Monica Ly, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology

- Title Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Education Graduate Program: Clinical Psychology PhD program, Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut,
Predoctoral Internship: James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL
Postdoctoral Residency: University of California San Diego / San Diego VA Healthcare System
Special Interests: Neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury
Publications:
Rantins P, Ly M, Clark AL, Weigand AJ, Alshaheri A, Merritt VC, Bangen KJ, & Thomas KR for the Department of Defense Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Research Letter: TBI severity moderates the association between subjective and objective attention in older veterans. J Head Trauma Rehabil 2023; Epub ahead of print. https://doi.org/10.1097/HTR.0000000000000897
Merritt VC, Gasperi M, Deka R, Yimm J, Ly MT, & Chanfreau-Coffinier C. Exploring interactions between traumatic brain injury history and gender on medical comorbidities in military veterans: an epidemiological analysis in the VA Million Veteran Program. J Neurotrauma 2023; Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37358378; https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2023.0174
Ly MT, Merritt VC, Ozturk ED, Clark AL, Hanson KL, Delano-Wood LM, & Sorg SF. Subjective memory complaints are associated with decreased cortical thickness in veterans with histories of mild traumatic brain injury. Clinical Neuropsychol 2023; Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36883430; https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2023.2184720
Alosco ML, Ly M, Mosaheb S, Saltiel N, Uretsky M, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano J, Delano-Wood L, Bondi MW, Meng G, Xia W, Daley S, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Dwyer B, Daneshvar DH,
Nowinski C, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Alvarez VE, Mez J, Huber BR, McKee AC, & Stein TD. Decreased myelin proteins in brain donors exposed to repetitive head impacts. Brain Commun 2023; 5(2). PMID: 36895961; PMCID: PMC9990992; https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcad019
Ly MT, Scarneo-Miller SE, Lepley AS, Coleman K, Hirschhorn R, Yeargin S, Casa DJ, & Chen C-M. Combining MRI and cognitive evaluation to classify concussion in university athletes. Brain Imaging Behav 2022;16, 2175–2187. PMID: 35639240; https://doi.org/10.1007/s11682-022-00687-w
Rowny SB*, Ly MT*, Kluisza L, Casal-Roscum L, Prudic J, & Chen C-M. Smaller increase in delta post-ictal suppression in magnetic seizure therapy than electroconvulsive therapy in geriatric patients with severe depression: a multi-case study. Clinical Neurophysiol 2020; 131(6), 1219-1220. PMID: 32299005 & 32430168; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2020.03.001
Lepley AS, Ly MT, Grooms DR, Kinsella-Shaw JM, & Lepley LK. Corticospinal tract structure and excitability in patients with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a DTI and TMS study. NeuroImage Clin 2020; 25, 102157. PMID: 31901791; PMCID: PMC6948362; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2019.102157
Ly MT, Nanavati TU, Frum CA, & Pergami P. Comparing tract‐based spatial statistics and manual region‐of‐interest labeling as diffusion analysis methods to detect white matter abnormalities in infants with hypoxic‐ischemic encephalopathy. J Magn Reson Imaging 2015; 42(6), 1689-1697. PMID: 25914196; PMCID: PMC4418203; https://doi.org/10.1002/jmri.24930
- Divisions
- Neuropsychology