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Multidimensional Typology of Social Networks of Older Adults and Its Association with Cognitive and Physical Function in Late Life
(2019)
Social networks of older adults are an important risk factor for various health outcomes including mental health, well-being, and pre-mature mortality. Despite their relevance for health in old age, measurement of social ...
Getting "Under the Skin": Human Social Genomics in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
(2017)
The field of human social genomics examines the role of gene expression as a biological mediator in the relationship between the social environment and health. As many studies in this field have been small, lacked replication, ...
Sex Differences in the Neuroimmune Modulation of Learning and Memory
(2022)
The neuroimmune system is a specialized immune system in the brain crucial for both responding to illness and injury as well as regulating normal neural function and behavior. As such, it is perhaps not surprising that ...
Role of Central Amygdala Opioids in Incentive Motivation: Translating Learning into Focused and Amplified 'Wanting'.
(2009)
Wanting a reward like food is different from liking it, and the brain processes these sensations separately. Components of the limbic system mediate both, and here I examined how different neurochemical signals (opioids ...
Memory, Interference and Depression.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the role of interference in short-term memory and how interference in memory may influence depression. The first chapter tackles whether forgetting in the short-term is due to decay with the ...
Mimicking partial to total placental insufficiency in a rabbit model of cerebral palsy
(Springer International PublishingWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
All placental abruptions begin as partial abruptions, which sometimes manifest as fetal bradycardia. The progression from partial to total abruption was mimicked by a new rabbit model of placental insufficiency, and we ...
Case studies in bias reduction and inference for electronic health record data with selection bias and phenotype misclassification
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-10)