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Kathryn Perez Riley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor (part-time)

Departmental Affiliation(s):

Preventive Medicine, Environmental Health, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging

Research Focus:

As a co-investigator on the Nun Study, a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer’s disease, Dr. Riley is involved in research in the areas of successful aging, mild cognitive impairments, and neuropathologic correlates of cognition. She uses longitudinal and archival data collected for the Study to examine the nature and predictors of successful cognitive aging in women over the age of 75, including centenarians. Data from childhood, early adulthood and the entire life span are available for this research. She has examined the neuropathologic substrate of mild impairments in cognitive function and dementia syndromes, including the Braak method of staging neurofibrillary pathology in Alzheimer’s disease. She is currently analyzing data collected over the first ten years of the Nun Study, as they relate to the maintenance of high cognitive and functional ability in older women.