Ashley Prichard, Ph.D. is a research biologist and CVNR Investigator at the Atlanta VA and a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Biomedical Engineering. She attended Christopher Newport University for her undergraduate studies and received a B.S in Psychology. She received her master’s degree in Psychology at University of North Carolina Wilmington studying rodent olfactory working memory and her Ph.D. in Psychology in studies utilizing dog fMRI within the Neuroscience and Animal Behavior program at Emory University. Her mentors are Drs. Machelle T. Pardue and Jennifer Stevens at the Atlanta VA, and Annabelle C. Singer at Georgia Tech. Dr. Prichard’s research interests utilize noninvasive audiovisual neurostimulation to target Alzheimer’s disease pathology in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease, and the underlying molecular mechanisms involved. As men and women show pronounced differences in Alzheimer’s disease etiology, these studies will test noninvasive neurostimulation across sex to identify personalized therapeutic targets of early-stage Alzheimer’s in translational science research and in future clinical studies.  

Research Interests:

Research Interests:

•      Age-relatedcognition and memory
•      Immuneresponse and neuropatholog
•      CanineNeuroscience and Behavior