Sarah Dietz

Research Interests:

• Traumatic brain injury
• Neuroinflammation
• Stress

Education:

• Ph.D. Student, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech
• B.S. Psychological Sciences, University of Mary Washington, 2022

Publications:

Wilson TW, Schantell M, Dietz SM,  Penhale SH, McDonald KM, De Luca KR, Voller ME, Volberding LD, Carusi OR, Horne LK, Arif Y, Glesinger R, John JA, Okelberry HJ, May-Weeks PE, Case AJ, Zimmerman MC, Spooner RK. Neural oscillations serving abstract reasoning are differentially associated with inflammatory markers in people with HIV. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 2026/03/01/ 2026;133:106236. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2025.106236.

Hall MC, Rempe MP, John JA, Garrison GM, Glesinger R, Casagrande CC, Petro NM, Okelberry HJ, Petts AJ, Bai H, Bashford S, Dietz SM, Taylor BK, Arif Y, Heinrichs-Graham E, Picci G, Spooner RK, Wilson TW. Hippocampal and cortical oscillatory dynamics support semantic processing and performance. Communications Biology. 2026/02/17 2026;9(1):444. doi:10.1038/s42003-026-09718-4.

Hall MC, Rempe MP, Casagrande CC, Glesinger RJ, Petro NM, Garrison GM, John JA, Dietz SM, Schantell M, Bai H, Arif Y, Embury CM, Bashford S, Okelberry HJ, Petts AJ, Keifer EL, Picci G, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW. Age-related alterations in alpha and beta oscillations support preservation of semantic processing in healthy aging. npj Aging. 2025/08/06 2025;11(1):73. doi:10.1038/s41514-025-00263-8.

Ward TW, Schantell M, Dietz SM, Ende GC, Rice DL, Coutant AT, Arif Y, Heinrichs-Graham E, Taylor BK, Wilson TW. Interplay between preclinical indices of obesity and neural signatures of fluid intelligence in youth. Communications Biology. 2024/10/09 2024;7(1):1285. doi:10.1038/s42003-024-06924-w.

Schantell M, Glesinger R, Coutant AT, Okelberry HJ, John JA, Dietz SM, Springer SD, Arif Y, Wilson TW. Stress and Psychosocial Distress Scale with Blunted Oscillatory Dynamics Serving Abstract Reasoning. Depression and Anxiety. 2024;2024(1):4720803. doi:10.1155/2024/4720803.

Dietz SM, Schantell M, Spooner RK, Sandal ME, Mansouri A, Arif Y, Okelberry HJ, John JA, Glesinger R, May PE, Heinrichs-Graham E, Case AJ, Zimmerman MC, Wilson TW. Elevated CRP and TNF-α levels are associated with blunted neural oscillations serving fluid intelligence. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. 2023/11/01/ 2023;114:430-437. doi:10.1016/j.bbi.2023.09.012.