The Poo-Torial is LIVE. The nation has never been more alert to the importance of looking at your stools. Please share this tool far & wide. Together, we can reach more people & save lives.. 💚 1/🧵 ow.ly/4GRG50JLLt4 #CheckYourPoo #PooTorial #GutHealth #DigestiveHealth

Kinship carers step up to provide a safe and loving home to children. But many are forced to give up work to focus on the child's needs. That's why I'm supporting Family Rights Group's #SameLoveSameLeave campaign for paid kinship employment leave. frg.org.uk/policy-and-cam…

Couldn't be happier with my PhD viva experience, a critical scientific discussion of my PhD work, followed by cake and amazing people that I am lucky enough to call friends.

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Trevor has contributed to our research efforts for the last 5 years as a PD research participant. As if his time and numerous blood donations weren’t enough, he is now taking on a new challenge, a 120k fundraising walk. If you can, please show him your support.

Caroline’s team shared different approaches on the importance of #immunity in #ParkinsonsDisease at 2024 Immuparknet COST ACTION 21117 Annual Meeting in #Belgrade. Lots of potential for fruitful collaborations! Julia Greenland Marta Camacho

A Review in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology provides an overview of barrier function across the gut–brain axis and examines the role of the gut microbiota in communication across and between these specialized gastrointestinal and brain barriers in health and disease. 🔒 go.nature.com/3J8Js4Z

The charity Breast Cancer Now has awarded £249,065 to Stephen Robinson (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 to study the composition and function of the gut bacteria in oestrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer 🦠 buff.ly/4eaCDOG

A study of 137 #Parkinsons patients (64 without possible RBD; "brain-first subtype" & 73 with possible premotor RBD group; "body-first subtype") finds body-first group had lower UPDRS-III at baseline but faster progression longitudinally nature.com/articles/s4153…

Important read. The low replicability of microbiome studies, individual variability and our current lack of knowledge on what constitutes commensal or pathologic gut microorganisms I have always been critical of direct to consumer tests, especially at their price ranges.

#WorldMicrobiomeDay is in less than 8 hours! 🎉 Meanwhile, check out the final insights from the #HumanMicrobiomeAction project! Dive into our infographic highlighting key challenges and recommendations for #microbiome research in clinical practice. 🧬👩‍⚕️🌾 👇

Already baking a few cool outreach ideas for this year's #brainandbeyond in Bedford! Do come along on the 23rd of July The Barker / Williams-Gray Lab

#GUTImage from the paper by Erkert et al on "Alzheimer’s disease-related presenilins are key to intestinal epithelial cell function and gut immune homoeostasis" via bit.ly/3z8HPmu #AlzheimersDisease

1/2 🧠 Um novo estudo ChampalimaudResearch desafia o entendimento tradicional sobre a doença de Parkinson. O tremor pode estar ligado a níveis mais elevados de dopamina preservada em regiões cerebrais como o núcleo caudado. 👉🔗 fchampalimaud.org/pt-pt/news/o-p…

Just out by Bissacco et al: GIDS-PD Constipation scores correlated with PD motor severity and CSF α-synuclein and t-tau protein load in 55 de novo PD patients. Very glad to see the GIDS-PD used as a useful tool in PD research! …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/…

It's official! My next 3 years will be dedicated to studying the potential effect of methane in cognition in Parkinson's disease and other conditions. Feeling very grateful to Parkinson's UK for believing in my work and eager to begin! parkinsons.org.uk/news/future-le…

Want to investigate the effect of ginger extract in blood ghrelin levels, gut function and inflammation, as well as clinical measures of motor and cognitive function in PD? We're hiring! jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50648/

Love the format of CostAction IMMUNOPARKNET - an intimate, focused and stimulating networking event for researchers investigating the role of the immune system in PD. Nice to call fellow researchers by their first name and work on new partnerships.

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Characterization papers may look uninteresting but lay important groundwork. We found that constipation does not increase with PD disease stage after confounder adjustment. It remains stable over time, suggesting it could be a phenotypic feature of PD. nature.com/articles/s4153…