Rate My Professor Brenda Hanna-Pladdy

Hanna-Pladdy's key publications include 'Dopaminergic Basis of Spatial Deficits in Early Parkinson's Disease' (Cerebral Cortex Communications, 2021), examining dopamine transporter imaging and spatial cognition; 'Paradoxical Effect of Dopamine Medication on Cognition in Parkinson's Disease: Relationship to Side of Motor Onset' (Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, 2015), highlighting differential cognitive impacts based on motor symptom onset side; 'Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Damage: Implications for Limb Apraxia' (Brain Sciences, 2018); and earlier influential works such as 'The Relation Between Instrumental Musical Activity and Cognitive Aging' (Neuropsychology, 2011, cited over 500 times), demonstrating lifelong musical engagement's protective effects on cognition, and 'Recent and Past Musical Activity Predicts Cognitive Aging Variability' (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012). Her research has advanced knowledge on cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative disorders, emphasizing multimodal neuroimaging and behavioral assessments. At the University of Maryland School of Medicine, she recruited post-doctoral researchers for clinic-based studies on Parkinson's neuroimaging and cognition.