Parkinson’s is now the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. In this podcast, Dr Sonia Gandhi (@uclqsion.bsky.social) shares more about her work to reverse that trend. 🎧 Listen now:

At UCL, AI is revolutionising dementia research; from faster Alzheimer’s diagnosis to tracking progression and developing new treatments. This #WorldAlzheimersMonth, explore how our neuroscience experts are improving lives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKQv...

TOMORROW: Prof Selina Wray (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) explores what’s next in dementia research at our free Lunch Hour Lecture. Don't miss out! 👇 #DementiaResearch #WorldAlzheimersMonth

Delighted to finally be able to share this! www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Super grateful to everyone who has supported me along the way @ukri.org @alzheimersresearchuk.org @parkinsons.org.uk @uclqsion.bsky.social - most of all my amazing colleagues and mentors at the DRC! Can't wait to get started!!

New paper from our lab now in @nature.com . We show that our brains use basis functions or "building blocks" to navigate social interactions. Rather than tracking every individual separately, social information is compressed into patterns that can be flexibly combined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really interesting study and a great showcase of how tUS can be used to probe mechanisms! 👏👏

🧠 Study the science of the brain and mind in London & Paris with our international Brain and Mind Sciences MSc. Apply now for a September start: www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-... @UCLBrainScience

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Can we use what we’ve learned about cognitive maps to understand social cognition, including theory of mind? If you’re interested in answering this question then this is a fantastic postdoc opportunity with @mkwittmann.bsky.social in collaboration with @summerfieldlab.bsky.social and my lab.

New research from @angelikaza.bsky.social & colleagues finds impaired glymphatic clearance (measured using diffusion tensor image analysis along the perivascular space) is linked to poor cognitive outcomes in #Parkinsons movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great to see this published @movedisorder.bsky.social movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...: We found that DTI-ALPS (a proposed indirect proxy for glymphatic clearance) is lower in Parkinson's patients who progress to poor cognitive outcomes, and correlates with cognition. 1/2

Really beautiful work @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social! Finally the missing link between perception, imagery and expectations? Now we need a Parkinson's dataset to test ;-)

Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis - The Lancet Public Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Join the new Cognition and Lewy Body Diseases Study Group to collaboratively study and advance research related to Lewy Body Diseases and Movement Disorders. Learn more: https://loom.ly/eiJ9MEE

Human cortex organizes dynamic co-fluctuations along sensation-association axis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.14.660681v1

New paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001... Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...

I am unbelievably proud to have my first senior author paper published today! It was a long slog through multiple review cycles but we got there! A big thank you to my lab members and all the collaborators and participants who contributed to this work! 🥲

Here's an open access link to full text of our paper shared last week! rdcu.be/evKF9

More research on under-represented communities: @angelikaza.bsky.social & colleagues held focus groups with 17 people with #Parkinsons & their care partners from Black communities to better understand barriers & facilitators to participation in research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Great work by @ivelinadobreva.bsky.social highlighting barriers and facilitators of Black communities in the UK to PD research participation! Thank you to @parkinsons.org.uk for the support in recruiting and disseminating! And of course to the amazing people with Parkinson's who took part!

Thanks so much to brilliant co-authors @angelikaza.bsky.social, @rimonaweil.bsky.social, Rohan Bhome, @ivelinadobreva.bsky.social, George Thomas, @ajh1269.bsky.social, Henrik Zetterberg, Irene Gorostiaga Belio & Katie Tucker for your help with this work!

MR guided focused ultrasound surgery is an effective and uprising treatment option for Essential tremor. But where is the optimal site to sonicate? Which spots to avoid due to side-effects? @science.org @braincircuits.bsky.social @netstim.org – a thread🧵! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking forward to this week's Consciousness Club with Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social on "Becoming aware of the world and ourselves" Wednesday 26th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

We are very proud of @peterkok.bsky.social who has been announced as an Early Career Impact Award winner by the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Read more about Peter's extensive achievements in the @fabbs.org article here: fabbs.org/news/2025/03...

Amazing session on all the things we don't often focus on in dementia: - mocrobiome - vascular disease - astrocytes/phagocytosis #BrainConf25

Another amazing talk by @jfcryan.bsky.social on the relationship between microbiome and brain health (and disease): www.cell.com/cell-reports... #BrainConf2025

Amazing talk by Darren Monckton at #BrainConference2025 on somatic expansion in HD - TLDR: blood somatic expansion tracks clinical progression ?possible biomarker in clinical trials? @braincomms.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to ARUK fellow @angelikaza.bsky.social who recently received the Rising Start Clinical Silver Award at the International Lewy Body Dementia Conference! ⭐

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

Thank you so much to @braincomms.bsky.social for highlighting our work! TLDR: white matter maters - do read the paper for more! And thank you to all amazing co-authors without whom this project would not have been possible (amongst them on bluesky: @naomihannaway.bsky.social @rimonaweil.bsky.social)

Super excited to be back at #ARUKconf2025 and honoured to talk in the ECR day!

Fantastic work by Charlotte Stagg on single thalamic nuclei stimulation using noninvasive FUS. Exactly the basic experiments we need to make this modality credible at the moment.

Amazing team and project!⬇️

I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏

Ever needed illustrations to visualize UPDRS-III exams? Well, @patriciazvarova.bsky.social just made some - free and open to use for anyone! Check them out below 👇👇

🚨Interested in Dystonia?🚨 @braincircuits.bsky.social GPi DBS for dystonia is effective. More recently, STN DBS has been investigated, as an alternative. In what enfolded like a stunning thriller to me, Konstantin Butenko tells a tale of two networks… www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Poster submissions for the Computational Psychiatry Conference 2025 in Tübingen are now open. Deadline is 7th February. Symposium submissions are open until 15th January. www.cpconf.org. Please RB.

Really thought provoking paper! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is an incredible opportunity to join the brilliant team at @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, collaborate across #UCL and globally, and help shape the future of neuroscience by training the next generation of researchers and innovators. Don’t miss out!

Feels really good to be on @bsky.app (finally) - already my feed is full of interesting papers and events!