Social Function

Bailey is a clinical research coordinator in the Rankin Socioemotional Neuropsychology Lab at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. She is helping research fMRI predictors of empathy in healthy aging and frontotemporal dementia. She received her bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and completed her master’s degree in Translational Medicine from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco.

Kate Rankin, PhD, is a professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology and a neuropsychologist at the Edward and Pearl Fein Memory and Aging Center, part of the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. She specializes in understanding the neuropsychological, neuroanatomic, and genetic foundations of human socioemotional behavior in both healthy aging and neurodegenerative diseases.