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Rachael Scahill

@rachiscahill.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist working at the UCL HD Centre. Interested in Huntington’s disease, MRI, dogs, politics

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Rachael Scahill @rachiscahill.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Important paper on accessible biomarkers from @hob-lab.bsky.social. Well done Annabelle Coleman @drl-bo.bsky.social and all.
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UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre @ucl-hd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Hot off the press! Check out the second edition of the @ehdn-news.bsky.social Imaging Working Group (#iWG) newsletter! #HD #neuroimaging @drmichelaleocadi.bsky.social @rachiscahill.bsky.social @nicolahobbs.bsky.social ehdn.org/wp-content/u...
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Rachael Scahill @rachiscahill.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
UCL HD Centre @ucl-hd.bsky.social celebrating #HDGratitudeDay. Thanks to all the families and researchers around the world who together are trying to improve lives for people with Huntington’s disease.
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Mena Farag @drmfarag.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Curious about brain imaging in HD? Our latest review summarises key findings from structural, diffusion and fMRI, plus emerging techniques like 7T MRI, MEG and novel mHTT PET ligands. movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @rachiscahill.bsky.social @carlosestevezfraga.bsky.social
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Neuroimaging Techniques in Huntington's Disease: A Critical Review
Background Huntington's disease (HD) is a hereditary neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive, neuropsychiatric and motor symptoms caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the ...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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UK Dementia Research Institute @ukdri.ac.uk · 13/02/2025
The UK DRI's Profs Sarah Tabrizi & Gabriel Balmus have taken major steps forward in advancing Huntington's genetic therapies👏 The new study lays the foundation for future clinical trials targeting a DNA repair protein 👉 buff.ly/4aVcMsN
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Reducing DNA repair protein levels targets root cause of Huntington’s
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Jonathan Schott @jmschott.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Latest paper @MRCLHA 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/PMC...
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.
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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods
YouTube video by CBC News
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Rachael Scahill @rachiscahill.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Our paper in Nature Medicine is out today! Great working with @drmfarag.bsky.social & the YAS team (researchers and participants) to identify biomarkers that pave the way for preventative trials in Huntington's Disease. Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social and CHDI for funding. tinyurl.com/3fde9mth
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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Subtle changes in the brain happen around 20 years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s disease. The new findings from a study led by Prof Sarah Tabrizi @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social will guide future prevention trials www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...
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Brain changes in Huntington’s disease decades before diagnosis will guide future prevention trials
Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen approximately twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s disea...
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Mena Farag @drmfarag.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Check out the latest edition of the #HD Clinical Trials Update, now available online in the Journal of Huntington's Disease @profwild.bsky.social 🔓 Open access link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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