Primary Faculty Mentors and ADRD Research Areas
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Exercise, Physical activity, Weight loss, Cognitive function, fMRI |
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health, aging and social justice |
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understanding the impact of nutrition on brain aging |
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Population health |
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Pathogenesis of nerve dysfunction and pain |
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O-GlcNAcylation in growth and development |
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Dietary intake and behavior modification interventions |
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Nutrition, physical activity, and comorbidities in special populations. |
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Promotion of weight management and physical activity in individuals with disabilities |
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Geriatric nephrology with a focus on cognitive impairment and quality of life in patients with kidney diseases |
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Sedentary behavior plays in chronic diseases |
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Molecular mechanisms that underlie chronic disease like obesity, diabetes, and neurodegeneration |
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Understanding of the relationships between brain energy metabolism and AD pathological mechanisms. |
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Community and lab-based exercise and lifestyle modification trials |
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Roles of lifestyle factors (such as exercise, diet, and blood pressure) influence brain aging and AD progression |
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Systemic and brain energy metabolism in cognitively healthy aging and Alzheimer's Disease |
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Brain bioenergetic function declines with advancing age |
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Normal function and recovery from traumatic brain injury |
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Role of autophagy in alcohol and drug-induced liver injury |
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Understanding the brain's self-repair capacity after injury |
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Role of sleep in function, learning, and overall health with aging and in those with neurological conditions |
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Cardiovascular physiology, brain aging, and stroke recovery |
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Development of novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) techniques |
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Intramembrane-cleaving proteases (I-CLiPs) that play critical roles both in normal biology and in human disease |
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Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in neurodegenerative diseases |
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Sex and genetic influences on brain metabolism and microglial homeostasis |
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Enhancing nurse-patient communication, and providing cognitive training to improve self-care for older adults |
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Categorical data analysis, study design, power and sample size calculations |