@annechurchland.bsky.social also appreciates the Parkinson’s symposium was made freely available online afterward. Making research conversations accessible to patients, families, & caregivers should be part of how we build trust, understanding & community around neurodegenerative disease research.

That is why community-focused events like this symposium matter so much. They create space not just for education, but for connection.

Organized by William Zeiger (@zeigerlab.bsky.social) the event reflects something I think we need more of in medicine & neuroscience: making research conversations more accessible to the people most impacted by these diseases. Grateful for support of the UCLA BRI in making events like this possible.

As part of this week’s spotlight on neurodegeneration research, we're highlighting a recent @dgsomucla.bsky.social Parkinson’s symposium. Patients, families & community were invited to engage directly with researchers & learn more about the science shaping the future of #parkinsons treatment.

Thrilled to share that I’ll be starting my lab at the SickKids Research Institute and University of Toronto in August! williamsonlab.ca Recruiting at all levels. Get in touch if you’re interested in astrocyte biology of cognition and disease!

Read more about Dr. Rexach and her work here: www.uclahealth.org/departments/...

Amazing work from my friend and post-doc mate Anand Suresh and the rest of the Portera-Cailliau lab: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Exciting new research identifies specific neural circuits that appear to be restored by brain stimulation therapies to rapidly relieve severe #depression. From @dgsomucla1.bsky.social's @michaelgongwer.bsky.social, @ladenardo.bsky.social & @scottwilke5.bsky.social. Read more: t.co/0b4CEmfTly #TMS

As UCLA Neuroscientists, we care deeply about advancing research and training future scientists. Today’s the last day to be part of Bruin Giving Day. You can support us here: bruingivingday.ucla.edu/campaigns/ne... #neuroscience #ucla #bruingivingday #philanthropy #saveourscience #scienceresearch

📣 Postdoc in Human Neurophysiology & Neurorehab 📣 The Real-Time NeuroRehabilitation Lab at the U of Iowa is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Motor control, EEG/TMS, neurorehabilitation, and real-time multimodal methods. 📅 Summer/Fall 2026 📧 [email protected] Please share!

We’re recruiting! Come join our lab as a staff research assistant. Lots of interesting skills to learn - 2P imaging, behavior, disease models, and more! www.uclahealthcareers.org/job/23287056...

In honor of #worldparkinsonsday, lets acknowledge some of the researchers and clinicians who have advanced our understanding of PD. Identified alpha-synuclein as a major component of Lewy bodies, clumps of proteins found in Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies.

In honor of #WorldParkinsonsDay, let's acknowledge James Parkinson — the first person to document "paralysis agitans," now known as Parkinson's disease, within his work "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy."

A new paper from @ladenardo.bsky.social helps explain how males and females in the way that reward circuits are re-wired after early life stress. www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

(2/2) Cutting vital research funding risks delaying scientific advancements that could help treat the more than 1.1 million Americans living with Parkinson’s disease. Read our full statement here: Parkinson.org/about-us/news/parkinsons-research-funding

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Laura DeNardo (@ladenardo.bsky.social) studies how the mPFC integrates environmental cues to control adaptive responses to threat. Click below to learn more! #StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

"What gets measured gets managed." Dr. Steve Cramer is sharing insights on how we define recovery & how recovery should be measured in neurorehabilitation, drawing inspiration from other fields. He's discussing many factors that affect the measurement of recovery in his talk at #ASNR2026

Working with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury & Stroke, this January! Join us to explore emerging research in Breckenridge! keysym.us/KSNeuralPlast27 #KSNeuralPlast27

We are grateful for the support of our #ASNR2026 Gold Sponsor, California Rehabilitation Institute! Cal Rehab is a 138-bed inpatient medical rehabilitation hospital in Los Angeles, CA. Please visit their table at #ASNR2026, & check out their website to learn more! www.californiarehabinstitute.com

It felt great to @standupforscience.bsky.social today in LA! I learned more about SB 895, a $23 billion USD state bill to fund California Science & Health Research. Make sure to vote for it in November! shorturl.at/JVIsm 🧪🌎

Science in this country is under attack and this administration is responsible. Who’s coming with me to the Los Angeles @standupforscience.bsky.social rally this Saturday March 7th???? Details in the flyer. Let’s march!

