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

The Opazo lab Patricio Opazo at the UK Dementia Research Institute UK Dementia Research Institute, Edinburgh is looking for a Research Fellow with experience with in-vivo two-photon microscopy, optogenetics, stereotaxic surgeries and animal behaviour. Closing date: 7th May.

dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research-f…

Exciting opportunity to join the LBC1936 team!

We're looking for a new Study Coordinator.

Deadline: 12 March 2024
Application details: edin.ac/3uX0eAn

Is it possible that the higher risk for depression experienced by people with HIV is driven by HIV-related inflammation in the brain and body? We’ve been exploring this question in Cape Town.

My fav (shh) study of my PhD is out now @PLOSOne:
doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Frontiers is at it again 🙃

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)

Daniël Lakens I wrote to him in 2015 to tell him that we turned his idea for results-blind review into Registered Reports. I couldn't believe he replied, and what a reply! Man was an absolute legend. cc Erick Turner @eturnermd1.bsky.social

For those that may be interested, here is my opening Editorial as the new Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of Gero: Psych Sciences. Wishing you much love and light in the new year!

Taming the Three-Eyed Beast: Advancing the Psychological Sciences of Aging academic.oup.com/psychsocgeront…

We are delighted to welcome Eleanor Conole as a new MEG UK committee member!

Childhood intelligence and risk of depression in later-life: A longitudinal data-linkage study

Our latest study is out and available here ⬇️
doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmp…

Less than a week left for the applications to close!😊
All the best to the prospective students👍
Wellcome

#neuroscience #PhDposition #research #fundedphd

Funded PhD opportunity 💫
Part of the exciting interdisciplinary ACRC Academy: 1 year training in all aspects of ageing & care + 3 years on a fab PhD eg this one with me & The Lothian Birth Cohorts Simon Cox & Dr Janie Corley on Lifecourse predictors of care

findaphd.com/phds/project/l…

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?🧐

A #Viewpoint article CORTEX by Anna now online with five major lessons that allowed population-level #genetics to overcome issues of #replicability and may benefit inter-individual #neuroimaging #research :

edin.ac/47zaD3X

School of PPLS
Edinburgh Neuroscience

Characterization of weekday sleep variability and weekend-weekday sleep differences across 35 countries, 220K persons. 50m nights of data. A fruitful partnership with Oura Health. Kudos to Adrian Willoughby!

authors.elsevier.com/a/1hbVd4y2Nr4w…

Now out in Perspectives on Psychological Science, our (with Leo Tiokhin, PhD) discussion on how changing the reward structure in science to the level of the group, instead of individual scientists, might lead to better science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17…

#OHBM2023 this is the day!! Come by my poster at 2313 and talk about grey and white matter development 🧠
Or come talk to me about PhD et al. I'll also be in the OSR (512c) at 3:45pm to discuss the project with people interested 🎉
OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group (OS-SIG) OHBM Trainees

🚨NEW PAPER🚨

Quantification of race/ethnicity representation in Alzheimer’s disease neuroimaging research in the USA: a systematic review

Aaron Lim, Lisa L. Barnes, PhD (Barnes Young), Gali Weissberger, Melissa Lamar, Annie Lu Nguyen, PhD, MPH, Laura Fenton, Jennifer Herrera

A 🧵. ⬇️ (1/7)

link.springer.com/article/10.103…

Ever wondered which cortical atlas you should use in your prediction study? I provide quantitative evidence on the extent to which atlas choice affects findings.
Come and chat to me at #OHBM2023 at poster 2411

Happy to be presenting my poster on SES, preterm birth and brain structure today at #OHBM2023 . Publication is available, but do come and chat! jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…