Michael L. Alosco, PhD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Alosco is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and serves as the co-director of the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Clinical Core and is a lead investigator of the BU CTE Center. He also oversees Neuropsychology for the Memory and Aging Clinic at Boston Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate studies at Providence College and he earned his doctoral degree in clinical psychology, with a focus on neuropsychology, in 2015 from Kent State University. He completed his clinical internship in neuropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Alosco completed his post-doctoral studies in neuropsychology via NIH-funded training Awards (T32, F32) at the Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center. In 2018, he became an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine and he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. Dr. Alosco has >150 peer-reviewed publications, is the PI of multiple NIH funded grants, is the recipient of an NIH/NINDS K23 Award, is the Project Lead of an NIH-funded multisite U54 grant, and serves as aco-investigator on numerous federal and non-federal funded grants. He has also written numerous book chapters, and he is the co-Editor of the Oxford Handbook of Adult Cognitive Disorders which was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.

Dr. Alosco has an active and established research program that has a thematic focus on three areas: (1) the relationship between repetitive head impacts (RHI) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) with a later-life cognitive and neuropsychiatric decline, as well as neurodegenerative disease(s); (2) the contribution of cerebrovascular disease to the clinical and neuropathological expression of CTE, AD, and AD-related dementias (ADRD); and (3) in vivo biomarker development for CTE, AD, and ADRD with a focus on tau PET imaging, structural MRI, and blood-based biomarkers.

Publications

  • Published 6/7/2026

    Miner AE, Kmiecik MJ, Namburi N, Dunckley N, Adler CH, Driver-Dunckley ED, Nowinski CJ, Gottesman J, Tripodis Y, Stern RA, McKee AC, Stein TD, Mez J, Briggs FBS, Alosco ML. Associations Between Cumulative Head Trauma and Self-Reported Parkinsonism and Parkinson's Disease in Former Soccer Players. Mov Disord. 2026 Jun 07. PMID: 42252813.

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  • Published 6/2/2026

    Mez J, Abdolmohammadi B, Durape S, Dwyer B, Alosco ML, Yew B, Pritchett A, Fernández NB, Hicks A, Uretsky M, Ryder M, Faheem F, Nosek S, Martin B, Palmisano J, Nowinski C, Tripodis Y, O'Connor KD, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Crary JF, Stein TD, McKee AC, Daneshvar DH. Validity of the NINDS traumatic encephalopathy syndrome criteria for predicting chronic traumatic encephalopathy. medRxiv. 2026 Jun 02. PMID: 42282171.

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  • Published 5/1/2026

    Bernick C, Kleven BC, Alosco ML, Arciniega H, Ashton N, Bender A, Bieniek KF, Cordes D, Cordes L, Katz DI, Keene D, Kinney J, Mandarino L, Matthews D, McKee A, Mez J, Oh EC, Peskind E, Rabinovici GD, Reiman EM, Stern RA, Vasdev N, Zetterberg H, Zhuang X, Cummings JL. Advancing biomarker development for chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Summary and recommendations from the 2025 Leon Thal Summit. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 May; 22(5):e71424. PMID: 42121201.

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  • Published 5/1/2026

    Tao Q, Han J, Ang TFA, Hou L, Liu C, Murabito JM, Lunetta KL, Mez J, Alosco ML, Stein TD, Zhang X, Au R, Farrer L, Palmisano JN, Hamburg NM, Qiu WQ. Peripheral vascular function, including endothelium-dependent measures, and dementia risk: The Framingham Heart Study. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 May; 22(5):e71396. PMID: 42050369.

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  • Published 4/28/2026

    Kleven BC, Chien LC, Surwill D, Alosco ML, Wethe JV, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Shenton ME, Pasternak O, Katz DI, Peskind E, Balcer LJ, Koerte IK, Mez J, Reiman EM, Cantu RC, Stern RA, Zetterberg H, Bernick C, Cummings JL. Cognitive, biomarker, and neuroimaging indices associated with traumatic encephalopathy syndrome across two independent athlete cohorts. Res Sq. 2026 Apr 28. PMID: 42094043.

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Education

  • Kent State University, PhD
  • Kent State University, MA
  • Providence College, BA

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