The shingles vaccine reduced the probability of new #dementia diagnoses by around one-fifth over seven years, according to a large-scale study of a population in Wales, UK, reported in Nature. https://go.nature.com/4460AE4#dementia🧪

"Academics need to stand up against the potential silencing of minority voices in research as a result of US president Donald Trump’s attack on diversity, an influential group of UK scientists has said." www.researchprofessi... 1/2

Minimum resistance: Challenge every new 'initiative' if you think it comes with more costs than benefits. Moderate: Petition for change. You can do this within your University (Microsoft Forms) with other like-minded people. Bold: Lobby funders. Why should they waste money? More on this soon.

But it's up to us. That's what I meant by the responsibility of intellectuals (the bit of the article that seems to have been ignored; photo is of a young Noam Chomsky). Sadly, we've got used to learned helplessness. I'm as much to blame as anyone else. Only way out is to resist in everyday life.

A new large-scale study from UCLH and @uclqsion.bsky.social highlights the real-world impact of life after stroke, revealing the significant burden faced by survivors.

Eagerly awaited arrival in the quiet sun from @willwiles.bsky.social @saltpublishing.com #anechoicchamber here in a 1970s brutalist high rise if you recognise it?

We tend to think of CAA-related inflammation as its own separate thing - but is this right? @AminaSellimi @UCLStrokeRes et al have found inflammation in people with prolonged TFNE (amyloid spells) - even though they all had "non-inflammatory" CAA... 1/2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

If anyone has data on how catatonia is actually treated in clinical practice (ideally in the UK), @proftonydavid.bsky.social and I would be really interested to hear from you. For example, how many people get lorazepam? And how long till it's given? What other treatments are given?

Bittersweet but excited to share the preprint: "Decoding memory dysfunction in hippocampal amnesia." fMRI RDMs were used to assess how focal human hippocampal damage (N18) affects mnemonic representations across the autobiographical network @crosenthal.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...