🧠 New in BJPsych: 1-year stroke risk with risperidone in dementia. We looked across CVD subgroups ( stroke, CVD, and risk factors) to see if any group was “safer” to prescribe to. Spoiler: there isn’t one. 📊 Infographic + link below. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #Dementia #Stroke #Psychiatry

Excited to share we’ve been awarded £215k from NIHR @nihr.bsky.social to continue our research on #antipsychotic use in #dementia 💡 Next up: analysing trial data, electronic health records & lived experiences to optimise safe prescribing. We’ll be recruiting soon - watch this space for adverts!

Excited to be heading to Stavanger this Sunday for Helse Stavanger’s International Research Day! Photos from my last visit - 3yrs ago! Sad to be missing the National Day and Eurovision there on Saturday, but thrilled to be reconnecting with collaborators. 🇳🇴🇬🇧

Want to know more about how American Football impacts your brain health? I've got a study going and looking to recruit participants! 4 hours of your time and a little bit of blood, ideally in Exeter, but could also do Bristol, UK Any questions? Please contact me by DM or email #BrainHealth #TBI

Just doing my bit to put Centre for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience @brunelpsy.bsky.social on the neuroscience connections map at #BNA2025

In Liverpool today for #BNA2025 sharing our pilot study on #psychosis mechanisms in #Alzheimer as a case study on collaboration with Medicines Discovery Catapult. Great that they're prioritising psychiatric syndromes in dementia.

Busy day this week running out SmartSocks study (testing new #healthtech for objective measurement of #agitation in #dementia). Started 3 participants in London before wrapping up for two residents in Berks after 4 weeks testing. Grateful to the care home staff for their insights!

📢 Our lab is looking for a bioinformatics postdoc. We have lots of exciting projects to work on, including single cell (epi-)genomics, microglia xenotransplantations and nanopore long reads splicing analysis. Look out for the official advert next week and get in touch in the meantime 🧬🧠

🚨A brain DNA co-methylation network analysis of #psychosis in #Alzheimer's disease - DNA methylation assessed in the prefrontal cortex. - Enrichment in synaptic genes and excitatory & inhibitory neurons. - Mechanistic links with #schizophrenia dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.... @brunelpsy.bsky.social

Please see a collective response from an esteemed group of leaders in the dementia field to the NYT article and book “doctored” by Charles Piller. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

*super food and also that'd be sunrise not sunset 🙄 - I blame the jet lag. By for now, Sydney.

Powered up for the last day of the conference in Sydney where I chaired the first session. Apparently açaí is a super good though maybe not when it's got that much yoghurt and syrup in top 😋 And the sunset before heading home Very grateful to @drmoyramortby.bsky.social for making this happen 🙏🏻

Great start to the Australasian #NeuropsychiatricSyndromes Symposium yesterday in Sydney. Great to connect with people from all over the world to discuss this important topic, and have the opportunity to present myself 😁 #ANNS @istaart.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social

I'm in Sydney getting ready for the Australasian Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in #dementia conference. Funded by @istaart.bsky.social this conference will bring together latest scientific advances and the applications to care delivery.

📢 *Two new* 🤩 preprints out this month from @byroncreese.bsky.social on safer use of risperidone for agitation in dementia 🧠💊 Great to see Brunel University undergrads contribute to this research on placement while studying Psych and at the Brunel Medical School 💪

Preprints linked to the below #antipsychotics in #dementia work now out: A matched cohort study examining stroke risk across CVD subgroups: doi.org/10.31234/osf... A qualitative study of perceptions of residents, relatives and health and social care professionals doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Flanked by a sizable plate of pastries before getting started with our #antipsychotics in #dementia event today. >30 attendees from social care, NHS and members of the public. Best practice approaches for severe agitation in dementia still stimulates insightful discussion. Work here not yet done.

🧠 130 people now in this UK Dementia Starter Pack! 🧠 📈 (50 more than 2 days ago!) 📈 A great mix of Profs/PIs/Post-docs/PhDs/Technicians. Please re-post so it can reach a wider audience as I'm sure there are more of us out there ☺️🦋 go.bsky.app/S6FfsTp

🚨🚨 Registrations still open for our Alzheimer's Association funded event in Sydney, Australia 🌏🦘 Travel bursaries available and full details below! 👇👇

All about sharing our #NIHR-funded work on #antipsychotics in #dementia. All welcome. Especially relevant to NHS, social care workers and academics. Pastries for breakfast and lunch provided 🥐☕🍱 (Shared this when first on blue sky and had a network of about 3. Resharing now it's grown a bit 🙂)

Hello World! New here, and a little bit scared of having to rebuild the Twitter network, but here we go: I'm a group leader at UK DRI and @kingsioppn.bsky.social. My lab works on #epigenetics in neurodegenerative diseases, to understand non-coding genetic and environmental risk factors 🧬🧠

👇🏻Reminder registration is still open for our free event 3rd Dec (CPD credits available) #antipsychotic safety in #dementia - results from our research on utility of screening on CVD to inform prescription decisions. - update on the evidence based for first line non-pharmacological approaches.

What started with a routine Xmas (too early I know) listen to Stay Another Day has turned my train ride into a deep dive to find my other fav boy band songs (in no particular order): 1) It's Alright (E17) 2) Story of My Life (OneD) 3) Pray (TT) 4) The Right Stuff (NKOTB) 5) Larger than Life (BSB)

Very excited to be organising this event in Sydney colleagues from the US and Australia 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧 Australasian Neuropsychiatric Syndromes in #dementia Symposium 3-5th Feb 2025, Sydney, #Australia 🦘 Travel awards and registration available here: anss.psy.unsw.edu.au

Participants needed for our research project on support for survivors of sexual assault/violence. Interviews take place via Zoom/phone and we can offer a £20 Amazon gift card for your time. Findings will inform the support resources that Outcry Witness extends to survivors. Feel free to share 💙

Safer #antipsychotic prescribing in #dementia. Free event linked to our NIHR-funded study on whether cardiovascular disease screening helps make safer prescribing decisions. Views of people with dementia and carers included. 👇🏻 NIHR-Brunel-Safer-Antipsychotic-Prescribing-Dementia.eventbrite.co.uk

UK-based scientists: we need to talk about Italian conference catering.

Now officially a BBC Radio 2 fan, just played Roni Size followed by Scissor Sisters followed by Primal Scream. Most definitely my jam. #40s