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Neuroscientist working at the UCL HD Centre. Interested in Huntington’s disease, MRI, dogs, politics
Important paper on accessible biomarkers from
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. Well done Annabelle Coleman
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and all.
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UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre
6 months ago
Hot off the press! Check out the second edition of the
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Imaging Working Group (#iWG) newsletter!
#HD
#neuroimaging
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@rachiscahill.bsky.social
@nicolahobbs.bsky.social
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UCL HD Centre
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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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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/...
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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 ...
https://movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mdc3.70010
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Colette Delawalla
8 months ago
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
8 months ago
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 👉
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Reducing DNA repair protein levels targets root cause of Huntington’s
https://www.ukdri.ac.uk/news-and-events/reducing-dna-repair-protein-levels-targets-root-cause-huntingtons
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Jonathan Schott
8 months ago
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
8 months ago
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
https://youtu.be/xiaACQpFUfE?si=8yhugUS0KGNH10GC
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Our paper in Nature Medicine is out today! Great working with
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& 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
8 months ago
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
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@uclbrainscience.bsky.social
will guide future prevention trials
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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...
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/jan/brain-changes-huntingtons-disease-decades-diagnosis-will-guide-future-prevention-trials
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Mena Farag
9 months ago
Check out the latest edition of the
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Clinical Trials Update, now available online in the Journal of Huntington's Disease
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🔓 Open access link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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