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New Study on Work, Parenting, and Work-Home Spillover

Posted on July 26, 2018

New research from 2015–17 NIA postdoc Katherine Lin, now an assistant professor at Dartmouth, explores the relationship between work, parenting, and work-home spillover. Using a life course perspective, Lin and co-author Sarah Burgard (Michigan) examined …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

NIA Postdoc Receives Alzheimer’s Association Funding

Posted on July 26, 2018

Megan Zuelsdorff joined CDHA as a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral trainee in September 2017 and has worked on several research projects related to social determinants of cognitive aging processes and socioenvironmental contributors to well-established …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

Health Surveys Can Reveal Supplementary Health Information, Research Shows

Posted on July 26, 2018

In face-to-face-interviews on personal health, respondents often self-report measures of their physical and mental capabilities by answering a series of questions. In some cases, interviewers conducting the surveys also rate respondents’ health by answering questions …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

25 Genetic Markers Linked to Longevity

Posted on July 26, 2018

Scholars have long wondered what enables some people to live to very old ages while others do not. Research has shown that a number of inherited genetic variants are linked to overall and longer lifespan. …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

Pilot Project Investigates Effects of Sibling Death

Posted on July 26, 2018

Each year, CDHA provides pilot grants to affiliates engaged in innovative research that is likely to lead to support from external funders. During the academic year 2014–15, PIs Barbara Wolfe (public affairs, economics, population health …

Posted in Newsletter, Winter 2018Tagged Feb/March 2018

The Human Microbiome and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study

Posted on June 11, 2018

The microbiome is now considered to be as important to human health as the genome. For social and population health scientists, research on the human microbiome may help identify biological mediators that link social conditions …

Posted in Newsletter, Spring 2018Tagged Apr/May 2018

The Social Genome of Friends

Posted on June 11, 2018

Are friends more genetically similar to one another than to randomly selected peers? Humans tend to form social relationships with others who resemble them, and recent research has evaluated the possibility that unobserved genotypes may …

Posted in Newsletter, Spring 2018Tagged Apr/May 2018

Emerging Policy and Ethical Implications from Neuroscience, Genetics, and the Microbiome

Posted on June 11, 2018

On April 12, the La Follette School of Public Affairs hosted the 2018 Spring Symposium. Co-sponsored by CDHA, the Center for Demography and Ecology, and the Institute for Research on Poverty, the event examined the …

Posted in Newsletter, Spring 2018Tagged Apr/May 2018

New Paper Explores the Effects of Gene Variants on Cognitive Function

Posted on June 11, 2018

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 60 to 80 percent of cases, and is the only one of the top 10 causes of death in the US with no …

Posted in Newsletter, Spring 2018Tagged Apr/May 2018
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