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Overview

Marcus Richards is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a specialized focus on Psychiatry and Mental Health, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, General Health Professions, and Physiology.

Their research covers a variety of key topics, including:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications

Marcus Richards has contributed to several publication venues, notably:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Healthy Longevity
  • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
  • Neurology

Frequent coauthors include Jonathan M. Schott, Sarah-Naomi James, David M. Cash, William Coath, and Nick C. Fox.

Selected recent papers authored by Marcus Richards include:

  • Psychological Distress Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Adults in the United Kingdom Based on Coordinated Analyses of 11 Longitudinal Studies, 2022, JAMA Network Open
  • Autism in England: assessing underdiagnosis in a population-based cohort study of prospectively collected primary care data, 2023, The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
  • OUP accepted manuscript, 2020, Brain
  • Reported sleep duration reveals segmentation of the adult life-course into three phases, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal, 2020, European Journal of Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Temperament: Early developing personality traits

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  • The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study

    Thomas W. Winkler;Anne E. Justice;Mariaelisa Graff;Llilda Barata

  • Birth weight and cognitive function in the British 1946 birth cohort: longitudinal population based study

    Marcus Richards;Rebecca Hardy;Diana Kuh;Michael E J Wadsworth

  • The Dynamic Relationship Between Physical Function and Cognition in Longitudinal Aging Cohorts

    Sean A. P. Clouston;Sean A. P. Clouston;Paul Brewster;Diana Kuh;Diana Kuh;Marcus Richards;Marcus Richards

  • Lifetime Antecedents of Cognitive Reserve

    Marcus Richards;Amanda Sacker

  • A life course approach to cognitive reserve: a model for cognitive aging and development?

    Marcus Richards;Ian J. Deary

  • Interrater reliability of the unified Parkinson's disease rating scale motor examination

    Marcus Richards;Karen Marder;Lucien Cote;Richard Mayeux

  • Does active leisure protect cognition? Evidence from a national birth cohort.

    Marcus Richards;Rebecca Hardy;Michael E.J Wadsworth

  • Effect of 2-y n−3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation on cognitive function in older people: a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial

    Alan D Dangour;Elizabeth Allen;Diana Elbourne;Nicky Fasey

  • Cohort Profile: Updating the cohort profile for the MRC National Survey of Health and Development: a new clinic-based data collection for ageing research

    Diana Kuh;Mary Pierce;Judith Adams;John Deanfield

  • Mortality in adults aged 26-54 years related to socioeconomic conditions in childhood and adulthood: post war birth cohort study.

    Diana Kuh;Rebecca Hardy;Claudia Langenberg;Marcus Richards

  • The life course prospective design: an example of benefits and problems associated with study longevity.

    M.E.J Wadsworth;S.L Butterworth;R.J Hardy;D.J Kuh

  • Birthweight, postnatal growth and cognitive function in a national UK birth cohort

    Marcus Richards;Rebecca Hardy;Diana Kuh;Michael E J Wadsworth

  • The Columbia University Scale for Psychopathology in Alzheimer's disease.

    Devangere P. Devanand;Lisa Miller;Marcus Richards;Karen Marder

  • Cigarette smoking and cognitive decline in midlife: evidence from a prospective birth cohort study.

    Marcus Richards;Martin J. Jarvis;Neil Thompson;Michael E. J. Wadsworth

  • Associations between blood pressure across adulthood and late-life brain structure and pathology in the neuroscience substudy of the 1946 British birth cohort (Insight 46): an epidemiological study.

    Christopher A Lane;Josephine Barnes;Jennifer M Nicholas;Carole H Sudre

  • Hormone replacement therapy to maintain cognitive function in women with dementia

    Eef Hogervorst;Kristine Yaffe;Marcus Richards;Felicia A.H. Huppert

  • Using a birth cohort to study ageing: representativeness and response rates in the National Survey of Health and Development

    M. Stafford;S. Black;I. Shah;R. Hardy

  • Cognitive ability in childhood and cognitive decline in mid-life: longitudinal birth cohort study

    Marcus Richards;Beverly Shipley;Rebecca Fuhrer;Michael E J Wadsworth

  • Hormone replacement therapy for cognitive function in postmenopausal women.

    A Lethaby;E Hogervorst;M Richards;A Yesufu

  • Assessing patient dependence in Alzheimer's disease.

    Yaakov Stern;Steven M. Albert;Mary Sano;Marcus Richards

  • Lifetime antecedents of cognitive reserve

    M Richards;A Sacker;IJ Deary

Frequent Co-Authors

Diana Kuh
Diana Kuh University College London
Rebecca Hardy
Rebecca Hardy University College London
Yaakov Stern
Yaakov Stern Columbia University
Sebastian J. Crutch
Sebastian J. Crutch University College London
Carol Brayne
Carol Brayne University of Cambridge
Mary Sano
Mary Sano Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Matthew Hotopf
Matthew Hotopf King's College London
Karen Marder
Karen Marder Columbia University
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert University of Sydney
Claudia Langenberg
Claudia Langenberg Queen Mary University of London

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