Maria Josefsson

I am an associate professor (senior lecturer) and docent in Statistics. My research mainly involves methods for studying age-related cognitive change.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

maria.josefsson@umu.se

+46 90 786 70 99

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Associate professor at Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE) Units: Statistics

Samhällsvetarhuset, Biblioteksgränd 6 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Affiliated as research fellow at Centre for Demographic and Aging Research at Umeå University (CEDAR) Units: CEDAR Research

Norra Beteendevetarhuset, 4 tr, Umeå universitet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Mental fatigue, cognitive performance and autonomic response following sustained mental activity in clinical burnout

Biological Psychology, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 183

Gavelin, Hanna M.; Neely, Anna Stigsdotter; Aronsson, Ingela; et al.

A Bayesian semiparametric approach for inference on the population partly conditional mean from longitudinal data with dropout

Biostatistics, Oxford University Press 2023, Vol. 24, (2) : 372-387

Josefsson, Maria; Daniels, Michael J.; Pudas, Sara

Memory profiles predict dementia over 23–28 years in normal but not successful aging

International psychogeriatrics, Cambridge University Press 2023, Vol. 35, (7) : 351-359

Josefsson, Maria; Sundström, Anna; Pudas, Sara; et al.

Subjective cognitive complaints and its associations to response inhibition and neural activation in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder

Stress, Taylor & Francis 2023, Vol. 26, (1)

Nelson, Andreas; Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna; Andersson, Micael; et al.

Sociodemographic factors and adjustment of daily activities during the COVID-19 pandemic – findings from the SHARE Corona Survey

Journal of Aging & Social Policy

Olofsson, Jenny; Fors Connolly, Filip; Malmberg, Gunnar; et al.

Predictors of loneliness onset and maintenance in European older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2023, Vol. 14

Panes Lundmark, Vania; Josefsson, Maria; Rieckmann, Anna

Sixteen-year longitudinal evaluation of blood-based DNA methylation biomarkers for early prediction of Alzheimer’s disease

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, IOS Press 2023, Vol. 94, (4) : 1443-1464

Schäfer Hackenhaar, Fernanda; Josefsson, Maria; Nordin Adolfsson, Annelie; et al.

Kernel equating presmoothing methods: an empirical study with mixed-format test forms

Quantitative psychology: The 87th annual meeting of the psychometric society, Bologna, Italy, 2022, Springer 2023 : 49-59

Wallmark, Joakim; Josefsson, Maria; Wiberg, Marie

Longitudinal Effects of Herpesviruses on Multiple Cognitive Outcomes in Healthy Elderly Adults

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, IOS Press 2023, Vol. 94, (2) : 751-762

Weidung, Bodil; Josefsson, Maria; Lyttkens, Peter; et al.

Association of cardiovascular risk trajectory with cognitive decline and incident dementia

Neurology, Wolters Kluwer 2022, Vol. 98, (20) : e2013-e2022

Farnsworth von Cederwald, Bryn; Josefsson, Maria; Wåhlin, Anders; et al.

A longitudinal study of episodic memory recall in multilinguals

International Journal of Bilingualism

Vega-Mendoza, Mariana; Eriksson Sörman, Daniel; Josefsson, Maria; et al.

Cognitive decline in Parkinson’s disease: a subgroup of extreme decliners revealed by a data-driven analysis of longitudinal progression

Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers Media S.A. 2021, Vol. 12

Andersson, Sara; Josefsson, Maria; Stiernman, Lars J.; et al.

Antiviral treatment associated with reduced risk of clinical Alzheimer's disease: A nested case-control study

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 7, (1)

Hemmingsson, Eva-Stina; Hjelmare, Ellen; Weidung, Bodil; et al.

Bayesian semi-parametric G-computation for causal inference in a cohort study with MNAR dropout and death

Journal of the Royal Statistic Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 70, (2) : 398-414

Josefsson, Maria; Daniels, Michael J.

Herpesvirus infections, antiviral treatment, and the risk ofdementia: a registry-based cohort study in Sweden

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, John Wiley & Sons 2021, Vol. 7, (1)

Lopatko Lindman, Karin; Hemmingsson, Eva-Stina; Weidung, Bodil; et al.

Plasma Amyloid-β in Relation to Antibodies Against Herpes Simplex Virus, Cytomegalovirus, and Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Reports, IOS Press 2021, Vol. 5, (1) : 229-235

Lopatko Lindman, Karin; Weidung, Bodil; Olsson, Jan; et al.

Subjective cognitive complaints in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder: a cross sectional study

BMC Psychology, BioMed Central 2021, Vol. 9, (1)

Nelson, Andreas; Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna; Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan; et al.

Short leukocyte telomeres, but not telomere attrition rates, predict memory decline in the 20-year longitudinal Betula study

The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, Oxford University Press 2021, Vol. 76, (6) : 955-963

Pudas, Sara; Josefsson, Maria; Nordin Adolfsson, Annelie; et al.

