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Perceived discrimination and cognition in older African AmericansL L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 18:856-65. 2012..The results suggest that perceived discrimination may be associated with poorer cognitive function, but does not appear to be independent of depressive symptoms. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1-10)...- Racial differences in the association of education with physical and cognitive function in older blacks and whitesLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 South Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 66:354-63. 2011..We examined racial differences in the cross-sectional association of education with physical and cognitive function performance in older adults... - Hostility and change in cognitive function over time in older blacks and whitesLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Psychosom Med 71:652-8. 2009..To test whether the level of hostility predicted the rate of cognitive decline in a community of older blacks and whites and whether the association varied as a function of race... - Perceived discrimination and mortality in a population-based study of older adultsLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1241-7. 2008..We examined the relation of individual-level perceived discrimination to mortality in a biracial, population-based sample... - Memory complaints are related to Alzheimer disease pathology in older personsL L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Facility, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 67:1581-5. 2006..To study the relationship between Alzheimer disease (AD) pathology and memory complaints proximate to death... 
Racial differences in the progression of cognitive decline in Alzheimer diseaseLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Depeartment of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 13:959-67. 2005..The purpose of the current study was to examine the association of race with rate of cognitive decline in AD...- Change in cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease in African-American and white personsLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neuroepidemiology 26:16-22. 2006..06), perceptual speed (p = 0.07) and naming (p = 0.08). The results suggest that the rate of cognitive decline in AD is slower in African-Americans compared with whites, particularly for episodic memory... - Social resources and cognitive decline in a population of older African Americans and whitesL L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Facility, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 63:2322-6. 2004..To examine the relation of social resources and cognitive decline in older adults... - Gender, cognitive decline, and risk of AD in older personsL L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging and Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Presbyterian St Luke s Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 60:1777-81. 2003..The authors investigated gender differences in rate of decline for different cognitive systems and for risk of developing AD... - Education modifies the relation of AD pathology to level of cognitive function in older personsD A Bennett
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 60:1909-15. 2003..To test the hypothesis that years of formal education modifies the relation of AD pathology to level of cognitive function... - Cognitive decline in incident Alzheimer disease in a community populationR S Wilson
Rush AD Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 South Paulina Avenue, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 74:951-5. 2010..To measure the cognitive consequences of incident Alzheimer disease (AD) in older African American and white subjects... - Educational attainment and cognitive decline in old ageR S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 72:460-5. 2009..Level of education is a well-established risk factor for Alzheimer disease but its relation to cognitive decline, the principal clinical manifestation of the disease, is uncertain... - Cognitive activity and the cognitive morbidity of Alzheimer diseaseR S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 75:990-6. 2010..To test the hypothesis that frequent cognitive activity predicts slower cognitive decline before dementia onset in Alzheimer disease (AD) and faster decline thereafter... - Proneness to psychological distress and risk of Alzheimer disease in a biracial communityR S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 64:380-2. 2005..4 times more likely to develop AD than persons not distress prone. This effect was substantially stronger in white persons compared to African Americans... - Neighborhood-level cohesion and disorder: measurement and validation in two older adult urban populationsKathleen A Cagney
Department of Health Studies, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, MC 2007, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 64:415-24. 2009..Drawing from collective efficacy and social disorganization theories, we developed and validated measures of neighborhood-level social processes... - Depressive symptoms, cognitive decline, and risk of AD in older personsRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Presbyterian St Luke s Medical Center, 1645 West Jackson Boulevard, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 59:364-70. 2002..Cross-sectional and retrospective case-control studies suggest an association of depression symptoms with cognitive impairment and AD, but there have been few prospective studies and their results have been inconsistent... - Temporal course of depressive symptoms during the development of Alzheimer diseaseR S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 South Paulina St, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 75:21-6. 2010..To characterize change in depressive symptoms before and after the onset of dementia in Alzheimer disease (AD)... - Education and the course of cognitive decline in Alzheimer diseaseR S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 South Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neurology 63:1198-202. 2004..To test the hypothesis that higher level of education is related to more rapid cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease (AD)... - Social engagement and cognitive function in old ageKristin R Krueger
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Exp Aging Res 35:45-60. 2009..The results confirm that higher level of social engagement in old age is associated with better cognitive function but the association varies across domains of social engagement... - Natural history of mild cognitive impairment in older personsD A Bennett
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush Presbyterian St Luke s Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Neurology 59:198-205. 2002..Few large longitudinal studies have compared the natural history of mild cognitive impairment with similar persons without cognitive impairment... - The apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele and decline in different cognitive systems during a 6-year periodRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 59:1154-60. 2002..The apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 allele is known to influence risk of AD but it has been difficult to establish whether it affects episodic memory differently from other cognitive functions... - Biracial population study of mortality in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, 600 S Paulina Ave, Ste 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Neurol 66:767-72. 2009..To assess mortality associated with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer disease (AD) among older African Americans and whites from an urban community... - Individual differences in rates of change in cognitive abilities of older personsRobert S Wilson
Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Presbyterian St Luke s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Psychol Aging 17:179-93. 2002..The results suggest that change in cognitive function in old age primarily reflects person-specific factors rather than an inevitable developmental process... - Diabetes and cognitive systems in older black and white personsZoe Arvanitakis
Department of Neurological Sciences and Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord 24:37-42. 2010..We found similar effects of diabetes on cognition in both racial groups. Because diabetes is twice as common in blacks, the burden of diabetes on cognition is higher in black than white persons... - Effect of a purpose in life on risk of incident Alzheimer disease and mild cognitive impairment in community-dwelling older personsPatricia A Boyle
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, 600 S Paulina, Ste 1020B, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:304-10. 2010..Emerging data suggest that psychological and experiential factors are associated with risk of Alzheimer disease (AD), but the association of purpose in life with incident AD is unknown... - Microinfarct pathology, dementia, and cognitive systemsZoe Arvanitakis
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, 600 S Paulina, Suite 1020, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Stroke 42:722-7. 2011..Little is known about the role of microinfarcts in dementia and cognition. We examined microinfarcts and dementia, global cognition, and 5 cognitive systems in community-dwelling older persons... - Association between life space and risk of mortality in advanced agePatricia A Boyle
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 58:1925-30. 2010..To examine the association between life space, a measure of functional status that describes the range of movement through the environment covered during daily functioning, and the risk of mortality in older community-based persons... - Medicare part D enrollment in a biracial community-based population of older adultsKimberly A Skarupski
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612 3227, USA
Gerontologist 49:828-38. 2009..The Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit (Part D) program debuted in January 2006. We ascertained the sociodemographic and health characteristics of Blacks and Whites who enrolled in the early stages of the program... - A longitudinal study of black-white differences in social resourcesLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 59:S146-53. 2004..This study examined the differences in levels of social networks and social engagement between older Blacks and Whites and racial differences in rates of change in social resources over time... - Purpose in life is associated with mortality among community-dwelling older personsPatricia A Boyle
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Psychosom Med 71:574-9. 2009..To assess the association between purpose in life and all-cause mortality in community-dwelling elderly persons... - Neighborhood social cohesion and disorder in relation to walking in community-dwelling older adults: a multilevel analysisCarlos F Mendes de Leon
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Aging Health 21:155-71. 2009..Promotion of walking behavior in older adults may require improvement of the safety and upkeep of the neighborhood environment... - Racial differences in perceived discrimination in a community population of older blacks and whitesLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center and Institute for Healthy Aging
J Aging Health 16:315-37. 2004..To examine the prevalence of perceived discrimination in an older biracial population and to examine its correlation with depressive symptoms... - Participation in cognitively stimulating activities and risk of incident Alzheimer diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
JAMA 287:742-8. 2002..Frequent participation in cognitively stimulating activities has been hypothesized to reduce risk of Alzheimer disease (AD), but prospective data regarding an association are lacking... - Black-white differences in depressive symptoms among older adults over timeKimberly A Skarupski
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, 1645 W Jackson, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612 3227, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:P136-42. 2005..225, p < .001) but remained robust. The racial differences increased slightly over time. Our findings support heightened awareness of depression in older Black populations... - Sex differences in the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer disease pathologyLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:685-91. 2005.... - Racial disparities in disability: recent evidence from self-reported and performance-based disability measures in a population-based study of older adultsCarlos F Mendes de Leon
Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, 1645 W Jackson Blvd, Suite 675, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 60:S263-71. 2005..Although disability levels have been declining in older adults, there is little current information on racial differences in disability... - Early and late life cognitive activity and cognitive systems in old ageRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Armour Academic Center, 600 South Paulina, Suite 1038, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Int Neuropsychol Soc 11:400-7. 2005..The results suggest that past cognitive activity contributes to current cognition principally through its association with cognitive activity in old age... - Cognitive decline and survival in Alzheimer's diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 21:356-62. 2006..To test the association of rate of cognitive decline, an indicator of the severity of the underlying disease process, with risk of death in Alzheimer's disease (AD)... - Childhood adversity and psychosocial adjustment in old ageRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 14:307-15. 2006..The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that higher level of childhood adversity is associated with lower level of psychosocial adjustment in old age... - The relation of lifetime cognitive activity and lifetime access to resources to late-life cognitive function in older African AmericansLisa L Barnes
Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 13:516-28. 2006..The results suggest that both measures are psychometrically sound in a minority population and that lifetime cognitive activity may contribute to current cognitive function in African Americans... - Correlates of life space in a volunteer cohort of older adultsLisa L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
Exp Aging Res 33:77-93. 2007..The results suggest that the range of environmental movement in older adults is a useful indicator of health in old age and may complement measures of disability... - Loneliness and risk of Alzheimer diseaseRobert S Wilson
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:234-40. 2007..Social isolation in old age has been associated with risk of developing dementia, but the risk associated with perceived isolation, or loneliness, is not well understood... 
Apolipoprotein e and change in episodic memory in blacks and whitesL L Barnes
Rush Alzheimer s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill, USA
Neuroepidemiology 40:211-9. 2013..The purpose of this study was to determine whether 4 has a selective effect on decline in episodic memory in Blacks. Methods: Data are from two cohort studies with similar design. The sample consisted of 1,211 participants...