Media Mention in PsyPost

Our article on Black identity, depressive symptomology, and marital satisfaction recently was talked about on pop-science news website PsyPost.

My co-author August really comes across clearly in describing the findings.  I wish they’d take it the step further to point out how strongly this argues a need for more research along these lines.  As I alluded to in the earlier post, and as we talk about in the paper, a lot of the analyses we ran are really exploratory–they’re first takes at trying to capture the complexity of the intersections of different forces.  The models exist to understand this more completely, but finding the data is a much taller order.

You can find it online: “New study highlights important links between depressive symptoms, Black identity and marital satisfaction in African-American couples” by Eric Dolan.

GSA 2019

Dr. Brick and Ms. Dickens presented talks at the annual meeting of the Georntological Society of America (GSA 2019) in Austin, Texas this week. GSA is always an interesting meeting, looking at the science of aging–a vital science, especially as the global trends show our population living longer, and the proportion of older adults increasing as time goes on. Topics included methods to model and understand patterns in individual growth trajectories (like Dr. Brick’s sequence learning methods), and the relationships between sleep and well-being.

Six-state emotional day solution

Other topics focused on issues of cognitive aging, dementia and Alzheimers, and technological and methodological innovations to model and improve the well-being of older adults through improved cognitive function, better mobility, and increased independence.