D Finkel

Dados Biográficos

ID49932
NOMED Finkel
PRENOMESD
SOBRENOMEFinkel
ASSINATURAFINKEL D
AFILIAÇÕESIndiana University Southeast
ORCID0000-0003-2346-2470
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS35
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES191
TOTAL COMO AUTOR35
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1995
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H7

  • Moderating effects of educational inequality on education polygenic scores, attained education and dementia-risk relationships

    Open AccessBrian Karl Finch, Sneha Nimmagadda et al.ARTICLESSM - Population Health2026

    While education is among the most consistent predictors of cognitive health and dementia risk, it is unclear whether this reflects the benefits of schooling itself or other factors such as underlying genetic predispositions or family-based inequality. Further, the benefits of education to cognitive health may be dependent on larger structures of inequality. Using data from the IGEMS Consortium of over 4,500 twins from seven cohorts in the USA, Sw…

  • Nonlinear decline in the association between birth weight and cognitive ability from infancy to midlife in a community sample of twins

    Open AccessSophie A Bell, Sean R Womack et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Referências: 1

    These findings suggest that prenatal experiences may have lasting effects on cognitive development across the lifespan, supporting developmental origin models of cognitive ability

  • Predicting the onset of dementia with longitudinal performance-based measures of physical function

    Open AccessSydney Y Schaefer, Daniel S Peterson et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2025Referências: 4

    Objectives Older adults with dementia have reduced physical function; however, the extent to which declines in physical function are accelerated prior to dementia remains unclear. This study compared changes in three objective physical function measures in 518 older adults who did or did not develop dementia over the course of the study: time to complete a three-meter out-and-back walk (gait), grip dynamometry (grip strength), and time to complet…

  • Midlife financial stress and cognitive and physical impairments in older age

    Open AccessIngemar Kåreholt, Corinne Nilsen et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025Referências: 86

  • Co-recovery of physical size and cognitive ability from infancy to adolescence

    Open AccessSean R Womack, Christopher R Beam et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    This study tested phenotypic and biometric associations between physical and cognitive catch-up growth in a community sample of twins (n = 1285, 51.8% female, 89.3% White). Height and weight were measured at up to 17 time points between birth and 15 years, and cognitive ability was assessed at up to 16 time points between 3 months and 15 years. Weight and length at birth were positively associated with cognitive abilities in infancy and adolescen…

  • Age and Sex Differences in the Genetic Architecture of Measures of Subjective Health

    Open AccessD Finkel, Margaret Gatz et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2024Referências: 5

    The predictive value of SH has been amply demonstrated. The higher genetic contributions to associations between SH and its components in older adults support the increasing conceptualization with age of SH as an intuitive summation of one's vital reserve

  • Influences of genetically predicted and attained education on geographic mobility and their association with mortality

    Open AccessElsa Ojalehto, D Finkel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2023Citada por: 1Referências: 33

  • Socioeconomic status impacts genetic influences on the longitudinal dynamic relationship between temperament and general cognitive ability in childhood

    Open AccessD Finkel, Deborah Winders Davis et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    The current analysis investigates genetic and environmental influences on the bidirectional relationships between temperament and general cognitive ability (GCA). Measures of GCA and three temperament factors (persistence, approach, and reactivity) were collected from 486 children ages 4–9 years (80% white, 50% female) from the Louisville Twin Study from 1976 to 1998. The results indicated a bidirectional dynamic model of temperament influencing …

  • Genetically informed, multilevel analysis of the Flynn Effect across four decades and three Wisc versions

    Open AccessEvan J Giangrande, Christopher R Beam et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    This study investigated the systematic rise in cognitive ability scores over generations, known as the Flynn Effect, across middle childhood and early adolescence (7–15 years; 291 monozygotic pairs, 298 dizygotic pairs; 89% White). Leveraging the unique structure of the Louisville Twin Study (longitudinal data collected continuously from 1957 to 1999 using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children [WISC], WISC–R, and WISC–III ed.), multilevel …

  • Independent and joint effects of body mass index and metabolic health in mid- and late-life on all-cause mortality

    Open AccessPeggy Ler, Xia Li et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    MHS strongly influenced the BMI-mortality association, such that individuals who were metabolically healthy with overweight or obesity in mid- or late-life did not carry excess risks of mortality. Being metabolically unhealthy had a higher risk of mortality independent of their BMI

  • Genetic and environmental correlates of the nonlinear recovery of cognitive ability in Twins

    Open AccessSean R Womack, Christopher R Beam et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Citada por: 2Referências: 2

    Twins regularly score nearly a standard deviation below the population mean on standardized measures of cognitive development in infancy but recover to the population mean by early childhood, making rapid gains through the toddler years. To date, only polynomial growth models have been fit to model cognitive recovery across childhood, limiting the applicability of the growth parameters to later developmental periods. We fit a nonlinear asymptotic…

  • Financial strain moderates genetic influences on self-rated health

    D Finkel, Catalina Zavala et al.ARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2022Referências: 43

    sex, and financial strain moderators indicated significant financial strain moderation of genetic influences on self-rated health. Moderation results did not differ across sex or country. Genetic variance for SRH increased as financial strain increased, matching the predictions of the diathesis-stress and social comparison models for components of variance. Under these models, environmental improvements would be expected to reduce genetically bas…

  • A Coordinated Multi-study Analysis of the Longitudinal Association Between Handgrip Strength and Cognitive Function in Older Adults

