Ryan Dougherty

Assistant Professor @RutgersUniversity

[Ryan Dougherty @RJ_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
🌐 https://t.co/eqq0YLALor
✉️ [email protected]
#PhDOpportunity #BrainHealth

[Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals @alzdemjournals]

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: https://t.co/0C8jnNmNCD

[Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals @alzdemjournals]

🔔Call for Papers: #TRCI Physical Activity and Exercise: Pathways Influencing Risk of ADRD🔔

⏰Updated Submission Deadline: Sept. 30, 2025

More Information: https://t.co/7ySvoQODgp

[Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals @alzdemjournals]

#TRCI call for papers- Physical Activity and Exercise: Pathways Influencing Risk of ADRD Special Issue

🔔Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

More Information: https://t.co/7ySvoQO5qR

#AlzResearch

[Jennifer Schrack, PhD @jenschrack]

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

[Johns Hopkins Memory & Aging @JH_Memory_Aging]

🧠🚶‍♀️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

[Hopkins Med News @HopkinsMedNews]

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. https://t.co/1tAClTyj8D

[Tobey Betthauser @tobeybetthauser]

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: https://t.co/RDmeuWMXiT email me for postdocs!

[Johns Hopkins Memory & Aging @JH_Memory_Aging]

🧠⚕️ #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: https://t.co/cbQJflX1zD

[Amal A. Wanigatunga @AmalForResearch]

Certain alterations in everyday movement hold potential in helping provide insight into dementia risk.

Press release: https://t.co/Zi1CfEAed8

Article: https://t.co/bMruk2gIF4

@SylviaOnTheRoad @jurbane2 @adamspira @RJ_Dougherty @jenschrack @JohnsHopkinsEPI @NIHAging #BLSA

[APNM Journal🏋️🍎 @APNMjournal]

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: https://t.co/TzJBNT5e91
#LetsMoveCanada @NHFDcan

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

"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." https://t.co/GKNPr1w5UX

[UCSF Center for Population Brain Health (K. Yaffe) @UCSFpopbrain]

Greater #television viewing in early to mid-adulthood may be associated with lower gray matter volume in #middleage. Read more in @BrainImggBehvr! https://t.co/wETbAhsFKJ

[Jennifer Schrack, PhD @jenschrack]

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 🎉🥳

[Jennifer Schrack, PhD @jenschrack]

How efficiently you move can tell us about your #dementia risk. Great work by @RJ_Dougherty linking the physiology of walking with #Alzheimers pathology: https://t.co/gLpH0wZjn0 @AmalForResearch @SylviaOnTheRoad @bilgelm

[priyapalta @priyapalta]

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

[Ryan Dougherty @RJ_Dougherty]

@KristineYaffe @NIH Well deserved! Congratulations, Kristine!

[Ryan Dougherty @RJ_Dougherty]

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

[UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center @UCSFmac]

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. https://t.co/CPgmYyAXum @KristineYaffe

[Jill Barnes @Barnes_Lab]

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