Breton Asken, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Florida. He is a member of the Clinical Core of the 1Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and affiliated with the UF McKnight Brain Institute, Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, and the UF Brain Injury, Rehabilitation, and Neuroresilience (BRAIN) Center.

Dr. Asken completed bachelor’s degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Exercise & Sport Science – Athletic Training, Psychology) and was a research assistant in the Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. He then earned his doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Neuropsychology track) from the University of Florida and completed his clinical internship in neuropsychology at Brown University. Dr. Asken completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center.

Dr. Asken’s research integrates fluid and brain imaging biomarkers with cognitive and behavioral evaluations to study the complex associations between neuropathological changes and clinical phenotypes among patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. His sub-focus is studying the role that lifetime head trauma plays in later-life neurodegenerative diseases, like chronic traumatic encephalopathy. He currently leads multiple studies validating emerging diagnostic biomarkers for different neurodegenerative diseases, and he is the University of Florida site PI for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project II study.