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Species | Marcus RichardsSummaryAffiliation: University College London Country: UK Publications
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Cognitive decline in ageing: are AAMI and AACD distinct entities?M Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:534-40. 1999..However, the extent to which the nosological entities they represent are similar or distinct is unclear...
Long term effects of early adversity on cognitive functionM Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, UK
Arch Dis Child 89:922-7. 2004..To investigate long term effects of early adverse circumstances on cognitive function...- Lung function and cognitive ability in a longitudinal birth cohort studyMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
Psychosom Med 67:602-8. 2005..The objective of this study was to examine the association between forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and cognitive ability in midlife in the normal population... - A life course approach to cognitive reserve: a model for cognitive aging and development?Marcus Richards
Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, London
Ann Neurol 58:617-22. 2005..In this context, reserve therefore provides an empirical yet general model of cognitive aging and development... - Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort studyMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London
BMJ 328:552. 2004..To examine the association between cognitive ability in childhood and mid-life cognitive decline in the normal population... - Lifetime antecedents of cognitive reserveMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 25:614-24. 2003..The direct influence of paternal occupation on cognitive reserve was negligible, and almost entirely mediated by childhood cognitive ability and educational attainment... - Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohortMarcus Richards
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, MRC National Survey of Health and Development, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Soc Sci Med 56:785-92. 2003..We conclude that physical exercise and spare-time activity are significantly associated with benefit to memory in midlife, although these two kinds of voluntary activity may exert their effects on cognition via different paths... - Alcohol consumption and midlife cognitive change in the British 1946 birth cohort studyMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Alcohol Alcohol 40:112-7. 2005..However, more longitudinal studies are required to confirm that alcohol has an effect on cognitive change and to rule out the possibility that those of higher ability engage in a lifestyle that protects against cognitive decline... - Long-term effects of breast-feeding in a national birth cohort: educational attainment and midlife cognitive functionMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1 19 Torrington Place, UK
Public Health Nutr 5:631-5. 2002..Little is known, however, about possible longer-term effects of breast-feeding. We investigated the effect of breast-feeding on educational attainment, and on a range of cognitive skills in midlife, in the British 1946 birth cohort... - Cigarette smoking and cognitive decline in midlife: evidence from a prospective birth cohort studyMarcus Richards
Medical Research Council, National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, London, England
Am J Public Health 93:994-8. 2003..The authors investigated the effects of cigarette smoking on midlife cognitive performance... - Birthweight, postnatal growth and cognitive function in a national UK birth cohortMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
Int J Epidemiol 31:342-8. 2002..We therefore investigated the independent effects of birthweight and postnatal height adjusted for postnatal weight on cognitive function and educational attainment while controlling for family background... - Mild extrapyramidal signs and functional impairment in ageingMarcus Richards
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:150-3. 2002..Little is known about the clinical significance of mild extrapyramidal signs (EPS) in elderly individuals. We investigated whether EPS are associated with functional impairment in older people with cognitive decline... - Long-term affective disorder in people with mild learning disabilityM Richards
National Survey of Health and Development, University College London, UK
Br J Psychiatry 179:523-7. 2001.... - Cognitive function in UK community-dwelling African Caribbean and white elders: a pilot studyM Richards
Section of Old Age Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 15:621-30. 2000..However, the influence of potential confounding factors such as socio-economic position and ill-health, and the effect of cultural test bias, cannot be ruled out... - Developmental origins of midlife physical performance: evidence from a British birth cohortDiana Kuh
Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, UK
Am J Epidemiol 164:110-21. 2006..This study is the first to show that childhood growth and development affect midlife performance; prevention of disability and frailty in later life may need to start early... - Do childhood cognitive ability or smoking behaviour explain the influence of lifetime socio-economic conditions on premature adult mortality in a British post war birth cohort?Diana Kuh
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, 33 Bedford Place, London WC1B 5JU, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 68:1565-73. 2009..These findings were similar for cardiovascular and cancer mortality... - Cognitive function across the life course and the menopausal transition in a British birth cohortHelen S Kok
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, England
Menopause 13:19-27. 2006..These findings suggest that common environmental or genetic factors, operating through long-term or lifelong hormonal mechanisms, may influence the timing of natural menopause and lifetime cognitive function... - Childhood cognitive ability and age at menopause: evidence from two cohort studiesDiana Kuh
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
Menopause 12:475-82. 2005..To investigate whether poorer cognitive ability in childhood is associated with an earlier menopause... - Lifetime cognitive performance is associated with midlife physical performance in a prospective national birth cohort studyDiana Kuh
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United Kingdom
Psychosom Med 71:38-48. 2009..To examine whether measures of cognitive performance across life are related to physical performance at age 53 years, allowing for potential confounders... - Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort studyDiana Kuh
Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London, London WC1E 6BT
BMJ 325:1076-80. 2002..To examine premature mortality in adults in relation to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood... - Association between year of birth and cognitive functions in Russia and the Czech Republic: cross-sectional results of the HAPIEE studyMartin Bobak
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Neuroepidemiology 33:231-9. 2009..To assess differences in cognitive functions by year of birth in Russia and the Czech Republic... - Childhood cognitive ability and deaths up until middle age: a post-war birth cohort studyDiana Kuh
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 33:408-13. 2004..We examined mortality in relation to cognitive ability at age 8 years in a birth cohort and investigated these possible reasons... - Objective measures of physical capability and subsequent health: a systematic reviewRachel Cooper
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Division of Population Health, University College London, London, UK
Age Ageing 40:14-23. 2011.... - Association between adolescent emotional problems and metabolic syndrome: the modifying effect of C-reactive protein gene (CRP) polymorphismsDarya Gaysina
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, UK
Brain Behav Immun 25:750-8. 2011..These findings may highlight new ways of identifying people with emotional problems at high risk of developing the metabolic syndrome, which is of great importance for the management of the physical health of these patients... - Effect of breastfeeding and sociodemographic factors on visual outcome in childhood and adolescenceAlicja R Rudnicka
Division of Community Health Sciences, St George s, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Am J Clin Nutr 87:1392-9. 2008..It has been suggested that early life factors, including breastfeeding and birth weight, program childhood myopia... - Surveying older people from minority ethnic groups: an evaluation of a primary care sampling method for UK African-Caribbean eldersRobert Stewart
Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 11:178-83. 2002..Primary care list sampling with staff-assigned ethnicity therefore appeared highly specific, reasonably sensitive, and did not seem to introduce substantial bias for this population... - Cohort Profile: The 1946 National Birth Cohort (MRC National Survey of Health and Development)Michael Wadsworth
MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free and UCL Medical School, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Int J Epidemiol 35:49-54. 2006 - Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse: how does it relate to cognitive function in mid-life?Archana Singh-Manoux
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
Ann Epidemiol 15:572-8. 2005.... - Clinical disorders in a post war British cohort reaching retirement: evidence from the First National Birth Cohort studyMary B Pierce
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, England
PLoS ONE 7:e44857. 2012..This study describes the distribution and clustering of 15 common clinical disorders requiring medical treatment or supervision in a representative British cohort approaching retirement, and how health tracked across adulthood... 
