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Okereke, Olivia, MD, MS

Director, Mass-ENVISION

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- Center Director/Associate Director, Massachusetts Center for Alzheimer and dEmeNtia behaVIoral reSearch In minOrity aging (Mass-ENVISION) 2023 -
institutional affiliation
- Director, Mass-ENVISION, Massachusetts General Hospital 1998 -
- Director, Mass-ENVISION, Brigham and Women's Hospital 2004 -
- Director, Mass-ENVISION, McLean Hospital 1998 - 2009

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- Socio-ecological barriers to behavior change-oriented dementia prevention: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' perspectives.. Aging & mental health. 1-10. 2024
- A Mindfulness-Based Lifestyle Intervention for Dementia Risk Reduction: Protocol for the My Healthy Brain Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial.. JMIR Research Protocols. -. 2024
- Early Childhood Adversity Predicts Risk of Family Caregiver Suicidal Ideation:Roles of Neuroticism and Self-Compassion.. Research square. 2024
- Optimizing the Implementation of a Lifestyle Dementia Prevention Intervention for Older Patients in an Academic Healthcare System.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 100:1237-1259. 2024
- Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on everyday preferences for persons with cognitive impairment.. International psychogeriatrics. 36:1256-1261. 2023
- Relation of serum BDNF to major depression and exploration of mechanistic roles of serum BDNF in a study of vitamin D3 and omega-3 supplements for late-life depression prevention.. Journal of psychiatric research. 357-364. 2023
- Re-remembering the influence of randomized β-carotene on cognitive decline.. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 19:3718-3721. 2023
- Pilot Study of Second-Generation DNA Methylation Epigenetic Markers in Relation to Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Older Adults.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 93:1563-1575. 2023
- Projection of Care Partners' Preferences in the Proxy Assessments of Everyday Preferences for Persons With Cognitive Impairment.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 31:254-263. 2022
- Association of Physical Activity With Bioactive Lipids and Cardiovascular Events.. Circulation research. 131:e84-e99. 2022
- Marine n-3 fatty acids and cognitive change among older adults in the VITAL randomized trial.. Alzheimer's & dementia (New York, N. Y.). 8:-. 2022
- Mentalizing imagery therapy to augment skills training for dementia caregivers: Protocol for a randomized, controlled trial of a mobile application and digital phenotyping.. Contemporary clinical trials. -. 2022
- Dispositional optimism and depression risk in older women in the Nurses´ Health Study: a prospective cohort study. European Journal of Epidemiology. 2022
- Paternal Occupation and Delirium Risk in Older Adults: A Potential Marker of Early-Life Exposures. Innovation in aging. 2022
- Effect of Long-term Supplementation With Marine Omega-3 Fatty Acids vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores: A Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA. 326:2385-2394. 2021
- Effect of vitamin D on cognitive decline: results from two ancillary studies of the VITAL randomized trial.. Scientific reports. 11:-. 2021
- Geographic Region, Racial/Ethnic Disparities, and Late-Life Depression: Results From a Large US Cohort of Older Adults.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 30:703-716. 2021
- Longitudinal Changes in Neuropsychiatric Symptoms: Impact of Discrepancy in Everyday Preferences Between Persons With Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 30:619-623. 2021
- Longitudinal differences in everyday preferences: Comparisons between people with cognitive impairment and their care partners.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 37. 2021
- Telomere length and its relationships with lifestyle and behavioural factors: variations by sex and race/ethnicity.. Age and ageing. 50:838-846. 2021
- Predictors of the importance of everyday preferences for older adults with cognitive impairment.. International psychogeriatrics. 34:287-294. 2021
- One-Year Effects of Omega-3 Treatment on Fatty Acids, Oxylipins, and Related Bioactive Lipids and Their Associations with Clinical Lipid and Inflammatory Biomarkers: Findings from a Substudy of the Vitamin D and Omega-3 Trial (VITAL).. Metabolites. 10. 2020
- Lifestyle and behavioral factors and mitochondrial DNA copy number in a diverse cohort of mid-life and older adults.. PloS one. 15:-. 2020
