Alzheimer disease in African American individuals: increased incidence or not enough data?

LL Barnes - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
Research on racial differences in Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia has increased in recent
years. Older African American individuals bear a disproportionate burden of AD and …

Neuropsychological assessment: Past and future

KB Casaletto, RK Heaton - Journal of the International …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Neuropsychological assessment tools are the staple of our field. The development of
standardized metrics sensitive to brain-behavior relationships has shaped the …

Brain–phenotype models fail for individuals who defy sample stereotypes

AS Greene, X Shen, S Noble, C Horien, CA Hahn… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Individual differences in brain functional organization track a range of traits, symptoms and
behaviours,,,,,,,,,,–. So far, work modelling linear brain–phenotype relationships has …

Effects of volunteering on the well-being of older adults

N Morrow-Howell, J Hinterlong… - The Journals of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Objectives. This study tests the effects of volunteering on the well-being of older adults,
including the effect of level of engagement, the moderating effects of demographic and …

Effect of socioeconomic disparities on incidence of dementia among biracial older adults: prospective study

K Yaffe, C Falvey, TB Harris, A Newman, S Satterfield… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To examine whether observed differences in dementia rates between black and
white older people living in the community could be explained by measures of …

Cognitive impairment 18 years before clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer disease dementia

KB Rajan, RS Wilson, J Weuve, LL Barnes, DA Evans - Neurology, 2015 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To examine the relation of performance on brief cognitive tests to development of
clinically diagnosed Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia over the following 18 years in a …

Differences between chronological and brain age are related to education and self-reported physical activity

J Steffener, C Habeck, D O'Shea, Q Razlighi… - Neurobiology of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated the relationship between education and physical activity and the
difference between a physiological prediction of age and chronological age (CA). Cortical …

Education: a missed opportunity for public health intervention

AK Cohen, SL Syme - American journal of public health, 2013 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Educational attainment is a well-established social determinant of health. It affects health
through many mechanisms such as neural development, biological aging, health literacy …

Dementia incidence and mortality in middle-income countries, and associations with indicators of cognitive reserve: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population …

M Prince, D Acosta, CP Ferri, M Guerra, Y Huang… - The Lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Results of the few cohort studies from countries with low incomes or middle
incomes suggest a lower incidence of dementia than in high-income countries. We …

Conceptual and measurement challenges in research on cognitive reserve

RN Jones, J Manly, MM Glymour, DM Rentz… - Journal of the …, 2011 - cambridge.org
Cognitive reserve, broadly conceived, encompasses aspects of brain structure and function
that optimize individual performance in the presence of injury or pathology. Reserve is …