Next Monday, Dr. Mustapha Bouhrara will join us for a #ScienceLuncheon on Progress in Understanding Aging and Dementia: MRI Physics, Biomarkers, and White Matter Health. Event Details: tinyurl.com/5n6cbrvj 🍽️ RSVP required for in-person attendance only! #CVL #UTDallas

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover optimized atlases for tau-PET staging, depressive symptoms and MR spectroscopy biomarkers of early AD, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Atlases for tau-PET staging can be optimized by segmenting in native space and smoothing at 6mm www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Across 3 datasets (3000+ participants), GFAP in both CSF and plasma consistently mediated the effect of age on cognitive impairment and dementia (MCI/AD incidence) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Treatments targeting inflammation (DHCA) and neuronal activity (Mal-gluc) significantly improved recognition memory in 3xTg-AD mice, but did not reduce p-Tau or Aβ burden www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Tau relates to MR spectroscopy estimates of N-acetylaspartate and myo-inositol in cognitively-unimpaired amyloid-positive adults @elizabethhead.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Most Alzheimer’s cases linked to variants in a single gene ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja... by @ucl.ac.uk #Alzheimers #dementia #science #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover age-related structural differences in the fischer brown Norway rat and bonnet macaques, apraxis deficis in Alzheimer's Disease, proteomic markers of aging, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neur...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ MRI-based diffusion metrics are higher in aged macaques in the central tegmental tract, an ascending projection from the locus coeruleus www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Markers of cerebral small-vessel disease (white-matter lesions, lacunes) and vascular risk (e.g., hypertension, BMI) relate to faster 5-year decline in striatal dopamine (DRD2) @lipmpib.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Higher pulse wave velocity is associated with white matter microstructural damage in older adults 12 years later www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Repeated MRI measures of brain volume can help detect later conversion to AD/FTD www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001265

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover pulse-wave velocity, cerebral small vessel disease, choroid plexus volume, hearing loss, and racial discrimination in aging, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neurobiology-of-aging/vol/156/suppl/C

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ MRI-derived regional volume and thickness are stronger predictors of cognitive decline, especially for memory, but plasma biomarkers do add predictive value www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001137

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ WMH in the temporal lobe relate to early cortical thinning in AD, beyond what is expected due to amyloid and tau @leoriki3.bsky.social @compneurology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001216

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ BOLD in LC related to subsequent memory performance in adults across the lifespan, possibly due to attentional boosting of memory www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745802500123X

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ T-tau, a marker or gray matter degeneration, is more strongly correlated with synaptic biomarkers (neurogranin and BACE1) than NfL www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001198

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark: Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover epigenetic and brain aging, plasma and MRI predictors of cognition in aging, aging of hippocampal microstructure, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neurobiology-of-aging/vol/155/suppl/C

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Interactive video games that make exercise more engaging can change brain structure and function in older adults. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019745802500106X

📣 One more month to submit to this Special Issue on Brain Resilience & Diversity in Aging and Dementia! @mnrajah.bsky.social

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Hearing loss is more strongly associated with tau burden than β-amyloid (Aβ) burden. @charlesmarshall.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001162

The Computational and Cognitive Neural Sciences lab (ballardlab.org) at UC Riverside is recruiting psychology PhD students to join our team! Check out the flyer to learn about the lab and our stellar research community at UCR. Apply by 12/1! drive.google.com/file/d/19m8i...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Lifestyle risk factors can discriminate latent classes of memory trajectories but differ across racial-ethnic groups. @profrwhitmer.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001174

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ A 6-month balance training intervention improves postural control and performance-related prefrontal brain activation in older adults. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001150

One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Hippocampal subfield volumes follow nonlinear trajectories across the lifespan. @dranadaugherty.bsky.social @noaofen.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001149

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Cortico-striatal gray matter atrophy and white matter microstructural degradation across the rhesus macaque adult lifespan. @dralisonweiss.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001010

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with higher Aβ burden, lower rFDG, and worse cognition in Alzheimer's Disease. @sbe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458025001034

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Older adults fail to gate irrelevant information, indicating a top-down inhibitory control deficit that controbutes to their worse memory. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @fnim-lab.bsky.social

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover effects of age on brain structure, balance training, exergame interventions, links between hearing loss and AD, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neurobiology-of-aging/vol/154/suppl/C

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Atypical presentation of AD with greater cortical involvement is seen in individuals with younger chronological age or younger biological age relative to their chronological age. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ‪@patch-lab-upenn.bsky.social‬

Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.

📚 NEW ISSUE 📚 Articles cover processing speed in background noise, biological age acceleration in Alzheimer's Disease, effects of strength training in aging, and more. www.sciencedirect.com/journal/neurobiology-of-aging/vol/153/suppl/C

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Clusters of positive modifiable factors (physical/cognitive activity, education, sleep, depression, personality) attenuate effects of amyloid on cognition. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/

DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 15: Special Issue in JGPS on Decision Neuroscience and Aging Get those papers in now! academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Interactions between CSF misfolded proteins (Aβ, p-tau), inflammatory markers (IL-8), and brain regional CBF and atrophy are more pronounced in individuals with higher cardiovascular risk factors doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social‬

✨ SHINY NEW PAPER ✨ Higher cardiovascular disease risk in older adults may explain why shorter sleep duration relates to worse cognition. doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2025.04.008

Let’s talk @storiesofwin.bsky.social. I’m flattered to be among their profiles (coming soon) & I want to elevate the team behind this terrific effort. /1 www.storiesofwin.org

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

📣 SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Brain Resilience & Diversity in Aging and Dementia www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Due: 12/1/25 @mnrajah.bsky.social

If you have expertise in MRI/behavioral data collection and are eager to break into the women's brain health/human neuroendocrinology field, this is an outstanding opportunity for you! Plus you get to live in beautiful Santa Barbara ☀️ 🌊 🌴 ⛰️

I'm recruiting a lab manager for my soon-to-be-launched lab at Ohio State! If you know of any recent grads who may be interested both in helping to build the lab and in developing skills in the cognitive neuroscience of memory, please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar...

Detecting dementia earlier | With $4 million grant, UC Irvine cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein seeks to develop inexpensive assessment of cognitive ability @ucirvine.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social

On Monday, Ann S. Bowers WBHI Director Emily Jacobs, PhD, testified for AB-432, California’s Menopause Care Equity Act. Updates are coming soon! More info about AB-432 here: bit.ly/ab-432menopa... #womenshealth #brainhealth

I’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...