Florida Gators Team Physician Dr. Jay Clugston garners recognition from Southeastern Conference office for outstanding service throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. #GoGators bit.ly/3fGlWhN

Shameless self-promotion, but I think this review is worth the read if you are interested in the risk of neurodegenerative disease and TBI

Identifying degenerative effects of repetitive head trauma with neuroimaging: a clinically-oriented review. Neuroimaging data includes structural MRI, FDG-PET, Aβ-PET, and tau-PET. bit.ly/35ra6Cj Breton Asken @RabLab_UCSF #NIAfundedADRC

JUST IN: We rank among the Top 10 hospitals in the nation again, and we’re the No. 1 hospital for neurology and neurosurgery, according to U.S. News & World Report! ucsfh.org/3zEAd5Q #BestHospitals 🎉

Controversy and Progress in Alzheimer’s Disease — FDA Approval of Aducanumab. Dr. Gil Rabinovici provides his perspective on this pivotal and controversial point in Alzheimer’s disease treatment. bit.ly/2Wr4l69 @RabLab_UCSF UCSF Health NEJM

The Black Men's Brain Health (BMBH) Conference during 2022 Super Bowl week aims to convene academics and community leaders to increase the representation of Black men in brain science research and to reduce brain health disparities among Black men. mensbrainhealth.org

The UCSF MAC is offering 4 Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship positions for 2022–2024. See and share the announcement below for research opportunities. Kaitlin Casaletto @relajoie Kate Possin Elena Tsoy Breton Asken INS The AACN

And we are especially excited to celebrate our new #BMBH Conference Fellows who will be receiving mentorship & support for community-based research in #cogaging w/in the Black community! Let’s go!!🎊👏🏽Willie McBride Ph.D. @MrYatesB Rio Darlingtina Esiaka, PhD, CPH, CPG Victor Ekuta, MD Casey LaDuke

🎉New 2-year #postdoc opportunity with Raquel C. Gardner Kristine Yaffe for researchers in #TBI and #aging! Learn more here: tinyurl.com/ycktjr87 #epitwitter #AcademicChatter

Annual teddy bear toss has to be in the running for coolest sports traditions ever. Gets better every year.

NOW ENROLLING: Project S.A.V.E. We're looking for former male & female contact sport athletes age 50+. Results could inform strategies to treat & prevent symptoms associated w/head impacts from contact sports. Study sites Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine & UCSF MAC. #recruitment

Multimodal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A Clinico-Pathological Case Series. 9 patients with prior repetitive head impacts (RHI) classified retrospectively using the TES research framework. bit.ly/38zyFlL Breton Asken

Plasma P-tau181 & P-tau217 in Patients w/ Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome with & w/out Evidence of Alzheimer Disease Pathology. Feasible/scalable biomarker. bit.ly/3asdT82 Breton Asken Kaitlin Casaletto @relajoie @leoiacca Julio C. Rojas Raquel C. Gardner Lea T. Grinberg, M.D, Ph.D @RabLab_UCSF

Tanner et al. show that tau and neurodegeneration, but not amyloid, are similarly associated with cognition in both early and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. bit.ly/3AhL0GI

Amyloid, tau and metabolic PET correlates of cognition in early and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. Findings support tau PET as a biomarker that captures both the clinical severity and molecular pathology specific to AD. bit.ly/3yXs25E Jeremy A Tanner @RabLab_UCSF

Younes et al. show that right-predominant anterior temporal lobe degeneration is characterized by a progressive decline in semantic knowledge for socioemotionally relevant concepts, and propose that it should be named ‘semantic behavioural variant FTD’. bit.ly/3bvnmMy

The 6th Annual CTE Conference is this month! Join us virtually on Oct. 27 and learn about all the current updates in #CTE research. Register now: bit.ly/3OSX6dH Visit cteconference.com for more information.

Combined Effects of Synaptic and Axonal Integrity on Longitudinal Gray Matter Atrophy in Cognitively Unimpaired Adults. Axonal and synaptic biomarkers may improve detection of neural changes. bit.ly/3ERPgyK @CorrinaFonseca Emily Paolillo Breton Asken nina Kaitlin Casaletto

Multi-Modal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts & Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A CPC Series. bit.ly/38zyFlL Breton Asken Kaitlin Casaletto Nidhi Mundada @CorrinaFonseca @leoiacca @relajoie Torie Tsuei Ranjani Shankar Raquel C. Gardner Salvo Spina Lea T. Grinberg, M.D, Ph.D @RabLab_UCSF

👀 Looking for a #DataManager 💻 to join the UCSF MAC Genetics 🧬 and Biospecimens 🧪 Program! If you want to be part of the #AD #FTLD research world by helping provide biospecimens and data to researchers world-wide in a collaborative fashion ➡️ tiny.ucsf.edu/DataManager