Gale, CR;
Cooper, R;
Craig, L;
Elliott, J;
Kuh, D;
Richards, M;
Starr, JM;
... Deary, IJ; + view all
(2012)
Cognitive function in childhood and lifetime cognitive change in relation to mental wellbeing in four cohorts of older people.
PLOS One
, 7
(9)
, Article e44860. 10.1371/journal.pone.0044860.
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Abstract
Poorer cognitive ability in youth is a risk factor for later mental health problems but it is largely unknown whether cognitive ability, in youth or in later life, is predictive of mental wellbeing. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cognitive ability at age 11 years, cognitive ability in later life, or lifetime cognitive change are associated with mental wellbeing in older people.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cognitive function in childhood and lifetime cognitive change in relation to mental wellbeing in four cohorts of older people. |
| Location: | United States |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0044860 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0044860 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © Gale et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The HALCyon collaborative research programme is funded by the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) programme (RES-353-25-0001), a joint seven-year initiative of five UK Research Councils. RC is supported by this NDA grant. Follow-up of the Aberdeen Birth Cohort 1936 was supported by a Wellcome Trust career development award to LW. The Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Executive Health Department. The National Child Development Study (NCDS) is funded as part of the Economic and Social Research Council grant for the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Resource Centre (RES-579-47-0001). The National Survey for Health and Development is funded by the Medical Research Council. The Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology is funded by the Biotechnology Sciences Research Council, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the University of Edinburgh as part of the cross-council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing initiative. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Cardiovascular Science > Population Science and Experimental Medicine > MRC Unit for Lifelong Hlth and Ageing |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1363941 |
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