Anushka
Potdar
Sponsor: Rachel Whitmer, Ph.D. MED: Neurology Military veterans are often underrepresented in the cognitive aging and dementia literature. We aim to understand the gap in the current literature and how service in the military is associated with cognitive functioning and dementia. To further our understanding, we will be conducting a systematic literature review utilizing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Through search engines, such as PubMed and Google Scholar, we will identify articles using keywords: "Alzheimer's," "dementia," "cognit*," "military," and "veterans." We only included peer-reviewed studies that are in English, from 2010-2023. We plan to explore the magnitude and breadth of current studies on between military service and cognitive function. We will determine how risk factors associated with military service, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and traumatic brain injury (TBI), mediates risk for cognitive impairment and dementia. Military veterans are faced with adverse risk factors different from their civilian counterparts and are often not considered in studies of cognitive aging or dementia. Therefore, it is important to study the veteran population in order to better understand factors that affect their cognition and inform future studies to target cognitive issues affecting this understudied population. Associations between Self-Concept, Vocabulary, and Motor Skills in Infants
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The development of the sense of self is a prerequisite for necessary skills such as understanding one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions, perspective-taking, navigating interpersonal relationships, as well as other socio-emotional milestones (Baumeister, 1999). Previous accounts have suggested that self- concept may emerge from linguistic and motor input in infancy (Rochat, 2010), but there is little direct evidence that this is the case. To begin to explore these possibilities, we have assessed self-concept, vocabulary, and motor skills in forty-eight 18-22 month-old infants during a two-week larger-scale study. We plan to assess the relations between self-concept, vocabulary, parent- reported motor ability, and memory. We expect that 1) greater motor ability will predict more frequent self-recognition as a measure of self-concept, 2) a larger vocabulary will predict more frequent self-recognition. Our analyses will account for effects of age and other potentially confounding variables to provide new insight on the emergence of self-concept in infancy. Utilizing NIH All of Us Genomic Datasets to Analyze Health Disparities in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Swati Pothukuchi
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