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The exposome and Parkinson’s disease: the role of air pollution and socioeconomic status—a systematic review
Abstract There is an unclear relationship between socioeconomic status (SES)—a social exposure—and PD risk, where those with a higher SES may be more at risk, or the inverse may be true. The risk of PD may not be directly related to SES, but exposures like outdoor air pollution may be involved, particularly as associations between SES and air pollution exposure, and between air pollution exposure and neurodegenerative outcomes have been noted.
Robust inference and correlates from genetic associations with personality
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Abstract Personality traits describe stable differences in how people think, feel and behave, and how they interact with and experience their social and physical environments1,2. Many questions remain unanswered about associations between DNA and personality traits, such as their robustness, their generalizability and the biological and social pathways through which they act.
By Ted Schwaba, Margaret Sullivan Verified, Wonuola A. Akingbuwa, Kerli Ilves, Peter T Tanksley, Camille Williams Verified, Yavor Dragostinov, Travis T. Mallard, Justin Tubbs, Wangjingyi Liao, Lindsay S. Ackerman, Josephine C. M. Fealy, Gibran Hemani, Javier De La Fuente, George Smith, Priya Gupta, Murray B. Stein, Joel Gelernter, Daniel F Levey, Urmo Võsa, Liisi Ausmees, Anu Realo, Mariliis Vaht, Jüri Allik, Tõnu Esko, René Mõttus, Uku Vainik, Gudrun Jonsdottir, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Árni Freyr Gunnarsson, Gyda Bjornsdottir, Thorgeir E. Thorgeirsson, Hreinn Stefánsson, Kari Stefansson, Rosa Cheesman, Qi Qin, Elizabeth C Corfield, Helga Ask, Fartein Ask Torvik, Eivind Ystrom, Martin Tesli, Dorret I. Boomsma, Eco de Geus, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Dener Cardoso Melo, Harold Snieder, Catharina A Hartman, Charley Xia, Archie Campbell, Michelle Luciano, Ian J Deary, W. David Hill, Seon-Kyeong Jang, Scott Vrieze, Goncalo Abecasis, Michelle K. Lupton, Brittany Mitchell Verified, Petra V. Viher, Lucía Colodro-Conde, Nicholas Martin, Sarah E. Medland, Eske M Derks, Briar Wormington, Jaakko Kaprio, Karri Silventoinen, Teemu Palviainen, Agnieszka Musial, Kaili Rimfeld, Robert Plomin, Margherita Malanchini, Danielle Dick, Fazil Aliev, COGA Collaborators, Laura W. Wesseldijk, Fredrik Ullén, Miriam A. Mosing, Henry R Kranzler, Yaira Nunez, Sarah Beck, Renato Polimanti, Tobias Edwards, Alexandros Giannelis, Emily Willoughby, James Lee, Matt McGue, Antonio Terracciano, Michele Marongiu, Edoardo Fiorillo, Francesco Cucca, Angelina R. Sutin, Peter J. van der Most, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Tina Kretschmer, Andrey A. Shabalin, Anna R. Docherty, Robert Krueger, Colin D. Freilich, Binisha H. Mishra, Terho Lehtimäki, Olli T. Raitakari, Mika Kähönen, Aino Saarinen, Henrik Dobewall, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen, Klaus Berger, Marisol Herrera-Rivero, Fabian Streit, Swapnil Awasthi, Stephanie Witt, Johanna Tuhkanen, Katri Räikkönen, Johan Eriksson, Jari Lahti, Gail Davies, Paul Redmond, Adele Taylor, Janie Corley, Tom C Russ, Marina Ciullo, Teresa Nutile, Jun Ding, Yong Qian, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci, Lea Zillich, Lea Sirignano, K. Paige Harden, Erhan Genç, Patrick D. Gajewski, Stephan Getzmann, Christoph Fraenz, Javier Peñate, Stefanie Lis, Alisha Hall, Christian Schmahl, Sabine C. Herpertz, Abdel Abdellaoui, Michel G. Nivard, Elliot M. Tucker-Drob
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Brain maps of general cognitive functioning: neuroimaging and neurobiological signatures - Translational Psychiatry
Abstract In this paper, we attempt to answer two questions: 1) which regions of the human brain, in terms of morphometry, are most strongly related to individual differences in domain-general cognitive functioning (g)? and 2) what are the underlying neurobiological properties of those regions?
Anticholinergic burden in middle and older age is associated with lower cognitive function, but not with brain atrophy
2 METHODS Sample UK Biobank40 is a prospective study whose participants were recruited between 2006 and 2010 when they were aged 37–73 years. During the initial assessment, demographic and lifestyle questionnaires, physiological measurements and cognitive tests were administered. A subset of participants later underwent MRI structural imaging and additional cognitive testing. For ~230 000 participants, data on issued prescriptions and diagnoses are available.
