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Liraglutide reduces cognitive decline and atrophy in Alzheimer's disease after 12m of treatment in phase 2 - very promising! aaic.alz.org/releases-2024/…

Current projections estimate 153 million people will be living with dementia by 2050. Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, suggests new report from a standing Lancet Commission: buff.ly/46nvoPR

Never even liked tennis anyway.

Our latest paper in JAMA Network Open shows that even mild #TBI in the community relate to neuroimaging & clinical deficits (#sleep #depression #memory) as early as #midlife AND masks important (vascular) correlates of microbleeds #CMB PREVENT Dementia Old Age Psychiatry Group Cambridge Psychiatry

EMA says no in EU. MHRA says yes to licence in UK. NICE says no to giving it in NHS. Does this mean that people will come from across Europe to be treated in private London clinics? theguardian.com/society/articl…

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 Is the hypothalamus smaller in Alzheimer's disease? Yes, and it may be associated with endocrine dysfunction. Sita Dr Ben Underwood JohnOBrien medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Proud to have received “Star Baker” 🌟🌟 today at the Department of Genetics Bake off competition raising money for Stand Up To Cancer UK for my Chromatin cupcakes #bakeoff #chromatin #beadsonastring #dna #nucleosome #histone GeneticsCambridge

Great to be in Dublin today at the PREVENT-Dementia AGM presenting my research 😴🧠 PREVENT Dementia

Grateful to be interviewed by Scientific American to discuss the important findings of our recent PREVENT Dementia study in JAMA Network Open on the implications of even mild traumatic brain injuries #TBI scientificamerican.com/article/concus… Paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… Race Against Dementia Cambridge University

Very pleased to see this piece of research from my Neuroscience iBSc with Simon McArthur published! I This was the first time I was involved in research as a medical student and the experience opened up the idea of a working as a clinical academic! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Recently I was asked to write a chapter about mental health for a really important handbook aimed at paramedics and ACPs. And it arrived just in time for Christmas! Great work Carol Robertson and Duncan Robertson (duncr.bluesky.social) for bringing this together. Dr Ben Underwood College of Paramedics

Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline, finds #ChristmasBMJ study. The findings challenge the assumption that AI will soon replace human doctors. Includes an interactive #BMJInfographic showing the findings bmj.com/content/387/bm…

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Alzheimer's disease co-pathology is associated with worse longitudinal clinical outcomes in people with Lewy body dementia. Great work by Dr Jerry Tan, ACF at University of Oxford. JohnOBrien Cambridge FTD sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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🚨 New paper! 🚨 A systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging in Lewy-body Dementia. I'm really proud that this complex paper is now available. The figure shows the brain regions with changes in AD (red) and DLB (green), as shown by DTI. doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

Great to be at the international Lewy body dementia conference in Amsterdam this week presenting my recent systematic reviews. Papers: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Terrific work from the whole MELODIC team here, a real shot at helping some very unwell people.

✨March = Women's History Month ✨ We're celebrating by introducing you to a Department member each week. Today is Dr Juliette Davis, a post-doc in the Imbeault Group. Read about her research, defining moments and how she got into science ⬇️ gen.cam.ac.uk/womens-history…

Great to be at the Old Age Psychiatry 🌈 conference showcasing some really important projects on fracture risk, communication strategies and future planning of services! Dr Ben Underwood