- Effect of Long-term Vitamin D3 Supplementation vs Placebo on Risk of Depression or Clinically Relevant Depressive Symptoms and on Change in Mood Scores: A Randomized Clinical Trial.. JAMA. 324:471-480. 2020
- Long-Term Intake of Dietary Carotenoids Is Positively Associated with Late-Life Subjective Cognitive Function in a Prospective Study in US Women.. The Journal of nutrition. 150:1871-1879. 2020
- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations Are Associated with Mental Health and Psychosocial Stress in Young Adults.. Nutrients. 12. 2020
- Changes in plant-based diet quality and health-related quality of life in women.. The British journal of nutrition. 124:960-970. 2020
- Association of Race and Ethnicity With Late-Life Depression Severity, Symptom Burden, and Care.. JAMA network open. 3:-. 2020
- Differences in Assessment of Everyday Preferences Between People With Cognitive Impairment and Their Care Partners: The Role of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 28:1070-1078. 2020
- Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and offspring risk of childhood/adolescent depression: Results from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).. Journal of affective disorders. 255-262. 2020
- Protocol for studying racial/ethnic disparities in depression care using joint information from participant surveys and administrative claims databases: an observational cohort study.. BMJ open. 10:-. 2020
- Late-Life Depression: A Narrative Review on Risk Factors and Prevention.. Harvard review of psychiatry. 28:72-99. 2020
- Commentary On: Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Depression in Older Adults a Dose-Response Meta-analysis of Orospective Cohort Studies.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 27:1203-1205. 2019
- More Evidence of an Inverse Association Between Cancer and Alzheimer Disease.. JAMA network open. 2:-. 2019
- Vitamin D and Psychosis in Alzheimer Disease: New Insights From Pharmacogenomics Research.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 27:918-919. 2019
- Night shift work before and during pregnancy in relation to depression and anxiety in adolescent and young adult offspring.. European journal of epidemiology. 34:625-635. 2019
- Maternal rotating night shift work before pregnancy and offspring stress markers.. Physiology & behavior. 185-193. 2019
- The Mind-Body Study: study design and reproducibility and interrelationships of psychosocial factors in the Nurses' Health Study II.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 30:779-790. 2019
- The relation of telomere length at midlife to subsequent 20-year depression trajectories among women.. Depression and anxiety. 36:565-575. 2019
- Pilot study of DNA methylation, molecular aging markers and measures of health and well-being in aging.. Translational psychiatry. 9:-. 2019
- Assessment of Instruments for Measurement of Delirium Severity: A Systematic Review.. JAMA internal medicine. 179:231-239. 2019
- Greenness and Depression Incidence among Older Women.. Environmental health perspectives. 127:-. 2019
- Social Integration, Marital Status, and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A 20-Year Prospective Cohort Study.. Psychosomatic medicine. 81:833-840. 2019
- Long-term intake of vegetables and fruits and subjective cognitive function in US men.. Neurology. 92:e63-e75. 2018
- The Challenging Task of Addressing the Role of Vitamin D in Late-life Depression: Considerations of Measures, Confounders, Mediators, and Moderators.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 26:1144-1146. 2018
- Photoperiod during maternal pregnancy and lifetime depression in offspring.. Journal of psychiatric research. 169-175. 2018
- Polygenic risk score of shorter telomere length and risk of depression and anxiety in women.. Journal of psychiatric research. 182-188. 2018
- Prospective study of chronotype and incident depression among middle- and older-aged women in the Nurses' Health Study II.. Journal of psychiatric research. 156-160. 2018
- The VITamin D and OmegA-3 TriaL-Depression Endpoint Prevention (VITAL-DEP): Rationale and design of a large-scale ancillary study evaluating vitamin D and marine omega-3 fatty acid supplements for prevention of late-life depression.. Contemporary clinical trials. 133-145. 2018
- Prospective association of depression and phobic anxiety with changes in telomere lengths over 11 years.. Depression and anxiety. 35:431-439. 2018
- From Bereavement to Grief to Cognitive Decline: A Call for Novel Treatment and Prevention Approaches.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 26:461-462. 2018
