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

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

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…

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

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.

📢I am the first author alert! In this review, we found consistent functional, limited structural, and promising microstructural evidence fro APOEe4-related vulnerability in the brain. Have a read and share with your network! ✨ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

“Lessons we learned from the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936”: edin.ac/3YMksHV A new review of the main LBC findings on #brain and #cognitive #ageing (and much more!) by the founding and current Directors of the LBC1921 and LBC1936 Ian Deary and Simon Cox

🧠🧬New preprint! Lifetime brain atrophy GWAS (N = 43,110). A thread Lifetime brain atrophy estimated from a single MRI: measurement characteristics and genome-wide correlates | bioRxiv

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟 Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline and dementia. Supervised by myself, Simon Cox, MarioniGroup, Sara Hägg, & Barbara Nicholl. Learn more about our PrecisionMed_PhD project and apply below!⬇️ usher.ed.ac.uk/precision-medi…

EPIC new piece of work led by the inimitable @JoannaMoodie + PACKED supplement + new brain maps.

One week left to apply for this exciting PrecisionMed_PhD PhD project examining the links between pain prescribing and cognitive decline. Application deadline: 13th January. Get in touch if you have any questions! 💊🧠

This new paper should have made global headlines along the lines of "Geneticists warn next battle may be against an army of IQ 170 people, 7-feet tall, and free from all mental & physical disease (or else end the species in an unintended genetic meltdown)". Instead it dropped

We're celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science #February11 As #Womeninscience, we have the opportunity to shape research on #cognitive #ageing, influence policies that promote healthy ageing, and support future generations of women in #STEM. School of PPLS

it’s so funny to see ml people read these advancements. they think it’s like a YOLO v7 released, you can just plug and play. welcome to the thunder dome. we still can’t reverse hair loss or get rid of wrinkles or make pills that make you sleep well. forget brain transplants.

Do you… do you see what you did there…?

Ola's paper "A blood- and brain-based EWAS of smoking" now published in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… Findings include: EPIC - TWIST - ONT comparisons, GWAS of DNAm smoking vs measured smoking, blood-brain DNAm comparisons, and EWAS + EpiScore...

Associations and interactions between premorbid cognitive health, apolipoprotein e4 genotype, and incident Alzheimer’s disease in UK Biobank 🧠🧬 Open access paper: nature.com/articles/s4440… Feat Simon Cox Dr Willie Stewart Dr Josie Fullerton Dr Terry Quinn💙 et al 2.5-min explainer...

"Epigenetic clocks and DNA methylation biomarkers of brain health and disease" Our review paper is now out in Nat Rev Neurology Eleanor Conole Simon Cox Hannah nature.com/articles/s4158…