Mikaela Bloomberg
@mapbloom
Senior research fellow in social epidemiology and social statistics at UCL working on @ELSA_study. Interested in cognitive ageing and dementia (she/her)
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Our new paper on "Comparison of sex differences in cognitive function in older adults between high- and middle-income countries and the role of education" is out in Age_and_Ageing academic.oup.com/ageing/article… CRESS_UMR1153 Inserm Mikaela Bloomberg
🔥 #ISRNextGeneration scholar Emma Banchoff UM Population Studies Center used her 2023 Weinberg award to fund a 6-week field visit to ISER-N Nepal, exploring the Chitwan Valley Family Study. "I cannot overstate how meaningful, inspiring, and invaluable this trip was for the advancement of my work."
Our paper examining joint associations of physical activity and sleep duration with cognitive trajectories over 10 years is out today in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. English Longitudinal Study of Ageing Behavioural Science & Health UCL thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…
Regular physical activity may protect against cognitive decline as we get older, but this protective effect may be diminished for people who aren't getting enough sleep, finds a new study led by Dr Mikaela Bloomberg Mikaela Bloomberg Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL Population Health Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/jul/…
A couple of podcasts covering our paper on sleep, physical activity, and cognitive decline using English Longitudinal Study of Ageing recently published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity : 1) The Lancet Podcast “In Conversations With”: tinyurl.com/yvj7zack 2) The BBC World Service: tinyurl.com/yvu34hwd
Another full session for the second set of Healthy Ageing talks 👏 Mikaela Bloomberg starting us off talking about the joint associations of physical activity and sleep duration with cognitive ageing: longitudinal analysis of an English cohort study Mikaela Bloomberg Behavioural Science & Health UCL #SSM2023
Having a hobby is linked to fewer depressive symptoms and higher levels of life satisfaction among people aged 65 and over, and this holds true across 16 countries on three continents, finds a new study led by Dr Hei Wan (Karen) Mak (Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC) ⬇️ bit.ly/44SFHJ6
In this lunch hour lecture, Dr Mikaela Bloomberg (Behavioural Science & Health UCL) will examine the evidence for joint effects of sleep and physical activity on cognitive function 🧠 UCLLunchHourLectures UCL Population Health Sciences Mikaela Bloomberg ucl.ac.uk/events/events/…
🔔NEW on the Data Impact blog 🔔 Mikeala Bloomberg (Mikaela Bloomberg), Research Fellow at UCL IEHC, shares about her recent study which looked at the significance of physical activity and sleep for cognitive benefits. Read it here: blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/sleep-and-exer… #exercise #ageing #sleep
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing team on a sunset boat trip at Tampa Bay after a day at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) #GSA2023 AndrewSteptoe Jingmin Zhu Mikaela Bloomberg Brian Beach
🥳Thrilled to share our paper Giorgio Di Gessa Paola Zaninotto published on BJPsych Open BJPsych Journals Cambridge Core 👉Check it out for pre-pandemic depression trajectories and their relation to peri-pandemic depression using ELSA English Longitudinal Study of Ageing UCL EPH UCL IEHC doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20…
Delighted that the analysis with bia sena de santana on the experience of socially isolated people during the pandemic has been published in PNAS. An unusual perspective on pandemic wellbeing, with some unexpected findings. Behavioural Science & Health UCL English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
Happy to share our paper examining associations between healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline using data from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and SHARE_MEA was published in Nature Communications yesterday. Behavioural Science & Health UCL nature.com/articles/s4146…
Smoking may be among the most important lifestyle factors affecting how quickly our cognitive skills decline as we age, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers. Behavioural Science & Health UCL ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/jul/…
Excited to see the Lancet 2024 Commission on Dementia - 14 modifiable factors account for 45% of dementia globally! huge potential for risk reduction to make a difference! See our comment on the report: thelancet.com/journals/lance… hashtag#AAIC2024 Miia Kivipelto NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia)
Great presentation by Mikaela Bloomberg on the impact of #educationinequality on gender differences in physiological ageing in English Longitudinal Study of Ageing at #SSM2024 UCL IEHC