ArticlePsychology and aging2019
Life course biopsychosocial effects of retrospective childhood social support and later-life cognition.
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- Biopsychosocial contexts influence adult cognitive function concurrently and longitudinally.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Life course and mental health: a thematic and systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
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- Social Relationships in Early Life and Episodic Memory in Mid- and Late Life.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2021Article
- Psychosocial Protective Factors in Cognitive Aging: A Targeted Review.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2021Review
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Abstract
Social support during childhood lays the foundation for social relationships throughout the life course and has been shown to predict a wide range of mental and physical health outcomes. Social support measured in late life is prospectively associated with better cognitive aging, but few studies have evaluated social support received earlier in the life course. We quantified the effects of childhood social support, reported retrospectively, on later-life cognitive trajectories and investigated biopsychosocial mechanisms underlying these associations. Latent growth curve models estimated 10-year cognitive trajectories in 8,538 participants (baseline ages 45-93; M
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