- Relation of long-term patterns in caregiving activity and depressive symptoms to telomere length in older women.. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 161-167. 2018
- Depression, Antidepressant Use, and Breast Cancer Risk in Pre- and Postmenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study.. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology. 27:306-314. 2017
- Physical activity across adulthood and subjective cognitive function in older men.. European journal of epidemiology. 33:79-87. 2017
- Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Opportunity in Women's Health.. Circulation research. 120:1855-1856. 2017
- The Association Between Air Pollution and Onset of Depression Among Middle-Aged and Older Women.. American journal of epidemiology. 185:801-809. 2017
- Association of Higher Cortical Amyloid Burden With Loneliness in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.. JAMA psychiatry. 73:1230-1237. 2016
- Religious Service Attendance and Lower Depression Among Women-a Prospective Cohort Study.. Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine. 50:876-884. 2016
- Patterns of late-life depressive symptoms and subsequent declines in cognitive domains.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 32:1330-1341. 2016
- Diverse Cumulative Impact of Chronic Diseases on Physical Health-Related Quality of Life: Implications for a Measure of Multimorbidity.. American journal of epidemiology. 184:357-65. 2016
- Risk factors for late-life depression: A prospective cohort study among older women.. Preventive medicine. 144-151. 2016
- Racial Variation in Depression Risk Factors and Symptom Trajectories among Older Women.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 24:1051-1062. 2016
- Psychiatric, Psychological, and Social Determinants of Health in the Nurses' Health Study Cohorts.. American journal of public health. 106:1644-9. 2016
- Dietary flavonoid intake and risk of incident depression in midlife and older women.. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 104:704-14. 2016
- Antidepressant use and circulating prolactin levels.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 27:853-61. 2016
- A prospective study of phobic anxiety, risk of ovarian cancer, and survival among patients.. Cancer causes & control : CCC. 27:661-8. 2016
- Hypertension, use of antihypertensive medications, and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer.. International journal of cancer. 139:291-9. 2016
- The role of vitamin D in the prevention of late-life depression.. Journal of affective disorders. 1-14. 2016
- Depressive symptoms are associated with worsened severity of the metabolic syndrome in African American women independent of lifestyle factors: A consideration of mechanistic links from the Jackson heart study.. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 82-90. 2016
- Ophthalmic and Glaucoma Treatment Characteristics Associated With Changes in Health-related Quality of Life Before and After Newly Diagnosed Primary Open-angle Glaucoma in Nurses' Health Study Participants.. Journal of glaucoma. 25:e220-8. 2016
- Endogenous sex hormones and cognitive function in older women.. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 12:758-65. 2016
- Self-Reported Change in Quality of Life with Retirement and Later Cognitive Decline: Prospective Data from the Nurses' Health Study.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 52:887-98. 2016
- Bidirectional associations between alcohol consumption and health-related quality of life amongst young and middle-aged women.. Journal of internal medicine. 279:376-87. 2015
- A prospective study of leukocyte telomere length and risk of phobic anxiety among women.. Psychiatry research. 230:545-52. 2015
- Evaluation of a Self-Administered Computerized Cognitive Battery in an Older Population.. Neuroepidemiology. 45:264-72. 2015
- Depression and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: Results from two large prospective cohort studies.. Gynecologic oncology. 139:481-6. 2015
- Risk of depression in women with psoriasis: a cohort study.. The British journal of dermatology. 173:975-80. 2015
- A prospective study of leisure-time physical activity and risk of incident epithelial ovarian cancer: Impact by menopausal status.. International journal of cancer. 138:843-52. 2015
- Bupropion use and risk of open-angle glaucoma among enrollees in a large U.S. managed care network.. PloS one. 10:-. 2015
- The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution and prevalent anxiety: observational cohort study.. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). -. 2015
- Effect of long-term supplementation with folic acid and B vitamins on risk of depression in older women.. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science. 206:324-31. 2015
