Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging

VETSA is a set of longitudinal projects that examine genetic and environmental influences on cognitive and brain aging starting in midlife. @PsychiatryUcsd

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

🚨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.
https://t.co/CIZATJy714

[Rongxiang Tang @RongxiangTang]

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 (https://t.co/RtjPHKsMbD)! Took more than a year, but a fun collaboration with @VETSATwinStudy !

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

Visit our website below for more information.
https://t.co/XnMMrxzFHq

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

🚨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.
https://t.co/CIZATJy714

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

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.

[Dr. Tyler Bell @TylerBellPhD]

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.

[Dr. Tyler Bell @TylerBellPhD]

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. https://t.co/rYsb0BsLu7 @UCSanDiego

[McKenna Williams @mkennawilliams]

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 🧠

https://t.co/EKc7uQSFOw

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

https://t.co/oqq8afOuWu

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

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.

Link 👇

[UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry @PsychiatryUcsd]

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
https://t.co/phmgfXOzIx

[Rongxiang Tang @RongxiangTang]

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 https://t.co/FY1sk6jXIX
Thread to follow!

[Environmental Health Perspectives @EHPonline]

#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) ➡️ https://t.co/U7QncN3M4z @elman_jeremy @VETSATwinStudy @UCSDMedSchool @USC @UW

[Elsevier News @ElsevierNews]

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 https://t.co/12xvFmpYXf

@BiologicalPsyc1
@SOBP
@Els_Psychiatry
@VETSATwinStudy
#VETSA

[Dr. Tyler Bell @TylerBellPhD]

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

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

New #VETSA paper alert!

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

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.

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

In this latest paper on plasma neurofilament light chain (NFL) from the #VETSA team led by Tang et al. (https://t.co/8AVf6ri4pl) we examined the association of plasma NFL with five cognitive domains as well as neuroimaging measures of gray and white matter. 🧵1/n

[Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging @VETSATwinStudy]

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.