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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Heavy caring responsibilities reduce brain function for people aged 50 & over, whereas light caring duties can actually be beneficial to middle-aged and older people’s mental abilities, new research led by Dr @baowenxue.bsky.social from @ucliehc.bsky.social finds www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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Older people risk mental decline if they do long hours of caring, UK study shows

Researchers find 50+ hours a week can be detrimental to health but lighter responsibilities have positive effect

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Simon Chen @yuntaochen.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

See our latest work published in EHJ. We show that increased troponin levels (a protein indicates heart muscle damage) measured at midlife was associated with higher risk of dementia at late life and this elevation started as early as 25 years before dementia diagnosis.

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

People with poor heart health during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, with signs of heart damage linked to dementia risk as much as 25 years later, finds a new study led by Dr @yuntaochen.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social & Prof Eric Brunner @ucliehc.bsky.social

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Poorer heart health in middle age linked to increased dementia risk

People with signs of damage to their heart during middle age are more likely to develop dementia in later life, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

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Danni Chen @dannicc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 My third PhD paper was just published in The Lancet Regional Health-Europe (authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...), in which we examined cause-specific mortality in individuals with and without mental disorders according to socioeconomic position, using nationwide registers from Denmark.

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UCL Div. of Psychiatry @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New postdoc opportunity to join us at UCL Division of Psychiatry and work on Whitehall II longitudinal cohort to study the effect of #airpollution on #dementia. Details and apply below 👇

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Simon Chen @yuntaochen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

We are hiring. A two-year postdoc in Whitehall II research group at UCL focusing on air pollution and dementia based on 40 years longitudinal data. Please find more details in the link below. Please share this to people who may be interested. 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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Danni Chen @dannicc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

📄Our new World Psychiatry paper found that people with people with mental disorders have a SHORTER life expectancy EVEN than people with the lowest socioeconomic position in the general population. Paper link: doi.org/10.1002/wps.....

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