Depression-, Anxiety-, and Anger and Cognitive Functions: Findings From a Longitudinal Prospective Study.

Determinants of changes in cognitive function during aging are not well-understood. We aimed to estimate the effects of depression-, anxiety- and anger symptoms on cognition and on cognition changes, especially on changes in episodic memory (EM) and executive functioning (EF). We analyze data from the Mid-Life in the Midlife in the United States Biomarker study at two time points including = 710 women, and = 542 men (1996/1997) at the first assessment and = 669 women, and = 514 men at the second assessment (2013/2014).

Social stress and risk of declining cognition: a longitudinal study of men and women in the United States.

Limited research is available on the relationship between social stress and risk of declining cognition. We sought to examine whether social stress has adverse effects on risk of declining episodic memory and executive functioning in aging individuals. We used data from the MIDUS study, a national probability sample of non-institutionalized, English speaking respondents aged 25-74 living in the 48 contiguous states of the United States.

Improving newborn preventive services at the birth hospitalization: a collaborative, hospital-based quality-improvement project.

Objective: The goal was to test the effectiveness of a statewide, collaborative, hospital-based quality-improvement project targeting preventive services delivered to healthy newborns during the birth hospitalization.

Methods: All Vermont hospitals with obstetric services participated. The quality-improvement collaborative (intervention) was based on the Breakthrough Series Collaborative model.