Ashley Prichard, Ph.D. is a CDA2-funded research scientist at the Durham VA and a CVNR Investigator affiliated with the Atlanta VA. 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. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Institute of Technology Department of Biomedical Engineering. Her CDA2 mentors are Dr. Scott Moore of the Durham VA, 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 to identify personalized therapeutic targets and interventions for 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