Aubrey Knoff

Assistant Professor

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Psychiatry

Dr. Aubrey Knoff is a clinical and research neuropsychologist. Dr. Knoff joined the TRACTS team in August 2022. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona and completed her psychology internship with an emphasis in neuropsychology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Aubrey is thrilled to continue her work at VA Boston and to collaborate with the TRACTS team to study the effects of aging on cognitive and brain health in veterans with deployment experiences. Outside of the lab, Aubrey enjoys spending time with her family and two rescue dogs, cooking, and playing strategy board games.

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Knoff AA, Vasterling JJ, Verfaellie M. Beyond trauma: a review of content and linguistic characteristics of nontrauma narratives in posttraumatic stress disorder. Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2024; 15(1):2407733.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Vasterling, Jennifer
Verfaellie, Mieke

PMID: 39415679; PMCID: PMC11488194; DOI: 10.1080/20008066.2024.2407733;

Knoff AAW, Andrews-Hanna JR, Grilli MD. Shape of the past: Revealing detail arcs while narrating memories of autobiographical life events across the lifespan. Psychon Bull Rev. 2025 Apr; 32(2):896-906. PMID: 39402395; PMCID: PMC12338957; DOI: 10.3758/s13423-024-02592-3;

Knoff AA, Nowak MK, Van Etten EJ, Andreu-Arasa VC, Esterman M, Leritz EC, Fortenbaugh FC, Milberg WP, Fortier CB, Salat DH. Metabolic syndrome is associated with reduced default mode network functional connectivity in young post-9/11 Veterans. Brain Imaging Behav. 2024 Dec; 18(6):1499-1508.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Fortier, Catherine
Van Etten, Emily
Nowak, Madeleine
Esterman, Michael
Milberg, William

PMID: 39347938

Van Etten EJ, Knoff AA, Colaizzi TA, Knight AR, Milberg WP, Fortier CB, Leritz EC, Salat DH. Association between metabolic syndrome and white matter integrity in young and mid-age post-9/11 adult Veterans. Cereb Cortex. 2024 Aug 01; 34(8).View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Fortier, Catherine
Van Etten, Emily
Milberg, William

PMID: 39152671

Knoff AAW, Bowles B, Andrews-Hanna JR, Grilli MD. Direct access to specific autobiographical memories is lower in healthy middle-aged to older adult Apolipoprotein E e4 carriers compared to non-carriers. J Neuropsychol. 2025 Mar; 19(1):15-27. PMID: 38949213; PMCID: PMC11688509; DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12380;

Knoff AA, Knight AR, Salat DH, Bedi A, Currao A, Fonda JR, McGlinchey RE, Fortier CB. Early onset adolescent binge drinking is associated with reduced white matter integrity in post-9/11 adult veterans. Alcohol Alcohol. 2023 Nov 11; 58(6):662-671.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Fortier, Catherine
Fonda, Jennifer

PMID: 37788828

Chandler AB, Wank AA, Vanuk JR, O'Connor MF, Dreifuss BA, Dreifuss HM, Ellingson KD, Khan SM, Friedman SE, Athey A. Implementing Psychological First Aid for Healthcare Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Feasibility Study of the ICARE Model. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2023 Sep; 30(3):482-489. PMID: 36076146; PMCID: PMC9455940; DOI: 10.1007/s10880-022-09900-w;

McAvan AS, Wank AA, Rapcsak SZ, Grilli MD, & Ekstrom A. Neuropsychologia. Largely intact spatial navigation in a densely amnestic patient with a bilateral hippocampal lesion. 2022.

