A scoping review of neighborhoods and cognitive health disparities among US midlife and older adults

A Sullivan, M Armendariz… - Journal of Aging and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: The neighborhood environment may be an important determinant of racial/ethnic
disparities in cognitive function. To understand how neighborhoods are linked to cognition …

Role of neighborhood physical disorder and social cohesion on racial and ethnic disparities in dementia risk

R Wong, Y Wang - Journal of Aging and Health, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: To analyze how neighborhood physical disorder and social cohesion are
associated with racial and ethnic disparities in dementia risk. Methods: Nine years of data …

Impact of individual differences in cognitive reserve, stress, and busyness on episodic memory: An fMRI analysis of the Alabama Brain Study on Risk for Dementia

SB Festini, IM McDonough - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2024 - Springer
Cognitive reserve (CR) and busyness can boost memory, whereas stress can impair
memory. Nevertheless, extant research has not yet examined busyness in conjunction with …

Nurturing resilience in American Indian/Alaska Native preschool children: the role of cultural socialization, executive function, and neighborhood risk

A Merculief, S Lipscomb, MM McClelland… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children possess numerous cultural
assets, yet higher exposures to neighborhood risks (eg, lack of housing, crime) may present …

Perceived but not objective measures of neighborhood safety and food environments are associated with longitudinal changes in processing speed among urban …

J Hyun, GS Lovasi, MJ Katz, CA Derby, RB Lipton… - BMC geriatrics, 2024 - Springer
Background Although a growing body of literature documents the importance of
neighborhood effects on late-life cognition, little is known about the relative strength of …

Leveraging daily social experiences to motivate healthy aging

ST Charles, C Röcke, R Sagha Zadeh… - The journals of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Models of healthy aging highlight the motivating influence of social connections.
Social experiences constantly shape our thoughts and behaviors throughout daily life, and …

Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with stable deficits in neurocognitive functioning in traumatically-injured adults

EK Webb, CN Weis, AA Huggins, EA Parisi, KP Bennett… - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
Background In trauma-exposed adults, the relationship between an individual's
socioeconomic position (SEP) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been well …

Executive network activation moderates the association between neighborhood threats and externalizing behavior in youth

MI Conley, KM Rapuano, C Benson-Williams… - Research on Child and …, 2023 - Springer
Neighborhood threats can increase risk for externalizing problems, including aggressive,
oppositional, and delinquent behavior. Yet, there is substantial variability in how youth …

Does Religion Mitigate the Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Cognitive Decline?: Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study of US Older Adults

H Lee, YJ Choi, JH Jung - The Journals of Gerontology, Series …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Objectives This paper examines whether perceived neighborhood disorder is associated
with trajectories of cognitive functioning and whether religion mitigates this association …

Incarceration exposure and epigenetic aging in neighborhood context

MT Berg, EM Rogers, K Riley, MK Lei… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective Research has implicated incarceration exposure as a social determinant of health,
with recent work suggesting incarceration may trigger a stress response that accelerates …