Deary Ian J, Cox Simon R
Lothian Birth Cohorts, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Genom Psychiatry. 2025;1(1):47-60. doi: 10.61373/gp024i.0076. Epub 2024 Nov 7.
The authors are, respectively, the founding and current Directors of the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936. In this invited and, admittedly, self-regarding and necessarily self-citing piece, we enumerate and explicate some things we learned from working with the cohorts and their data. Some of the lessons are scientific results, some are to do with scientific practice, and some are more general reflections. We hope the paper provides a useful summary of some of the main findings from these too-many-papers-to-read cohorts and an enjoyable account of our building a research team and a network of collaborators. The original aim of assembling the cohorts was to fashion a tool to discover why some people's thinking skills aged better than others'. That tool, we discovered, had many additional uses.
作者分别是1921年和1936年洛锡安出生队列的创始主任和现任主任。在这篇受邀之作中，诚然，这是一篇自我关注且必然会自我引用的文章，我们列举并阐述了一些我们从研究这些队列及其数据中学到的东西。其中一些经验教训是科学成果，一些与科学实践有关，还有一些是更普遍的思考。我们希望本文能对这些论文多得读不过来的队列的一些主要发现提供有益的总结，并能令人愉快地讲述我们组建研究团队和合作网络的过程。组建这些队列的最初目的是打造一种工具，以发现为何有些人的思维能力比其他人老化得慢。我们发现，这个工具还有许多其他用途。
