Cognitive Epidemiology: Concepts, Evidence, and Future Directions

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 427-460

  Calvin, Catherine M ^a   Batty, G David ^a   Deary, Ian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive epidemiology, a new field for study of individual differences, understanding associations between pre morbid cognitive ability; Epidemiology, study of the distribution and determinants of health related states and events in populations; First criterion, temporality whether measure of exposure preceding signs or symptoms of a disease, can be conceptualized as a predictor variable; Health, longevity and death cognitive epidemiology, concepts, evidence, and future directions; Intelligence measuring, the strongest and most consistent predictors of death in differential psychology; Pre morbid intelligence and risk of total mortality; Problems of confounding perennial, in observational epidemiology; Robust epidemiological practices, successful application in large, well characterized cohorts, bringing intelligence differences to the attention of epidemiologists; Six epidemiological questions assessing likelihood of causation; Strength of an association second guideline for causation, demanding that variation in exposure relates to differences in risk of disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84985864664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444343120.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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