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Dunedin Study members to find out about the health of family members (2003–2006); the Parenting Study which focuses on the Dunedin Study member and their first three-year-old child; and the Next Generation Study which involved the offspring of Dunedin Study members as they turned 15 and looked at the lifestyles, behaviours, attitudes, and health of today's teenagers. It aims to see how these have changed from when the original Study Members were 15 (in 1987–88). This means that information across three generations of the same families will be available.
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three years later. In early years the study was not well funded and the local community helped collect data. The study members include 535 males and 502 females, 1013 singletons and 12 sets of twins. At the age 38 assessment, only one-third of members still resided in
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and a person's rate of cognitive decline, that there are differences in brain structure of people with and without antisocial behaviour in their teenage/young adult years, a link between IQ and brain size; the correspondence of brain structure with poor mental state, cardiovascular fitness, lead
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Zealand and Australia. Study members were assessed at age three, and then at ages 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 18, 21, 26, 32, 38, 45 and, most recently, at age 52 (2024–present). Silva directed the study until he retired from the role in 2000. Professor
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Zealand and overseas; many of these can be found on the publications section of their website.
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in the United States. The research is constantly evolving to encompass research made possible by new technology and seeks to answer questions about how people's early years have an impact on mental and physical health as they age.
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Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
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The Origins of You: How Childhood Shapes Later Life
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588:Psychological Bulletin
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883:Technology Gold Medal
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831:News about the study
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1100:Linda Tuhiwai Smith
1045:Peter Schwerdtfeger
418:"The Study Members"
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