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| V G WadleySummaryAffiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham Country: USA Publications
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Effect of sunlight exposure on cognitive function among depressed and non-depressed participants: a REGARDS cross-sectional studyShia T Kent
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Environ Health 8:34. 2009..We evaluated whether the amount of sunlight exposure (i.e. insolation) affects cognitive function and examined the effect of season on this relationship...- Incident cognitive impairment is elevated in the stroke belt: the REGARDS studyVirginia G Wadley
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2041, USA
Ann Neurol 70:229-36. 2011..To determine whether incidence of impaired cognitive screening status is higher in the southern Stroke Belt region of the United States than in the remaining United States... - Mild cognitive impairment and everyday function: an investigation of driving performanceVirginia G Wadley
Department of Medicine, Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Geriatr Psychiatry Neurol 22:87-94. 2009.... 
Mild cognitive impairment and everyday function: evidence of reduced speed in performing instrumental activities of daily livingVirginia G Wadley
Department of Medicine and Alzheimer s Disease Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2041, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:416-24. 2008..Information about the nature of functional difficulties in MCI can be used to augment common clinical assessment procedures, and aspects of function that are affected in MCI can serve as meaningful endpoints for intervention trials...- Changes in everyday function in individuals with psychometrically defined mild cognitive impairment in the Advanced Cognitive Training for Independent and Vital Elderly StudyVirginia G Wadley
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1192-8. 2007..To examine trajectories of change in everyday function for individuals with cognitive deficits suggestive of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)... 
Cognitive status, stroke symptom reports, and modifiable risk factors among individuals with no diagnosis of stroke or transient ischemic attack in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) StudyVirginia G Wadley
Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2041, USA
Stroke 38:1143-7. 2007..This study evaluates relationships among cognitive status, stroke symptom reports, and cardiovascular and behavioral factors...- Development and evaluation of home-based speed-of-processing training for older adultsVirginia G Wadley
Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility, University of Alabama, 1530 3rd Avenue S, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 87:757-63. 2006..To develop technical parameters for a videotape-based speed-of-processing training protocol, to evaluate the feasibility of self-administration (experiment 1), and to evaluate the protocol's effectiveness (experiment 2)... - Diagnostic attributions versus labeling: impact of Alzheimer's disease and major depression diagnoses on emotions, beliefs, and helping intentions of family membersV G Wadley
Department of Psychology and Center for Research in Applied Gerontology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 56:P244-52. 2001..However, participants reported greater anger and higher personality attributions toward fathers than mothers, suggesting that the influence of parent gender on potential caregivers' reactions warrants further attention... - Do older drivers at-risk for crashes modify their driving over time?Lesley A Ross
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 64:163-70. 2009..Results suggest that self-regulation among older drivers at-risk for crashes is an insufficient compensatory approach to eliminating increased crash risk. UFOV is a registered trademark of Visual Awareness, Inc... - Psychological, social, and health impact of caregiving: a comparison of black and white dementia family caregivers and noncaregiversW E Haley
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Psychol Aging 10:540-52. 1995..Methodological issues in comparing well-being in Black and White caregivers, in particular the importance of including noncaregiving comparison subjects are discussed... - Awareness of deficits in financial abilities in patients with mild cognitive impairment: going beyond self-informant discrepancyOzioma C Okonkwo
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 0017, USA
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:650-9. 2008..In this study, the authors used three different approaches to examine accuracy of self-report of financial abilities among patients with MCI... - Predictors of falling in older Maryland drivers: a structural-equation modelDavid E Vance
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 358993, USA
J Aging Phys Act 14:254-69. 2006..It is speculated that fear of falling, which often results in reduced mobility among older adults, might account for the lack of a direct relationship between age and falling. This hypothesis should be examined in further research... - Medical decision-making abilities in older adults with chronic partial epilepsyJennifer K Bambara
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA
Epilepsy Behav 10:63-8. 2007..Physicians should consider the decisional abilities of their older adult patients with epilepsy when presenting treatment options... - Association of higher diastolic blood pressure levels with cognitive impairmentG Tsivgoulis
Comprehensive Stroke Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, RWUH M226, 1530 3rd Avenue S, Birmingham, AL 35294 3280, USA
Neurology 73:589-95. 2009..We evaluated the cross-sectional relationship of blood pressure (BP) components with cognitive impairment after adjusting for potential confounders... - Cognitive correlates of financial abilities in mild cognitive impairmentOzioma C Okonkwo
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1745-50. 2006..To investigate the cognitive correlates of financial abilities in mild cognitive impairment (MCI)... - Cumulative meta-analysis of the relationship between useful field of view and driving performance in older adults: current and future implicationsOlivio J Clay
Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Optom Vis Sci 82:724-31. 2005.... - Visual function and cognitive speed of processing mediate age-related decline in memory span and fluid intelligenceOlivio J Clay
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 415 Campbell Hall, 1300 University Boulevard, Birmingham, Alabama 35294 1170, USA
J Aging Health 21:547-66. 2009..In addition, the common cause, sensory degradation and speed of processing hypotheses were compared... - Family caregiving and emotional strain: associations with quality of life in a large national sample of middle-aged and older adultsDavid L Roth
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Qual Life Res 18:679-88. 2009..This study examined the quality of life correlates of family caregiving and caregiving strain in a large national epidemiological sample... - The effects of physical activity and sedentary behavior on cognitive health in older adultsDavid E Vance
Dept of Psychology and Center for Research on Applied Gerontology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294 2100, USA
