Janie Corley
Research Fellow
- Psychology
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 651 1683
- Email: janie.corley@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room F3, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
Background
I am a Research Fellow with expertise in psychometric testing and ageing research. As a Researcher-Co-Investigator, I am a core member of the Lothian Birth Cohorts team, contributing to the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-funded project supporting waves 6 and 7 of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) data collection and analysis. With over 20 years of experience working with the Lothian Birth Cohorts, I have published extensively on the associations between lifestyle factors and cognitive and brain ageing in older adults. My current research explores life-course and environmental influences on cognitive decline, well-being, and longevity.
Qualifications:
PhD by Publication, Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 2015
MA Hons (1st), Psychology, University of Glasgow, 1993
Representative publications:
Corley J, Pattie A, Batty GD, Cox SR, Deary IJ. Life-course pathways to exceptional longevity: Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1921. The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences. 2024 Aug;79(8):glae166.
Corley J, Pattie A, Deary IJ, Cox SR. Gardening and cognitive ageing: Longitudinal findings from the Lothian Birth Cohort of 1921. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2024 Aug 1;97:102361.
Corley J, Conte F, Harris SE, Taylor AM, Redmond P, Russ TC, Deary IJ, Cox SR. Predictors of longitudinal cognitive ageing from age 70 to 82 including APOE e4 status, early-life and lifestyle factors: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Molecular Psychiatry. 2023 Mar;28(3):1256-71.
Corley J, Deary IJ. Dietary patterns and trajectories of global-and domain-specific cognitive decline in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. British Journal of Nutrition. 2021 Oct;126(8):1237-46.
Corley J. Adherence to the MIND diet is associated with 12-year all-cause mortality in older adults. Public Health Nutrition. 2022 Feb;25(2):358-67.
Corley J, Okely JA, Taylor AM, Page D, Welstead M, Skarabela B, Redmond P, Cox SR, Russ TC. Home garden use during COVID-19: Associations with physical and mental wellbeing in older adults. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 2021 Feb 1;73:101545.
Corley J, Cox SR, Taylor AM, Hernandez MV, Maniega SM, Ballerini L, Wiseman S, Meijboom R, Backhouse EV, Bastin ME, Wardlaw JM. Dietary patterns, cognitive function, and structural neuroimaging measures of brain aging. Experimental Gerontology. 2020 Dec 1;142:111117.
Corley J, Cox SR, Deary IJ. Healthy cognitive ageing in the Lothian Birth Cohort studies: marginal gains not magic bullet. Psychological medicine. 2018 Jan;48(2):187-207.Psychological Medicine 48 (2), 187-207.
Research summary
Lifestyle and health-related factors contributing to cognitive ageing, brain ageing, well-being, and mortality.