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Naomi Hannaway @naomihannaway.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Pleased to share our new paper in Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy, as part of the collection on Advances in LBD research! We found that DTI-ALPS was reduced in DLB and PDD relative to PD and controls. DTI-ALPS was also further reduced for DLB versus PD link.springer.com/article/10.1... (1/3)
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Diffusion tensor imaging analysis along the perivascular space suggests impaired glymphatic clearance in Lewy body dementia subtypes - Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy - Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are subtypes of Lewy body dementia (LBD) and overlap in symptoms and pathology....
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Interestingly increased dementia/CVD but not cancer heritability. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed
How heritable is human life span? If genetic heritability is high, longevity genes can reveal aging mechanisms and inform medicine and public health. However, current estimates of heritability are low...
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Really excited to share first published paper of the year! Thank you to @uclbrainscience.bsky.social for highlighting: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc.... We found different organisational changes in Lewy body disease patients with dementia versus those with intact cognition, using structural gradients.
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UCL researchers uncover distinct brain changes in Parkinson’s and Lewy body dementia
UCL researchers have used advanced brain imaging to uncover the distinct brain changes between people with Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, opening the door to more targeted treatments
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Excited by neuroimaging and Lewy body dementias? Currently recruiting for a really exciting project @uclbrainscience.bsky.social with Martina Callaghan, Barbara Dymerska and Mitul Mehta (Kings) for a 4year funded PhD: More info and apply 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The Lewy Body Dementia Doctoral Training Network PhD studentships in Lewy Body Dementia at University College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The Lewy Body Dementia Doctoral Training Network PhD studentships in Lewy Body Dementia at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Rimona Weil @rimonaweil.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thrilled to share our review on imaging and fluid biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies with @angelikaza.bsky.social and wonderful collaborators Brit Mollenhauer Louis CS Tan Michael Bartl and Nick Fox @uclqsion.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Diagnostic and other biomarkers of dementia with Lewy bodies: from research to clinical settings
Dementia with Lewy bodies is characterised clinically by visual hallucinations, fluctuating cognitive function, parkinsonism, and rapid eye movement s…
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! This Friday, October 3rd, the brain meeting speaker will be Prof Li Su giving a talk entitled "Digital twin models that talk the talk and walk the walk" All welcome, in person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Parkinson’s is now the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. In this podcast, Dr Sonia Gandhi (@uclqsion.bsky.social) shares more about her work to reverse that trend. 🎧 Listen now:
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The Life Scientific - Sonia Gandhi on building model brains to tackle Parkinson’s disease - BBC Sounds
Sonia Gandhi on trying to tackle the fastest-growing neurological condition in the world.
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
At UCL, AI is revolutionising dementia research; from faster Alzheimer’s diagnosis to tracking progression and developing new treatments. This #WorldAlzheimersMonth, explore how our neuroscience experts are improving lives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQv...
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
TOMORROW: Prof Selina Wray (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) explores what’s next in dementia research at our free Lunch Hour Lecture. Don't miss out! 👇 #DementiaResearch #WorldAlzheimersMonth
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Delighted to finally be able to share this! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Super grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way @ukri.org @alzheimersresearchuk.org @parkinsons.org.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social - most of all my amazing colleagues and mentors at the DRC! Can't wait to get started!!
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences researchers awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
Dr Angelika Zarkali and Dr Mathieu Bourdenx have received the prestigious fellowship to lead vital research and develop their careers.
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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Really interesting study and a great showcase of how tUS can be used to probe mechanisms! 👏👏
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UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology @uclqsion.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🧠 Study the science of the brain and mind in London & Paris with our international Brain and Mind Sciences MSc. Apply now for a September start: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @UCLBrainScience
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Mohamady El-Gaby @melgaby.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Can we use what we’ve learned about cognitive maps to understand social cognition, including theory of mind? If you’re interested in answering this question then this is a fantastic postdoc opportunity with @mkwittmann.bsky.social in collaboration with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and my lab.
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New research from @angelikaza.bsky.social & colleagues finds impaired glymphatic clearance (measured using diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space) is linked to poor cognitive outcomes in #Parkinsons movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Great to see this published @movedisorder.bsky.social movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...: We found that DTI-ALPS (a proposed indirect proxy for glymphatic clearance) is lower in Parkinson's patients who progress to poor cognitive outcomes, and correlates with cognition. 1/2
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Impaired Glymphatic Clearance, Measured Using Diffusion Tensor Image Analysis Along the Perivascular Space (DTI‐ALPS), is Linked to Poor Cognitive Outcomes in Parkinson's Disease
Background Impaired glymphatic clearance may contribute to pathological accumulations in Parkinson's (PD), but how it interacts with other processes causing dementia remains unclear. Diffusion tenso...
