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Overview

Teresa E. Seeman is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, General Health Professions, Health, Behavioral Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

Their recent scholarly contributions include publications in various peer-reviewed journals. Notable papers feature:

  • Macro and micro sleep architecture and cognitive performance in older adults, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • Lifetime exposure to smoking, epigenetic aging, and morbidity and mortality in older adults, 2022, Clinical Epigenetics
  • Serum Aldosterone Concentration, Blood Pressure, and Coronary Artery Calcium, 2020, Hypertension
  • Accelerated epigenetic aging mediates link between adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms in older adults: Results from the Health and Retirement Study, 2022, SSM - Population Health
  • Social stressors associated with age-related T lymphocyte percentages in older US adults: Evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Steve W. Cole
  • Judith Carroll
  • Sharon Stein Merkin
  • Eileen M. Crimmins
  • Eric T. Klopack

The main publication venues where Teresa E. Seeman has contributed multiple papers are:

  • Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • Circulation
  • Innovation in Aging
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Sleep and related disorders
  • Aging and Gerontology Research

This body of work positions Teresa E. Seeman as a contributor to understanding complex interactions between biological, psychological, and social factors affecting health, particularly in older adult populations and cardiovascular contexts. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates epidemiological, psychological, and physiological perspectives.

Best Publications

  • Frailty in Older Adults Evidence for a Phenotype

    Linda P. Fried;Catherine M. Tangen;Jeremy Walston;Anne B. Newman

  • From social integration to health: Durkheim in the new millennium.

    Lisa F. Berkman;Thomas Glass;Ian Brissette;Teresa E. Seeman

  • Risky Families: Family Social Environments and the Mental and Physical Health of Offspring

    Rena L. Repetti;Shelley E. Taylor;Teresa E. Seeman

  • Protective and damaging effects of mediators of stress. Elaborating and testing the concepts of allostasis and allostatic load.

    Bruce S. McEWEN;Teresa Seeman

  • Price of Adaptation—Allostatic Load and Its Health Consequences: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Burton H. Singer;John W. Rowe;Ralph I. Horwitz

  • Allostatic load as a marker of cumulative biological risk: MacArthur studies of successful aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Bruce S. McEwen;John W. Rowe;Burton H. Singer

  • Social ties and health : the benefits of social integration

    Teresa E. Seeman

  • Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin?

    Shelley E. Taylor;Rena L. Repetti;Teresa Seeman

  • Social relationships, social support, and patterns of cognitive aging in healthy, high-functioning older adults: MacArthur studies of successful aging.

    Teresa E. Seeman;Tina M. Lusignolo;Marilyn Albert;Lisa Berkman

  • Health, functioning, and disability in older adults—present status and future implications

    Somnath Chatterji;Julie Byles;David Cutler;Teresa Seeman

  • Health promoting effects of friends and family on health outcomes in older adults.

    Teresa E. Seeman

  • Religiosity/spirituality and health: A critical review of the evidence for biological pathways.

    Teresa E. Seeman;Linda Fagan Dubin;Melvin Seeman

  • Predictors of cognitive change in older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging.

    Marilyn S. Albert;Kenneth Jones;Cary R. Savage;Lisa Berkman

  • The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging.

    M L Bruce;T E Seeman;S S Merrill;D G Blazer

  • Structural characteristics of social networks and their relationship with social support in the elderly: Who provides support.

    Teresa E. Seeman;Lisa F. Berkman

  • High, usual and impaired functioning in community-dwelling older men and women: Findings from the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on successful aging

    Lisa F. Berkman;Teresa E. Seeman;Marilyn Albert;Dan Blazer

  • Social network ties and mortality among the elderly in the Alameda County Study

    Teresa E. Seeman;George A. Kaplan;L. P. Knudsen;Richard. D. Cohen

  • Interleukin-6 and risk of cognitive decline: MacArthur studies of successful aging.

    J. D. Weaver;M.-H. Huang;M. Albert;T. Harris

  • A social model for health promotion for an aging population: initial evidence on the Experience Corps model.

    Linda P. Fried;Michelle C. Carlson;Marc Freedman;Kevin D. Frick

  • Predicting Changes in Physical Performance in a High-Functioning Elderly Cohort: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging

    Teresa E. Seeman;Peter A. Charpentier;Lisa F. Berkman;Mary E. Tinetti

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisa F. Berkman
Lisa F. Berkman Harvard University
Tara L. Gruenewald
Tara L. Gruenewald Chapman University
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Eileen M. Crimmins
Eileen M. Crimmins University of Southern California
Gail A. Greendale
Gail A. Greendale University of California, Los Angeles
Michael R. Irwin
Michael R. Irwin University of California, Los Angeles
Burton H. Singer
Burton H. Singer University of Florida
Sherita Hill Golden
Sherita Hill Golden Johns Hopkins University
Linda P. Fried
Linda P. Fried Columbia University
George W. Rebok
George W. Rebok Johns Hopkins University

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