J Aging Phys Act 13:294-313. 2005..SEM techniques provided partial support for the social-stimulation hypothesis and depression-reduction hypothesis. Implications for treating depression and improving cognitive functioning are discussed... - Transfer of a speed of processing intervention to near and far cognitive functionsJerri D Edwards
Center for Research on Applied Gerontology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ala 35294 0009, USA
Gerontology 48:329-40. 2002..Evidence establishing the potential for modification of cognitive functioning in later adulthood has begun to accumulate... - Life-space and cognitive decline in a community-based sample of African American and Caucasian older adultsMichael Crowe
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Ave S, HMB 111, Birmingham, AL 35294 2100
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 63:1241-5. 2008..Life-space, a measure of movement through one's environment, may be viewed as one aspect of environmental complexity for older adults. We examined the relationship between life-space and subsequent change in cognitive function... - Can high-risk older drivers be identified through performance-based measures in a Department of Motor Vehicles setting?Karlene K Ball
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Edward R Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:77-84. 2006..To evaluate the relationship between performance-based risk factors and subsequent at-fault motor vehicle collision (MVC) involvement in a cohort of older drivers... - Dissociations in visual attention deficits among persons with mild cognitive impairmentOzioma C Okonkwo
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294, USA
Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn 15:492-505. 2008..The implications of these findings for early identification of MCI, prevention of functional decline in MCI, and delay/reversal of cognitive degradation in MCI are discussed... - Diabetes and cognitive decline: investigating the potential influence of factors related to health disparitiesMichael Crowe
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2100, USA
J Aging Health 22:292-306. 2010.... - Race and gender differences in 1-year outcomes for community-dwelling stroke survivors with family caregiversDavid L Roth
Department of Biostatistics, UAB, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Stroke 42:626-31. 2011..Race and gender differences in 1-year stroke outcomes were examined using an epidemiologically derived sample of first-time stroke survivors from the national REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study... - Changes in social support and their impact on psychosocial outcome over a 5-year period for African American and White dementia caregiversOlivio J Clay
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 23:857-62. 2008..African Americans have been found to be more resilient to the caregiving role than Whites. Amount of social support and satisfaction with social support were studied as possible explanations for these racial differences... - Predictors of driving exposure and avoidance in a field study of older drivers from the state of MarylandDavid E Vance
Department of Psychology, Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294 2100, USA
Accid Anal Prev 38:823-31. 2006..The implications of these findings are discussed as they relate to designing interventions to promote mobility... - Visual attention and self-regulation of driving among older adultsOzioma C Okonkwo
Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
Int Psychogeriatr 20:162-73. 2008..In this study, we investigate self-regulation of driving among a group of older adults with varying functional abilities... - Sensory and cognitive factors influencing functional ability in older adultsKimberly M Wood
Edward R Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294 2100, USA
Gerontology 51:131-41. 2005..Identifying and comparing cognitive correlates of functional performance is particularly important in order to design interventions to promote independence and prevent functional disability... - The association between self-reported tooth loss and cognitive function in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study: an assessment of potential pathwaysJonathan C Matthews
Institute of Oral Health Research, School of Dentistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
J Am Dent Assoc 142:379-90. 2011..Several mechanisms may associate tooth loss and related oral inflammation with cognitive impairment. The authors studied the relationship between tooth loss and cognitive function... - Race and gender differences in perceived caregiver availability for community-dwelling middle-aged and older adultsDavid L Roth
Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 327 Ryals Building, Birmingham, AL 35294 0022, USA
Gerontologist 47:721-9. 2007..This study examined race and gender differences in perceived informal caregiver availability for participants aged 45 and older in a large national epidemiological study... - The impact of speed of processing training on cognitive and everyday performanceJ D Edwards
University of Alabama, Huntsville Department of Psychology, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Aging Ment Health 9:262-71. 2005..Further study is needed to learn about the long-term effects of such training in relation to everyday abilities... - Self- and informant report of financial abilities in patients with Alzheimer's disease: reliable and valid?Virginia G Wadley
Department of Neurology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35233, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 51:1621-6. 2003..To evaluate the consistency, stability, and accuracy of reports by patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their caregivers regarding the patients' premorbid and current financial abilities... - Factors contributing to global cognitive impairment in heart failure: results from a population-based cohortPatrick M Pullicino
Kent Institute of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
J Card Fail 14:290-5. 2008..Heart failure (HF) and cognitive impairment are both common in older adults. However, the association between the two has not been well studied... - Speed-of-processing and driving simulator training result in improved driving performanceDaniel L Roenker
Department of Psychology, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky 42101, USA
Hum Factors 45:218-33. 2003..Actual or potential applications of this research include driver assessment and/or training programs and cognitive intervention programs for older adults... - The useful field of view test: normative data for older adultsJerri D Edwards
Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 35899, United States
Arch Clin Neuropsychol 21:275-86. 2006..These norms will allow researchers and clinicians to compare UFOV performance with similar peers and may help in identifying elderly persons who would benefit from speed of processing training... - Reliability and validity of useful field of view test scores as administered by personal computerJerri D Edwards
Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 27:529-43. 2005..In conclusion, the reliability and validity coefficients are of sufficient magnitude to make the touch and mouse PC versions of the UFOV practical for use in clinical evaluations...