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Really beautiful work @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social! Finally the missing link between perception, imagery and expectations? Now we need a Parkinson's dataset to test ;-)
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis
Although 10 000 steps per day can still be a viable target for those who are more active, 7000 steps per day is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in health outcomes and might be a mor...
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International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society® @movedisorder.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Join the new Cognition and Lewy Body Diseases Study Group to collaboratively study and advance research related to Lewy Body Diseases and Movement Disorders. Learn more: loom.ly/eiJ9MEE
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Cognition and Lewy Body Diseases Study Group
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Human cortex organizes dynamic co-fluctuations along sensation-association axis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001... Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...
logo of mouse holding banner representing a time-series feature vector
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Dr Lauren Byrne @drl-bo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I am unbelievably proud to have my first senior author paper published today! It was a long slog through multiple review cycles but we got there! A big thank you to my lab members and all the collaborators and participants who contributed to this work! 🥲
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House of Byrne Lab @hob-lab.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Here's an open access link to full text of our paper shared last week! rdcu.be/evKF9
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Evaluating finger-prick blood collection for remote quantification of neurofilament light in neurological diseases
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The Science of Parkinson's @scienceofpd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
More research on under-represented communities: @angelikaza.bsky.social & colleagues held focus groups with 17 people with #Parkinsons & their care partners from Black communities to better understand barriers & facilitators to participation in research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great work by @ivelinadobreva.bsky.social highlighting barriers and facilitators of Black communities in the UK to PD research participation! Thank you to @parkinsons.org.uk for the support in recruiting and disseminating! And of course to the amazing people with Parkinson's who took part!
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Naomi Hannaway @naomihannaway.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Thanks so much to brilliant co-authors @angelikaza.bsky.social, @rimonaweil.bsky.social, Rohan Bhome, @ivelinadobreva.bsky.social, George Thomas, @ajh1269.bsky.social, Henrik Zetterberg, Irene Gorostiaga Belio & Katie Tucker for your help with this work!
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 14/05/2025
MR guided focused ultrasound surgery is an effective and uprising treatment option for Essential tremor. But where is the optimal site to sonicate? Which spots to avoid due to side-effects? @science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org – a thread🧵! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking forward to this week's Consciousness Club with Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social on "Becoming aware of the world and ourselves" Wednesday 26th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are very proud of @peterkok.bsky.social who has been announced as an Early Career Impact Award winner by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Read more about Peter's extensive achievements in the @fabbs.org article here: fabbs.org/news/2025/03...
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Using Advanced Neuroimaging to Peer into the Visual Cortex – FABBS
Key Findings:   Visual experiences are constructed from comparing actual input from the eyes (input) to hypotheses about what we might see (expectations).
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Amazing session on all the things we don't often focus on in dementia: - mocrobiome - vascular disease - astrocytes/phagocytosis #BrainConf25
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Another amazing talk by @jfcryan.bsky.social on the relationship between microbiome and brain health (and disease): www.cell.com/cell-reports... #BrainConf2025
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The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications
The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis regulates key immune pathways influencing neuroinflammation and brain function. This review highlights how gut-immune communication impacts health and disease, emp...
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Talia Lerner @talialerner.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Amazing talk by Darren Monckton at #BrainConference2025 on somatic expansion in HD - TLDR: blood somatic expansion tracks clinical progression ?possible biomarker in clinical trials? @braincomms.bsky.social
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UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Huge congratulations to ARUK fellow @angelikaza.bsky.social who recently received the Rising Start Clinical Silver Award at the International Lewy Body Dementia Conference! ⭐
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thank you so much to @braincomms.bsky.social for highlighting our work! TLDR: white matter maters - do read the paper for more! And thank you to all amazing co-authors without whom this project would not have been possible (amongst them on bluesky: @naomihannaway.bsky.social @rimonaweil.bsky.social)
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Super excited to be back at #ARUKconf2025 and honoured to talk in the ECR day!
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 24/02/2025
Fantastic work by Charlotte Stagg on single thalamic nuclei stimulation using noninvasive FUS. Exactly the basic experiments we need to make this modality credible at the moment.
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Amazing team and project!⬇️
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 17/02/2025
I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 15/02/2025
Ever needed illustrations to visualize UPDRS-III exams? Well, @patriciazvarova.bsky.social just made some - free and open to use for anyone! Check them out below 👇👇
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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 08/01/2025
🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Poster submissions for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Tübingen are now open. Deadline is 7th February. Symposium submissions are open until 15th January. www.cpconf.org. Please RB.
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Computational Psychiatry Conference
Tübingen, Germany (July 14-16, 2025)
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Really thought provoking paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In c…
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Martina Callaghan @mfcallaghan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is an incredible opportunity to join the brilliant team at @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, collaborate across #UCL and globally, and help shape the future of neuroscience by training the next generation of researchers and innovators. Don’t miss out!
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angelikaza.bsky.social @angelikaza.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Feels really good to be on @bsky.app (finally) - already my feed is full of interesting papers and events!
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