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Deborah Finkel is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine with a specific focus on health and aging. Their work spans multiple domains including health disparities, frailty in older adults, and geriatric care.

Finkel's research covers core topics such as:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Frailty in older adults
  • Aging and gerontology research
  • Birth, development, and health
  • Nutrition and health in aging
  • Geriatric care and nursing homes
  • Cognitive abilities and testing

Main fields of study include medicine, with subfields focusing on health, general health professions, physiology, psychiatry and mental health, and pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Deborah Finkel has published in several venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Aging & Mental Health
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
  • Child Development
  • Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Frequent collaboration has been a key aspect of Finkel's research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Chandra A. Reynolds
  • Nancy L. Pedersen
  • Marie Ernsth Bravell
  • Ida Karlsson
  • Linda Johansson

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Finkel include:

  • Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up (2020, eLife)
  • Drivers of Frailty from Adulthood into Old Age: Results from a 27-Year Longitudinal Population-Based Study in Sweden (2020, The Journals of Gerontology Series A)
  • Longitudinal analyses indicate bidirectional associations between loneliness and health (2022, Aging & Mental Health)
  • Oral health is essential for quality of life in older adults: A Swedish National Quality Register Study (2020, Gerodontology)
  • Longitudinal associations between use of antihypertensive, antidiabetic, and lipid-lowering medications and biological aging (2023, GeroScience)

Best Publications

  • Predicting prejudice from religious fundamentalism and right-wing authoritarianism : a multiple-regression approach

    Brian Laythe;Deborah Finkel;L. E. E. A. Kirkpatrick

  • Longitudinal trajectories, correlations and mortality associations of nine biological ages across 20-years follow-up

    Xia Li;Alexander Ploner;Yunzhang Wang;Patrik Ke Magnusson

  • Age changes in processing speed as a leading indicator of cognitive aging.

    Deborah Finkel;Chandra A. Reynolds;John J. McArdle;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Factors associated with grip strength decline in older adults

    Ola Sternäng;Chandra A. Reynolds;Deborah Finkel;Marie Ernsth-Bravell

  • Religious Fundamentalism as a Predictor of Prejudice: A Two-Component Model

    Brian Laythe;Deborah G. FinkeL;Robert G. Bringle;Lee A. Kirkpatrick

  • Odor Identification Influences of Age, Gender, Cognition, and Personality

    Maria Larsson;Deborah Finkel;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • The role of occupational complexity in trajectories of cognitive aging before and after retirement.

    Deborah Finkel;Ross Andel;Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Processing Speed and Longitudinal Trajectories of Change for Cognitive Abilities: The Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging

    Deborah Finkel;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Sex differences and nonadditivity in heritability of the multidimensional personality questionnaire scales

    Deborah Finkel;Matt McGue

  • Heritability of cognitive abilities in adult twins: Comparison of Minnesota and Swedish data.

    Deborah Finkel;Nancy L. Pedersen;Matt McGue;Gerald E. McClearn

  • Latent growth curve analyses of accelerating decline in cognitive abilities in late adulthood.

    Deborah Finkel;Chandra A Reynolds;John J McArdle;Margaret Gatz

  • The longitudinal relationship between processing speed and cognitive ability: genetic and environmental influences.

    Deborah Finkel;Chandra A. Reynolds;John J. McArdle;Nancy L. Pedersen;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Latent Growth Curve Models of Cognitive Abilities in Adulthood.

    Chandra A. Reynolds;Deborah Finkel;John J. McArdle;Margaret Gatz

  • Grip Strength and Cognitive Abilities: Associations in Old Age

    Ola Sternäng;Ola Sternäng;Chandra A. Reynolds;Deborah Finkel;Marie Ernsth-Bravell

  • Longitudinal and cross-sectional twin data on cognitive abilities in adulthood: the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging.

    Deborah Finkel;Nancy L. Pedersen;Robert Plomin;Gerald E. McClearn

  • Preliminary results from a twin study of infant--caregiver attachment.

    Deborah Finkel;Diane E. Wille;Adam P. Matheny

  • Cohort Differences in Trajectories of Cognitive Aging

    Deborah Finkel;Chandra A. Reynolds;John J. McArdle;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Genetic and Environmental Influences on Functional Age: A Twin Study

    Deborah Finkel;Keith Whitfield;Matt McGue

  • Gender Differences in Longitudinal Trajectories of Change in Physical, Social, and Cognitive/Sedentary Leisure Activities.

    Deborah Finkel;Ross Andel;Nancy L Pedersen;Nancy L Pedersen

  • Sources of influence on rate of cognitive change over time in Swedish twins: an application of latent growth models.

    Chandra A. Reynolds;Deborah Finkel;Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • The origins of individual differences in memory among the elderly: a behavior genetic analysis.

    Deborah Finkel;Matt McGue

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Margaret Gatz
Margaret Gatz University of Southern California
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
John J. McArdle
John J. McArdle University of Southern California
Carol E. Franz
Carol E. Franz University of California, San Diego
Eric Turkheimer
Eric Turkheimer University of Virginia
Ross Andel
Ross Andel University of South Florida
Scott M. Hofer
Scott M. Hofer University of Victoria
Avron Spiro
Avron Spiro Boston University

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