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Teresa Seeman
Department of Medicine (division of Geriatrics), School of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health
2339 Uberroth Building (PVUB)
Phone: (310) 825-8253
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Research:
My research focuses on understanding the effects of social relationships on trajectories of aging, including a focus on both the positive and negative effects of such relationships on major outcomes such as morbidity, functional status and mortality with particularly attention to elucidating the biological pathways that may account for any health effects.

Selected Publications:

Seeman TE, Kaplan GA, Knudsen L, Cohen R, Guralnik J. Social ties and mortality in the elderly: a comparative analysis of age-dependent patterns of association. Am. J. Epidemiology 1987, 126:714-723.

Seeman TE, McEwen BS. Social Environment Characteristics and Neuroendocrine Function: the Impact of Social Ties and Support on Neuroendocrine Regulation. Psychosomatic Medicine 58:459-471, 1996.

Seeman TE, Lusignolo T, Berkman L, Albert M. Social Environment Characteristics and Patterns of Cognitive Aging: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. Health Psychology 20:243-255, 2001.

Seeman TE, Singer B, Ryff C Levy-Storms L. Psychosocial factors and the development of allostatic load. Psychosomatic Medicine 64:395-406, May/June 2002.

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