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Overview

Carol A. Prescott is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with key contributions in subfields such as Physiology, Education, General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Prescott's work covers several main research topics including Early Childhood Education and Development, Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Health, Environment and Cognitive Aging, Aging and Gerontology Research, Diet and Metabolism Studies, as well as Birth, Development, and Health.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Prescott include:

  • High school quality is associated with cognition 58 years later (2023) published in Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • A longitudinal study shows stress proliferation effects from early childhood adversity and recent stress on risk for depressive symptoms among older adults (2021) in Aging & Mental Health
  • General cognitive ability in high school, attained education, occupational complexity, and dementia risk (2024) in Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Postsecondary Education and Late-life Cognitive Outcomes Among Black and White Participants in the Project Talent Aging Study (2022) in Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders
  • Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health: support for diathesis-stress model of gene-environment interplay (2022) in Biodemography and Social Biology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Margaret Gatz
  • Thalida Em Arpawong
  • Jennifer J. Manly
  • Susan Lapham
  • Dominika Šeblová

Prescott has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • UNC Libraries
  • Innovation in Aging
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring
  • Aging & Mental Health

The research topics and publication venues indicate an emphasis on aging, cognitive function, and mental health across the lifespan. Their work often addresses long-term cognitive outcomes influenced by educational and environmental factors, as well as the interplay between genetics, stress, and health.

Best Publications

  • Causal Relationship Between Stressful Life Events and the Onset of Major Depression

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Karkowski;Carol A. Prescott

  • The Structure of Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Common Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders in Men and Women

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Carol A. Prescott;John Myers;Michael C. Neale

  • Childhood sexual abuse and adult psychiatric and substance use disorders in women: an epidemiological and cotwin control analysis

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Cynthia M. Bulik;Judy Silberg;John M. Hettema

  • Toward a comprehensive developmental model for major depression in women.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Charles O. Gardner;Carol A. Prescott

  • Life event dimensions of loss, humiliation, entrapment, and danger in the prediction of onsets of major depression and generalized anxiety.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;John M. Hettema;Frank Butera;Charles O. Gardner

  • Interaction of stressful life events and a serotonin transporter polymorphism in the prediction of episodes of major depression

    Kenneth Kendler

  • The interrelationship of neuroticism, sex, and stressful life events in the prediction of episodes of major depression.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Jonathan Kuhn;Carol A. Prescott

  • Dimensions of religiosity and their relationship to lifetime psychiatric and substance use disorders.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Xiao Qing Liu;Charles O. Gardner;Michael E. McCullough

  • Genetic and Environmental Contributions to Alcohol Abuse and Dependence in a Population-Based Sample of Male Twins

    Carol A. Prescott;Kenneth S. Kendler

  • A population-based twin study of the relationship between neuroticism and internalizing disorders.

    John M Hettema;Michael C Neale;John M Myers;Carol A Prescott

  • Specificity of genetic and environmental risk factors for use and abuse/dependence of cannabis, cocaine, hallucinogens, sedatives, stimulants, and opiates in male twins.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Kristen C. Jacobson;Carol A. Prescott;Michael C. Neale

  • Religion, Psychopathology, and Substance Use and Abuse: A Multimeasure, Genetic-Epidemiologic Study

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Charles O. Gardner;Carol A. Prescott

  • Gender differences in the rates of exposure to stressful life events and sensitivity to their depressogenic effects.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Thornton;Carol A. Prescott

  • The structure of genetic and environmental risk factors for anxiety disorders in men and women.

    John M. Hettema;Carol A. Prescott;John M. Myers;Michael C. Neale

  • Sex differences in the relationship between social support and risk for major depression: a longitudinal study of opposite-sex twin pairs.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;John Myers;Carol A. Prescott

  • A population-based twin study of lifetime major depression in men and women

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Carol A. Prescott

  • Illicit Psychoactive Substance Use, Heavy Use, Abuse, and Dependence in a US Population-Based Sample of Male Twins

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Laura M. Karkowski;Michael C. Neale;Carol A. Prescott

  • Childhood sexual abuse, stressful life events and risk for major depression in women.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Jonathan W. Kuhn;Carol A. Prescott

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Alcohol, Caffeine, Cannabis, and Nicotine Use From Early Adolescence to Middle Adulthood

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Eric Schmitt;Steven H. Aggen;Carol A. Prescott

  • A population-based twin study in women of smoking initiation and nicotine dependence.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;M. C. Neale;P. Sullivan;L. A. Corey

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael C. Neale
Michael C. Neale Virginia Commonwealth University
Kristen C. Jacobson
Kristen C. Jacobson University of Chicago
Brien P. Riley
Brien P. Riley Virginia Commonwealth University
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
John J. McArdle
John J. McArdle University of Southern California
Patrick F. Sullivan
Patrick F. Sullivan University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Steven H. Aggen
Steven H. Aggen Virginia Commonwealth University
John Myers
John Myers Virginia Commonwealth University
John M. Hettema
John M. Hettema Virginia Commonwealth University

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