
Sarah Banks PhD (she/her)
@super_brains
Neuropsychologist, researcher, clinician: Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative disease
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https://neurosciences.ucsd.edu/research/labs/banks/index.html 17-05-2015 03:12:07
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For the first #WorldLewyBodyDay on Jan 28th ( lbda.org/what-is-lbd/ ), a handful of us that work together on Lewy body dementia (Annegret Habich Kate Carla Abdelnour Daniel Ferreira Joe Kane ) have a message for the Lewy body dementia community! We're here for you always💜



So excited to share our work leveraging AI on clinical data to predict AD up to 7 years before symptoms appear - led by Dr. Alice Summer Tang. Published in Nature Aging today: nature.com/articles/s4358…… UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute UCSF Precision Medicine Sirota Lab at UCSF

The NIA-funded Vietnamese Insights into Cognitive Aging Program (VIP) UC Davis Health is looking for bilingual #Vietnamese speaking applicants for a full-time clinical research position in #Sacramento. DM me if interested. Position closes Monday evening, 2/26/24!



Latest from collab with Boston University CTE Center team on sleep apnea in retired NFL football players, Atul Malhotra, MD, Robert W. Turner II relationships with tau, cognition and mood….Modifiable risk factor? neurology.org/doi/10.1212/CP…

NEW RESEARCH: Check out the new research article "Clinical Outcomes and Tau Pathology in Retired Football Players: Associations With Diagnosed and Witnessed Sleep Apnea" by first author Sarah Banks, PhD, (Sarah Banks PhD (she/her)) and senior author Michael Alosco, PhD. Swipe to see the





doi.org/10.1080/138540… it's out it's out!!! Sarah Banks PhD (she/her) and i did something! did you know in Parkinson's female sex is associated with lower risk for cognitive issues than males, but discrimination and education disparities may cause them to lose this advantage?

Excited to announce our new paper in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy. I'm grateful for our fruitful ongoing collaboration between UC Irvine, Wisconsin ADRC, and Wake Forest University with Dr. Barbara Bendlin and Ruth Benca. Very proud of Kitty Lui who led this work! news.uci.edu/2024/05/14/uc-…


Out Now - In your podcast app, and on YouTube. ISTAART Jessica Caldwell Caitlyn Fastenau, PhD bit.ly/relaytwo

Our paper hot off the press in Alzheimer's & Dementia Journals shows APOE4 carriers have blood-brain barrier breakdown even *before* amyloid accumulation or cognitive impairment, which correlates with microstructural damage. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al… #Alzheimers #APOE #bloodbrainbarrier #dementia

And here it is! nature.com/articles/s4358… We found that the CDR-SB was 0.20 higher 😮 when informants were female. This is very impactful on clinical trials. More thoughts in the nxt days, for now happy to share and congrats to the co-authors especially CarmelaTartaglia who led this!


Our research was highlighted in Women's Health Lynya Floyd piece. Understanding women’s brain health is the key to understanding Alzheimer’s apple.news/Ap299Bio0QnOyX…

