Dustin B. Hammers

Dustin B. Hammers, PhD

Languages spoken: English

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Neurology

Board Certification

  • American Board of Professional Psychology (Sub: Clinical Neuropsychology)

Dr. Dustin Hammers is a board certified neuropsychologist who specializes in the assessment of neurodegenerative disorders. He became an adjunct faculty member in 2021 after transitioning from associate professor at the University of Utah to Indiana University. He currently serves as the site-PI for the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS) Continuation study and collaborates on a number of projects throughout the Department of Neurology.

Education History

Undergraduate Allegheny College
 BS
Graduate Training Ohio University, Department of Psychology, Clinical Health Track
 MS
Doctoral Training Ohio University, Department of Psychology, Clinical Health Track
 PhD
Internship Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor and University of Michigan Healthcare System, Department of Psychology
 Intern
Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Michigan Healthcare System, Department of Psychiatry, Neuropsychology Section
 Postdoctoral Fellow

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Hammers D, Spurgeon E, Ryan K, Persad C, Barbas N, Heidebrink J, Darby D, Giordani B (2012). Validity of a brief computerized cognitive screening test in dementia. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol, 25(2), 89-99.
  2. Duff K., Ying J., Suhrie K., Dalley B., Atkinson T., Porter S., Dixon A., Hammers DB., Wolinsky F. (2021). Computerized cognitive training in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: A randomized clinical trial. J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol.
  3. Hammers DB, Suhr JA (2010). Neuropsychological, impulsive personality, and cerebral oxygenation correlates of undergraduate polysubstance use. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 32(6), 599-609.
  4. Hammers DB, Jung M, Pressler SJ, Sullivan BJ, Koelling T, Giordani B (2013). Clinical utility of auditory memory testing in a heart failure population. J Cardiovasc Nurs, 28(5), 444-52.
  5. Hammers DB, Weisenbach S (2020). Questioning the Effort Hypothesis that Depressed Patients Perform Disproportionately Worse on Effortful Cognitive Tasks. Perceptual and motor skills,
  6. Ikanga, J., Taiwo, Z., Lengu, K., Epenge, E., Esambo, H., Gikelekele, G., Esilakoy, Kavugho, I., Mampunza, S., Hammers, D.B., Stringer, A., & Spencer, R.J (2022). Developing Learning Slope Scores for the African Neuropsychology Battery in a Sample of Healthy Congolese. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society,
  7. Hammers, D.B., Atkinson, T. J., Dalley, B. C. A., Suhrie, K. R., Beardmore, B., Burrell, L., Horn, K. P., Rasmussen, K. M., Foster, N. L., Duff, K., & Hoffman, J. M (2017). Relationship between 18F-Flutemetamol Uptake and RBANS Performance in Non-Demented Community-Dwelling Older Adults. The Clinical neuropsychologist, 31(3), 531-543.
  8. Hammers DB, Suhrie KR, Porter SM, Dixon AM, and Duff (2020). Validation of one-year reliable change in the RBANS for community-dwelling older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. doi: 10.1080/13854046.2020.1807058. The Clinical neuropsychologist,
  9. Duff K, & Hammers D (2020). Practice effects in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A validation of Calamia et al. (2012). The Clinical neuropsychologist,
  10. Hammers DB, Stolwyk R, Harder L, & Cullum M (2020). A Survey of International Clinical Teleneuropsychology Service Provision Prior to and in the Context of COVID-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2020.1810323. The Clinical neuropsychologist,
  11. Hammers DB, Kucera A, Spencer RJ, Abildskov TJ, Archibald ZG, Hoffman JM, Wilde E (2020). Examining the Relationship between a Verbal Incidental Learning Measure from the WAIS-IV and Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Older Adults. Developmental neuropsychology,
