Kelly, Michelle E., McHugh Power, Joanna E., Parra, Mario A. and Hannigan, Caoimhe (2024) Editorial: Brain health: risk, resilience and reserve. Frontiers in Psychology, 15 (138651). ISSN 1664-1078
Hannigan, Caoimhe, Kelly, Michelle E., Holton, Eimile, Lawlor, Brian, Scharf, Thomas, Kee, Frank, Moynihan, Sean, O'Reilly, Aileen and McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2024) Mechanisms through which befriending services may impact the health of older adults: A dyadic qualitative investigation. Journal of Health Psychology. ISSN 1461-7277
Lannon-Boran, Colm, Hannigan, Caoimhe, McHugh Power, Joanna E., Lambert, Jonathan and Kelly, Michelle E. (2023) The effect of mindfulness-based intervention on cognitively unimpaired older adults’ cognitive function and sleep quality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Aging & Mental Health. ISSN 1364-6915
Loughrey, David G., Feeney, Joanne, Kee, Frank, Lawlor, Brian A., Woodside, Jayne V., Setti, Annalisa and McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2021) Social factors may mediate the relationship between subjective age-related hearing loss and episodic memory. Aging and Mental Health, 25 (5). pp. 824-831. ISSN 13607863
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Tang, Jianjun, Kenny, Rose Ann, Lawlor, Brian A. and Kee, Frank (2020) Mediating the relationship between loneliness and cognitive function: the role of depressive and anxiety symptoms. Aging & Mental Health, 24 (7). pp. 1071-1078. ISSN 1364-6915
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Hannigan, Caoimhe, Carney, Síle, Feeney, Joanne, Kenny, Rose Ann, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2020) Lonely SARTs: loneliness and sustained attention in the Irish longitudinal study of aging. Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition, 27 (2). pp. 197-206. ISSN 1744-4128
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Hannigan, Caoimhe, Hyland, Philip, Brennan, Sabina, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2020) Depressive symptoms predict increased social and emotional loneliness in older adults. Aging & Mental Health, 24 (1). pp. 110-118. ISSN 1364-6915
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Sjöberg, Linnea, Kee, Frank, Kenny, Rose Ann and Lawlor, Brian A. (2019) Comparisons of the Discrepancy between Loneliness and Social Isolation across Ireland and Sweden: Findings from TILDA and SNAC-K. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 54 (9). pp. 1079-1088. ISSN 1433-9285
Hyland, Philip, Shevlin, Mark, Cloitre, Marylène, Karatzias, Thanos, Vallières, Frédérique, McGinty, Gráinne, Fox, Robert and McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2019) Quality not quantity: loneliness subtypes, psychological trauma, and mental health in the US adult population. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 54 (9). pp. 1089-1099. ISSN 1433-9285
Kelly, Michelle E., Loughrey, David G., McHugh Power, Joanna E., McEvoy, Claire, Sheerin, Corina and Pennie, Brian (2019) The Impact of Adherence to the Traditional Mediterranean Diet and Sex Differences on Global Cognitive Functioning: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. ISSN 2509-3304 (In Press)
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Biddle, Kelsey Drew, Donovan, Nancy J. and Bell, Phaedra (2019) New insights into loneliness and its treatment in older adults. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 27 (3). S8-S9. ISSN 1064-7481
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Carney, Síle, Hannigan, Caoimhe, Brennan, Sabina, Wolfe, Hannah, Lynch, Marina, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2019) Systemic inflammatory markers and sources of social support among older adults in the Memory Research Unit cohort. Journal of Health Psychology, 24 (3). pp. 397-406. ISSN 1461-7277
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Steptoe, Andrew, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2019) Loneliness and social engagement in older adults: A bivariate dual change score analysis. Psychology and Aging, 34 (1). pp. 152-162. ISSN 1939-1498
Hyland, Philip, McGinty, Gráinne, Karatzias, Thanos, Murphy, Jamie, Vallières, Frédérique and McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2019) Can the REBT theory explain loneliness? Theoretical and clinical applications. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, 48 (1). pp. 39-51. ISSN 1651-2316
