Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, Kinesiology and Community Health
Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Associate Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Head, Research, Kinesiology and Community Health
Recent Publications
Keye, S. A., Holthaus, T. A., Cannavale, C. N., Rosok, L. M., Lamblin, E., Renzi-Hammond, L., Holscher, H. D., & Khan, N. A. (Accepted/In press). MIND Diet Pattern Is Associated with Attentional Control in School-Aged Children. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-025-00318-4
Kuang, J., Lloyd, K. M., Ligeza, T. S., Bashir, N., Martin, H., Shanmugam, R., Pickerill, L., Liang, S., Syed, T., Tewell, P., Sharma, A., Quiroz, F. B., Stanfield, C., Herrera, B. M., Yu, Q., Cannavale, C. N., Zou, L., Burd, N. A., Khan, N. A., ... Pindus, D. M. (2025). Interrupting sitting with moderate-intensity physical activity breaks improves inhibitory control in adults with overweight and obesity: Findings from the SITLess pilot randomized crossover trial. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 28, Article 100671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2025.100671
Martell, S. G., Keye, S. A., Kim, J., Walk, A., Erdman, J. W., Adamson, B., Motl, R. W., & Khan, N. A. (2025). Exploring Differences in the Lateralized Readiness Potential in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis Compared to Healthy Controls. Psychophysiology, 62(2), Article e70022. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70022
Pindus, D. M., Lloyd, K. M., Ligeza, T. S., Askow, A., McKenna, C., Bashir, N., Martin, H., Quiroz, F. B., Herrera, B. M., Cannavale, C., Kuang, J., Yu, Q., Kos, M., Brown, C. S., von Ash, T., Zou, L., Burd, N. A., Khan, N. A., Kramer, A. F., & Hillman, C. H. (2025). Interrupting sitting with moderate-intensity physical activity breaks improves cognitive processing speed in adults with overweight and obesity: Findings from the SITLess pilot randomized crossover trial. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 209, Article 112519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2025.112519
Román, C. K., Cannavale, C. N., & Khan, N. A. (2025). Nutrition and Neurodevelopment: From Early Life Through Adolescence. In A. K. Barbey (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Enhancement and Brain Plasticity Oxford University Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197677131.013.31