Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging - Tufts University

Natalia A. Crivello, Ph.D.

? Scientist I
Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory
(Former Scientist I, Nutrition and Neurocognition Laboratory)
Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University
711 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111-1524
Phone: (617) 556-3147
Fax: (617) 556-3243
E-mail: natalia.crivello@tufts.edu
Education Ph.D., Biology
Sechenov's Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Research Focus The interrelation between nutritional factors and age-related decline in motor and cognitive behavior, and lipid metabolism.
Academic Appointments Assistant Professor, Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University

Recent Publications
Crivello NA, Casseus SL, Peterson JW, Smith DE, Booth SL. Age- and brain region-specific effects of dietary vitamin K on myelin sulfatides. J Nutr Biochem. 2010 Nov;21(11):1083-8.

Crivello NA, Blusztajn JK, Joseph JA, Shukitt-Hale B, Smith DE. Short-term nutritional folate deficiency in rats has a greater effect on choline and acetylcholine metabolism in the peripheral nervous system than in the brain, and this effect escalates with age. Nutr Res. 2010 Oct;30(10):722-30.

Sun X, Chiu CC, Liebson E, Crivello NA, Wang L, Claunch J, Folstein M, Rosenberg I, Mwamburi DM, Peter I, Qiu WQ. Depression and plasma amyloid beta peptides in the elderly with and without the apolipoprotein E4 allele. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2009 Jul-Sep;23(3):238-44.