Congratulations to all my promoted colleagues @imperialbrains.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Brain Sciences academic and teaching colleagues celebrate promotion in Imperial's 2026 round

Five Brain Sciences academic and teaching colleagues have been promoted this year in recognition of their contributions to neuroscience, neurology, p...

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Earlier dementia support matters. Last week Minder, UK DRI's digital care platform, was on BBC Breakfast & 5 Live. 📺 Prof David Sharp with carers Paul & Heather 📻 Sarah Daniels on why spotting changes early matters Listen to Sarah (from 38:38) 👉https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0031szw

🍄 Can psychedelics help treat gambling addiction? Dr Rayyan Zafar on BBC Morning Live explains why psilocybin could be the next frontier in treatment. More 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Today is #WorldAlzheimersDay. From many publications and researchers, including colleagues in Imperial's Department of Brain Sciences, we chose five ideas to begin with. Each may add something new to how we see #Alzheimer's.

"I’m absolutely delighted to see Imperial College London ranked first in the UK for Medicine by @theguardian.com. It’s a fantastic recognition of the commitment and energy of our students and staff." - Prof Amir Sam, Head of ICSM. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

👏 Congratulations to four Brain Sciences academic colleagues – Prof @tonygoldstone.bsky.social, Dr Nathan Skene, Dr Yen Tai, and Prof Alastair Webb – who feature among 146 promotions in academic and teaching roles across Imperial this year. More 👉 blogs.imperial.ac.uk/senior-appoi...

🧠 September marks the start of World Alzheimer's Month. Dr Alexi Nott is part of Team EMERALD, just awarded £1.5m to study brain cells from the world's largest group of healthy centenarians, in search of what protects the ageing brain. 👉 Learn more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

📚 A new trial has tested Open Dialogue, a Finnish approach to mental health crisis care that brings a patient's family and friends into treatment decisions alongside clinicians. Speaking to BBC News, Dr Sameer Jauhar said the results still leave an open question: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Treatment involving patient's family cuts mental health hospital admissions, study finds

The approach focuses on the patient priorities, seeing the same clinicians, and involving people close to them.

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🧠 Did you know Imperial is home to the Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Tissue Bank? It's a national collection of central nervous system tissue, donated by individuals with MS, Parkinson's, and related neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative conditions. More: www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/mul...

🧠 Can our sleep reveal clues to brain health and longevity? Dr Abidemi Otaiku studies brainwaves and dreams, and what they reveal about ageing and dementia risk. 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Could our sleep reveal clues to brain health and longevity?

“My research suggests that certain types of brainwaves and dreams may reflect or influence the health of our brains, the speed at which our bod...

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📮 New letter in the British Journal of Psychiatry on the evolving evidence for amyloid clearance therapies in Alzheimer's. A timely discussion as these treatments move closer to routine clinical practice. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🧠 The Department of Brain Sciences has landed on LinkedIn! Follow us for the latest updates, research news, events and more from our community 👇 www.linkedin.com/company/dobs... @imperialmed.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

🧠 A new study from Imperial College London provides the first detailed picture of how the brain's electrical activity responds to whole-body motion. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Brain study reveals hidden clues to a condition that masks dizziness and increases fall risk

A new study from Imperial College London provides the first detailed picture of how the brain's electrical activity responds to whole-body motion.&nb...

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"Psilocybin seems to loosen up stereotyped patterns of brain activity", Dr Taylor Lyons, first author of the new Imperial College London and UCSF study, told Science Daily. 🧠 More: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... @imperialmed.bsky.social

What if your childhood #vaccines were secretly training your body to fight cancer too? 🧠 New research from our Department shows how that hidden immunity could be redirected to attack tumours. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Your childhood vaccines could help fight tumours in future, early research suggests

Researchers introduced a strategy that redirects the immunity people already have from routine vaccines to attack cancer instead.

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Dr Bina Ram ran peer-led workshops in NW London to explore the low uptake of NHS mental health apps. ✏️ Key findings show that schools aren't promoting these apps, parents rarely talk about mental health at home, and young people prefer human connection. 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

What if your childhood #vaccines were secretly training your body to fight cancer too? 🧠 New research from our Department shows how that hidden immunity could be redirected to attack tumours. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Your childhood vaccines could help fight tumours in future, early research suggests

Researchers introduced a strategy that redirects the immunity people already have from routine vaccines to attack cancer instead.

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🧠 What can centenarians' brains teach us about resisting dementia? Team EMERALD, including our own Dr Alexi Nott, has won £1.5m from the Dementia Frontiers Fund to find out. 👉 Read more: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Abidemi Otaiku, named one of 8 touchNEUROLOGY Future Leaders 2026 for his research on sleep, dreaming and brain health 🧠💤 👉 In this interview, he shares why sleep and dreaming could be key to earlier detection of neurodegenerative disease: touchneurology.com/insight/flb-...

Join me today at poster Wednesday-0364 where I will share my latest results on non-linear relationships between heart rate, diastolic blood pressure, and vascular dementia risk. #AAIC26 @ukbiobank.ac.uk @alzheimersresearchuk.org @imperialbrains.bsky.social

🧠 Two passive sensors could help track movement changes in people affected by Parkinson’s, according to a new study. These devices could be used to track things like disease progression over time and response to treatment More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... @imperialmed.bsky.social

⚽ Former professional footballers may experience changes in brain health by midlife, according to new research. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article... #football @imperialmed.bsky.social

Retired professional footballers had changes in brain structure and more mental health symptoms

Former professional footballers may experience changes in brain health by midlife, according to new research

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A small pilot study from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at @imperialmed.bsky.social indicates that psilocybin – the active ingredient in psychedelic ‘magic mushrooms’ – may have potential as a treatment for anorexia nervosa, when combined with therapy. More 👉 www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...

Psilocybin therapy shows potential as a treatment for anorexia nervosa in small trial

A small pilot study from the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London indicates that psilocybin – the active ingredient in ps...

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🍄 An NHS-linked trial is exploring whether psilocybin could help people with treatment-resistant depression, working alongside therapists and nurses. Prof David Nutt, who led related research at @imperialmed.bsky.social believes the findings are encouraging. 👉 www.ft.com/content/0a2d...

Inside the NHS hospital trialling psychedelics to treat depression

Researchers hope psilocybin compounds could eventually become part of mainstream care

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🧬🔬 Scientists at Imperial College London engineered a virus to hunt cancer, explains Professor Amin Hajitou. It targets proteins found mainly on tumour cells and carries a malaria-linked signal that triggers the immune system to attack. More 👉 www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

Phages could enable us to hijack vaccine immunity to kill cancer cells

Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, could be genetically manipulated to destroy cancerous cells using the immunity we have acquired from vaccines

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There’s only one week left to complete our alumni survey. Share your voice and shape Imperial’s future. You can choose to be entered into a prize draw and win a hamper of exclusive Imperial products. It only takes 15 minutes to complete! ⤵️ https://bit.ly/imperial-alumni-survey-2026-bs

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...

International effort to improve care for newborns with brain injury recruits 100th baby

The Cooling in Mild Encephalopathy Trial (COMET) study has reached a major milestone with the recruitment of its 100th newborn baby, marking an impor...

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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....

Temporal Interference Stimulation Enhances Neural Regeneration

Temporal interference (TI) stimulation is proposed as a non-invasive approach to enhance neural regeneration in the deep brain. Theta-band TI modulation selectively promotes neural progenitor cell di...

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Department of Brain Sciences@imperialbrains.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🧠 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