Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1974 Panel (ICPSR 6838)
Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1994 and 1995 Panels (ICPSR 3083)
Alameda County [California] Health and Ways of Living Study, 1999 Panel (ICPSR 4432)
Chronic Illness and Caregiving, 2000: [United States] (ICPSR 3402)
Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, 1981-1993: [East Boston, Massachusetts, Iowa and Washington Counties, Iowa, New Haven, Connecticut, and North Central North Carolina] (ICPSR 9915)
Health Interview Survey, 1963 (ICPSR 28381)
Health Interview Survey, 1964 (ICPSR 28663)
Health Interview Survey, 1965 (ICPSR 28761)
Health Interview Survey, 1966 (ICPSR 28801)
Health Interview Survey, 1967 (ICPSR 28862)
Health Interview Survey, 1968 (ICPSR 28881)
Health Interview Survey, 1970 (ICPSR 7838)
Health Interview Survey, 1971 (ICPSR 8336)
Health Interview Survey, 1972 (ICPSR 8337)
Health Interview Survey, 1973 (ICPSR 8338)
Health Interview Survey, 1974 (ICPSR 8339)
Health Interview Survey, 1975 (ICPSR 7672)
Health Interview Survey, 1976 (ICPSR 8340)
Health Interview Survey, 1977 (ICPSR 7839)
Health Interview Survey, 1978 (ICPSR 8044)
Health Interview Survey, 1981 (ICPSR 8319)
Health Interview Survey, 1982 (ICPSR 8460)
Health Interview Survey, 1983 (ICPSR 8603)
Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS), 1998-2014 (ICPSR 23380)
Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 3), 2013-2014 (ICPSR 36346)
In 1995-1996, the MacArthur Midlife Research Network carried out a national survey of over 7,000 Americans aged 25 to 74 [ICPSR 2760]. The purpose of the study was to investigate the role of behavioral, psychological, and social factors in understanding age-related differences in physical and mental health. The study was innovative for its broad scientific scope, its diverse samples (which included siblings of the main sample respondents and a national sample of twin pairs), and its creative use of in-depth assessments in key areas (e.g. daily diary of stressful experiences [ICPSR 3725] and cognitive functioning [ICPSR 3596]) on a subset of participants. A detailed description of the study and findings generated by it are available at: http://www.midus.wisc.edu
With support from the National Institute on Aging, a follow-up of the original Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) sample was conducted in 2004 (MIDUS 2 [ICPSR 4652]). The daily stress and cognitive functioning projects were repeated and expanded at MIDUS 2; in addition the protocol was expanded to include biomarkers and neuroscience.
In 2013 a third wave (MIDUS 3) of survey data was collected on longitudinal participants. Data collection for this follow-up wave largely repeated baseline assessments (e.g., phone interview and extensive self-administered questionnaire), with additional questions in selected areas such as economic recession experiences. Cognitive functioning data were also collected at the same time, while data collection for the daily diary, biomarker, and neuroscience projects commenced in 2017.
MIDUS also maintains a Colectica portal, which allows users to interact with variables across waves and create customized subsets. Registration is required.
Midlife in the United States (MIDUS 3): Neuroscience Project, 2017-2022 (ICPSR 38862)
From 2004-2009, an initial follow-up of the original Midlife Development in the United States samples (MIDUS 2) was conducted with expansion of the protocol to include Neuroscience Project data collection and a sample of Black Americans from Milwaukee, WI. The MIDUS Neuroscience Project performed a second follow-up from 2017-2022 of the MIDUS Main and Milwaukee samples (MIDUS 3) on a subsample of those who completed the MIDUS 3 Survey and Biomarker Projects.
The goal was to examine indices of brain aging, function, and structure with a focus on the brain circuitry associated with individual differences in affective style, and to characterize the peripheral consequences of these central profiles for biological systems that may be relevant to health. The primary aims were to: (1) characterize individual differences in emotional reactivity, recovery, and sustaining processes using corrugator and zygomatic electromyography and eyeblink startle magnitude, (2) characterize individual differences in brain morphology and connectivity using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) (3) characterize individual differences in functional activity within the neural circuitry of emotion using task and resting state fMRI, (4) calculate brain age, and (5) test the ability of these indices to predict the comprehensive array of health, wellbeing, cognitive, psychological, social, and life challenge factors assessed in other MIDUS projects. To probe individual differences in emotional processes, psychophysiological and fMRI measures of emotional responses to the presentation of negative, positive, and neutral pictures, and these same measures during a post-picture period were examined.
Emotion-influenced memory was assessed at both the psychophysiological and imaging sessions: (1) Free recall of the presented affective pictures at the end of the psychophysiological session. (2) Memory and likeability ratings for neutral faces paired with the affective pictures in the imaging task. Finally, selected tasks from the CANTAB assessed affective biases and cognitive processes important for emotion regulation.