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Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab |
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Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center |
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Research Description Dr. Rosano is currently developing a model to predict the incidence of cognitive and physical functional limitations in older adults. Her work focuses on the determinants of cognitive and physical aging and takes advantage of novel measures of brain structural and functional integrity. By understanding the relationship between brain and physical functions, Dr. Rosano aims to identify predictors of resilience to aging. Dr. Rosano obtained her MD from the School of Medicine, Palermo, Italy, in 1995 and her Master in Epidemiology from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Dr Rosano received her training in Neuroscience as a postdoctoral fellow at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami in 1996-98. Her research focused on the neuroregenerative potential of the gray and white matter of the central nervous system. As a research associate in the department of Neurobehavioral studies at the University of Pittsburgh, (1999, 2001) she used functional Brain MRI technique to investigate the human brain performance and sensorimotor integration in young and older adults. From 2001-2004, Dr. Rosano has conducted research as a National Institute on Aging Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on the epidemiology of age-related brain functional impairment.
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