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Excited to share my Fulbright España project from my time working with Karim Lekadir at Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Lab * BCN-AIM in a close collaboration with Simon Cox. Check out the thread for more! direct.mit.edu/imag/article/d… (1/15)

Exciting opportunity to join the LBC1936 team! We're looking for a new Study Coordinator. Deadline: 12 March 2024 Application details: edin.ac/3uX0eAn

A new preprint led by W David Hill Charley Xia edin.ac/490qqIC Multivariate GWAS of SES for an effective sample size of n=893,604 Mendelian randomisation used to examine the role of SES on brain structure Follow the FAQs explaining the findings edin.ac/3PtQOU3

Wave 7 of the #LBC1936 has begun! The LBC1936 #participants have been meeting with the #research #team every three years since 2004. Below is the first Wave 7 participant with Sabela Mendez at the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at the Western General Hospital

Dr Thomas H Bak at the Lothian Birth Cohorts permanent display National Museums Scotland after another series of successful guided walking "Neurotrail" tours about #Edinburgh #neuroscience 👏👏👏 School of PPLS Edinburgh Neuroscience

We had a great Edinburgh Science day National Museums Scotland with our sold-out #workshops The Game of Life: Who gets to be 100! A big thank you to everyone who joined us and special thanks to Boroughmuir High Sch volunteers who kept everyone happy and engaged! 👏👏👏 School of PPLS @SarahEHarris99

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

What could more exciting than EWAS? How about multivariate EWAS with joint + conditional estimation of CpG effects?! Developed by Ilse Kratschmer and Matt Robinson ISTAustria with application to Generation Scotland and The Lothian Birth Cohorts. MAJA pre-print here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our Director Tom Russ at UK House of Commons today for the The Reading Agency's updated #ReadingWell for #Dementia book collection👏 We're delighted that Tom's book is included in the list and is now freely available at local libraries in time for #DementiaActionWeek

“Lessons we learned from the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936”: edin.ac/3YMksHV A new review of the main LBC findings on #brain and #cognitive #ageing (and much more!) by the founding and current Directors of the LBC1921 and LBC1936 Ian Deary and Simon Cox

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline and dementia. Supervised by myself, Simon Cox, MarioniGroup, Sara Hägg, & Barbara Nicholl. Learn more about our PrecisionMed_PhD project and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-medi…

Wave 7 of the LBC1936 data collection is halfway through: over 100 participants at age 88 have now returned to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility for cognitive testing!

New paper in Environmental Epidemiology considers risk of dementia due to life-course exposure to air pollution using The Lothian Birth Cohorts Led by Otto J with Gergő Baranyi Simon Cox & colleagues journals.lww.com/environepidem/…

Check out our new CRESH video from our Economic and Social Research Council study on 'Lifecourse of Place: how environments throughout life can support healthy ageing' where we showcase some key project findings media.ed.ac.uk/media/Lifecour… Gergő Baranyi Catharine Ward Thompson The Lothian Birth Cohorts Simon Cox

The latest issue of the Disconnected Mind Newsletter from Lothian Birth Cohorts is now available online with highlights of 2024 as well as our recent research and publications, and scientific and public engagement events from this Autumn: edin.ac/3DeEOCR School of PPLS

New publication: DNA methylation-based predictors of metabolic traits in Scottish and Singaporean cohorts Generation Scotland Institute of Genetics and Cancer The Lothian Birth Cohorts Hannah MarioniGroup @RobertHillary Simon Cox Danni Gadd Elena Bernabeu @SarahEHarris99 Read more here: cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/…

Excited to see Elena Bernabeu's DNAm study of alcohol consumption published in Clinical Epigenetics. …lepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Findings include the development of an EpiScore that generalises well across cohorts and assocs with brain health where self-report alcohol doesn't!

We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science #February11 As #Womeninscience, we have the opportunity to shape research on #cognitive #ageing, influence policies that promote healthy ageing, and support future generations of women in #STEM. School of PPLS

The March edition of The Disconnected Mind Newsletter with news and updates from our team is now available online: edin.ac/41uIdWx School of PPLS CAHSS News | The University of Edinburgh Brain Health Scotland