Gender	Female
E-mail	michal.beeri@mssm.edu

Dr. Michal Schnaider Beeri is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Beeri joined the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2001. Specializing in geriatric psychology, Dr. Beeri is the Project Director of longitudinal studies examining risk and protective factors against Alzheimer's disease. She is also the principal investigator of a functional MRI study examining memory function in cognitively intact very old people. Dr. Beeri's B.A. and Masters degrees were awarded Cum Laude. She received her Ph.D. in rehabilitation psychology from Bar Ilan University in Israel in 2000. She won the Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development and the Gonda Foundation awards. In Israel, Dr. Beeri conducted a major prospective historical epidemiological study of cardiovascular risk factors in middle age and Alzheimer's disease in an oldest old population. Drawing on a cohort of 10,000 male Israeli civil service workers who had participated in a cardiovascular risk factors study in the early 1960s, Dr. Beeri assessed for Alzheimer's disease the 2,000 survivors. She is now publishing the results of this study. More recently she has been involved in aging studies of an oldest old cohort developed in a Mount Sinai ADRC project.

West R, Beeri MS, Schmeidler J, Hannigan CM, Angelo G, Grossman HT, Rosendorff C, Silverman JM. Better memory functioning associated with higher total and LDL cholesterol levels in very elderly subjects without the APOE4 allele. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry; in press.

Beeri MS, Schmeidler J, Silverman JM, Gandy S, Wysocki M, Hannigan CM, Purohit D, Lesser G, Grossman HT, Haroutunian V. Combination of insulin with other diabetes medication is associated with lower Alzheimer's neuropathology. Neurology; in press.

Beeri MS, Davidson M, Silverman JM, Schmeidler J, Ravona RS, Noy S, Goldbourt U. Religiosity in midlife is associated with dementia three decades later. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology; in press.

Beeri MS, Rapp M, Schmeidler J, Reichenberg A, Purohit DP, Perl DP, Grossman H, Prohovnik I, Haroutunian V, Silverman JM. Number of children is associated with neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease in women. Neurobiology of Aging; ahead of print.

Beeri MS, Silverman JM, Schmeidler J, Wysochi M, Grossman HT, Purohit DP, Perl DP, Haroutunian H. Clinical Dementia Rating performed several years prior to death predicts regional Alzheimer's neuropathology. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2008; 25: 392-398.

Beeri MS, Schmeidler J, Sano M, Wang J, Lally R, Grossman H, Silverman JM. Age, gender, and education norms on the CERAD neuropsychological battery in the oldest old. Neurology 2006; 67: 1006-1010.

Beeri MS, Rapp M, Silverman JM, Schmeidler J, Grossman HT, Fallon JT, Purohit DP, Perl DP, Siddiqui A, Lesser G, Rosendorff C, Haroutunian V. Coronary artery disease is associated with Alzheimer disease neuropathology in APOE4 carriers. Neurology 2006; 66(9): 1399-1404.

Beeri MS, Davidson M, Silverman JM, Noy S, Schmeidler J, Goldbourt U. The relationship between body height and dementia. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 2005; 13(2): 116-123.

Beeri MS, Silverman JM, Davis KL, Marin D, Grossman HZ, Schmeider J, Purohit DP, Perl DP, Davidson M, Mohs RC, Haroutunian V. Type 2 diabetes is negatively associated with Alzheimer's disease neuropathology. Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 2005; 60(4): 471-475.

Beeri MS, Davidson M, Silverman JM, Noy S, Schmeidler J, Ravona Springer R, Sverdlick A, Davidson M. Diabetes mellitus in midlife and the risk of dementia three decades later. Neurology 2004; 63: 1902-1907.