How your eyes move. The brain and optic nerves: #neuroscience

The Lothian Birth Cohort has received funding from the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, which will fund major core activities within the cohort, & also welcomes new co-investigators to the team.   The Lothian Birth Cohorts Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research  Read more here: ed.ac.uk/clinical-scien…

"Median connectivity is estimated as ~6200 axons between cortical areas within-hemisphere" Human cortical areas are sparsely connected: Combining histology with diffusion MRI to estimate the absolute number of axons | #bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The LBC is contributing to a new #BBC #documentary series called 'Who Lives in #Scotland'. Filming today at Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility EdinburghCRF 💙 Presenter Martin Geissler talks about the study with Ian Deary, Judy Okely and #LBC1936 participants

Some of the LBC1921s have #brain imaging data at age ~92 years, which is very rare, especially with their #cognitive data at age 11. Here's a paper which brought both LBC cohorts together to look at brain and cognitive #ageing: edin.ac/3mt7i04 Edinburgh Imaging 💙

LBC1936 study in the Guardian! Read about Dr Judy Okely’s study now published in Psychological Science on the benefits of playing a musical instrument in childhood for cognitive ageing: theguardian.com/education/2022… judith okely School of PPLS Economic and Social Research Council Age UK CAHSS News | The University of Edinburgh

We absolutely loved the coverage of the LBC studies on #WhoLivesInScotland last night. What a great show and with so many interesting stats, great stories and positive messages! If you missed it, it's well worth catching up here! edin.ac/3NbYvvW

🆕preprint: living in disadvantaged areas during later life is associated with smaller total #brain and grey matter volume, thinner cortex and white matter disconnectivity among The Lothian Birth Cohorts participants. CRESH Simon Cox Jamie Pearce @siliconsoup medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We are celebrating the successful completion of Wave 6 with the #LBC #participants and collaborators this Saturday! Lothian Birth Cohorts #reunion National Museums Scotland Edinburgh Neuroscience Edinburgh Imaging 💙 Psychology at Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh School of PPLS Age UK Simon Cox Danielle Page 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏿✊🏻

Ever wondered what distinct information is really provided by different graph-theory metrics in the brain's structural connectome? doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Jo Moodie (@JoannMoodie) has been looking at spatial correlations between fundamental profiles of cortical organisation (incl gene expression components and neurotransmitter receptor densities) and regions of the cortex associated with general cognitive functioning. Poster 54.

Colin Buchanan (@siliconsoup) presents the largest-ever meta-analysis of nearly 10,000 healthy adult brains to robustly map the relationship between structural brain connectomes and general cognitive function.

@siliconsoup In the next session, Anna Fürtjes (Anna) provides systematic and quantitative evidence on the extent to which atlas choice affects findings and likely contributes to to lack of reproducibility in atlas-based research. Poster 2411

Lessons from Complex Trait Genetics may help us overcome the Neuroimaging replication crisis doi.org/10.1016/j.cort… My Viewpoint identifies striking parallels between the fields of Complex Trait Genetics and Neuroimaging research 🧵🧠🧬

I have a new preprint! psyarxiv.com/62txs If a brain structure is associated with a cognitive task, how much of this is related to a specific cognitive domain, and how much of this is complicated by the existence of 'general intelligence' or g?🧐

Mapping connectomes with tractography? Check out this thread on our work evaluating tractogram filters: SIFT, LiFE, COMMIT Filters improve connectome accuracy, but improvement is modest for complex fiber architectures Tabinda Sarwar Alessandro Daducci Simona Schiavi Rob Smith

Had an AMAZING time at the Doors Open Day! Thanks to all who dropped by & participated in the activities🥳 We loved reading your feedback! 😇 Huge thanks to The Lothian Birth Cohorts @lyons_lab Colin Buchanan & others who made #EdinburghOpenDay possible😊 #neuroscience #scicomm #science

The latest issue of the Disconnected Mind Newsletter is now out on our website: edin.ac/4aW2Y0Z The University of Edinburgh School of PPLS Edinburgh Neuroscience Age Scotland Age UK

Wave 7 of #LBC1936 began on 21 March: Ten participants have come back for #cognitive appointments so far and the first #participant joined the radiographers Edinburgh Imaging 💙 for an MRI scan on 18 April! The University of Edinburgh School of PPLS Edinburgh Neuroscience Age UK Age Scotland

Living in deprived areas is associated with structural differences in the brains of older people, as our study has shown using the The Lothian Birth Cohorts 🆕 publication in molecularpsychiatry 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 nature.com/articles/s4138… 🧵