Prevalence and predictors of Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome in a community‐dwelling older Scottish population: A LONGITUDINAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Abstract Objectives Motoric Cognitive Risk (MCR) is a gait-based predementia syndrome that is easy to measure and prognostic of dementia and falls. We aimed to examine the prevalence and risk factors for MCR, and assess its overlap with Mild Cognitive Impairment, Prefrailty, and Frailty, in a cohort of older Scottish adults without dementia.
Aluminium and fluoride in drinking water in relation to later dementia risk
Cited by 2 Crossref Citations This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Grandjean, Philippe 2019. Developmental fluoride neurotoxicity: an updated review. Environmental Health, Vol. 18, Issue. 1, CrossRef Google Scholar Chua, Siong-Chin Chong, Fai-Kait Yen, Chia-Heng and Ho, Yeek-Chia 2019. Valorization of conventional rice starch in drinking water treatment and optimization using response surface methodology (RSM).
Intelligence, Cognitive Reserve, and Dementia
Alzheimer dementia is now recognized to be a disease of the whole life course and it is accepted that, while the neuropathological changes of Alzheimer disease develop decades before the clinical symptoms of dementia begin, important risk factors can have their effect much earlier in life, perhaps even before birth.1 Huang and colleagues2 report findings from a large cohort study of male and female high school students who completed a variety of cognitive tests and who were passively followed...
Biomarker assessment of tobacco smoking exposure and risk of dementia death: pooling of individual participant data from 14 cohort studies
Background While there is a suggestion that self-reported tobacco smoking may be a risk factor for dementia, to date, it has not been possible to explore the thresholds at which this exposure elevates risk. Accordingly, our aim was to relate cotinine, a biomarker of tobacco smoking, to risk of dementia death. Methods We pooled 14 prospective cohort studies that held data on cotinine (plasma or saliva), covariates and death records.
Digital Support Platform: a qualitative research study investigating the feasibility of an internet-based, postdiagnostic support platform for families living with dementia
In this study, our aim was to determine the feasibility of improving the quality of life of people with dementia (PWD) and their families with the DSP by adopting a qualitative approach, focusing on the needs of families recently diagnosed with dementia, the work they do to address these needs and how the DSP may have been used to this end.
Biomarker assessment of tobacco smoking exposure and risk of dementia death: pooling of individual participant data from 14 cohort studies
Background While there is a suggestion that self-reported tobacco smoking may be a risk factor for dementia, to date, it has not been possible to explore the thresholds at which this exposure elevates risk. Accordingly, our aim was to relate cotinine, a biomarker of tobacco smoking, to risk of dementia death. Methods We pooled 14 prospective cohort studies that held data on cotinine (plasma or saliva), covariates and death records.
Explaining the excess mortality in Scotland compared with England: pooling of 18 cohort studies
Major population health surveys conducted from the mid-1990s in Scotland and England, whose respondents have been linked to subsequent cause-specific mortality, have created powerful, well-characterised cohort studies which draw on random population samples. 26 , 27 Much of the data collected in the health surveys are directly comparable and there have now been a sufficient number of deaths to facilitate comparative pooled analyses of mortality in England and Scotland.
Environmental risk factors for dementia: a systematic review
In summary, we found moderate evidence for air pollution exposures being related to dementia risk, particularly nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and ozone. There was little evidence that toxic heavy metals, or indeed most metals, influence dementia risk, apart from aluminium – where larger, better quality studies suggested an association. Other than silicon, there was little evidence for other trace elements affecting dementia risk, though selenium remains an interesting element.
Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England
You have accessRestricted access Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England Tom Russ The British Journal of Psychiatry Feb 2017, 210 (2) 169; DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.116.187922
Psychological distress in relation to site specific cancer mortality: pooling of unpublished data from 16 prospective cohort studies
Conclusion This study contributes to the growing evidence that psychological distress might have some predictive capacity for selected cancer presentations, in addition to other somatic diseases. Results The studies collectively contributed an average of 9.5 years of mortality surveillance during which there were 16?267 deaths (4353 from cancer).
Psychological distress, neuroticism, and cause-specific mortality: early prospective evidence from UK Biobank
We observed a dose–response relationship between a measure of psychological distress symptom severity and death from diseases of public health importance in men and women in a large, contemporary and well-characterised cohort study. Neuroticism, contrary to our prediction, had no explanatory power in this association. We excluded 140?352 participants from our analytical sample owing to missing data.
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