Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, Ph.D.

Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, Ph.D. is Research Faculty in the Landon Center on Aging and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry. She completed bachelor's degrees in natural sciences and mathematics, and psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She obtained master's and doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology specialty), from Louisiana State University. She holds clinical licenses in the states of Kansas and Illinois.

Previous Positions: After completing her doctoral training in Clinical Psychology, Dr. Hanna-Pladdy completed her clinical internship in Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Florida Health Sciences Center in the Department of Clinical & Health Psychology. She then received a two year post-doctoral fellowship in Neuropsychology at the University of Florida Department of Neurology. Prior to joining the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dr. Hanna-Pladdy was a faculty member at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, where she was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and faculty in the Cognitive Neurology & Alzheimer's Disease Center.

Research: Dr. Hanna-Pladdy's research focuses on investigations of cognitive and motor disorders in stroke, and Parkinson's disease. Dr. Hanna-Pladdy has published her work in Brain, Neurology, Cortex, Brain and Language, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, The Clinical Neuropsychologist, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Journal of Traumatic Stress, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, and Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. She serves as a reviewer for several journals including Journal of Neurology, Journal of Clinical Neurophsiology, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, and Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology.