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3D shape analysis of the brain's third ventricle using a midplane encoded symmetric template model

scientific article published on 28 February 2016

A Stairway to Heaven? Structure of the Religious Involvement Inventory and Spiritual Well-Being Scale

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

A Tablet for Healthy Ageing: The Effect of a Tablet Computer Training Intervention on Cognitive Abilities in Older Adults

scientific article published on 5 December 2016

A general factor of brain white matter integrity predicts information processing speed in healthy older people

scientific article

A genome-wide association study implicates the APOE locus in nonpathological cognitive ageing.

scientific article published on 4 December 2012

A hierarchy of items within Eysenck’s EPI

A pilot study of urinary peptides as biomarkers for intelligence in old age

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A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of real-world interventions for cognitive ageing in healthy older adults

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

APOE E4 status predicts age-related cognitive decline in the ninth decade: longitudinal follow-up of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

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Activity participation and cognitive aging from age 50 to 80 in the glostrup 1914 cohort.

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Age-associated cognitive decline

scientific article published in January 2009

Alcohol intake and cognitive abilities in old age: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study

scientific article published in March 2011

Antioxidant and B vitamin intake in relation to cognitive function in later life in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

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Apolipoprotein E is not related to memory abilities at 70 years of age.

scientific article published on 23 October 2008

Association of allostatic load with brain structure and cognitive ability in later life

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Association of existing and new candidate genes for anxiety, depression and personality traits in older people

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Associations between level and change in physical function and brain volumes

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Associations between urban greenspace and health-related quality of life in children

scientific article published on 03 February 2016

Beyond a bigger brain: Multivariable structural brain imaging and intelligence

scientific article

Blood pressure, internal carotid artery flow parameters, and age-related white matter hyperintensities

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Brain Structural Differences Between 73- And 92-Year Olds Matched For Childhood Intelligence, Social Background, And Intracranial Volume

Brain iron deposits and lifespan cognitive ability

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Brain iron deposits are associated with general cognitive ability and cognitive aging

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Brain structural differences between 73- and 92-year olds matched for childhood intelligence, social background, and intracranial volume

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Brain volumetric changes and cognitive ageing during the eighth decade of life

scientific article published on 7 September 2015

Brain white matter damage in aging and cognitive ability in youth and older age.

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Brain white matter tract integrity and cognitive abilities in community-dwelling older people: the Lothian Birth Cohort, 1936

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Caffeine consumption and cognitive function at age 70: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study

scientific article published on 7 December 2009

Carotid disease at age 73 and cognitive change from age 70 to 76 years: A longitudinal cohort study

scientific article published on January 2016

Childhood socioeconomic position and objectively measured physical capability levels in adulthood: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Circulating inflammatory markers are associated with magnetic resonance imaging-visible perivascular spaces but not directly with white matter hyperintensities

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

Cognitive ability at age 11 and 70 years, information processing speed, and APOE variation: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 study

scientific article published in March 2009

Cohort profile: the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936.

scientific article

Comment on Gow, A.J., Watson, R., Whiteman, M. & Deary, I.J. (2011). A stairway to heaven? Structure of the Religious Involvement Inventory and Spiritual Well-Being Scale. Journal of Religion & Health doi: 10.1007/s10943-010-9375-2.

scientific article published in December 2011

Common variants of large effect in F12, KNG1, and HRG are associated with activated partial thromboplastin time

scientific article

Computational quantification of brain perivascular space morphologies: Associations with vascular risk factors and white matter hyperintensities. A study in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Copenhagen Consensus statement 2019: physical activity and ageing

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Coupled changes in brain white matter microstructure and fluid intelligence in later life

scientific article published on June 2015

Coupled changes in hippocampal structure and cognitive ability in later life.

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Cycling Without Age: Assessing the Impact of a Cycling-Based Initiative on Mood and Wellbeing

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Cytomegalovirus infection and cognitive abilities in old age.

scientific article published on 22 February 2013

Dietary Iodine Exposure and Brain Structures and Cognition in Older People. Exploratory Analysis in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

scientific article published in January 2017

Differences in the haematological profile of healthy 70 year old men and women: normal ranges with confirmatory factor analysis

scientific article

Disentangling Wording and Substantive Factors in the Spiritual Well-Being Scale

scientific article

Do white matter hyperintensities mediate the association between brain iron deposition and cognitive abilities in older people?

scientific article published on 20 April 2016

Early life characteristics and late life burden of cerebral small vessel disease in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

scientific article published on 19 September 2016

Estimated maximal and current brain volume predict cognitive ability in old age.

scientific article published on 11 July 2013

Evolutionary conserved longevity genes and human cognitive abilities in elderly cohorts

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Examining associations between sexual behaviours and quality of life in older adults

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Flavonoid intake in relation to cognitive function in later life in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

scientific article published on 8 February 2011

Fluctuating Asymmetry and personality

GWAS for executive function and processing speed suggests involvement of the CADM2 gene.

scientific article

Genetic Associations Between Fibrinogen and Cognitive Performance in Three Scottish Cohorts

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Genetic Variants Associated With Altered Plasma Levels of C-Reactive Protein are not Associated With Late-Life Cognitive Ability in Four Scottish Samples

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Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Genetic analysis of over one million people identifies 535 novel loci for blood pressure

Genetic associations for activated partial thromboplastin time and prothrombin time, their gene expression profiles, and risk of coronary artery disease

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Genetic contributions to stability and change in intelligence from childhood to old age.

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Genetic copy number variation and general cognitive ability

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Genetic predictors of fibrin D-dimer levels in healthy adults

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Genome-wide association analyses identify 18 new loci associated with serum urate concentrations

scientific article published in February 2013

Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic

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Genome-wide studies of verbal declarative memory in nondemented older people: the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology consortium

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Harmonization of Neuroticism and Extraversion phenotypes across inventories and cohorts in the Genetics of Personality Consortium: an application of Item Response Theory

scientific article published on 15 May 2014

Height and intelligence in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on 11 January 2010

Hippocampal morphology and cognitive functions in community-dwelling older people: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

How is musical activity associated with cognitive ability in later life?

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Impact of small vessel disease in the brain on gait and balance

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Incidental findings on brain MR imaging in older community-dwelling subjects are common but serious medical consequences are rare: a cohort study

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Interaction of APOE e4 and poor glycemic control predicts white matter hyperintensity growth from 73 to 76

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Investigating associations between personality and the efficacy of interventions for cognitive ageing: A systematic review

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Is age kinder to the initially more able?: Yes, and no.

scientific article published on January 2012

Is body mass index in old age related to cognitive abilities? The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 Study

scientific article published in December 2010

Is the PASAT past it? Testing attention and concentration without numbers

scientific article published in September 2004

Leisure activity associated with cognitive ability level, but not cognitive change

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Lifecourse Activity Participation From Early, Mid, and Later Adulthood as Determinants of Cognitive Aging: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

scientific article published on 07 October 2016

Lifetime intellectual function and satisfaction with life in old age: longitudinal cohort study.

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Linkage of job characteristics and depression in a national health survey in the United States

abstract published in 2008

Location in cognitive and residential space at age 70 reflects a lifelong trait over parental and environmental circumstances: The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

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Longitudinal telomere length shortening and cognitive and physical decline in later life: The Lothian Birth Cohorts 1936 and 1921.

scientific article published on 10 February 2016

Losing one's grip: a bivariate growth curve model of grip strength and nonverbal reasoning from age 79 to 87 years in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

scientific article published on 9 July 2011

MTHFR polymorphisms and cognitive ageing in the ninth decade: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921.

scientific article published on 24 January 2011

Mental ability in childhood and cognitive aging

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Minor physical anomalies, intelligence, and cognitive decline

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Modulation of genetic associations with serum urate levels by body-mass-index in humans

