Ricardo Osorio, MD

JAD profile

Affiliation(s): 

NYU School of Medicine

Lab URL: 

http://www.med.nyu.edu/psych/research/research-programs/sleep-aging-memory

ORCID URL: 

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2735-9609

Areas of Interest: 

Alzheimer's disease, sleep

Biography & Research: 

Dr. Ricardo Osorio is Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Center for Brain Health (CBH). He completed his Psychiatry residency training at the Hospital 12 de Octubre (Spain) and the Institute of Neurology (UK) and worked as a Geriatric Psychiatrist at Complejo Hospitalario de Toledo (Spain) in its Memory Disorders Unit. Before coming to NYU, he also worked as a Research Scientist in the Alzheimer’s Project Research Unit (CIEN Foundation, Spain). At CBH he oversees all patient enrollments for the Sleep studies performed at CBH and conducts the Psychiatric and medical history interviews for all Spanish speaking subjects seeking enrollment into both CBH and Alzheimer Disease Center related studies at NYU. Dr. Osorio’s focal area of research interest is to use neuroimaging and CSF biomarkers to assist in the study of sleep disturbances as risk factors for cognitive impairment in aging and for dementia