- Depressive Symptoms and Biomarkers of Alzheimer's Disease in Cognitively Normal Older Adults.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 46:63-73. 2015
- Phobic Anxiety and Plasma Levels of Global Oxidative Stress in Women.. The European journal of psychiatry. 29:7-20. 2015
- Subjective cognitive concerns, episodic memory, and the APOE ε4 allele.. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 10:752-759.e1. 2014
- Changes in body weight and health-related quality of life: 2 cohorts of US women.. American journal of epidemiology. 180:254-62. 2014
- Suicide mortality in relation to dietary intake of n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids and fish: equivocal findings from 3 large US cohort studies.. American journal of epidemiology. 179:1458-66. 2014
- Long-term intake of nuts in relation to cognitive function in older women.. The journal of nutrition, health & aging. 18:496-502. 2014
- Antecedents of intact cognition and dementia at age 90 years: a prospective study.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 29:1278-85. 2014
- C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, soluble tumor necrosis factor α receptor 2 and incident clinical depression.. Journal of affective disorders. 25-32. 2014
- Racial and ethnic diversity in studies of late-life mental health.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 22:637-41. 2014
- Urinary incontinence and prevalence of high depressive symptoms in older black versus white women.. International urogynecology journal. 25:823-9. 2014
- SIST-M-IR activities of daily living items that best discriminate clinically normal elderly from those with mild cognitive impairment.. Current Alzheimer research. 11:785-91. 2014
- Long-term multivitamin supplementation and cognitive function in men: a randomized trial.. Annals of internal medicine. 159:806-14. 2013
- The association between dietary patterns at midlife and health in aging: an observational study.. Annals of internal medicine. 159:584-91. 2013
- Phobic anxiety symptom scores and incidence of type 2 diabetes in US men and women.. Brain, behavior, and immunity. 176-82. 2013
- Inflammatory dietary pattern and risk of depression among women.. Brain, behavior, and immunity. 46-53. 2013
- Cigarette smoking and completed suicide: results from 3 prospective cohorts of American adults.. Journal of affective disorders. 151:1053-8. 2013
- Prospective study on long-term dietary patterns and incident depression in middle-aged and older women.. The American journal of clinical nutrition. 98:813-20. 2013
- Coffee, caffeine, and risk of completed suicide: results from three prospective cohorts of American adults.. The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. 15:377-86. 2013
- Mediterranean diet and cognitive function in older age.. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.). 24:490-9. 2013
- Isotemporal substitution analysis for physical activity, television watching, and risk of depression.. American journal of epidemiology. 178:474-83. 2013
- Seafood types and age-related cognitive decline in the Women's Health Study.. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences. 68:1255-62. 2013
- Phobic anxiety and cognitive performance over 4 years among community-dwelling older women in the Nurses' Health Study.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 21:1125-34. 2013
- Long-term adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with overall cognitive status, but not cognitive decline, in women.. The Journal of nutrition. 143:493-9. 2013
- Depression in Late-Life: a Focus on Prevention.. Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing). 11:22-31. 2013
- Prospective study of restless legs syndrome and risk of depression in women.. American journal of epidemiology. 176:279-88. 2012
- High phobic anxiety is related to lower leukocyte telomere length in women.. PloS one. 7:-. 2012
- Plasma amyloid-β as a predictor of dementia and cognitive decline: a systematic review and meta-analysis.. Archives of neurology. 69:824-31. 2012
- Dietary fat types and 4-year cognitive change in community-dwelling older women.. Annals of neurology. 72:124-34. 2012
- Bidirectional association between depression and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.. Diabetes care. 35:1171-80. 2012
- Early intervention to reduce the global health and economic burden of major depression in older adults.. Annual review of public health. 123-35. 2012
- Relation of cumulative low-level lead exposure to depressive and phobic anxiety symptom scores in middle-age and elderly women.. Environmental health perspectives. 120:817-23. 2012