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

We’re thrilled to welcome Walter Koroshetz as a senior advisor starting March 1. The former director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will help guide Dana’s science funding collaborations and support for early-career scholars and practitioners. #neurosociety #neurosky

I’m excited to be learning from Julie Hershberg, PT, DPT, NCS during a 2-day, hands-on Functional Neurological Disorder training in North Houston. 🗓 Aug 22–23, 2026 📍 Houston Methodist – The Woodlands/Conroe Join me in expanding care for people with FND. www.reactiveeducation.com/fndweekendco...

Going to be a good one!!!

Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury & Stroke - Jan 19–22, 2027 | Breckenridge; Organizers: William A. Zeiger, Mary Teena Joy, and Florence Bareyre. keysym.us/KSNeuralPlas... - Exciting new conference on neurorecovery! Per organizers, lots of slots for talks/ panels/posters.

Working with a great team to organize @keystoneSymposia.bsky.social Neural Plasticity and Recovery after Traumatic CNS Injury & Stroke, this January! Join us to explore emerging research in Breckenridge! keysym.us/KSNeuralPlast27 #KSNeuralPlast27

🔬🧠 Releasing the 1.0 version of #Suite2p and THE PAPER w/ @marius10p.bsky.social! Now with GPU acceleration. Want to use Suite2p but don’t have 100,000 neuron recordings? We show you how to get those with a standard 2p microscope #neuroscience #imaging #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

For those in California, please consider signing the petition to support a $23 billion initiative for the California Foundation for Science and Health Research www.fundcascience.org

It was a great event! Really enjoyed meeting some families excited to learn about science on a Saturday morning.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year. That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027. A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications. A short 🧵

The district court injunction that prevented NIH from capping indirects at 15% was upheld today on appeal! www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Happy New Year from London. Let’s see how 2026 starts off…maybe we’ll just stay awhile longer….

Admin at UC have claimed various reasons why they aren’t fighting in court, but they simply are afraid to take on the Feds, believing antagonism will somehow make a terrible situation worse. Thing is, it can’t be much worse, and you can’t placate a bully.

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

If you’re interested in the roles of glia in stroke and TBI, kick off #SfN2025 with a minisymposium on Saturday afternoon in room 6B! @droligo.bsky.social and I are also hosting a glia get-together Monday night, sponsored by Avantor and @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social - all glia-inclined are welcome!

In a major win for UC faculty groups and unions that sued, a federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump from imposing a $1.2-billion fine on UCLA along with stipulations for deep campus changes in exchange for being eligible for federal grants: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Very happy to have contributed to this new review on Lewy body dementia in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social led by Sonja W. Scholz. We highlight the latest advances in genetics and pathology. @liddelowsa.bsky.social Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anyone out there have any first hand experience with NIH reviews of an R01 with mostly mouse experiments? Curious to know how the guidance emphasizing NAMs is being implemented.

New finding from the lab. This surprised us since it went against the common assumption that increasing peri-infarct blood flow is best for stroke recovery. Congrats to Kamal and the team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share this work from my postdoc with Tom Carmichael, available online @ Neuron! Long story short: we find even more evidence that all reactive astrocytes are not equal, and we can take advantage of those differences to improve repair after stroke. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🎇 Excited to finally share JL Romero Sosa’s publication! Results are from single-cell imaging in different subregions of rat frontal cortex during ✨de novo learning. Spoiler: everything is not everywhere all at once www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anyone else get anxiety on Sundays just thinking about what you meant to accomplish and what you need to do during the upcoming week?

Here is the formal letter the NIH sent today to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. “These projects are fully reinstated, and the letter dated July 31, 2025 is rescinded without conditions. Funds will be made available immediately and are no longer suspended, terminated, or restricted.”

In the early years of my PhD I remember being asked if we'd ever treat or cure diseases like HIV or Huntington's. I remember saying maybe, but not knowing if I believed. Seeing research pay off as real impact on human lives is - incredible. www.bbc.com/news/article... www.bbc.com/news/article...

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

We shared research about things affecting us all: addiction, autism, brain injury, dementia, mental illness. This work has been arbitrarily cut or delayed. Thats a human brain on cafeteria tray. UCLA fair shows off science cuts. @sfn.org @standupforscience.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...