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Alzheimer's Association @alzassociation.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The findings, shared for the first time today at #AAIC25, tested lifestyle programs that simultaneously targeted risk factors. The programs focused on: ✅👟Aerobic exercise ✅🧠Cognitive engagement ✅🥗Nutrition ✅🫀Health Monitoring

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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 28/07/2025

Two lifestyle interventions -- one structured, the other self-guided -- improved cognition in older adults at risk of cognitive decline, the 2-year U.S. POINTER trial showed. #AAIC2025 www.medpagetoday.com/geriatrics/d...

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Cognitive Scores Improve With Lifestyle Changes, Trial Shows

Two interventions demonstrate benefit in older adults at risk of cognitive decline

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Rachel Whitmer, PhD @profrwhitmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Wonderful news yesterday with the publication of our top line results for U. S. POINTER ! Lifestyle interventions can improve brain🧠 health !

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Annie Cohen, PhD @cohenannied.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thanks so much to @jeremymberg.bsky.social for helping us bring attention to the impact of funding delays within our ADRC networks. Wish my first NYT quote could have been something related to cool science but these are times we live in!

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Oanh Meyer @omeyer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I was SO honored tonight to be recognized amongst others during AANHPI Heritage Month by Assembly Member Stephanie Nguyễn. Appreciate being able to share the moment with my family and friends ❤️

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Oanh Meyer @omeyer.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Terrific paper coming from the #Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program, led by Dr. Brandon Gavett, showing that global cognition can be estimated in #VIP participants w/ minimal bias and psychometrically matched to NACC UDS data. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Harmonized cognitive performance in an older adult cohort of Vietnamese American immigrants: The VIP study

INTRODUCTION Vietnamese Americans represent an understudied population with unique risk factors relevant to cognitive aging. The current study sought to model global cognition in the Vietnamese Insi.....

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UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Here, our researchers describe the impact of their work, and the consequences if federal support for this cutting-edge research were reduced or eliminated. Visit ucdavis.edu/labs-to-lives to hear from our researchers. (3/3)

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From Labs to Lives

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Mike Greicius @mikegreicius.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Some encouraging news on the NIH front. The NIA council meeting that was cancelled in January convened virtually in the last day or so and voted on pending grants. This should free up some Alzheimer’s funding.

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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report

National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

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Fanny Elahi, MD, PhD @fanny-elahi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

📣This #InternationalWomensDay I'm spotlighting a women’s brain health initiative led by our lab, with postdocs Chloe Lopez Lee & Eirini Polychronaki @sinaibrain.bsky.social We're working to understand how hormonal shifts in menopause influence blood vessels, brain aging, & dementia 🧠 #IWD2025

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Jason Hassenstab @ctrlab.org · 12/03/2025

Great resources here for those of us interested in Ecological Momentary Assessment #EMA #ENDALZ

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 05/03/2025

There's still time to apply to the #NIA Butler-Williams Scholar program. "The intensive learning experience is intended for postdoctoral and early-stage investigators pursuing a training award, career development award, or their first R01 or R01 equivalent." The due date is March 31. #geronsky #adrd

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Apply by March 31: Build your aging research career as a Butler-Williams Scholar

A unique opportunity on the path to an independent research career

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Bryan D. James, PhD @bryandjames.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Someone had to do it! I created a starter pack for #Alzheimer’s #dementia #ADRD researchers on Bluesky. Please let me know who I left out! Hoping more and more of us will join Bluesky go.bsky.app/22DpUEy

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michelleodden.bsky.social @michelleodden.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Furious and heartbroken 💔 for our Columbia colleagues. This is an attack on science and higher ed and the victims are scientists who have devoted their careers to reducing human suffering

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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

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Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says

The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia. This is quite damaging to research and to individuals. This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Add R25s to that list. Our NIH funding got straight up cancelled today for the two R25s that my team runs at Columbia for post-bacs and high-school students. I fear for our young scholars, who love learning about the brain and now are losing opportunities to be tomorrow's neuroscientists. 🧪

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