Associate Professor

Office: Room 353, Life Science Building
Phone: (502) 852-3280
Fax: (502) 852-8904
Email:b.mast@louisville.edu

 
Lab location: Life Sciences Building
Lab phone: 852-3542
Lab website: Aging and Neuropsychology Lab

Education

Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Wayne State University

B.A. Psychology, Calvin College

Research Interest

• Dementia, late life depression, geriatric assessment, vascular depression
  

Selected Publications

Mast, B.T., Miles, T., Penninx, B., Yaffe, K., Rosano, C., Satterfield, S., Ayonayon, H.N., Harris, T., & Simonsick, E.M.  (in press) Vascular disease and future risk of depressive symptomatology in older adults: Findings from Health ABC.  Biological Psychiatry.

Mast, B.T., *Zimmerman, J., & *Rowe, S.V. (in press).  What do we know about the aging brain? Implications for learning in late life.  In M.C. Smith, & T.G. Reio, Jr., (Eds.) Handbook of Research on Adult Development and Learning.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Holley, C.K., & Mast, B.T. (2007).  The effects of widowhood and vascular risk factors on late-life depression.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry.

Mast, B.T., & Allaire, J.C. (2006).  Verbal learning and everyday functioning in dementia: An application of latent variable growth curve modeling.   Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 61, 167-173.

Mast, B.T. (2005).  The impact of cognitive impairment on the phenomenology of geriatric depression.  American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 13, 694-700.

Courses Often Taught

Clinical Geropsychology, Adult Neuropsychology, Multivariate Statistics, Intro to Clinical Psychology, Assessment