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…

Exciting opportunity to join the LBC1936 team! We're looking for a new Study Coordinator. Deadline: 12 March 2024 Application details: edin.ac/3uX0eAn

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…

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

Congratulations to Tom Russ & Michael Huddleston for their book 'FAQs on Dementia' making the new #ReadingWell for Dementia booklist! Browse the full booklist 📚 reading-well.org.uk Sheldon Press The Reading Agency

Further multi-type, multi-sample evidence that personality traits form a hierarchy all the way down to its individual 'symptoms' (which we call nuances). Lead by Sam Henry doi.org/10.1177/014616…

One Year Funded MSc Computer Science Studentship with Research Focus in Data Science and Medicine Degree to be Awarded: MSc Computer Science Available Positions – 12 MSc positions Location: Lagos, Ibadan or Ede, Nigeria linkedin.com/hiring/jobs/39…

A little throwback to my first rotation mini-project, and a massive honour to deliver my first ever conference presentation 🤩

New paper. We report conventional MRI features and incidental findings from a research cohort of 288 neonates enriched for preterm birth: fn.bmj.com/content/early/… 1/5

Head motion in UK Biobank imaging subsample: longitudinal stability, associations with psychological and physical health, and risk of incomplete data. Our new paper in @BrainComms 👉open access paper: academic.oup.com/braincomms/art… 👉5-minute lay summary vid: youtu.be/pE8x1ctN5rs?si…

A true paper of firsts: first PhD rotation, first paper, first author! Thanks Michelle Michelle Luciano @drmluciano.bsky.social for your help & support throughout, very happy to see this finally out in the world 🎉

We're delighted to announce the 2024 project awards of the Alzheimer Scotland Student Research Programme: 🟣Neurostructural underpinnings of TBI dementia association 🟣Preparing Scottish dementia services for future diagnostic technologies Learn more 👇 sdrc.scot/news

Check out our new preprint on the genetic architecture of #frailty! In this work we apply Genomic SEM to 30 frailty deficits to perform the first GWAS of the latent genetic profile of frailty, which uncovers 408 genomic risk loci! 1/8 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really impressive and meticulous paper led by Dr Jo Moodie out now, bringing us closer to understanding how the brain supports our most complex cognitive functions.

Congratulations to the UK DRI's Prof Tara Spires-Jones for receiving the Inge Grundke-Iqbal Award from Alzheimer's Association at #AAIC24! 👏 This award is presented to the senior author of the most impactful study published in Alzheimer’s research in the past 2 years👉buff.ly/3WK21Uz

Delighted to be starting my first day in my promoted role as Senior Research Fellow The Lothian Birth Cohorts Psychology at Edinburgh.

If you are nearby Oslo, you would not miss Anders M. Dale's lecture on the occasion of his honorary doctorate at UiO: Computing a lifetime - brain imaging, physiology and genetics. sv.uio.no/psi/english/re…

🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨 Just published in Cerebral Cortex, work led by Laura Fenton showing thickness of the entorhinal cortex is associated with financial vulnerability in older adults without cognitive impairment. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT? A 🧵...(1/7) doi.org/10.1093/cercor…

For only $143, Elsevier/Springer will send me a PDF of my accepted paper that I can share with 25 people :). Publishers again adding tremendous value. I wouldn't know what to do without this attractive option.

On my way to #EdinburghKiltwalk. Raising money for Equi-Power RDA