A. Zarina Kraal

LIFE Fellow from 2018 to 2020, University of Michigan

PhD

Dissertation Completed in July 2020

Psychosocial and Cardiovascular Contributors to Longitudinal Cognitive Aging in Type 2 Diabetes

(Advisor: Laura Zahodne)

Selected Publications

Kraal, A. Z., Arvanitis, N., Jaeger, A., & Ellingrod, V. L. (2020). Could dietary glutamate play a role in psychiatric distress? Neuropsychobiology, 79(1), 13–19. https://doi.org/10.1159/000496294

Kraal, A. Z., Sharifian, N., Zaheed, A., Sol., K., & Zahodne, L. B. (2019). Dimensions of religious involvement represent protective pathways in minority cognitive aging. Research on Aging, 41(9), 868–890. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027519862745

Zahodne, L. B., Sol, K., & Kraal, A. Z. (2019). Psychosocial pathways to inequalities in dementia risk: Perceived discrimination, depressive symptoms, and external locus of control among Blacks and Hispanics. Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 74, 409–418. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx113