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Really nice piece from Behnam Sabayan and colleagues exploring the concept of #brainhealth, #ageing and the life course approaches we should take to promote it - with a welcome focus on population-level interventions thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

If #DementiaEpidemiology or #Neuropathology is your thing. Or just fab multidisc. Team science you’ll love our new review of findings from the #cfas 🧠 cohort! @NCL_medresearch The University of Sheffield #dementia NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria Newcastle University Research Strategy Fiona Matthews onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/na…

🚨New paper 🚨 We need more population-level approaches for #dementia risk reduction. But this requires action from #policymakers. So we set out to find out what they think. TL;DR: they agree but raise important challenges and arguments for/against onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Smoking addicts people who then suffer multiple diseases including heart disease, cancers, dementia and stroke. Vapes can help smokers quit, but should never be marketed to children. The consultation on a smokefree generation is open. Please take part. gov.uk/government/con…

We wrote a piece on how we can better evaluate clinical benefits of Alzheimer’s disease therapies authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26…, with Seb Walsh Robert Howard Richard Merrick Carol Brayne, Edo Richard. 1/

Evaluation of clinical benefits of treatments for Alzheimer's disease by Kathy Liu and colleagues: thelancet.com/journals/lanhl… #OpenAccess

Very proud, and very very lucky, that my prof and mentor is 7th in the UK, and 80th in the world, of the most influential female researchers (in any field). An inspiration

New in nature: we used digital measurements for 7 million people exposed to confirmed COVID-19 cases to determine risks for virus transmission, captured well by NHS COVID-19 app. We found that number of hours of exposure is a major predictor, along with proximity.

👋 Join us on Feb 14 to learn more about the #rstat paper that won the Design and Data Analytics PIA Best Publication Award competition at #AAIC23!! 🏆 Registration tinyurl.com/mvcmud2w Paper tinyurl.com/32cp9myj 🎄Happy Holidays🎄 Alzheimer's Association ISTAART Université de Bordeaux BORDEAUX POPULATION HEALTH Center

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🚨 New paper 🚨 In several papers we’ve called for a population-level approach to #dementia risk reduction. What exactly should that entail? We searched the literature (extensively! 🤓🥱). 26 recommended interventions here ⬇️ thelancet.com/journals/eclin…

"Follow the science" thought experiment: Imagine that there is a steady increase in waterborne illnesses among wild swimming in UK rivers. What health research do you think most likely to be funded to investigate and address this problem? #CDoH🧵

🚨 New paper, open access in Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals 🚨 Key message: dementia prevention interventions targeted at high-risk groups WON’T produce large reductions in disease incidence, even if 100% effective doi.org/10.1002/alz.14… 1/

I count myself very lucky to have been taught and work with Carol over 9 years. A wonderful mentor and person. Even when it takes 25 paper drafts to reach her standards! 😂 An amazing legacy and well deserved retirement 🍾 magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/public-health-…

Exciting new research co-led by @w_mcewan harnesses the unique capabilities of the protein TRIM21 to selectively remove aggregated tau from the brains of mice The team say this approach could avoid any potential side-effects of eliminating normal tau👉buff.ly/47ogpFG

Congratulations to the Darwin College Running Club, which entered three teams in yesterday's Chariots of Fire relay race, raising much needed funds for Magpas Air Ambulance and coming first in the Colleges category!

Re-sharing this paper with Richard Merrick and others, in light of today’s decisions from MHRA and NICE. They are not the silver bullets promised by the press headlines. But it is complex.