Dr. Carrión is an Associate Professor and bilingual (English/Spanish) neuropsychologist in the neurology department at the Yale School of Medicine. Her clinical and research activities center on memory and neurodegenerative disorders, with a particular focus on understanding how the social exposome, including neighborhood-level social, economic, and environmental factors, influences cognitive health and the development of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). Dr. Carrión’s work examines both protective factors that promote cognitive resilience and risk factors that may accelerate cognitive decline, with special attention to how these neighborhood characteristics interact with demographic factors to influence the manifestation of neurological syndromes across diverse populations.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine
Dr. Carrión is part of the Yale Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center’s (ADRC) Outreach and Clinical Cores. At the ADRC, she serves as site PI for the multi-center, NIH-funded Neighborhoods Study and leads the Neuropsychology/Cognitive Interest group. Through this work, she seeks to understand why differences in cognitive and brain health outcomes occur across different communities by examining the complex interplay between place-based factors and individual-level characteristics that contribute to health disparities in ADRD.