William Hsu Hi Bill ! It’s a device called Airthings and it seems really good. Am testing it out now in India for a study we are doing in Bangalore

Tea time

Sunset

The Azan (call to prayer) is played in the airport, it is quite beautiful to hear this. I am late as usual and everyone is gone

Some notes from traveling with the little air quality meter:
💡CO2 levels and 'volatile organic compound' (VOC) levels can be very high in hotels - many don't let you open the window (ironically to allow 'air conditioning' !!)
💡Particulate matter (e.g., PM2.5) can be high…

💡Interested in Neuroscience of Stress ⚡️and Resilience?
👇Dr Gina Henze [1] + Henrik Walter [2] (Charite, Berlin) need you !
☎️Their 1st call will be repeated again in exactly 12 hours for the Asian time-zones (anyone is welcome).
🧠Do their survey or reach them here…

Professor Thompson is explaining the neuroimaging studies, including ones we're involved in. What a tremendous effort...

Enigma and Global Neuroscience:Emerging findings from worldwide psychiatric neuroimaging studies. Paul Thompson Ali Saffet Gonul ENIGMA Consortium

The protein panel groups inflammatory markers that might moderate the link between anorexia and brain tissue loss, which are therapeutic targets. The CXC chemokine family - which is crucial for regulating inflammation - and metabolic regulation - attenuates the relation of BMI…

Anorexia leads to profound brain volume reduction (and brain fog) but restoration of brain volume may occur 6 months after weight restoration; both obesity and anorexia alter inflammatory protein expression including cytokines. Peripheral inflammation (measured with OLink’s…

Johanna Seitz-Holland notes that biological clocks based on blood markers (eg her 22-protein SASP index) may yield therapeutic targets more readily than epigenetic clocks, Brain age, and telomere length, and cautions that labs and methods need to collaborate to verify…

To associate brain aging with blood markers, Johanna Seitz-Holland (Harvard) argues for the use of a 22-protein “SASP” index based on senescence associated proteins, whose expression is also increased in depression mediated almost entirely by poor physical health #icp2024 …

MMP-9 (matrix metalloproteinase) in blood is linked to free water measures of brain inflammation perhaps due to BBB disruptions, and is abnormally high in acute schizophrenia. Free water is known to measure inflammation from experimentally virally infected rats (M Kubicki plenary…

Ofer Pasternak developed free water imaging, to distinguish extra cellular edema (inflammation) from the tissue or tract geometry on diffusion MRI. These are typically confounded in DTI (diffusion tensor imagjng). (M Kubicki plenary #icp2024 ). Inflammation is highest in acute…

Schizophrenia and inflammation: glucocorticoid treatment reduces psychosis risk; is there an inflammatory subtype (30-40%) of schizophrenia? Radiologist and psychiatrist Marek Kubicki plenary, #icp2024

Live now: Andrew Greenshaw (Keynote) explains how AI monitoring smart watch and smart phone health data can now detect failing health and set off alerts; may help in pandemics also; they use Apple Cloud and AI surveillance (patients have to agree to this!) #icp2024

Hoş geldiniz ! Turkish National Anthem @ICP2024 Opening Ceremony