- Relation between insulin, insulin-related factors, and plasma amyloid beta peptide levels at midlife in a population-based study.. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 26:50-4. 2012
- The SIST-M: predictive validity of a brief structured clinical dementia rating interview.. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders. 26:225-31. 2012
- Relation between clinical depression risk and physical activity and time spent watching television in older women: a 10-year prospective follow-up study.. American journal of epidemiology. 174:1017-27. 2011
- Coffee, caffeine, and risk of depression among women.. Archives of internal medicine. 171:1571-8. 2011
- Depression and risk of stroke morbidity and mortality: a meta-analysis and systematic review.. JAMA. 306:1241-9. 2011
- Alcohol consumption at midlife and successful ageing in women: a prospective cohort analysis in the nurses' health study.. PLoS medicine. 8:-. 2011
- Depression and incident stroke in women.. Stroke. 42:2770-5. 2011
- Use of antidepressant medication and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from three cohorts of US adults.. Diabetologia. 55:63-72. 2011
- Bidirectional association between depression and obesity in middle-aged and older women.. International journal of obesity (2005). 36:595-602. 2011
- Plasma beta-amyloid level, cognitive reserve, and cognitive decline.. JAMA. 305:1655; author reply 1655-6. 2011
- The Structured Interview & Scoring Tool-Massachusetts Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (SIST-M): development, reliability, and cross-sectional validation of a brief structured clinical dementia rating interview.. Archives of neurology. 68:343-50. 2011
- Fasting plasma insulin, C-peptide and cognitive change in older men without diabetes: results from the Physicians' Health Study II.. Neuroepidemiology. 34:200-7. 2010
- Physical activity at midlife in relation to successful survival in women at age 70 years or older.. Archives of internal medicine. 170:194-201. 2010
- Ten-year change in plasma amyloid beta levels and late-life cognitive decline.. Archives of neurology. 66:1247-53. 2009
- Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women: prospective cohort study.. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). -. 2009
- Physical activity levels and cognition in women with type 2 diabetes.. American journal of epidemiology. 170:1040-7. 2009
- Dietary fat intake and cognitive decline in women with type 2 diabetes.. Diabetes care. 32:635-40. 2009
- A profile of impaired insulin degradation in relation to late-life cognitive decline: a preliminary investigation.. International journal of geriatric psychiatry. 24:177-82. 2009
- Performance characteristics of plasma amyloid-beta 40 and 42 assays.. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 16:277-85. 2009
- Ethnicity and geriatric psychiatry.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 16:945-7. 2008
- Fasting insulin levels and cognitive decline in older women without diabetes.. Neuroepidemiology. 30:174-9. 2008
- Type 2 diabetes mellitus and cognitive decline in two large cohorts of community-dwelling older adults.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 56:1028-36. 2008
- Plasma C-peptide levels and rates of cognitive decline in older, community-dwelling women without diabetes.. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 33:455-61. 2008
- Plasma C-peptide and cognitive performance in older men without diabetes.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 14:1041-50. 2006
- Midlife plasma insulin-like growth factor I and cognitive function in older men.. The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism. 91:4306-12. 2006
- Plasma IGF-I levels and cognitive performance in older women.. Neurobiology of aging. 28:135-42. 2005
- Plasma C peptide level and cognitive function among older women without diabetes mellitus.. Archives of internal medicine. 165:1651-6. 2005
- Medical comorbidity in geriatric psychiatry.. The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 13:177-9. 2005
- Neuropsychiatric complications associated with interferon-alpha-2b treatment of malignant melanoma.. Psychosomatics. 43:237-40. 2002
- Absence of an apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele is associated with increased parietal regional cerebral blood flow asymmetry in Alzheimer disease.. Archives of neurology. 55:1460-6. 1998
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- A Mindfulness-Based Lifestyle Intervention for Dementia Risk Reduction: Protocol for the My Healthy Brain Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint) 2024