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HIE is a brain injury caused by a shortage of oxygen and blood flow around the time of birth. The COMET trial – one of the world's largest neonatal neuroprotection studies, led by @imperialmed.bsky.social – has just recruited its 100th newborn baby! 🎉 More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

First in the UK, second in the world! We’ve retained our QS World University Ranking for the third year in a row! 🎉 This success is thanks to every single member of Imperial’s community, as we work together to make a meaningful difference in the world.

Really exciting work by a bunch of our PhDs and post-docs! TI stimulation within the theta-band increases neurogenesis in the hippocampus. Huge implications for neurodegeneration and a whole new perspective on brain stimulation. Full paper here: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🧠 Imperial researchers published the first evidence that stimulating the hippocampus – the brain's memory centre – using non-invasive temporal interference (TI) stimulation helps it grow new neurons. Learn more 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

❗We're hiring ❗ Are you an experienced professional ready to take on a diverse leadership role as a Clinical Imaging Facility Manager? This is a varied role combining team management, technical expertise and partnership development. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Finally graduated! 🎓 So proud to have completed my PhD at @ukdri.ac.uk @imperialbrains.bsky.social Huge thanks to my supervisor Alexi and the Nott lab for their guidance and support ✨ And so grateful to have shared this journey with my friend @kevincziegler.bsky.social

Dr Stuti Pant is a social scientist by training whose work in neonatal #neuroscience explores how families experience care during their most vulnerable moments. Read the full Q&A 👉 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/dobs-staff/2... @imperialmed.bsky.social

The first drugs that clear amyloid – a harmful protein found in the Alzheimer's brain – are approved in several countries, yet decline often continues. 🧠 In a new BMJ review, Professor P. Edison, J. Nowell, H. Crook and colleagues argue for combination treatments: www.bmj.com/content/393/...

A whole systems approach is required across society – not just the #NHS," said Dr Sameer Jauhar, responding to the debate around the government's interim review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism. More 👉 www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/20... @imperialmed.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 Join us for a White City and Hammersmith #PRIDE Picnic at the White City Campus. This relaxed, inclusive gathering is a chance to celebrate Pride Month, connect with colleagues, and show support for the LGBTQ+ community. Learn more 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/events/21022... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Dr Marco Brancaccio (@mbra3.bsky.social) has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms. SRBR is a leading international scientific society dedicated to research on biological rhythms. More 👉 srbr.org/about-us/boa... @imperialmed.bsky.social

🧠 A new study found that #ultrasound can non-invasively reduce #brain inflammation by modulating microglial activity. More 👉https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/articles/medicine/brain-sciences/2026/ultrasound-offers-a-non-invasive-new-hope-for-tackling-brain-inflammation/ @imperialmed.bsky.social

Congratulations to the 60 exceptional biomedical and health scientists elected to the Academy Fellowship today in recognition of their outstanding contributions to advancing medical science! 🎉 Meet our new Fellows: bit.ly/3Rb82JT

Congratulations to Professors Anne Lingford-Hughes and David Sharp, among the seven Imperial researchers elected Fellows of @acmedsci.bsky.social! 🎉🎊 #healthcare

🧠 @imperialmed.bsky.social researchers have developed a new live imaging platform to study how the brain's internal clock works at the cellular level. 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @mbra3.bsky.social

What if #dementia risk is shaped in part by the cells lining our brain’s blood vessels? Researchers from @imperialbrains.bsky.social uncovered new insights into the #biology behind dementia – helping deepen understanding of how it develops 🧠 #DementiaActionWeek www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

🖥️ 📱 Not all screen time is equal, and not all young people are equally at risk. Professor Dasha Nicholls shares what the research actually tells us about social media and young people's #MentalHealth. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... #MentalHealthAwarnessWeek @imperialmed.bsky.social

🧠🫀 A new study by Dr Dexter Penn and Professor Alastair Webb suggests that both very low and very high resting heart rates are linked with an increased risk of stroke. 👉 More: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Scientists have long sought to understand how #psychedelics affect the brain, including researchers from our own department, whose work is helping unlock their potential to treat mental health disorders. 🧠 Learn more: www.theguardian.com/science/2026... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Pleasure to collaborate with Jo Anne Stratton @theneuro.bsky.social funded by @hbhlmcgill.bsky.social and @ukdri.ac.uk. We show that post mortem processing conditions have differential effects on the brain's transcriptome. And temperature may play more of a role in good quality brain tissue.

🧠 Temperature may matter more than time when it comes to preserving brain tissue after death – new research from @imperialmed.bsky.social could change how #brain banks work. 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @mcgill.ca @theneuro.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

🧠 Meet Rory Smith, Brain Bank Engagement Manager, who is running the 2026 London Marathon on Sunday dressed as a brain to raise funds for the @mssocietyuk.bsky.social Tissue Bank. ✅ Contribute 👉 www.justgiving.com/page/brain-r... ✅ More about Rory's role 👉 bit.ly/4vlljyZ @imperialmed.bsky.social

🧠 In profile: Marcelina Wojewska, a PhD Student at the Department of Brain Sciences @imperialmed.bsky.social, talks about her research, what it takes to study the human brain, and why curiosity drives great science 👇 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/dobs-staff/2...

🧠 Wellcome has awarded Dr Samuel Barnes and a team of researchers at Imperial College London, led by Dr Amanda Foust, £3.92M to develop a 3D imaging system capable of capturing the electrical activity of thousands of neurons simultaneously, in real time. 👉 bit.ly/4mxVyHE @imperialmed.bsky.social

Congratulations to our own Dr Stefano Sandrone on receiving the Biochemical Society's Early Career Teaching Excellence Award! 🎉 @imperialmed.bsky.social

🧠 Tomorrow we mark #WorldParkinsonsDay Parkinson's disease affects 166,000 people in the UK, 1.1 million in the United States, and approximately 10 million globally, projected to reach 25 million by 2050. 👉 Learn more about Imperial-led research breakthroughs: bsky.app/profile/impe...

