Rik Ossenkoppele, Wendy Shwe, Isabel Elaine Allen, Lynne M. Rosenberg, Dustin Olguin, Ken Edwards, Robin Ketelle, Anna M. Karydas, David C. Perry, Virginia Sturm, Jennifer S. Yokoyama, Rahul S. Desikan, Daniel H. Geschwind, Emma E. Wolters, Wiesje M. van der Flier, Yolande A.L. Pijnenburg, Philip Scheltens, Rosa Rademakers, Neill R. Graff-Radford, Howard J. Rosen, Lea T. Grinberg, William W. Seeley, Bruce L. Miller, Gil D. Rabinovici, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, NACC

Clinicopathological correlations in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia.

Perry DC, Brown JA, Possin KL, Datta S, Trujillo A, Radke A, Karydas A, Kornak J, Sias AC, Rabinovici GD, Gorno-Tempini ML, Boxer AL, De May M, Rankin KP, Sturm VE, Lee SE, Matthews BR, Kao AW, Vossel KA, Tartaglia MC, Miller ZA, Seo SW, Sidhu M, Gaus SE, Nana AL, Vargas JNS, Hwang JL, Ossenkoppele R, Brown AB, Huang EJ, Coppola G, Rosen HJ, Geschwind D, Trojanowski JQ, Grinberg LT, Kramer JH, Miller BL, Seeley WW

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