The March edition of The Disconnected Mind Newsletter with news and updates from our team is now available online:

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TUTORIAL: Our new preprint "Clinical progression of clonal hematopoiesis is determined by a combination of mutation timing, fitness, and clonal structure" is out @elatorre.bsky.social @edinunilbc.bsky.social @linusschumacher.bsky.social @biologyaging.bsky.social
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We’re celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science #February11

As #Womeninscience, we have the opportunity to shape research on #cognitive #ageing, influence policies that promote healthy ageing, and support future generations of women in #STEM.

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Amazing talk from Anna Furtjes outlining the key findings from her paper- I'm not a brain gal but this was incredibly interesting! #segeg2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We had the great privilege of hosting Professor Simon Cox of The University of Edinburgh, Director of The Lothian Birth Cohort Study, at @uscpsychology.bsky.social last week when he gave a great colloquium and met with faculty and students. Thanks for coming Simon! #cognitiveaging

New preprint! Which regions of the human brain are most strongly related to individual differences in general cognitive functioning? And what are the underlying neurobiological properties of those areas? | bioRxiv | doi: 10.1101/2024.12.17.628670 🧠

The December issue of the Disconnected Mind Newsletter from Lothian Birth Cohorts is now available online with highlights of 2024 as well as our recent research and publications, and scientific and public engagement events from this Autumn:

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Exciting grant news - @saraheharris99.bsky.social from @edinunilbc.bsky.social has been awarded a grant of around £3.7m to study blood-based protein biomarkers for early dementia detection in a joint project with Uni of Texas at Austin & @colorado.edu. Read more: edin.ac/4g7XC55
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Exciting postdoc opportunity to work with Dr @saraheharris99.bsky.social using new longitudinal data in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 to create the largest study of #protein #biomarkers and longitudinal cognitive and brain changes before clinical #Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis!

Apply by 13 January

🌟PhD Opportunity🌟
Investigate the links between opioids, other analgesics, and cognitive decline/dementia. Supervisors include researchers at Edinburgh and Glasgow University and the Karolinska Institute! Learn more about this Precision Medicine PhD and apply below!⬇️
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Since 2004 the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 participants have been meeting with the research team every three years for many hours of cognitive testing, medical exams and brain scans. Over 100 participants at age 88 have now returned to the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility for the 7th time!

“Lessons we learned from the Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936”:

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A new review of the main LBC findings on #brain and #cognitive #ageing (and much more!) by the founding and current Directors of the LBC1921 and LBC1936 Ian Deary and Simon Cox

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This year we celebrate two special anniversaries in the history of the Lothian Birth Cohorts studies: the 25th anniversary of the LBC1921 established in 1999 and the 20th anniversary of the LBC1936!

The cohorts' data have contributed to over 700 publications on cognitive, brain and general ageing!