Sean A. Clouston, Ph.D.
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Associate Editor
Term Expiration:
12/31/2026
Affiliation(s):
Stony Brook University
Areas of Interest:
Aging and Cognition, epidemiology, biomarkers, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegeneration
Biography & Research:
Dr. Clouston is a neuroepidemiologist whose work takes a life course approach to understanding social determinants of population aging. During his postdoctoral work, he worked to examine life course factors affecting cognitive aging and decline, and during this time helped to develop the Integrative Analysis of Longitudinal Studies on Aging program, an international network of researchers focused on methods involved in replication work. Soon after arriving at Stony Brook University, Dr. Clouston developed an aging study with the World Trade Center responder population to examine the role of life course traumas in faster rates of cognitive and physical aging. He has awards examining using state-of the art biomarkers including plasma-based measures of neuropathology and PET/MR data collection using [F18]-FEPPA, [F18]-T807, and [C11]-PiB to help explain MCI burden in WTC responders. His work has been profiled by the Alzheimer’s Forum (Jan 28, 2020) and the Washington Post Magazine’s 20th anniversary of 9/11 edition and has received local and national media coverage. His work has spanned topics across domains of neuroepidemiology including changes in cognition, the influence of the APOE4 genotype on psychotic symptoms and cognition, and changes in neuromotor functioning. This work has developed thinking that has been published in high-impact journals including Nat Rev Neurology, Am Rev Socio, J Geron Series A and B, Epidemiologic Rev, Soci Sci Med, Demography, Alzheimer Demen, Translational and Biological Psychiatry, Am J Epidemiol, Age & Ageing, among others. He helped develop Artificial Intelligence-based methodologies for the characterization of aging and aging-related conditions including, notably, for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. He helped to develop and co-leads the Stony Brook Aging Interest Network (SBAIN) to support students doing aging-related research.
