Understanding the impact of nutrition and metabolic factors on cognition and disease pathogenesis, to inform the development of translational interventions for improving cognition in persons with mild cognitive impairment

Examining how the in vivo physiology of the medial temporal lobe changes in tauopathy

Studying the effects of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) on the progression of taupathy, as TBI is the most robust environmental risk factor for developing dementia

After graduating with undergrad degree in Psychology and a minor in neuroscience, Priscilla completed a 1-year service project as an AmeriCorp HealthVista for a local non-profit organization to improve and increase access to healthcare to undeserved and uninsured community members. After her service, Priscilla took a clinical research coordinator position in the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. During this time, she also completed a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Cheshire Hardcastle is a graduate student at the University of Florida in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Cheshire graduated Summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati in 2013 with a B.A. in psychology. Cheshire then worked at the Stanford Research Institution (SRI) researching alcoholism and HIV. Cheshire then earned her Master’s in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. Her thesis involved researching certain imaging methods to measure cerebral blood perfusion in an elderly population.