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@vetsa.bsky.social
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The Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging. A longitudinal study of twins focused on investigating and genetic and environmental influences on cognitive and brain aging. psychiatry.ucsd.edu/research/progra…

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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thrilled to share a null (yes null!) finding on the associations between neighborhood disadvantage and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease with @vetsa.bsky.social . www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology | Neurology Open Access
Background and ObjectivesNeighborhood disadvantage is a recognized risk factor for Alzheimer disease and Alzheimer disease–related dementias (AD/ADRD) and is linked to AD/ADRD pathology at autopsy. Ho...
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy to share another study with @vetsa.bsky.social examining how young adulthood urbanicity influences later-life cognition via midlife neighborhood disadvantage, which serves as a key pathway linking early-life residential context to cognitive aging. academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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Young adult urbanicity, late midlife neighborhood disadvantage, and cognitive functioning in community-dwelling older men
AbstractObjectives. Early-life rural-urban residence has been linked to differences in later-life cognitive functioning and dementia risk. However, the con
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy to share our work on the moderating effect of young adult cognitive reserve on the association of late midlife neighborhood disadvantage and domain-specific cognitive functions (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... )! Took more than a year, but a fun collaboration with @vetsa.bsky.social.
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Neighborhood disadvantage and cognitive function in older adults: The moderating role of young adult general cognitive ability
Neighborhood disadvantage in later life is associated with poorer cognition and increased vulnerability to dementia. Cognitive reserve (CR), an indivi…
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
🚨NEW DATA RELEASE🚨 Data from VETSA waves 1-3 is now available for public download from NACDA! This includes cognitive, health, psychosocial and demographic info from our nationwide twin cohort. Future releases will include wave 4 data and derived MRI variables. www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/st...
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA), United States, 2002-2019
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Tyler Bell, PhD. @tylerbellphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excited to share my new K01 work to understand chronic pain as an AD risk factor - a collaboration of the VETSA team (vetsa.bsky.social) with jaelman.bsky.social and matthewpanizzon.bsky.social and Rush Medical University using the ROSMAP data. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Multisite chronic pain: association with cognitive decline and post-mortem Alzheimer’s biomarkers
Bell et al. report that multisite chronic pain in older adults is linked to faster cognitive decline and increased Alzheimer’s disease pathology, particula
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Tyler Bell, PhD. @tylerbellphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excited to share my new study with the VETSA team (vetsa.bsky.social) with jaelman.bsky.social and matthewpanizzon.bsky.social published in #JINS showing that moderate-to-severe chronic pain and opioid use are independently related to risk of mild cognitive impairment. tinyurl.com/y88k5z4j
This figure shows a higher rate of mild cognitive impairment among people with moderate to severe chronic pain versus mild or no chronic pain.
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Study from Nathan Gillespie testing causal associations of plasma amyloid on total tau using #VETSA twin data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Testing the causal impact of plasma amyloid on total Tau using a genetically informative sample of adult male twins
The amyloid cascade hypothesis predicts that amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregation drives tau tangle accumulation. We tested competing causal and non-causal h…
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Study by Alex Posis finding that TBI is associated with altered microstructure of certain WM tracts that may persist at least 4 decades after the injury. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Associations of history of traumatic brain injury with markers of brain health among older men in the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with increased risk of dementia, but it is unclear how earlier life TBI is related to brain health in older…
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Happy to share a new published study link.springer.com/article/10.1... on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
*Posted for McKenna Williams, not yet on BlueSky* Our new paper on cognitive resilience against Alzheimer’s pathology is out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Neuroimaging Predictors of Cognitive Resilience against Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
Objective Some individuals demonstrate greater cognitive resilience—the ability to maintain cognitive performance despite adverse brain-related changes—through as yet unknown mechanisms. We examined.....
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New article led by @rongxiang.bsky.social examining the effects of childhood disadvantage on late midlife cortical surface area (SA) profile and general cognitive ability (GCA). Cortical SA was found to be the mediator of childhood disadvantage-GCA association. academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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Cortical Surface Area Profile Mediates Effects of Childhood Disadvantage on Later-Life General Cognitive Ability
AbstractObjectives. Childhood disadvantage is associated with lower general cognitive ability (GCA) and brain structural differences in midlife and older a
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New article led by @cfnote.bsky.social and Shu-Ju Lin describing a novel parcellation of abnormal white matter w/ 5 distinct regions. Twin models identified common & unique genetic and environmental influences that may reflect variable underlying etiologies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
MRI image with overlaid frequency map of abnormal white matter and parcellation into 5 regions of interestTwin-based structural equation model showing 5 regions of interest loading onto 3 factors.
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