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Neuroprotective lifestyles and the aging brain: activity, atrophy, and white matter integrity

scientific article published in October 2012

Novel Blood Pressure Locus and Gene Discovery Using Genome-Wide Association Study and Expression Data Sets From Blood and the Kidney

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Occupational characteristics and cognitive aging in the Glostrup 1914 Cohort

scientific article published on 7 December 2012

Occupational complexity and lifetime cognitive abilities

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Older Adults Experiences of Learning to Use Tablet Computers: A Mixed Methods Study

Older Adults Perceptions of Technology and Barriers to Interacting with Tablet Computers: A Focus Group Study

scientific article published on October 2017

People's Beliefs and Expectations About How Cognitive Skills Change with Age: Evidence From a U.K.-Wide Aging Survey

scientific article published on 04 April 2018

Perivascular spaces in the centrum semiovale at the beginning of the 8th decade of life: effect on cognition and associations with mineral deposition

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Personality, health, and brain integrity: the Lothian birth cohort study 1936.

scientific article published on 18 November 2013

Polygenic risk for schizophrenia is associated with cognitive change between childhood and old age.

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Potential effect of skull thickening on the associations between cognition and brain atrophy in ageing

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Predicting mortality from human faces

scientific article published on 28 June 2012

Predictors of gait speed and its change over three years in community-dwelling older people

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Processing speed and visuospatial executive function predict visual working memory ability in older adults

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Psychosocial factors and health as determinants of quality of life in community-dwelling older adults

scientific article published on 26 June 2011

Publisher Correction: Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

scholarly article published in Nature Genetics

Publisher Correction: Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits

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Quantitative multi-modal MRI of the Hippocampus and cognitive ability in community-dwelling older subjects

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Reaction time variability and brain white matter integrity

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Religiosity is negatively associated with later-life intelligence, but not with age-related cognitive decline

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Replication study of candidate genes for cognitive abilities: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

scientific article published on 10 December 2008

Reverse causation in activity-cognitive ability associations: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

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Reverse causation in the association between C-reactive protein and fibrinogen levels and cognitive abilities in an aging sample.

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Risk and protective factors for structural brain ageing in the eighth decade of life.

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

School reform and opportunity throughout the lifecourse: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Seasonal Differences in Light Exposure and the Associations With Health and Well-Being in Older Adults: An Exploratory Study

scientific article published on 15 March 2017

Sitting Time, Fidgeting, and All-Cause Mortality in the UK Women's Cohort Study ⬇️

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Smoking, childhood IQ, and cognitive function in old age.

scientific article published on 26 April 2012

Stability and change in intelligence from age 11 to ages 70, 79, and 87: The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936

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Symmetric faces are a sign of successful cognitive aging

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Symmetry of the face in old age reflects childhood social status

scientific article published on 19 July 2011

The Influence of Dyslexia Candidate Genes on Reading Skill in Old Age

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The Lothian Birth Cohort 1936: a study to examine influences on cognitive ageing from age 11 to age 70 and beyond

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The association between retinal vascular network geometry and cognitive ability in an elderly population

scientific article published in May 2007

The utility of functional interaction and cluster analysis in CNS proteomics

scientific article published on 27 March 2009

Total MRI load of cerebral small vessel disease and cognitive ability in older people

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Towards an active and happy retirement? Changes in leisure activity and depressive symptoms during the retirement transition

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Variants in doublecortin- and calmodulin kinase like 1, a gene up-regulated by BDNF, are associated with memory and general cognitive abilities

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Variation in the dysbindin gene and normal cognitive function in three independent population samples

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

Variation in the uric acid transporter gene (SLC2A9) and memory performance

scientific article published on 2 March 2010

Vascular risk factors, large-artery atheroma, and brain white matter hyperintensities

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Vision and intelligence at age 83 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921

Which social network or support factors are associated with cognitive abilities in old age?

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White matter hyperintensities and normal-appearing white matter integrity in the aging brain

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White matter integrity in the splenium of the corpus callosum is related to successful cognitive aging and partly mediates the protective effect of an ancestral polymorphism in ADRB2.

scientific article published on 20 January 2010

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