    Andrea R Zammit, Andrea M Piccinin et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021

    OBJECTIVE: Handgrip strength, an indicator of overall muscle strength, has been found to be associated with slower rate of cognitive decline and decreased risk for cognitive impairment and dementia. However, evaluating the replicability of associations between aging-related changes in physical and cognitive functioning is challenging due to differences in study designs and analytical models. A multiple-study coordinated analysis approach was used…

  • Job Strain and Trajectories of Cognitive Change Before and After Retirement

    Open AccessCorinne Nilsen, Monica Nelson et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021Citada por: 2Referências: 3

    Objectives We examined associations between job strain and trajectories of change in cognitive functioning (general cognitive ability plus verbal, spatial, memory, and speed domains) before and after retirement. Methods Data on indicators of job strain, retirement age, and cognitive factors were available from 307 members of the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. Participants were followed up for up to 27 years (mean = 15.4, SD = 8.5). Results…

  • Evidence of Bidirectional Associations Between Depressive Symptoms and Body Mass Among Older Adults

    Open AccessCharles F Emery, D Finkel et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2019Referências: 2

    The association of BMI and depressive symptoms is bidirectional among older adults, and it appears to be affected by both age and sex

  • Cohort by Education Interactions in Longitudinal Changes in Functional Abilities

    Open AccessD Finkel, Marie Ernsth BravellARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2018Referências: 3

    Objective: Investigations of cohort differences in relationships between education and health tend to focus on mortality or self-reported health. We report one of the first analyses of cohort differences in relationships between education and objective measures of functional abilities across the lifespan. Method: Up to 26 years of follow-up data were available from 859 adults from the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. The sample was divided i…

  • Longitudinal Twin Study of Subjective Health

    Open AccessD Finkel, Carol E Franz et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2018Citada por: 1Referências: 10

    As aging triggers a re-evaluation of the meaning of "good health," physical aspects of health may become less important and shared cultural conceptions of health may become more relevant. This change in conceptions of good health may reflect both aging and the change in composition of the elderly population as a result of selective survival

  • Facets of Subjective Health From Early Adulthood to Old Age

    Open AccessCarol E Franz, D Finkel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2016Citada por: 1Referências: 12

    Subjective health appears to be dependent on frame of reference and reflect different aspects of health. Results suggest different genetic and environmental mechanisms underlie each facet

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

    Open AccessD Finkel, Ross Andel et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2016Citada por: 12Referências: 4

    Understanding change in leisure activities with age and by gender can have important implications for interventions and for use of leisure activity data in epidemiological research

  • Grip Strength and Cognitive Abilities

    Ola Sternäng, Chandra A Reynolds et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2015Citada por: 6Referências: 5

    A rather stable connection was found between grip strength and cognitive abilities starting around 65 years of age. The starting period suggests that the association may be due to lifestyle changes, such as retirement, or to acceleration of the aging processes

  • Effects of Preretirement Work Complexity and Postretirement Leisure Activity on Cognitive Aging

    Ross Andel, D Finkel et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2015Citada por: 9Referências: 2

    Engagement in cognitive or physical leisure activities in older adulthood may compensate for cognitive disadvantage potentially imposed by working in occupations that offer fewer cognitive challenges. These results may provide a platform to encourage leisure activity participation in those retiring from less complex occupations

  • Sex Differences in Genetic and Environmental Influences on Longitudinal Change in Functional Ability in Late Adulthood

    D Finkel, Marie Ernsth Bravell et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2014Citada por: 1

    Although idiosyncratic environmental influences account for a large part of increasing variance, correlated and shared rearing environmental effects were also evident. Thus, both microenvironmental (individual) and macroenvironmental (family and cultural) effects, as well as genetic factors, affect maintenance of functional ability in late adulthood

  • Shared and unique genetic and environmental influences on aging-related changes in multiple cognitive abilities

    Elliot M Tucker-Drob, Chandra A Reynolds et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2014Citada por: 6Referências: 6

    Aging-related declines occur in many different domains of cognitive function during middle and late adulthood. However, whether a global dimension underlies individual differences in changes in different domains of cognition and whether global genetic influences on cognitive changes exist is less clear. We addressed these issues by applying multivariate growth curve models to longitudinal data from 857 individuals from the Swedish Adoption/Twin S…

  • Genetic variance in processing speed drives variation in aging of spatial and memory abilities

    D Finkel, Chandra A Reynolds et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2009Citada por: 5Referências: 1

    Previous analyses have identified a genetic contribution to the correlation between declines with age in processing speed and higher cognitive abilities. The goal of the current analysis was to apply the biometric dual change score model to consider the possibility of temporal dynamics underlying the genetic covariance between aging trajectories for processing speed and cognitive abilities. Longitudinal twin data from the Swedish Adoption/Twin St…

  • Cohort Differences in Trajectories of Cognitive Aging

    D Finkel, Chandra A Reynolds et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2007Citada por: 6Referências: 5

    To separate age and cohort effects on decline in normal cognitive aging, we applied growth curve models to longitudinal data from the Swedish Adoption/Twin Study of Aging. Data from up to five measurement waves covering a 16-year period were available from 806 participants (age 50 to 88 at the first wave). We divided the sample into two cohorts by birth year: 1900-1925 and 1926-1948. We generated components to tap four cognitive domains: verbal a…