Does retirement influence cognitive performance? The Whitehall II StudyBeverly A Roberts
Department of Epidemiologyand Public Health, University College London, London, UK
J Epidemiol Community Health 65:958-63. 2011..Occupational work involves many factors capable of protecting cognition. The 'disuse' hypothesis suggests that removal of such factors at retirement may increase the risk of cognitive decline...- A randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of vitamin B12 supplementation on neurological function in healthy older people: the Older People and Enhanced Neurological function (OPEN) study protocol [ISRCTN54195799]Alan D Dangour
Department of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research, Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Nutr J 10:22. 2011.... - Relation between children's height and outdoor air pollution from coal-burning sources in the British 1946 birth cohortMartin Bobak
International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 77:383-6. 2004..Air pollution is associated with a number of health outcomes in childhood. In this study, we investigated whether air pollution is related to children's height... - A life course approach to the development of mental skillsMarcus Richards
Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, London, UK
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 66:i26-35. 2011.... - No association between gain in body mass index across the life course and midlife cognitive function and cognitive reserve--the 1946 British Birth Cohort studyEmiliano Albanese
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
Alzheimers Dement 8:470-82. 2012..The association between lifelong body mass index (BMI) and cognitive function has not been comprehensively studied... - Prevalence and childhood antecedents of depersonalization syndrome in a UK birth cohortWilliam E Lee
King s College London, Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Weston Education Centre, London, SE5 9RJ, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 47:253-61. 2012..Prevalence estimates vary widely. Little is known about childhood antecedents of the disorder although emotional abuse is thought to play a role... - A randomised controlled trial investigating the effect of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on cognitive and retinal function in cognitively healthy older people: the Older People And n-3 Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (OPAAlan D Dangour
Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Nutr J 5:20. 2006..The link between cognitive ability, visual function and quality of life among older people suggests that this novel line of research may have considerable public health importance... - The catechol-O-methyltransferase gene (COMT) and cognitive function from childhood through adolescenceDarya Gaysina
MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, London, UK School of Psychology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Electronic address
Biol Psychol 92:359-64. 2013..Although there was some evidence for age- and sex-specific effects of the COMT rs737865 none remained significant after correction for multiple testing. Further studies are necessary in order to make firmer conclusions... - The distribution of Mini-Mental State Examination scores in an older UK African-Caribbean population compared to MRC CFA study normsRobert Stewart
Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 17:745-51. 2002..to describe normative data for the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) in a UK African-Caribbean population and compare these with norms for white UK-born elders... - The association between childhood cognitive ability and adult long-term sickness absence in three British birth cohorts: a cohort studyMax Henderson
Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London, Weston Education Centre, London, UK
BMJ Open 2:e000777. 2012..The authors aimed to test the relationship between childhood cognitive function and long-term sick leave in adult life and whether any relationship was mediated by educational attainment, adult social class or adult mental ill-health... - Childhood cognitive ability and adult mental health in the British 1946 birth cohortStephani L Hatch
Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Soc Sci Med 64:2285-96. 2007..In addition, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the gender-specific link between childhood cognitive ability and the risk of experiencing internalising disorders in mid-adulthood warrants further consideration... - Infant developmental milestones and subsequent cognitive functionGraham K Murray
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ann Neurol 62:128-36. 2007..We hypothesized that earlier attainment of developmental milestones would be associated with better subsequent intellectual performance throughout the range of abilities, rather than confined to extremes... - The continuing benefits of education: adult education and midlife cognitive ability in the British 1946 birth cohortStephani L Hatch
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 62:S404-14. 2007..The primary study aim was to examine whether there were continuing effects of education over the life course on midlife cognitive ability... - The relationship between early personality and midlife psychological well-being: evidence from a UK birth cohort studyRosemary A Abbott
Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 43:679-87. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine long range associations between Eysenck's personality dimensions and psychological well-being in midlife... - Childhood intelligence and being a vegetarianMarcus Richards
BMJ 334:216-7. 2007