Julie Dumas, PhD, MA

Julie Dumas, PhD is a Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Vermont. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her post-doctoral fellowship in clinical neuroscience at the University of Vermont. Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of menopause, normal aging, and Alzheimer’s disease. Specifically, she examines how the aging of hormone and neurotransmitter systems influences cognition in women. She also examines how biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease that appear in midlife influence cognition and risk for pathological brain aging.