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Brilliant first session of #AAIC23 that illustrates the importance of life course studies and intersectionality to study the importance of (early) life adversities on brain health and dementia risk. Including excellent talk by our Eva LHA @ UCL DDisparitiesPIA

Amazing time networking at the Networking in Neuroscience event –hosted by Alzheimer's Society Alzheimer's Research UK UK Dementia Research Institute Dementias Platform UK

Tips for analysing observational data: * If you're studying 'associations', your question is probably causal * If you have 'confounding factors', your question is definitely causal * Address confounding with conditioning. Don't create change or ratio variables. #EpiTwitter

Last week we heard the news that Alzheimer's drug donanemab had succeeded in phase 3 trials🙌 But what does this mean for people with Alzheimers? Prof John Hardy (UK DRI at UCL) breaks down the results in a Q&A for Mail Online⬇️ UCL Brain Sciences UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology buff.ly/3KcJN7u

New review: Socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease: a causal perspective w/ Liam Wright Nish Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes Nature Reviews Cardiology Nature Reviews Cardiology shorturl.at/jBTU3 UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies LHA @ UCL UCL Social Research Institute (SRI) 🧵...

📢Join DEMON Network Biomarkers WG next Wednesday 1st November @10am GMT. We are excited to host three speakers from the LHA @ UCL: @becki_e_green, Caterina Felici & Dylan Williams talking about associations of common infections with neuroimaging measures of dementia!

📢Our paper on the estimation of the effect of weight change on a health outcome was published in International J Obesity! nature.com/articles/s4136… #epitwitter #causaltwitter UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science LHA @ UCL

Great overview by Prof Naomi Allen of the UK Biobank's cognitive data #UKBSC23 UK Biobank

We were delighted with Dr. Natalia Goncalves's discussion on the notable works in our field published over the last year! Would you like to access the list of publications? Just Scan this QRcode or use the link below! #ReservePIA

Cortical thinning in regions typically associated with Alzheimer’s may relate to vascular disease! Our latest from LHA @ UCL Insight 46 study *open access* in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry jnnp.bmj.com/lookup/content…

Check out Vascular Cognitive Disorders PIA's next webinar re. neuroimaging 🧠biomarkers from MarkVCID. Go here to register 👉 training.alz.org/products/4667/…

As part of my new fellowship I am looking to fill 2 roles! See dets and links below👇

There is a crisis in clinical academia in the UK. We talk of the need to expand medical schools, embed research into the NHS to improve care, & the importance of a vibrant life sciences sector for the economy of the UK, & yet we seem unable to tackle the underlying issues 1/9

I’ve been very fortunate to be involved in over 20 Neuroimaging PIA webinars but this is the one I’m most excited about. With @Dee_Kay_Jay, @ytquiroz, Udunna Anazodo Adam M. Brickman Shana D. Stites, we will disucss how to make neuroimaging more accessible in dementia

Come see my poster 1.52 at #ARUKConf24 today -- based on our medrxiv preprint using data from 171k folk in UKBIOBANK UKBIOBANK, I'll explain why apoE is the predominant cause of most Alzheimer's disease, and why this has been overlooked. A brief 🧵... medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great couple of days representing LHA @ UCL at #ARUKConf24 with Dylan Williams, Caterina Felici, and Dr Sarah-Naomi James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. So glad we all found the time to take this definitely not photoshopped photograph together!

🚨New Paper🚨 now published in the European Journal of Epidemiology from my PhD. Life‑course social participation and accelerometer-based physical activity in midlife using #BCS70 👉link.springer.com/article/10.100… Key points 🧵

Great to announce that teams UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and Dementias Platform UK have both been awarded the Blood Biomarker Challenge. The UCL team will test the diagnostic utility of ptau217 for Alzheimer’s in @NHS memory clinics Alzheimer's Society Alzheimer's Research UK National Institute for Health and Care Research BBC Radio 4 Today UK Dementia Research Institute

We're hiring again at the LHA @ UCL! Senior research fellow post to use -omics data from many large cohort studies to understand the causes of multi-morbidity / frailty in old age. Apply by 23rd June: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…

Latest paper led by Dr Sarah-Naomi James 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in the LHA @ UCL Insight 46 study — Physical activity across life may buffer the cognitive impacts effects of early Alzheimer’s pathology — particularly in women pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…