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Dolezal, Luna, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2018) Conceptualizing loneliness in health research: Philosophical and psychological ways forward. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 38 (4). pp. 219-234. ISSN 2151-3341
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Tang, Jianjun, Lawlor, Brian A., Kenny, Rose Ann and Kee, Frank (2018) Mediators of the relationship between social activities and cognitive function among older Irish adults: results from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing. Aging & Mental Health, 22 (1). pp. 129-134. ISSN 1364-6915
Kelly, Michelle E., Duff, Hollie, Kelly, Sara, McHugh Power, Joanna E., Brennan, Sabina, Lawlor, Brian A. and Loughrey, David G. (2017) The impact of social activities, social networks, social support and social relationships on the cognitive functioning of healthy older adults: a systematic review. Systematic Reviews, 6 (259). ISSN 2046-4053
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Kee, Frank, Steptoe, Andrew and Lawlor, Brian A. (2017) Loneliness, verbal fluency, and social engagement over time: A mediation analysis. Alzheimer's & Dementia, 13 (7). P1184-P1185. ISSN 1552-5260
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Lawlor, Brian A. and Kee, F. (2017) Social support mediates the relationships between extraversion, neuroticism, and cognitive function in older adults. Public Health, 147. pp. 144-152. ISSN 0033-3506
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Kenny, Rose Ann, Lawlor, Brian A., Steptoe, Andrew and Kee, Frank (2017) The discrepancy between social isolation and loneliness as a clinically meaningful metric: findings from the Irish and English longitudinal studies of ageing (TILDA and ELSA). International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 32 (6). pp. 664-674. ISSN 1099-1166
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Hannigan, Caoimhe, Carney, Síle and Lawlor, Brian A. (2017) Exploring the meaning of loneliness among socially isolated older adults in rural Ireland: a qualitative investigation. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 14 (4). pp. 394-414. ISSN 1478-0895
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Lee, Olga, Aspell, Niamh, McCormack, Emma, Loftus, Michelle, Connolly, Leona, Lawlor, Brian A. and Brennan, Sabina (2016) RelAte: pilot study of the effects of a mealtime intervention on social cognitive factors and energy intake among older adults living alone. British Journal of Nutrition, 116 (9). pp. 1573-1581. ISSN 1475-2662
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Hannigan, Caoimhe, Hyland, Philip, Kenny, Rose Ann, Kee, Frank and Lawlor, Brian A. (2016) Emotional and social loneliness, and depressive symptomatology among adults over 50. European Geriatric Medicine, 7 (1). S254. ISSN 1878-7649
Hannigan, Caoimhe and McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2022) Befriending, Loneliness and Health: An evaluation of the ALONE befriending service. Project Report. National College of Ireland and Maynooth University, Ireland.
McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2018) Loneliness and brain health: Opportunities for transdisciplinarity. In: Culture and Health Seminar Series, 22nd March 2018, University of Exeter, Exeter, England. (Submitted)
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Kee, Frank, Lawlor, Brian A. and Kenny, Rose Ann (2018) Sleep, loneliness, and their impact on aspects of brain health: Findings from TILDA. In: 32nd Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, 21st-25th August 2018, NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland. (Submitted)
McHugh Power, Joanna E. (2018) Social Asymmetry and Brain Health. In: Laboratory of Prof Nancy O'Donovan, 2018, Harvard Medical School, Boston USA. (Submitted)
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Kenny, Rose Ann, Lawlor, Brian A. and Kee, Frank (2017) Social Asymmetry and Psychological Outcomes: Findings from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. In: 13th Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society (EUGMS), 20th-22nd September 2017, Nice, France. (Submitted)
McHugh Power, Joanna E., Kee, Frank, Kenny, Rose Ann and Lawlor, Brian A. (2017) Social asymmetry and physical health outcomes: results from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing. In: 31st annual conference of the European Health Psychology Society, 31st August - 2nd September 2017, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. (Submitted)