Silvia Elena Mejía Arango

Semblanza

Es doctora en Psicología con énfasis en Neurociencias por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Es profesora-investigadora de El Colef, adscrita al Departamento de Estudios de Población.

Participa en la Red de Envejecimiento del Instituto Nacional de Geriatria.

Actualmente colabora en los proyectos: “MHAS Cognitive Aging Ancillary Study” y en “The Mexican Health and Aging Study”.

Publicaciones

• Mejía-Arango, S., Saenz, R., Singelmann, J. (2018) Cognitive Decline among the Elderly: A Comparative Analysis of Mexicans in Mexico and in the United States. Developments in Demography in the 21 st Century Springer Press 2018.
• Mejia-Arango, S., Lopez-Ortega, M., & Barba-Ramirez, L Behavioral and Psychosocial Treatments of Dementia in Mexico. Caring for Latinos with Dementia in a Globalized World: Behavioral and Psychosocial Treatments. Springer Press 2018.
• Chatterjee S, Peters S, Woodward M, Mejia-Arango S., et al. Type 2 diabetes as a risk factor for dementia in women compared with men: A pooled analysis of 2.3 million people comprising more Q:1 than 100,000 cases of dementia. Diabetes Care. 2016; 39(2):300–7.
• Mejia S. Promoting multilevel primary prevention of depression and diabetes during midlife may protect against dementia Evidence-based mental health 12/2015