ArticlePsychology and aging2018
Stability of genetic and environmental influences on executive functions in midlife.
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- Executive Function and Impulsivity Predict Distinct Genetic Variance in Internalizing Problems, Externalizing Problems, Thought Disorders, and Compulsive Disorders: A Genomic Structural Equation Modeling Study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2024Article
- Alcohol consumption's effects on working memory: Examining familial confounding.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Article
- Alzheimer's Disease Polygenic Scores Predict Changes in Episodic Memory and Executive Function Across 12 Years in Late Middle Age.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2023Article
- Associations Between Ambient Air Pollution and Cognitive Abilities from Midlife to Early Old Age: Modification by APOE Genotype.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2023Article
- Genome-wide Association Study Shows That Executive Functioning Is Influenced by GABAergic Processes and Is a Neurocognitive Genetic Correlate of Psychiatric Disorders.Biological psychiatry · 2023Article
- Genetic associations between executive functions and intelligence: A combined twin and adoption study.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2022Article
- Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?Current directions in psychological science · 2022Article
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- Depression and executive functioning bidirectionally impair one another across 9 years: Evidence from within-person latent change and cross-lagged models.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
- Interaction between Alcohol Consumption and Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) Genotype with Cognition in Middle-Aged Men.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2021Article
- How Well Does Subjective Cognitive Decline Correspond to Objectively Measured Cognitive Decline? Assessment of 10-12 Year Change.Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD · 2021Article
- Association of baseline semantic fluency and progression to mild cognitive impairment in middle-aged men.Neurology · 2020Article
- Lower general executive function is primarily associated with trait worry: A latent variable analysis of negative thought/affect measures.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2020Article
- Extensive memory testing improves prediction of progression to MCI in late middle age.Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2020Article
- Questionnaires and task-based measures assess different aspects of self-regulation: Both are needed.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Reply to Friedman and Banich: Right measures for the research question.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Integrating verbal fluency with executive functions: Evidence from twin studies in adolescence and middle age.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2019Article
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Research on executive functions (EFs) has revealed that individual differences in general EF abilities are highly correlated across the first few decades of life, especially at the level of genetic influences. Our work has also provided evidence for substantial heritability of this Common EF factor in midlife, but it remains unclear whether individual differences in Common EFs continue to show strong stability in middle age. We examined data from 1,464 middle-aged twins from the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging, most of whom completed 7 neuropsychological measures of EFs at 2 points in middle age (M
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