🚨New Whitehall II Imaging Study paper published in BMC Medicine. Findings suggest that maintaining the structural integrity of major arteries may benefit brain health & cognition in later life. @mikakivimaki.bsky.social @sanasuri.bsky.social 📖 Article: bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Associations of aortic and carotid artery health with cerebrovascular markers and cognition in older adults from the Whitehall II imaging study - BMC Medicine

Background Cardiovascular disease has been associated with an increased dementia risk, but the underlying mechanisms for this heart-brain link are unclear. This study sought to examine associations be...

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Honoured to be part of this wonderful team that won the @ox.ac.uk Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Culture through our Open Science, Public Engagement, & EDI Ambassador Programmes! Congratulations all around @oxcin.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social 🧠 hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel...

Holly Haines is a Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry and Dementia Theme Co-Ordinator at Oxford Health BRC. She highlights that what’s good for the heart is good for the brain – and research shows that this is true throughout the lifespan, even for children and teenagers.

🏆 Congratulations also to Psychiatry's Associate Prof Sana Suri and all of those in the WIN (now OxCIN) Ambassadors Programme, based in Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, which won the Research Culture Award. @oxcin.bsky.social @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @sanasuri.bsky.social

In this month's DEMON Biomarker working group we are looking forward to hearing from @sanasuri.bsky.social who will be discussing her work on predicting dementia risk factors related to the heart and brain. 📅 Wed 9th April 10am (BST). Please message for joining details

"We are sleepwalking into a disaster [...] Each of the administrative burdens that we are confronted with on a daily basis might seem small on their own but cumulatively they amount to a ‘mountain of small things’ that is killing academia." @masudhusain.bsky.social academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities

You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

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I'm thrilled to share our study, on the longitudinal impact of diet quality and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) on 🧠 brain health in ageing, which has now been published in JAMA Network Open! - supervised by @sanasuri.bsky.social @oxxpat.bsky.social & @mkflugge.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Exciting to see our research in the news @oxfordbrc.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

Teens’ lifestyle choices affect risk of dementia in later life

Early-life health significantly impacts brain structure, an Oxford University study reveals, linking teenage BMI and activity levels to changes in grey matter

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Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

New 🫀🧠 paper in eBiomedicine: we show that BMI, blood pressure, and physical activity in childhood and adolescence are linked with early structural differences in brain regions that are known to be affected in dementia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Association of early life cardiovascular risk factors with grey matter structure in young adults in the United Kingdom: the ALSPAC study

Cumulative exposures to obesity, hypertension, and physical inactivity from midlife (40–65 years) onwards are three known cardiovascular risk factors …

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PLEASE SHARE: The second (and final) application cycle for the Improving Research Community Builder Awards is now open! Find out more here: www.orben.group/improving-re... Deadline: 14 January 2025

New post doc position! Come to Oxford and join a multidisciplinary research team focused on studying multi-organ health through large-scale population health studies. You'll use multi-organ data to advance our understanding of multimorbidity: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Nice to see @oxneuro.bsky.social on here - hello!

Complex first two weeks back at work after maternity leave - exciting to be back at a job I love, but so difficult to leave baby every day. Start of week 3 - here's to it getting just a little bit easier and more manageable every day! #academicmum @storiesofwin.bsky.social

.. aaand I'm back from my year of maternity leave (and a year away from academic social media). Future me is getting ready to tackle the challenges of being an academic mum of 2 little ones. This feels like a friendly space to walk into 👋🏽 #neuroskyence #academicmum

Sana Suri@sanasuri.bsky.social · 3y ago

My last day in the lab before I start a year of maternity leave for the second time. Grateful to have led this amazing team for 2 years. A bit daunting to think about having to rebuild all this from the ground up when I return, but that's a problem for future me to tackle! #neuroscience #academicmum

Fresh from giving a fellowship presentation in a beautiful old library in Oxford 📚 I'm excited to one day tell my baby what I was up to a week before their arrival! Sun-kissed on the walk home and now ready for my year away from neuroscience. #sciencemum #neuroskyence

My last day in the lab before I start a year of maternity leave for the second time. Grateful to have led this amazing team for 2 years. A bit daunting to think about having to rebuild all this from the ground up when I return, but that's a problem for future me to tackle! #neuroscience #academicmum

Our latest paper was in the news 👀 We've created a score that combines 11 clinical/lifestyle factors to predict dementia risk. Score developed in UK Biobank, validated in Whitehall-II cohort, & outperforms 3 widely-used dementia risk scores. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...

Dementia risk study finds 11 key factors behind condition

Predictive tool ‘significantly outperforms’ others available and could help avert about 40% of cases

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👋🏽 I've just moved over to Bluesky. I'm an Associate Prof at Oxford, studying dementia and brain ageing. I lead this wonderful lab: the Heart & Brain Group. Here's us enjoying our last lab dinner before I leave on maternity in a few days. I'm excited to chat all things heart, brain (and baby) on here