  12. Ryan, K., Hammers, D., DeLeon, A., Bilen, H., Frey, K., Burke, J., Albin, R., Barbas, N., Heidebrink, J., Giordani, G (2017). Agreement among neuropsychological and behavioral data and PiB findings in diagnosing Frontotemporal Dementia. Journal of clinical neuroscience, 44, 128-132.
  13. Hammers D, Spurgeon E, Ryan K, Persad C, Heidebrink J, Barbas N, Albin R, Frey K, Darby D, Giordani (2011). Reliability of repeated cognitive assessment of dementia using a brief computerized battery. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 26(4), 326-33.
  14. Hammers, D., Ramirez, G., Persad, C., Heidebrink, J., Barbas, N., Giordani, B (2015). Diagnostic Profiles of Patients Differentially Failing Executive Functioning Measures. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 31(3), 214-22.
  15. Hammers, DB, Atkinson, TJ, Dalley, BCA, Suhrie, KR, Horn, KP, Rasmussen, KM, Beardmore, BE, Burrell, LD, Duff, K, & Hoffman, JM (2017). Amyloid Positivity using [18F]Flutemetamol-PET and Cognitive Deficits in Non-Demented Community-Dwelling Older Adults. American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, 32(6), 320-328.
  16. Suhr J, Hammers D, Dobbins-Buckland K, Zimak E, Hughes (2008). The relationship of malingering test failure to self-reported symptoms and neuropsychological findings in adults referred for ADHD evaluation. Archives of clinical neuropsychology, 23(5), 521-30.
  17. Suhr J, Hammers (2010). Who fails the Iowa Gambling Test (IGT)? Personality, neuropsychological, and near-infrared spectroscopy findings in healthy young controls. Archives of clinical neuropsychology, 25(4), 293-302.
  18. Duff K, Foster NL, Dennett K, Hammers DB, Zollinger LV, Christian PE, Butterfield RI, Beardmore BE, Wang AY, Morton KA, & Hoffman JM (2013). Amyloid deposition and cognition in older adults: The effects of premorbid intellect. Archives of clinical neuropsychology, 28(7), 665-71.
  19. Duff, K., Dalley, B., Suhrie, K., Hammers, D (2019). Predicting Premorbid Scores on the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status and their Validation in an Elderly Sample. Archives of clinical neuropsychology, 34(3), 395-402.
  20. Hammers DB, Duff (2019). Application of different standard error estimates in reliable change methods. Archives of clinical neuropsychology,
  21. Hammers DB, Suhrie KR, Dixon A, Porter S, Duff (2020). Reliable change in cognition over 1 week in community-dwelling older adults: a validation and extension study. Archives of clinical neuropsychology,
  22. Hammers DB, Porter SM, Dixon AM, Suhrie KR, Duff (2020). Validating one-year reliable change methods. Archives of clinical neuropsychology,
  23. Hammers D, Suhrie K, Dixon A, Gradwohl B, Duff K, & Spencer (2021). Validation of HVLT-R, BVMT-R, and RBANS learning slope scores along the Alzheimer’s continuum. Archives of clinical neuropsychology,
  24. Hammers DB, Spencer RJ, Apostolova L (2022). Validation of and demographically-corrected normative data for the Learning Ratio derived from the RAVLT in robustly intact older adults. Archives of clinical neuropsychology,
  25. Turchik J, Karpenko V, Hammers D, McNamara (2007). Practical and ethical assessment issues in rural, impoverished, and managed care settings. Professional psychology, research and practice, 38(2), 158-168.
  26. Hammers DB, Gradwohl B, Kucera A, Abildskov T, Wilde E, & Spencer R (2020). Preliminary validation of a measure for learning slope for the HVLT-R and BVMT-R in older adults. Cognitive and behavioral neurology,
  27. Hammers, DB, Kucera. AM, Card, SC, Tolle, KA, Atkinson, TJ, Duff, K, Spencer, RJ (2018). Validity of a verbal incidental learning measure from the WAIS-IV in older adults. Applied neuropsychology. Adult, 25(3), 266-273.
  28. Spencer R., Gradwohl B., Williams T., Kordovski V., & Hammers D (2020). Developing Learning Slope Scores for the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status. Applied neuropsychology. Adult,
