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Ammar Al-Chalabi @ammaralchalabi.bsky.social · 2d

We must find an effective treatment for #ALS #MND

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BBC News - Former England captain Moody reveals MND diagnosis
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Lewis Moody: Former England captain reveals motor neurone disease diagnosis

Former England captain Lewis Moody reveals he has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in an exclusive BBC interview.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 3d

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud Husain recounts how novelist Marcel Proust became convinced, wrongly, that he'd had a stroke

Read an extract from Our Brains, Our Selves by Masud Husain

In this passage from Our Brains, Our Selves, winner of the Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize, neuroscientist Masud Husain recounts how novelist Marcel Proust became convinced, wrongly, that he'd had a stroke

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 7d

We're very happy to announce that the winner of this year’s Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize is ‘Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain’ by debut author, clinical neurologist and neuroscientist Masud Husain. #SciBooks royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 9d

Work from us @imperialbrains.bsky.social @ukdri.ac.uk, driven by Mike David, showing how #locuscoeruleus & #substantianigra integrity affect cognition and behaviour in clinical #AlzheimersDisease. #catecholamines #brainstem #neurodegeneration

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Catecholaminergic nucleus integrity and Alzheimer's pathology, symptoms, and progression

BACKGROUND The noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) accumulates pathology early in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with LC dysfunction contributing to symptoms and disease progression. We investigated LC an...

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 10d

Worth a few minutes of your time. RIP Tony Harrison www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Tony Harrison · Poem: ‘Piazza Sannazaro’

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 11d

RIP

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Axel Laurell @axellaurell.bsky.social · 14d

For anyone with experience in neuroimaging, we have a unique opportunity to join the old-age psychiatry group in Cambridge. You'll be working with a great team across the UK and Ireland on the PREVENT-Dementia cohort study.

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Research Associate - Neuroimaging Analysis (Fixed Term)

Fixed Term Contract to 28/02/2028 Old Age Psychiatry Dementia Research Group, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Biomedical Campus We are seeking to appoint a Research Associate to join the Old Age

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15d

I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again.

Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline.

The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

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Cure Parkinson's @cureparkinsons.org.uk · 16d

Don’t miss your chance to join our Research Committee! We’re looking for academics, clinicians, regulatory experts or people with Parkinson’s to join our Research Committee 🔬 This role is open to applicants from the UK and Europe. Applications close on Monday 29 September. Apply now: buff.ly/Pv73A5y

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · 17d

BlueSky friends, forgive me for not posting much on here. I'm standing for President of the RCPsych in the elections next March. I'm still speaking and listening to friends and colleagues about what is important, but you can learn about what I would do if successful here: www.profrobhoward.com

ProfRobHoward

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 19d

All of us involved in looking after patients should read this.

London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20d

‘How easily the disproportion of consequence is forgotten when a high-status professional is involved. For the consultant, at worst, “embarrassment”; for Martha ...’

@paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter’s preventable death: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Laity · After Martha

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

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DeNPRU-QM @denpru-qm.bsky.social · 20d

We want to generate evidence that leads to better care for everyone living with dementia and neurodegenerative diseases in England, wherever they live and whatever their background.

Read more about how we're collaborating across the @nihr.bsky.social network to achieve this ⬇️

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#denpruqm | Claudia Cooper

Thrilled to spend today working with London-based home care agency managers to launch a new home care research champion network for our North London Regional Research Delivery Network (RRDN). Members ...

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23d

superb column from @stephenkb.bsky.social

“racism does not diminish through rising GDP but through the willingness of politicians to argue against it….”

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Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25d

“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?”

Paul Farmer

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Countering Failures Of Imagination: Lessons We Learnt From Paul Farmer

Few people in the field of global health have had a bigger impact than Paul Farmer. In this post, people from around the world summarize the biggest lessons they've learnt from his work and life

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Mark D Humphries @markdhumphries.bsky.social · 28d

The MRC are looking for a computational neuroscientist to join their Neuroscience & Mental Health Board, to replace me as I step down next year.

Drop me a line if you want to know more

Deadline September 14th

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MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board (NMHB) member vacancies

Closing date 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm (UK time) Number of positions Six Length of term Two years, plus additional two years after review Time commitment Two days per month Remuneration £160 per da...

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · 28d

When I was a 4yo my mum took me to the hospital in Leeds where she worked. While I was playing alone in the cafe waiting for her to finish two old ladies asked why didn’t I go back to where I came from. I was born in that hospital.

I really thought all that had all gone but…

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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Abhimanyu Mahajan @amahajanmd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Has the idea and practice of academic medicine changed in recent years?

My perspective on what it means for early-to-mid career academic neurologists is now online as an OpMed on Doximity.

May resonate with other specialties.

www.doximity.com/articles/1a1...

A Disillusioned Generation of Academic Neurologists

Along with the devastating mortality and morbidity, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was a significant source of upheaval in academic medicine. Newly ...

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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · Sep 6

Given importance of health to the voting public, it seems politically naive of Nigel Farage and Reform to have their health policy so closely tied to Dr Aseem Malhotra, whose speech today confirms his switch from once respected clinician to conspiracy theorist quack: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Doctor claims Covid jabs may be linked to cancer in royal family

Aseem Malhotra told Reform UK’s party conference that the vaccination was a ‘significant factor’ in the diagnoses of King Charles and the Princess of Wales

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Gosia Raczek @goniah.bsky.social · Sep 4

Such a great meeting today - joint @imperialbrains.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and care and technology centre @ukdri.ac.uk - excellence and collaboration to improve dementia prevention, treatment and care

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Aug 31

Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it.

This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

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Jobs - The University of York

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · Aug 20

Meta-analysis examining #dopaminergic treatment in #Alzheimer's disease led by Cristina & Mike with support from others including @suzanne-reeves.bsky.social. More to think about & more on this topic from us soon! #alzheimers #dopamine #dementia alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Cognitive effects of dopaminergic treatment in Alzheimer's disease: Systematic review and meta‐analysis

INTRODUCTION Despite advances in disease-modifying drugs, better treatments for symptomatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) are needed, with dopaminergic neurotransmission representing a potential target. ...

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Good Brain News - by The Dementia League @dementialeague.bsky.social · Aug 19

Understanding Mental Health and Alzheimer's Progression: An Update

New longitudinal study with initial mild cognitive impairment reveals a link between persistent depression and progression to Alzheimer's. 👩🔬

A short thread: 1/3

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Robert Howard @profrobhoward.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm giving BlueSky another go, having left it earlier because it felt slow and lacking in interaction/engagement. I'm an impatient person. Please let me know if you see this message and I'd appreciate any advice from friends here on how to make the experience more engaging. Thanks!

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Matthew Hodson @matthewhodson.bsky.social · Aug 13

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998.
The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

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