Recently Published Research

Below are examples of research related to aging and caregiving conducted by members of the Center for Excellence in Aging.

Depression and Anxiety

Emery-Tiburcio EE, Mack L, Lattie EG, Lusarreta M, Marquine M, Vail M, Golden R. Managing Depression among Diverse Older Adults in Primary Care: The BRIGHTEN Program. Clin Gerontol. 2017 Mar-Apr; 40(2):88-96. PMID: 28452672.

Rothschild SK, Emery-Tiburcio EE, Mack LJ, Wang Y, Avery EF, Li H, Golden RL, Powell LH. BRIGHTEN Heart: Design and baseline characteristics of a randomized controlled trial for minority older adults with depression and cardiometabolic syndrome. Contemp Clin Trials. 2016 May; 48:99-109. PMID: 27091813.

Emery EE, Lapidos S, Eisenstein AR, Ivan II, Golden RL. The BRIGHTEN program: implementation and evaluation of a program to bridge resources of an interdisciplinary geriatric health team via electronic networking. Gerontologist. 2012 Dec; 52(6):857-65. PMID: 22437330.

Diabetes and Depression

Haljas K, Amare AT, Alizadeh BZ, Hsu YH, Mosley T, Newman A, Murabito J, Tiemeier H, Tanaka T, van Duijn C, Ding J, Llewellyn DJ, Bennett DA, Terracciano A, Launer L, Ladwig KH, Cornelis MC, Teumer A, Grabe H, Kardia SLR, Ware EB, Smith JA, Snieder H, Eriksson JG, Groop L, Räikkönen K, Lahti J. Bivariate Genome-Wide Association Study of Depressive Symptoms with Type 2 Diabetes and Quantitative Glycemic Traits. Psychosom Med. 2017 Dec 27. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000555. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29280852.

Cognitive Impairment

Li M, Dong X. Is Social Network a Protective Factor for Cognitive Impairment in US Chinese Older Adults? Findings from the PINE Study. Gerontology. 2017 Dec 22. doi: 10.1159/000485616. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29268272.

Emrani S, Libon DJ, Lamar M, Price CC, Jefferson AL, Gifford KA, Hohman TJ, Nation DA, Delano-Wood L, Jak A, Bangen KJ, Bondi MW, Brickman AM, Manly J,
Swenson R, Au R; Consortium for Clinical and Epidemiological Neuropsychological Data Analysis (CENDA). Assessing Working Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment with Serial Order Recall. J Alzheimers Dis. 2017 Dec 13. doi: 10.3233/JAD-170555. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29254087.

Boyle PA, Yu L, Wilson RS, Leurgans SE, Schneider JA, Bennett DA. Person-specific contribution of neuropathologies to cognitive loss in old age.
Ann Neurol. 2017 Dec 15. doi: 10.1002/ana.25123. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29244218.

Walsh RR, Krismer F, Galpern WR, Wenning GK, Low PA, Halliday G, Koroshetz WJ, Holton J, Quinn NP, Rascol O, Shaw LM, Eidelberg D, Bower P, Cummings JL, Abler V, Biedenharn J, Bitan G, Brooks DJ, Brundin P, Fernandez H, Fortier P, Freeman R, Gasser T, Hewitt A, Höglinger GU, Huentelman MJ, Jensen PH, Jeromin A, Kang UJ, Kaufmann H, Kellerman L, Khurana V, Klockgether T, Kim WS, Langer C, LeWitt P, Masliah E, Meissner W, Melki R, Ostrowitzki S, Piantadosi S, Poewe W, Robertson D, Roemer C, Schenk D, Schlossmacher M, Schmahmann JD, Seppi K, Shih L, Siderowf A, Stebbins GT, Stefanova N, Tsuji S, Sutton S, Zhang J. Recommendations of the Global Multiple System Atrophy Research Roadmap Meeting. Neurology. 2017 Dec 13. pii: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004798. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004798. [Epub ahead of print] Review. PubMed PMID: 29237794.

Personality and Mortality

Graham EK, Rutsohn JP, Turiano NA, Bendayan R, Batterham PJ, Gerstorf D, Katz MJ, Reynolds CA, Sharp ES, Yoneda TB, Bastarache ED, Elleman LG, Zelinski EM, Johansson B, Kuh D, Barnes LL, Bennett DA, Deeg DJH, Lipton RB, Pedersen NL, Piccinin AM, Spiro A 3rd, Muniz-Terrera G, Willis SL, Schaie KW, Roan C, Herd P, Hofer SM, Mroczek DK. Personality Predicts Mortality Risk: An Integrative Data Analysis of 15 International Longitudinal Studies. J Res Pers. 2017 Oct;70:174-186. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2017.07.005. Epub 2017 Jul 22. PubMed PMID: 29230075; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5722274.

Parkinson’s Disease

Goldman JG, Andrews H, Amara A, Naito A, Alcalay RN, Shaw LM, Taylor P, Xie T, Tuite P, Henchcliffe C, Hogarth P, Frank S, Saint-Hilaire MH, Frasier M, Arnedo V, Reimer AN, Sutherland M, Swanson-Fischer C, Gwinn K, Kang UJ. Cerebrospinal fluid, plasma, and saliva in the BioFIND study: Relationships among biomarkers and Parkinson’s disease Features. Mov Disord. 2017 Dec 4. doi: 10.1002/mds.27232. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29205509.

Alzheimer’s Disease

Tan CH, Fan CC, Mormino EC, Sugrue LP, Broce IJ, Hess CP, Dillon WP, Bonham LW, Yokoyama JS, Karch CM, Brewer JB, Rabinovici GD, Miller BL, Schellenberg GD, Kauppi K, Feldman HA, Holland D, McEvoy LK, Hyman BT, Bennett DA, Andreassen OA, Dale AM, Desikan RS; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Polygenic hazard score: an enrichment marker for Alzheimer’s associated amyloid and tau deposition. Acta Neuropathol. 2018 Jan;135(1):85-93. doi: 10.1007/s00401-017-1789-4. Epub 2017 Nov 24. PubMed PMID: 29177679.

Aging Research

Buchman AS, Boyle PA, Bennett DA. Expanding the Toolkit for Studies of Aging. J Prev Alzheimers Dis. 2017;4(2):69-70. doi: 10.14283/jpad.2017.14. Epub 2017 Apr PubMed PMID: 29177136; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5699511.

HIV

Justice AC, Erlandson KM, Miotti PG, Landay A, Hunt PW, Tracy RP. Can Biomarkers Advance HIV Research and Care in the ART Era? J Infect Dis. 2017 Nov 20. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jix586. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29165684.