Joie Molden, PhD - Clinical Neuropsychologist
Contact Information
Email: Joie.Molden@cuanschutz.edu
Education
PhD, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Professional Titles
Assistant Professor
Board-Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist
Biography
Joie Molden, PhD, ABPP-CN is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist and an Assistant Professor in the University of Colorado School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Neuropsychology. She completed her PhD and predoctoral training in clinical psychology with a focus in geropsychology from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, a predoctoral internship in the Neuropsychology Major Area of Study at the Memphis VA Medical Center, and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship through the CU School of Medicine’s Adult Neuropsychology Fellowship. Dr. Molden conducts neuropsychological evaluations of patients from the CU Memory Disorders Clinic and other clinics in the UCHealth system. She has a particular clinical interest in neurodegenerative diseases and geriatric neuropsychology, as well as movement disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, concussion and TBI, and other medical and psychiatric conditions. She is the neuropsychologist for the CU site for ALLFTD, a multicenter study characterizing patients with frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Her research interests include the neuropsychology of neurodegenerative diseases, dementia worry, attitudes toward aging and dementia, subjective cognitive decline, and neuropsychological factors related to functional neurosurgery.
Publications
Pressman PS, Carter DJ, Ramos EM, Molden J, Smith K, Dino F, McMillan C, Irwin D, Rascovsky K, Ghoshal N, Knudtson M, Rademakers R, Geschwind D, Gendron T, Petrucelli L, Heuer H, Boeve BF, Barmada S, Boxer A, Tempini MLG, Rosen HJ. Symptomatic progression of frontotemporal dementia with the TARDBP I383V variant. Neurocase. 2024 Feb; 30(1):39-47. PMID: 38757415
Pressman PS, Molden J, Wortzel HS, Plys E, Woodcock JH, Filley CM, Arciniegas DB. Psychiatric Screening Measures in Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia. J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2024 Spring; 36(2):160-165. PMID: 37981780.
Molden J, Maxfield M. The impact of aging stereotypes on dementia worry. Eur J Ageing. 2017 Mar; 14(1):29-37. PMID: 28804392.