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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
Dr. Hampstead is a board-certified Clinical Neuropsychologist and is the inaugural Stanley Berent, Ph.D., Collegiate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan and Staff Neuropsychologist in the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. He serves as the Clinical Core Leader and Neuroimaging Core Co-Leader of the NIA P30 funded Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Dr. Hampstead’s research focuses on non-pharmacologic approaches to maximize functioning in older adults across the dementia spectrum. Specifically, he uses cognition-oriented treatments and non-invasive brain stimulation to enhance cognition, emotion, and everyday functioning. Dr. Hampstead integrates these techniques with functional and structural neuroimaging in order to predict treatment response, identify the neuroplastic changes following treatment, and plan/develop new interventions. Ongoing work integrates positron emission tomography (PET) in order to better characterize individual-level factors associated with treatment response. He has maintained continuous federal funding for over 15 years, with most support from the Department of Veterans Affairs and National Institute on Aging.