Short leukocyte telomeres predict 25-year Alzheimer's disease incidence in non-APOE ε4-carriers

Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, BioMed Central 2021, Vol. 13

Schäfer Hackenhaar, Fernanda; Josefsson, Maria; Nordin Adolfsson, Annelie; et al.

Evaluating a frontostriatal working-memory updating-training paradigm in Parkinson's disease: the iPARK trial, a double-blinded randomized controlled trial

BMC Neurology, Springer Nature 2020, Vol. 20, (1)

Domellöf, Magdalena Eriksson; Walton, Lois; Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan; et al.

A Nationwide Swedish Study of Age at Retirement and Dementia Risk

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 35, (10) : 1234-1249

Sundström, Anna; Rönnlund, Michael; Josefsson, Maria

Subjective olfactory loss in older adults concurs with long-term odor identification decline

Chemical Senses, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019, Vol. 44, (2) : 105-112

Ekström, Ingrid; Josefsson, Maria; Larsson, Maria; et al.

A genetic signature including apolipoprotein Eε4 potentiates the risk of herpes simplex-associated Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, Vol. 5 : 697-704

Lopatko Lindman, Karin; Weidung, Bodil; Olsson, Jan; et al.

Herpes Simplex Virus, APOE ɛ4, and Cognitive Decline in Old Age: Results from the Betula Cohort Study

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, IOS Press 2019, Vol. 67, (1) : 211-220

Lövheim, Hugo; Norman, Tove; Weidung, Bodil; et al.

Rehabilitation for improved cognition in patients with stress-related exhaustion disorder: RECO – a randomized clinical trial

Stress, Taylor & Francis 2018, Vol. 21, (4) : 279-291

Malmberg Gavelin, Hanna; Eskilsson, Therese; Boraxbekk, Carl-Johan; et al.

Longitudinal evidence for increased functional response in frontal cortex for older adults with hippocampal atrophy and memory decline

Cerebral Cortex, Oxford University Press 2018, Vol. 28, (3) : 936-948

Pudas, Sara; Josefsson, Maria; Rieckmann, Anna; et al.

Maintained memory in aging is associated with young epigenetic age

Neurobiology of Aging, Elsevier 2017, Vol. 55 : 167-171

Degerman, Sofie; Josefsson, Maria; Nordin Adolfsson, Annelie; et al.

Longitudinal effects of bilingualism on dual-tasking

PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, (12)

Eriksson Sörman, Daniel; Josefsson, Maria; Marsh, John Everett; et al.

Longitudinal association between hippocampus atrophy and episodic-memory decline

Neurobiology of Aging, Vol. 51 : 167-176

Gorbach, Tetiana; Pudas, Sara; Lundquist, Anders; et al.

APOE-ɛ4 effects on longitudinal decline in olfactory and non-olfactory cognitive abilities in middle-aged and old adults

Scientific Reports, Vol. 7

Josefsson, Maria; Larsson, Maria; Nordin, Steven; et al.

Causal inference with longitudinal outcomes and non-ignorable drop-out: Estimating the effect of living alone on cognitive decline

Journal of the Royal Statistic Society, Series C: Applied Statistics, Vol. 65, (1) : 131-144

Josefsson, Maria; de Luna, Xavier; Daniels, Michael; et al.

Long-term episodic memory decline is associated with olfactory deficits only in carriers of ApoE-є4

Neuropsychologia, Elsevier 2016, Vol. 85 : 1-9

Olofsson, Jonas K; Josefsson, Maria; Ekström, Ingrid; et al.

ApoE-e4 Mediates the Association Between Episodic Memory Decline and Olfactory Identification Deficit

Chemical Senses, Vol. 40, (7) : 667-667

Olofsson, Jonas K.; Josefsson, Maria; Stanciu, Ingrid; et al.

Attrition in Studies of Cognitive Aging

Statistical studies, 47

Josefsson, Maria

A Longitudinal Study of Memory Advantages in Bilinguals

PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science 2013, Vol. 8, (9) : e73029-

Ljungberg, Jessica K.; Hansson, Patrik; Andrés, Pilar; et al.

Brain Characteristics of Individuals Resisting Age-Related Cognitive Decline over Two Decades

Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 33, (20) : 8668-8677

Pudas, Sara; Persson, Jonas; Josefsson, Maria; et al.

Genetic and lifestyle predictors of 15-Year longitudinal change in episodic memory

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 60, (12) : 2308-2312

Josefsson, Maria; de Luna, Xavier; Pudas, Sara; et al.

Imputation of missing longitudinal fMRI data

Josefsson, Maria; Lundquist, Anders; Nyberg, Lars

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Research groups

Head of research

Stat4Reg

Research projects

1 January 2017 until 31 December 2021

Attrition and Generalizability of Cognitive Aging Studies - A Population-Based Perspective

1 January 2014 until 31 December 2018

Paths to Healthy and Active Ageing

1 January 2013 until 31 December 2017

Longitudinal studies of cognitive aging: Multivariate and fMRI outcomes with non-ignorable dropout