  29. Weisenbach SL, Kim J, Hammers D, Konopacki K, Koppelmans (2019). Linking Late Life Depression and Alzheimer’s Disease: Mechanisms and Resilience. Current behavioral neuroscience reports, 6, 103-112.
  30. Duff, K., Hammers, D. B., Dalley, B. C. A., Suhrie, K. R., Atkinson, T. J., Rasmussen, K. M., Horn, K. P., Beardmore, B. E., Burrell, L. D., Foster, N. L., & Hoffman, J.M (2017). Short-term practice effects and amyloid deposition: Providing information above and beyond baseline cognition. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease, 4(2), 87-92.
  31. K Duff, T Atkinson, K Suhrie, B Dalley, S Schaefer, & D Hammer (2016). Short-term practice effects in mild cognitive impairment: Evaluating different methods of change. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology, 39(4), 396-407.
  32. Hammers D, Foster N, Hoffman J, Green T, Duff K (2019). Neuropsychological, psychiatric, and functional correlates of clinical trial enrollment. The journal of prevention of Alzheimer's disease, 6(4), 242-247.
  33. Hammers DB, Suhrie K, Porter S, Dixon A, Duff (2020). Generalizability of reliable change equations for the RBANS over one year in community-dwelling older adults. https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2020.1740654. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology,
  34. Hammers DB, Suhrie KR, Dixon AM, Porter SM, Duff (2020). Validation of one-week reliable change methods in cognitively intact community-dwelling older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition,
  35. Duff K., Porter S., Dixon A., Suhrie K., & Hammers DB (2020). The Independent Living Scale in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment: Relationships to demographic variables and cognitive performance. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology,
  36. Porter SM, Dixon A, Suhrie K, Hammers DB, & Duff K (2021). Longitudinal changes on the Independent Living Scale in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment. Applied neuropsychology. Adult,
  37. Dixon A, Porter S, Suhrie K, Hammers D, Duff (2022). Predicting daily functioning with the modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status. Aging clinical and experimental research,
  38. Hammers DB, Miranda M, Abildskov TJ, Tate DF, Wilde EA, Spencer RJ (2021). Consideration of Different Scoring Approaches for a Verbal Incidental Learning Measure from the WAIS-IV Using Hippocampal Volumes. Applied neuropsychology. Adult,
  39. Suhrie K, Hammers D, Porter S, Dixon A, King J, Anderson J, Duff K, & Hoffman J (2021). Predicting Biomarkers in Intact Older Adults and those with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment, and mild Alzheimer’s Disease Using the Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology,
  40. Hammers DB, Suhrie K, Dixon A, Gradwohl B, Archibald Z, King J, Spencer R, Duff K, Hoffman (2021). Relationship between a novel learning slope metric and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers. Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition,
  41. Hammers DB, Duff K, & Spencer (2021). Demographically-corrected normative data for the HVLT-R, BVMT-R, and Aggregated Learning Ratio values in a sample of older adults. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology,
  42. Hammers, D.B., Duff, K., & Apostolova, L.G (2022). Examining the role of repeated test exposure over 12 months across ADNI protocols. Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands),
  43. Hammers DB, Kostadinova R, Unverzagt F, Apostolova (2022). Assessing and validating reliable change across ADNI protocols. Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology,

Book Chapter

  1. Hammers D., Duff K., & Chelune G (2015). Assessing change of cognitive trajectories over time in later life.

Abstract

  1. Atkinson, T. J., Hammers, D. B., Dalley, B. C. A., Suhrie, K. R., Beardmore, B., Burrell, L., Horn, K., Rasmussen, K., Duff, K., & Hoffman, J. M (2016). Relationship between 18F-Flutemetamol uptake and RBANS performance in non-demented community-dwelling older adults. Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.