Brain hyperintensity location determines outcome in the triad of impaired cognition, physical health and depressive symptoms : A cohort study in late life

The authors would like to thank the participants of the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort (ABC36). Image acquisition and image analysis for ABC36 were funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (now Alzheimer’s Research UK). A.D.M., C.J.M., S.S., L.J.W., and R.T.S. have received grants from: Chief Scientist Office, Department of Health, Scottish Government; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Brain hyperintensity location determines outcome in the triad of impaired cognition, physical health and depressive symptoms : A cohort study in late life

The authors would like to thank the participants of the Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort (ABC36). Image acquisition and image analysis for ABC36 were funded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (now Alzheimer’s Research UK). A.D.M., C.J.M., S.S., L.J.W., and R.T.S. have received grants from: Chief Scientist Office, Department of Health, Scottish Government; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

The human placental proteome is affected by maternal smoking

Acknowledgements This paper belongs to the studies carried out by Kuopio Birth Cohort consortium (www.KuBiCo.fi). We thank Ms Pirjo Hänninen for expert laboratory assistance at University of Eastern Finland, Ms Margaret Fraser, Dr Panagiotis Filis and the Proteomics Core Facility at the University of Aberdeen for their expert assistance. We also thank the staff of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Kuopio University Hospital for skilful collection of these specimens. This work was supported by the Academy of Finland [122859/2007], the Helena Vuorenmies Foundation, the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the University of Eastern Finland Doctoral Programme in Drug Research and the Medical Research Council, UK [MR/L010011/1]. The funders played no roles in study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation and/or publication decisions.

Cerebral correlates of cognitive reserve

Crown Copyright © 2015. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. Acknowledgements The Aberdeen birth Cohort Studies were established with grants to Lawrence Whalley by the Henry Smith Charity, the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and a Professorial Clinical Fellowship Award from the Wellcome Trust. The imaging studies reported here were supported by grants to all three authors by the Chief Scientist Organisation of the Scottish Health Department and Alzheimer Research UK. We are grateful to the volunteers in the Aberdeen 1921 and 1936 Birth Cohort Studies and to our research colleagues in the Aberdeen biomedical Imaging Centre (Drs. Ahearn, Waiter, and Mustafa) and our long-term collaborators in the University of Edinburgh (Professors Deary and Starr at www.ccace.ed.ac.uk).