Tomorrow is #WorldParkinsonsDay 💙 We’re revisiting recent research and news from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, which is helping to transform how we understand, detect and treat #ParkinsonsDisease. 🧵👇 Thread

🌱 What if #pesticide exposure today affects your brain years later? A study showed pesticide exposure can leave a lasting “memory” in brain cells, disrupting gene expression in key #Parkinsons regions. New clues into how environment shapes disease risk 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266673/... #PD

Earlier detection, made easier. ⌚ Smartwatch data could spot early signs of #Parkinsons – before diagnosis – outperforming traditional clinical risk scores. A potential game-changer for non-invasive screening 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/266173/... #PD @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk

A cellular energy crisis? ⚡ Researchers from @imperialbrains.bsky.social uncovered why some brain cells are more vulnerable than others in #ParkinsonsDisease. 🧠 Even small drops in energy efficiency can push neurons from healthy to degenerating: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/264617/... #Parkinsons

Helping the brain in a gentler way 🧠 @imperialbrains.bsky.social – with £4.1M of @aria-research.bsky.social funding – are developing new stimulation technology that could one day reduce the need for invasive brain surgery in conditions like #Parkinsons. More: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260073/... #PD

Our academics and PhD students delivered a machine learning for healthcare course in Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, in partnership with @imperialinfect.bsky.social and @thruzim.bsky.social The programme was focused on building practical #AI skills for local healthcare contexts. 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

🧠 Every year, over 100,000 people in the UK suffer a stroke. A third of the most severe cases can be treated with mechanical thrombectomy. Yet only 4.5% of stroke patients currently receive it, despite national guidelines recommending it since 2015. More 👉 svn.bmj.com/content/earl...

“We don’t want to just do #research to children; we want to do it with them.” From asthma to mental health, young people joined our researchers + #NHS teams to share what matters most for their #health, at a unique event at Chelsea FC. www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialbrc.bsky.social

"The whole point of OCD therapy is about teaching people to behave differently." Professor David Nutt spoke to New Scientist on a landmark Yale study testing psilocybin for OCD. 🧠 Learn more: www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

Join me during the break today at Poster 87 at The Brain Conference 2026 @brain1878.bsky.social #brainconference2026 @imperialbrains.bsky.social #neurology #research

Our latest preprint showing ⬆️ high-energy food cue reactivity in dorsal striatum in ex-smokers (that could contribute to smoking cessation weight gain) & further evidence for a sweet taste preferring phenotype in alcohol use disorder. @imperialbrains.bsky.social @imppsych.bsky.social @ukri.org

In conversation with the NHS: How to submit an Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) Ethics application. Friday, 20 March 2026 | 9.00-13.00 GMT Register now: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20711...

🧠 To mark #WomenAtImperialWeek, we've rounded up recent profiles, interviews, and multimedia features spotlighting academics and professional staff from the Department of Brain Sciences. More 👉 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/dobs-staff/2... @imperialmed.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

“In experimental #neuroscience, success often comes after many failed attempts.” Dr Naoto Watamura from @imperialbrains.bsky.social is uncovering why some #dementia patients decline faster than others, and turning failure into discovery. 🧠 Read more 👇 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/dobs-staff/2...

Professor Michael Johnson's project, A Human Genetics-driven Approach for Disease Modification in Parkinson's Disease, will receive up to $2 million over the two years. 👉 More: sparkns.org/news-and-ins... @imperialmed.bsky.social

New research maps the genetic drivers of #DownSyndrome 🧬 Scientists have created the most detailed molecular map of the developing Down syndrome brain to date, revealing new gene targets that could inform future treatments. Led by @imperialbrains.bsky.social 👇 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

🧠 A small study, published in Nature Medicine, found that people with depression saw significant symptom reductions from a single dose of DMT. 👉Watch the Sky News interview with Dr David Erritzoe, the lead researcher on the study: news.sky.com/video/using-... @imperialmed.bsky.social

20 posts available for non-clinical Assistant Profs at Imperial College London. Come work at @imppsych.bsky.social @imperialbrains.bsky.social. Collaborate in fields of eating & addictive behaviours, neuroimaging, gut-brain, emotional regulation etc. Deadline 11/3/2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQK133/a...

Alcohol addiction affects millions worldwide, including around 600,000 people in the UK. Prof Anne Lingford-Hughes and Prof Mark Thursz will discuss the neurobiology of addiction and alcohol's impact on the liver. ✅ Register: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/20538... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Could the #psychedelic drug DMT be a future treatment for depression? Researchers @imperialmed.bsky.social found a single dose of DMT – the psychoactive component of ayahuasca - had a ‘significant and lasting’ effect. 👉 More: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

🧠 Interested in joining the Department of Brain Sciences, home to world-class research in #neuroscience & mental health? @imperialmed.bsky.social is hiring new non-clinical Assistant Professors. 👉 Applications are open until 11 March 2026: bit.ly/404qCnU #mentalhealth

On #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience, we're celebrating Three Wise Women from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social 👩‍🔬👩‍⚕️👩‍🏫 Researchers whose work is transforming #health across the lifespan – for women, children and communities. [Thread 🧵👇] #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

“I was advised I didn’t need a career – just a job until I got married!” Now Professor of Addiction Biology at @imperialbrains.bsky.social, Anne Lingford-Hughes has helped revolutionise how we understand the brain and #addiction. blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-med... #WomenInScience