Dr. Power is broadly interested in issues of aging. Her research focuses on identifying and understanding modifiable risk factors for cognitive decline, cognitive impairment, dementia, and dementia-related brain changes assessed via neuroimaging in older adults. Her current work considers how environmental pollutants or toxins contribute to accelerated cognitive deterioration in older adults, the complex relationship between lifecourse vascular risk factors and cognitive health, the relative contribution of multiple brain pathologies to cognitive status, and race/ethnic disparities in the incidence and diagnosis of dementia. Dr. Power also has an interest in epidemiologic methods and statistical approaches, particularly causal inference methods.
Cognitive Dysfunction, Risk Factors, Blood Pressure, Environmental Pollutants, Cognition Disorders, Alzheimer Disease, Neuroimaging, Autism, Aging, Health Disparities, Epidemiologic Methods, Biostatistics, health disparity,
- Epidemiologic methods