Great to see this. @Scotland_Malawi have been working with the University in Blantyre to deliver Psychiatry training to med students and postgrads for many years now, and are always keen to support more volunteers to teach there. Get in touch if you're keen!

📢 Preprint of our new clinically-derived Dementia outcome in Lothian Birth Cohort 36 is now available medrxiv.org/content/10.110… - please feel free to feedback so we can make the published paper the best it can be Lucy Stirland Simon Cox The Lothian Birth Cohorts Alzheimer Scotland Tim Wilkinson Prof Susan Shenkin

By 2030, 80% of the world's over-60s will live in LMICs. There's an urgent need for more funding and attention, including understanding of #multimorbidity. Great summary in The Lancet Global Health featuring Doyin Ogunyemi and colleagues Global Brain Health Institute sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Exciting new network launched today - the focus is on mental health and circadian rhythms. Should add to the recent interesting findings on the role of light in bipolar affective disorder

Awesome chance to work with people in Malawi, ideal for any Psych Reg or Cons looking for a new adventure with a great team in a beautiful part of the world. Get in touch if you want to know more; I did this role in 2019/20

Few adults have heard of 'frailty’, fewer understand meaning, and if do, it’s negative. Let's raise +ve awareness and support healthier aging #FrailtyAwareness #AgeingWisely Needs leadership from politicians as well Humza Yousaf - what do your family do? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

We are SO excited to introduce you to our beta version of TIDAL: Tool to Implement Developmental Analyses of Longitudinal data 🌊. TIDAL facilitates growth-curve modelling by taking you from raw data ➡️ trajectory in minutes. Some examples & applications here ⬇️ Wellcome

📢Identifying clinical dementia in cohort data - a great team worked on this project. Published open access today. Well done to all involved. bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… Alzheimer Scotland The Lothian Birth Cohorts Mental Health at the University of Edinburgh Lucy Stirland Tim Wilkinson Simon Cox Dementias Platform UK Edinburgh Neuroscience

Great work Barbora Skarabela on putting this infogrqphic together. Thank you!

Really interesting potential underlying mechanisms for air pollution and Alzheimer disease being presented just now at FENSRM #FRM2023 in Portugal. I'm in attendance thanks to my funders Masonic Charitable Foundation. Lots of mentions of Dr Tom Russ's work on the topic Alzheimer Scotland

Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome trajectories and incident dementia over 10 years medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

5th study of my PhD is available as a preprint now. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… We found that having Motoric Cognitive Risk (slow walking + self-reported cognitive complaints) syndrome doubled the risk of incident dementia after adjusting for potential confounders and competing risk

We just heard from Maria Walsh MEP during the opening session of EFPT annual forum in Zürich. Great messages about prioritising mental health and lovely to hear a familiar accent!

Great to get together with many of the AlzheimerScot DRC team for our annual kick off meeting to start the academic year. Thanks to the Mansion House at Edinburgh Zoo for their lovely library and delicious food! #dementia #research #PhD School of PPLS ClinicalBrainScience ACRC

It's lovely to be back with this diverse and thoughtful team who are working on important #dementia projects in Scotland. (Plus the zoo setting was a bonus) Donncha Mullin Jonny Flint

At #RCPsychIC2024? I will be talking (rapidly) on the impact of the Malawi Quick Guide to Mental Health book and app sometime between 14.05-14.30 in Lammermuir room mhquickguide.com

Nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by tackling 14 risk factors starting in childhood, including two new risks—high cholesterol and vision loss, suggests new report from the Lancet Commission on dementia. Find out more ➡️ hubs.li/Q02KbpYf0

The growing Academic #OldAgePsychiatry group at the University of Edinburgh!