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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Margaret Gatz is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on medicine and environmental science. Within these fields, their work covers specific subfields such as health, toxicology and mutagenesis, psychiatry and mental health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, genetics, and speech and hearing.

The scientist's main research topics include air quality and health impacts, dementia and cognitive impairment research, birth, development, and health, noise effects and management, health disparities and outcomes, climate change and health impacts, and the interrelation of health, environment, and cognitive aging.

Margaret Gatz has contributed to numerous publications across a range of venues. The most frequent outlets for their work are:

  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Innovation in Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts

Recent notable papers include:

  • Genetic and environmental variation in educational attainment: an individual-based analysis of 28 twin cohorts (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Measuring heritable contributions to Alzheimer's disease: polygenic risk score analysis with twins (2021, Brain Communications)
  • Is Stress an Overlooked Risk Factor for Dementia? A Systematic Review from a Lifespan Developmental Perspective (2022, Prevention Science)
  • Ambient air pollution exposure and increasing depressive symptoms in older women: The mediating role of the prefrontal cortex and insula (2022, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Mental health and aging in the 2020s (2021, American Psychologist)

Margaret Gatz has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Mark A. Espeland
  • Daniel P. Beavers
  • Andrew J. Petkus
  • Diana Younan
  • Jiu-Chiuan Chen

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1986 and as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2012.

Best Publications

  • Depression in Older Adults

    Amy Fiske;Julie Loebach Wetherell;Margaret Gatz

  • Role of Genes and Environments for Explaining Alzheimer Disease

    Margaret Gatz;Chandra A. Reynolds;Laura Fratiglioni;Boo Johansson

  • Age-related differences and change in positive and negative affect over 23 years.

    Susan Turk Charles;Chandra A. Reynolds;Margaret Gatz

  • A Swedish national twin study of lifetime major depression.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Margaret Gatz;Charles O. Gardner;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Personality and major depression: a Swedish longitudinal, population-based twin study.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Margaret Gatz;Charles O. Gardner;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Relationship between education and dementia: an updated systematic review.

    Emily Schoenhofen Sharp;Margaret Gatz

  • Midlife overweight and obesity increase late-life dementia risk A population-based twin study

    W.L. Xu;A.R. Atti;M. Gatz;N.L. Pedersen

  • Differences Between Women and Men in Incidence Rates of Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.

    Christopher R. Beam;Cody Kaneshiro;Jung Yun Jang;Chandra A. Reynolds

  • Heritability for Alzheimer's Disease: The Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins

    Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen;Stig Berg;Boo Johansson

  • The Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge Scale: Development and Psychometric Properties

    Brian D. Carpenter;Steve Balsis;Poorni G. Otilingam;Priya K. Hanson

  • Life Review Therapy Using Autobiographical Retrieval Practice for Older Adults With Depressive Symptomatology.

    Juan Pedro Serrano;Jose Miguel Latorre;Margaret Gatz;Juan Montanes

  • Symptoms of psychological distress among caregivers of dementia patients.

    Cheri R. Anthony-Bergstone;Steven H. Zarit;Margaret Gatz

  • Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models.

    M Cacciottolo;X Wang;I Driscoll;N Woodward

  • The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium: an update.

    Paul Lichtenstein;Patrick F. Sullivan;Sven Cnattingius;Margaret Gatz

  • The sources of co-morbidity between major depression and generalized anxiety disorder in a Swedish national twin sample.

    Kenneth S. Kendler;Charles O. Gardner;Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Physical Exercise at Midlife and Risk of Dementia Three Decades Later: A Population-Based Study of Swedish Twins

    Ross Andel;Michael Crowe;Nancy L. Pedersen;Laura Fratiglioni

  • Are old people more depressed? Cross-sectional data on Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale factors.

    Margaret Gatz;Margo-Lea Hurwicz

  • Mid- and Late-life Diabetes in Relation to the Risk of Dementia: A Population-based Twin Study

    Weili Xu;Chengxuan Qiu;Margaret Gatz;Nancy L. Pedersen

  • Longitudinal verbal fluency in normal aging, preclinical, and prevalent Alzheimer's disease.

    Linda J. Clark;Margaret Gatz;Ling Zheng;Yu-Ling Chen

  • Psychological and Cognitive Effects of an Exercise Program for Community-Residing Older Adults

    Charles F. Emery;Margaret Gatz

  • Aging and Mental Health in the Decade Ahead: What Psychologists Need to Know.

    Michele J. Karel;Margaret Gatz;Michael A. Smyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Nancy L. Pedersen
Nancy L. Pedersen Karolinska Institute
Chandra A. Reynolds
Chandra A. Reynolds University of California, Riverside
Boo Johansson
Boo Johansson University of Gothenburg
Karri Silventoinen
Karri Silventoinen University of Helsinki
Jaakko Kaprio
Jaakko Kaprio University of Helsinki
Matt McGue
Matt McGue University of Minnesota
Laura Fratiglioni
Laura Fratiglioni Karolinska Institute
Julie Loebach Wetherell
Julie Loebach Wetherell University of California, San Diego
William S. Kremen
William S. Kremen University of California, San Diego
Catherine Derom
Catherine Derom Ghent University

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