Matijevic S, Andrews-Hanna JR, Wank AA, Ryan L, Grilli MD. Individual differences in the relationship between episodic detail generation and resting state functional connectivity vary with age. Neuropsychologia. 2022 Feb 10; 166:108138. PMID: 34968505; PMCID: PMC8816892; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108138;

Wank AA, Robertson A, Thayer SC, Verfaellie M, Rapcsak SZ, Grilli MD. Autobiographical memory unknown: Pervasive autobiographical memory loss encompassing personality trait knowledge in an individual with medial temporal lobe amnesia. Cortex. 2022 02; 147:41-57.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Verfaellie, Mieke

PMID: 35007893

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Grilli MD, McVeigh KS, Hakim ZM, Wank AA, Ebner NC, Getz SJ, Levin BE, & Wilson RC. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences. Is This Phishing? Older Age Is Associated With Greater Difficulty Discriminating Between Safe and Malicious Emails. 2021; 76(9). View Publication

Wank AA, Andrews-Hanna JR, Grilli MD. Searching for the past: Exploring the dynamics of direct and generative autobiographical memory reconstruction among young and cognitively normal older adults. Mem Cognit. 2021 Apr; 49(3):422-437. PMID: 32965620; PMCID: PMC8609962; DOI: 10.3758/s13421-020-01098-2;

Wank AA, Mehl MR, Andrews-Hanna JR, Polsinelli AJ, Moseley S, Glisky EL, Grilli MD. Eavesdropping on Autobiographical Memory: A Naturalistic Observation Study of Older Adults' Memory Sharing in Daily Conversations. Front Hum Neurosci. 2020; 14:238. PMID: 32676016; PMCID: PMC7333665; DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00238;

Keane MM, Bousquet K, Wank A, Verfaellie M. Relational processing in the semantic domain is impaired in medial temporal lobe amnesia. J Neuropsychol. 2020 09; 14(3):416-430.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Keane, Margaret
Verfaellie, Mieke

PMID: 31729186; PMCID: PMC7220829; DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12196;

Memel M, Wank AA, Ryan L, Grilli MD. The relationship between episodic detail generation and anterotemporal, posteromedial, and hippocampal white matter tracts. Cortex. 2020 Feb; 123:124-140. PMID: 31783222; PMCID: PMC6984983; DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.10.010;

Verfaellie M, Wank AA, Reid AG, Race E, Keane MM. Self-related processing and future thinking: Distinct contributions of ventromedial prefrontal cortex and the medial temporal lobes. Cortex. 2019 06; 115:159-171.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Keane, Margaret
Verfaellie, Mieke

PMID: 30826623; PMCID: PMC6513722; DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.01.028;

Grilli MD, Wank AA, Bercel JJ, Ryan L. Evidence for Reduced Autobiographical Memory Episodic Specificity in Cognitively Normal Middle-Aged and Older Individuals at Increased Risk for Alzheimer's Disease Dementia. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2018 Nov; 24(10):1073-1083. PMID: 30136918; PMCID: PMC6237636; DOI: 10.1017/S1355617718000577;

Grilli MD, Bercel JJ, Wank AA, Rapcsak SZ. The contribution of the left anterior ventrolateral temporal lobe to the retrieval of personal semantics. Neuropsychologia. 2018 Aug; 117:178-187. PMID: 29879423; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.002;

Grilli MD, Wank AA, Verfaellie M. The life stories of adults with amnesia: Insights into the contribution of the medial temporal lobes to the organization of autobiographical memory. Neuropsychologia. 2018 02; 110:84-91.View Related Profiles.

Knoff, Aubrey
Verfaellie, Mieke

PMID: 28286259; PMCID: PMC5592132; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.013;

Marvasti J., Wank A. Clio’s Psyche. Violence by combat veterans after homecoming. 2012; 278-282.
Marvasti J., Wank A. American Journal of Forensic Psychology. Suicide in U.S. veterans. 2012.
Fonda JR, Loeffel LB, Livingston NA, Knoff AA, Bravman V, Gradus JL, & Sayko Adams R. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. Sex-Specific Associations Between Deployment-Related Traumatic Brain Injury and Non-Fatal Drug Overdose Among a National Cohort of Post-9/11 Veterans.

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