VETSA is a set of longitudinal projects that examine genetic and environmental influences on cognitive and brain aging starting in midlife. @PsychiatryUcsd
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26 Sep 2025
🚨NEW DATA RELEASE🚨
Data from VETSA waves 1-3 is now available for public download from NACDA! This includes cognitive, health, psychosocial and demographic info from our nationwide twin cohort.
icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/st…
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
Happy to share our work on the moderating effect of young adult cognitive reserve on the association of late midlife neighborhood disadvantage and domain-specific cognitive functions (sciencedirect.com/science/ar…)! Took more than a year, but a fun collaboration with @VETSATwinStudy !
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26 Sep 2025
🚨NEW DATA RELEASE🚨
Data from VETSA waves 1-3 is now available for public download from NACDA! This includes cognitive, health, psychosocial and demographic info from our nationwide twin cohort.
icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/st…
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26 Sep 2025
Future releases will include wave 4 data and derived MRI variables. Please do not hesitate to reach out directly with questions or for more information. Additional data such as raw MRI images in BIDS format and composite variables are also available upon direct request.
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
27 Jul 2025
First poster done at #AAIC2025. 😊 Grateful to my lab @VETSATwinStudy, mentors (@elman_jeremy @PanizzonLab), and my funding from @NIHAging for being able to do this research.
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
22 Jul 2025
Excited to share my new study with the @VETSATwinStudy team (@elman_jeremy @PanizzonLab) published in #JINS showing that moderate-to-severe chronic pain and opioid use are independently related to risk of mild cognitive impairment. tinyurl.com/y88k5z4j @UCSanDiego
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Our new paper on cognitive resilience against Alzheimer’s pathology is out now!
We explore common conceptual issues (i.e., differentiating resilience vs. low risk) and identify cortical regions that confer resilience against p-tau/cortical thinning 🧠
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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New article led by @cfn_peace and Shu-Ju Lin describing a novel parcellation of abnormal white matter w/ 5 distinct regions. Twin models identified common & unique genetic & environmental influences that may reflect variable underlying etiologies.
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
Cool new work from @TylerBellPhD et al (inc Drs Franz, @KRThomasPhD Williams @LisaEylerPhD Lerman @cfn_peace Panizzon @elman_jeremy Kremen)
Elevated CRP in Older Men With Chronic #Pain: Association With Plasma #Amyloid Levels and #Hippocampal Volume
academic.oup.com/biomedgeron…
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
15 Aug 2024
First official tweet on a new paper in BP:CNNI with @VETSATwinStudy @elman_jeremy: Early Cortical Microstructural Changes in Aging Are Linked to Vulnerability to Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Thread to follow!
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
6 Aug 2024
#ICYMI...NEW RESEARCH: The Association between Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and MRI-Assessed Locus Coeruleus Integrity in the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) ➡️ buff.ly/4cZ6xE6 @elman_jeremy @VETSATwinStudy @UCSDMedSchool @USC @UW
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
30 Jul 2024
Trailblazing study in Elsevier’s BP:CNNI shows the spatial pattern of pathological changes in the brain can help identify #dementia risk decades before it occurs spkl.io/60104hEme
@BiologicalPsyc1
@SOBP
@Els_Psychiatry
@VETSATwinStudy
#VETSA
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Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging retweeted
27 Jul 2024
So appreciative to be able to be able to study chronic pain and dementia risk thanks to @NIHAging and to present this work with excellent colleagues at #AAIC2024
@elman_jeremy @VETSATwinStudy @PanizzonLab @rushalzheimers
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In this latest paper on plasma neurofilament light chain (NFL) from the #VETSA team led by Tang et al. (alzres.biomedcentral.com/art…) we examined the association of plasma NFL with five cognitive domains as well as neuroimaging measures of gray and white matter. 🧵1/n
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The association between plasma NfL and processing speed was primarily observed in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and not in cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals.
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In early old age men without dementia, plasma NfL levels do not seem to be sensitive to individual differences in most cognitive domains or neuroimaging measures of gray and white matter.
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