Jessica de Leon, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology at the UCSF Department of Neurology Memory and Aging Center. She has expertise on how bilingualism, language typology and genetics affect the symptoms of language disorders, including primary progressive aphasia, frontotemporal dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. She also has an interest in how sociocultural factors influence dementia diagnosis and care. Dr. de Leon leads the Memory and Aging Center's outreach efforts to the Filipino American community in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the goal of providing culturally and linguistically tailored education on brain health. Her current research projects focus on the role of bilingualism in cognitive and brain reserve, the development of cognitive measures for Tagalog and Spanish speakers, and cross-linguistic studies in neurodegenerative disease.

Learn more about Dr. de Leon here.