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Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans AbstractObjectives. The aims of this study were to determine 1) whether organizational and non-organizational religious participation are associated with c

⛪New #publication in Journals of Gerontology from CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliate Weidi Qin
“Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans”

➡️ doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Co-Designing Effective Pediatric Vaccine Promotion Strategies: Insights From Rural Wisconsin Parents - Susan Racine Passmore, Morgan N. Medina, Lynne Margalit Cotter, Emma E. Henning, Mahima Bhattar, ... Rural distrust in science, intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to concern about the ongoing uptake of pediatric vaccination. It is also unclear ho...

🐄New #publication in Health Promotion Practice from CDE and @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Malia Jones

“Co-Designing Effective Pediatric Vaccine Promotion Strategies: Insights From Rural Wisconsin Parents”

➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1524...

Be sure to join us next week!

New #publication from @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Lauren Bishop in Autism

“Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth”

➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1362...

🌪️New #publication from CDE and @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate @nickdemark.bsky.social in @dukepress.bsky.social

“Severe Tornadoes and Infant Birth Weight in the United States”

➡️ doi.org/10.1215/0070...

Be sure to join us today to hear from Jessica Faul!

Today's DemSem is CANCELLED due to building heating problems. The student meeting is also cancelled. We will reschedule the talk for next semester.

New #publication from CDE affiliate Michael Light in @sociusjournal.bsky.social

“The Outsized Impact of Behavioral Causes of Death on Longevity in the United States: Comparing Total and per Death years of Life Lost”

➡️ doi.org/10.1177/2378...

Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course Childhood fluoride exposure is associated with higher academic achievement in high school.

New #publication from CDE & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Eric Grodsky & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Soobin Kim in Science Advances
“Childhood fluoride exposure and cognition across the life course”

➡️ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change | The Invading Sea There is growing evidence of the connections between climate change and harm to people’s health.

🌦️Read what CDE & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Jonathon Patz and colleagues have to say in @theinvadingsea.bsky.social
“Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change”

➡️Learn here: www.theinvadingsea.com/2025/11/30/c...

New #publication in Journal of Population Economics from CDE affiliate Jason Fletcher

“The effects of parental education on male mortality: evidence from the first wave of compulsory schooling laws”
➡️ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AI is changing sports statistics as we know it, but humans still call the plays Even as AI changes the way people look at sports statistics, University of Wisconsin Professor Sameer Deshpande says human analysis hasn’t lost its relevance.

🏁CDE & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Sameer Deshpande quoted in the @dailycardinal.bsky.social

“AI is changing sports statistics as we know it but humans still call the plays”
➡️Discover more here: www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...

New #publication from CDE affiliate Maureen Durkin in Annals of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology

“Implementing A Practical Home-Based Oral Immunotherapy Protocol For Infants and Toddlers Using Nut Puffs”
➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Proximity of Maternal Time of Immigration to Child's Birth Is Associated With Autism Spectrum Disorder With Early Learning Delay Among Immigrant Populations in the United States: Findings From the Study to Explore Early Development - PubMed Our objective was to examine the relationship between the timing of parental US immigration and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) without early learning delay (ELD), ASD with ELD, and ELD alone among US-born children. We analyzed data from a multi-site case-control study that recruited children aged 2- …

🚸New #publication from CDE affiliate Maureen Durkin in Autism Research examines the relationship between the timing of parental US immigration and autism spectrum disorder

➡️Read more here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41165176/

FMR1 Premutation Carrier Mothers’ Daily Negative Affect and Cortisol: Probing the Impacts of Stress Exposure, Coping Style, and CGG Repeats Abstract. This study utilized a daily diary methodology to investigate negative affect and cortisol secretion of mothers of adolescents and adults with fragile X syndrome (n = 104). We investigated wh...

♀️New #publication from @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Marsha Mailick in American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

“FMR1 Premutation Carrier Mother's Daily Negative Affect & Cortisol: Probing the Impacts of Stress Exposure, Coping Style, & CGG Repeats”
➡️ doi.org/10.1352/1944...

🌹New #publication in Family Transitions from CDE affiliate Lawrence Berger
“Long-Term Stability and Change in Children's Legal and De Facto Post-Divorce Living Arrangements in Wisconsin”
➡️ doi.org/10.1080/2837...

Addressing Alzheimer's: Speech And Smell Tests May Help To Detect Cognitive Decline - Health Policy Watch DAC supports an innovation ecosystem to accelerate healthcare solutions to end Alzheimer's disease globally, and DAC-supported projects in Kenya, India, Egypt

💬 @cdeuw.bsky.social and CDHA affiliate Amy Kind quoted in @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social “Addressing Alzheimer’s: Speech and Smell Tests May Help to Detect Cognitive Decline”

➡️Read more here: healthpolicy-watch.news/addressing-a...

The average American’s credit score is falling. A Wisconsin professor says there are several reasons why. A recent report from FICO finds that Americans’ average credit score is on the decline, with Gen Z borrowers being most affected. An economics professor says the dropping score isn’t the most alarming...

💳Listen to CDE & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate J. Michael Collins on WPR “The average American’s credit score is falling. A Wisconsin professor says there are several reasons why.”

➡️Tune in: www.wpr.org/news/america...

Parental Mediation and Online Discrimination: Exploring Psychosocial Distress Among Black and Latino Youth Racially marginalized adolescents are exposed to online racism, yet little is known about assets and resources that may effectively resist the negative influence of online racism and with what effe...

🤳New #publication in Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology from CDE affiliate Alvin Thomas

➡️“Parental Mediation and Online Discrimination: Exploring Psychosocial Distress Among Black and Latino Youth”

doi.org/10.1080/1537...

🏫CDE & @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Mollie McQuillian quoted in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Most Wisconsin schools protect students from discrimination against everything but this”
➡️Read more here: www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

📔New #publication in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine from CDE affiliate @lsenderowicz.bsky.social suggests that many women in Kisumu report experiencing some form of provider-imposed contraceptive coercion

➡️Read more here:
doi.org/10.1186/s408...

Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study INTRODUCTION While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well-characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims......

"While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims." @cdhauw.bsky.social @cdeuw.bsky.social

Wisconsin researcher responds to White House autism announcement Maureen Durkin, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Waisman Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Research Center at UW Madison, joins us to share her thoughts

🗣️Learn from CDE and @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Maureen Durkin on @wbay.com

“Wisconsin researcher responds to White House autism announcement”

➡️Listen here: www.wbay.com/2025/09/24/w...

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🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟

Stephanie Robert and Michal Engelman concluded the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA, with phenomenal presentations today!

A huge thank-you to everyone who shared new findings and connected with our researchers!

🌟CDE at GSA 2025🌟

Weidi Qin & Sarah Salas both have two presentations today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.

There is just one more day remaining of this phenomenal event, and we are beyond proud of all attending!