Dr Barbara Caracciolo
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Organisation: Stress Research Institute
Phone: +46 8 5537 8907
E-Mail: barbara.caracciolo@stressforskning.su.se
Description:

Position
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Background/Education
PhD in Aging Research – Focus Epidemiology; MSc Epidemiology; MSc Psychology.

Research profile/Current work
I have a background in both psychology (BA, MSc) and epidemiology (MSc) and I’m specialized in aging research with a PhD on the epidemiology of cognitive impairment. My long-standing research interests include the study of the differential contribution of genetic, psychiatric, psychosocial, somatic, and life-style factors to the development and progression to dementia of objective and subjective cognitive impairment (CIND and SCI) in the Swedish general elderly population. Current work focuses on predictors and correlates of subjective and objective labor market exit (LME), as well as on the study of subjective and objective health outcomes of retirement in older adults from Swedish and International occupational cohorts.

Dissertation
Cognitive Impairment in the Non demented Elderly: Occurrence, Risk Factors, Progression, 2011

Selected publications
Caracciolo B, Gatz M, Xu W, Pedersen N, Fratiglioni L. Differential distribution of subjective and objective cognitive impairment in the population: a nation-wide twin-study. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (JAD); 2012 Jan 10 [Epub ahead of print].

Caracciolo B, Bäckman L, Monastero R, Winblad B, Fratiglioni L. The symptom of low mood in the prodromal stage of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a cohort study of a community dwelling elderly population. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 2011; 82: 788-793.

Xu W, Caracciolo B, Wang HX, et al. Accelerated progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia in people with diabetes. Diabetes 2010; 59: 2928-2935.

Caracciolo B, Palmer K, Monastero R, Winblad B, Backman L, Fratiglioni L. Occurrence of cognitive impairment and dementia in the community: a 9-year-long prospective study. Neurology 2008; 70: 1778-1785.

Giaquinto S, Spiridigliozzi C, Caracciolo B. Can faith protect from emotional distress after stroke? Stroke 2007; 38: 993-997.

  
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Division of Epidemiologi
Our divison focuses on improved understanding of how stress-related illnesses and health problems arise and can be prevented in and outside of the workplace. In particlar, we focus on how working life, in a broad sense, affects health, taking also factors outside working life into consideration, ...