Margaret Gatz

Margaret Gatz, PhD, is Senior Scientist at USC Center for Economic and Social Research and Professor of Psychology and Gerontology.  She studies the mental health of older adults, including risk and protective factors for Alzheimer disease, age-related change in depressive symptoms, and evaluation of the effects of interventions. She directs the Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins, a large longitudinal investigation of genetic and environmental factors in Alzheimer disease; she archived the NAS/NRC World War II Twin Registry for use by the scientific community; and she co-organized the international...