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Laura E Gibbons

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Top papers

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1 Exercise plus behavioral management in patients with Alzheimer disease: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2003 4.54
2 Assessing quality of life in older adults with cognitive impairment. Psychosom Med 2002 4.52
3 Differential item functioning analysis with ordinal logistic regression techniques. DIFdetect and difwithpar. Med Care 2006 3.03
4 Depressive symptoms and severity of illness in multiple sclerosis: epidemiologic study of a large community sample. Am J Psychiatry 2002 2.86
5 Challenging the cumulative injury model: positive effects of greater body mass on disc degeneration. Spine J 2009 2.82
6 lordif: An R Package for Detecting Differential Item Functioning Using Iterative Hybrid Ordinal Logistic Regression/Item Response Theory and Monte Carlo Simulations. J Stat Softw 2011 2.61
7 Development and assessment of a composite score for memory in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI). Brain Imaging Behav 2012 1.97
8 Item response theory facilitated cocalibrating cognitive tests and reduced bias in estimated rates of decline. J Clin Epidemiol 2008 1.93
9 Factors associated with caregiver reports of sleep disturbances in persons with dementia. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 2006 1.74
10 The Twin Spine Study: contributions to a changing view of disc degeneration. Spine J 2008 1.74
11 Occupational driving and lumbar disc degeneration: a case-control study. Lancet 2002 1.67
12 Nighttime insomnia treatment and education for Alzheimer's disease: a randomized, controlled trial. J Am Geriatr Soc 2005 1.57
13 IRT health outcomes data analysis project: an overview and summary. Qual Life Res 2007 1.42
14 Associations between back pain history and lumbar MRI findings. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2003 1.39
15 Training community consultants to help family members improve dementia care: a randomized controlled trial. Gerontologist 2005 1.37
16 A comparison of three sets of criteria for determining the presence of differential item functioning using ordinal logistic regression. Qual Life Res 2007 1.35
17 A life course model of cognitive activities, socioeconomic status, education, reading ability, and cognition. J Am Geriatr Soc 2011 1.27
18 Composite scores for executive function items: demographic heterogeneity and relationships with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2008 1.27
19 Risk for late-life re-injury, dementia and death among individuals with traumatic brain injury: a population-based study. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2012 1.22
20 Chronic pain in a large community sample of persons with multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler 2003 1.22
21 Fatigue and psychiatric illness in a large community sample of persons with multiple sclerosis. J Psychosom Res 2005 1.21
22 Evaluating measurement equivalence using the item response theory log-likelihood ratio (IRTLR) method to assess differential item functioning (DIF): applications (with illustrations) to measures of physical functioning ability and general distress. Qual Life Res 2007 1.18
23 The efficacy of telephone counseling for health promotion in people with multiple sclerosis: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2008 1.04
24 Cognitively Stimulating Activities: Effects on Cognition across Four Studies with up to 21 Years of Longitudinal Data. J Aging Res 2012 1.04
25 Executive dysfunction and presbycusis in older persons with and without memory loss and dementia. Cogn Behav Neurol 2010 1.03
26 Progression and determinants of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging measures of lumbar disc degeneration: a five-year follow-up of adult male monozygotic twins. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2008 1.03
27 Training caregivers to change the sleep hygiene practices of patients with dementia: the NITE-AD project. J Am Geriatr Soc 2003 1.00
28 Midlife use of written Japanese and protection from late life dementia. Epidemiology 2009 1.00
29 Rapid detection of differential item functioning in assessments of health-related quality of life: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy. Qual Life Res 2006 1.00
30 Differential item functioning related to education and age in the Italian version of the Mini-mental State Examination. Int Psychogeriatr 2006 0.98
31 Insomnia In Caregivers Of Persons With Dementia: Who Is At Risk And What Can Be Done About It? Sleep Med Clin 2009 0.96
32 Older adults and functional decline: a cross-cultural comparison. Int Psychogeriatr 2002 0.95
33 The Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive-Plus (ADAS-Cog-Plus): an expansion of the ADAS-Cog to improve responsiveness in MCI. Brain Imaging Behav 2012 0.90
34 A randomized controlled clinical trial of the Seattle Protocol for Activity in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc 2011 0.90
35 Dynamic associations of change in physical activity and change in cognitive function: coordinated analyses of four longitudinal studies. J Aging Res 2012 0.90
36 Efficacy of paroxetine in treating major depressive disorder in persons with multiple sclerosis. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2007 0.89
37 Anxiety and nighttime behavioral disturbances. Awakenings in patients with Alzheimer's disease. J Gerontol Nurs 2004 0.89
38 Age- and pathology-specific measures of disc degeneration. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2008 0.89
39 Is level- and side-specific multifidus asymmetry a marker for lumbar disc pathology? Spine J 2012 0.89
40 Gene-based GWAS and biological pathway analysis of the resilience of executive functioning. Brain Imaging Behav 2014 0.87
41 Genetic architecture of resilience of executive functioning. Brain Imaging Behav 2012 0.87
42 Use of spoken and written Japanese did not protect Japanese-American men from cognitive decline in late life. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 2010 0.87
43 Paraspinal muscle morphology and composition: a 15-yr longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2014 0.86
44 Body mass index and waist circumference in persons aging with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, and spinal cord injury. Disabil Health J 2012 0.86
45 Social activity and cognitive functioning over time: a coordinated analysis of four longitudinal studies. J Aging Res 2012 0.84
46 Isometric back extension endurance testing: reasons for test termination. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2005 0.82
47 A 37-item shoulder functional status item pool had negligible differential item functioning. J Clin Epidemiol 2006 0.82
48 Validation study of prevalence and correlates of depressive symptomatology in multiple sclerosis. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2008 0.81
49 Demographic characteristics do not decrease the utility of depressive symptoms assessments: examining the practical impact of item bias in four heterogeneous samples of older adults. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2014 0.81
50 Telephone-based physical activity counseling for major depression in people with multiple sclerosis. J Consult Clin Psychol 2013 0.81
51 Dysexecutive and amnesic AD subtypes defined by single indicator and modern psychometric approaches: relationships with SNPs in ADNI. Brain Imaging Behav 2012 0.78
52 The roles of adulthood behavioural factors and familial influences in bone density among men. Ann Med 2002 0.77
53 Advanced psychometric analysis and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative: reports from the 2011 Friday Harbor conference. Brain Imaging Behav 2012 0.77