Lisa M. Jack

TL;DR: Midlife BP measures are significantly associated with later-life brain and WMHI volumes and the prevalence of symptomatic vascular disease, and extensive WMHI may be a subclinical expression of cerebrovascular disease.

TL;DR: Innovative methods for increasing adherence to smoking cessation medications are needed, particularly early in the quit process, and simple metrics of adherence such as number of days cessation medication is taken can and should be routinely incorporated in effectiveness trials and reported to advance future attempts to understand and reduce nonadherence.

TL;DR: While some group differences were noted, DH+ smokers did not report qualitatively worse neuropsychiatric symptoms, more new/worsening mood disturbance, or differential abstinence rates compared to DH- smokers.

TL;DR: It was found that genetic influences contributed primarily to twin similarity in the poorest quartile of performance, whereas shared environmental influences contributed to twin Similarity in the best quartile.