🚨New Whitehall II Imaging Study paper published in BMC Medicine. Findings suggest that maintaining the structural integrity of major arteries may benefit brain health & cognition in later life. @mikakivimaki.bsky.social @sanasuri.bsky.social
📖 Article: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Honoured to be part of this wonderful team that won the @ox.ac.uk Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Culture through our Open Science, Public Engagement, & EDI Ambassador Programmes! Congratulations all around @oxcin.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social 🧠 hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...
“Things like obesity and physical inactivity affect our heart health and research shows they also affect our brains – potentially as early as adolescence. This means that simple lifestyle changes, like eating healthier and moving more, could protect our long-term brain health.” Holly Haines, Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Holly Haines is a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry and Dementia Theme Co-Ordinator at Oxford Health BRC. She highlights that what’s good for the heart is good for the brain – and research shows that this is true throughout the lifespan, even for children and teenagers.
🏆 Congratulations also to Psychiatry's Associate Prof Sana Suri and all of those in the WIN (now OxCIN) Ambassadors Programme, based in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, which won the Research Culture Award.
@oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @sanasuri.bsky.social
In this month's DEMON Biomarker working group we are looking forward to hearing from @sanasuri.bsky.social who will be discussing her work on predicting dementia risk factors related to the heart and brain. 📅 Wed 9th April 10am (BST). Please message for joining details
"We are sleepwalking into a disaster [...] Each of the administrative burdens that we are confronted with on a daily basis might seem small on their own but cumulatively they amount to a ‘mountain of small things’ that is killing academia." @masudhusain.bsky.social academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
I'm thrilled to share our study, on the longitudinal impact of diet quality and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) on 🧠 brain health in ageing, which has now been published in JAMA Network Open! - supervised by @sanasuri.bsky.social @oxxpat.bsky.social & @mkflugge.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Exciting to see our research in the news @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪
Thank you to my *amazing* student and co-first author Holly Haines, my brilliant 🫀🧠 collaborator Scott Chiesa, and those who supported us at Oxford: @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social @oxhealthbrc.bsky.social @oxexppsy.bsky.social
Findings from this preliminary longitudinal study suggest that modifiable cardiovascular risk may be relevant decades before current lifespan models of dementia suggest.
The early adolescent years merit greater consideration in the context of dementia prevention.
New 🫀🧠 paper in eBiomedicine: we show that BMI, blood pressure, and physical activity in childhood and adolescence are linked with early structural differences in brain regions that are known to be affected in dementia.
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PLEASE SHARE: The second (and final) application cycle for the Improving Research Community Builder Awards is now open! Find out more here: www.orben.group/improving-re...
Deadline: 14 January 2025
New post doc position! Come to Oxford and join a multidisciplinary research team focused on studying multi-organ health through large-scale population health studies. You'll use multi-organ data to advance our understanding of multimorbidity: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Nice to see @oxneuro.bsky.social on here - hello!
Complex first two weeks back at work after maternity leave - exciting to be back at a job I love, but so difficult to leave baby every day. Start of week 3 - here's to it getting just a little bit easier and more manageable every day! #academicmum @storiesofwin.bsky.social
.. aaand I'm back from my year of maternity leave (and a year away from academic social media). Future me is getting ready to tackle the challenges of being an academic mum of 2 little ones. This feels like a friendly space to walk into 👋🏽 #neuroskyence #academicmum
Fresh from giving a fellowship presentation in a beautiful old library in Oxford 📚 I'm excited to one day tell my baby what I was up to a week before their arrival! Sun-kissed on the walk home and now ready for my year away from neuroscience. #sciencemum #neuroskyence
My last day in the lab before I start a year of maternity leave for the second time. Grateful to have led this amazing team for 2 years. A bit daunting to think about having to rebuild all this from the ground up when I return, but that's a problem for future me to tackle! #neuroscience #academicmum
Our latest paper was in the news 👀 We've created a score that combines 11 clinical/lifestyle factors to predict dementia risk. Score developed in UK Biobank, validated in Whitehall-II cohort, & outperforms 3 widely-used dementia risk scores. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
👋🏽 I've just moved over to Bluesky. I'm an Associate Prof at Oxford, studying dementia and brain ageing. I lead this wonderful lab: the Heart & Brain Group. Here's us enjoying our last lab dinner before I leave on maternity in a few days. I'm excited to chat all things heart, brain (and baby) on here