Jesse S Cohen, MD

Jesse Cohen, MD, is a University of Florida assistant professor of neurology and a neurologist at UF Health Jacksonville. Dr. Cohen received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his neurology residency and subspecialty training in movement disorders at the University of Pennsylvania.

He completed a master of science in translational research at the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis used neuroimaging to identify the brain areas responsible for cognitive and sleep dysfunction in Parkinson disease and other Lewy body disorders.

His research aims to find in vivo neuroimaging biomarkers that explain heterogeneity in Lewy body disorders, with a particular interest in the relationship between sleep, cognition, and the anatomic selectivity of neurodegenerative processes.