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Ya Yin Chang
@yayinchang.bsky.social
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Neuroscience PhD Candidate @ Edinburgh Uni & UKDRI, I’m all about synapses & neurodegeneration 🧠 | Scientific editorial team @ Brain Comms!
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Tara Spires-Jones 🌈🔬 @tspiresjones.bsky.social · Jul 17
See a lovely piece on STV highlighting the impacts of this disease on families . While our new findings will not lead to a new treatment today, we aim to bring hope to people living with PSP for the future news.stv.tv/east-central...
'People think my wife is drunk but she's living with a rare brain disease'
Edinburgh couple hope for treatment for rare neurological condition progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Tara Spires-Jones 🌈🔬 @tspiresjones.bsky.social · Jul 17
Delighted to share our paper examining synaptic tau in PSP. Many thanks to @robertmcgeachan.bsky.social @clairedurrant1.bsky.social and our many collaborators and funders. And extra special thanks to tissue donors who make this work possible.
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Edinburgh Neuroscience @edinunineuro.bsky.social · Jul 16
📢Fabulous new paper from @tspiresjones.bsky.social, @clairedurrant1.bsky.social & team describes new mechanisms in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, suggesting that targeting tau in synapses is a promising approach for future treatments.

Full paper➡️www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-01992-5 🧠
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Dr Soraya M @sorayam.bsky.social · Apr 30
Our paper in Nature Comms is now online! Summary below but in short we use living human brain slice cultures in a number of different ways to model dementia processes. Big team effort led by myself, @robertmcgeachan.bsky.social and @clairedurrant1.bsky.social rdcu.be/ej647
Divergent actions of physiological and pathological amyloid-β on synapses in live human brain slice cultures
Nature Communications - Understanding synapse loss in Alzheimer’s disease has been hampered by a lack of human model systems. Here, the authors show that manipulation of physiological or...
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Brain Communications @braincomms.bsky.social · Apr 30
Day 3: @braincomms.bsky.social and @brain1878.bsky.social up for the last day, we are waiting for you 😆 #bna2025
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Ya Yin Chang @yayinchang.bsky.social · Apr 30
Day 3 at #BNA2025: At the @brain1878.bsky.social & @braincomms.bsky.social booth in between sessions! 👋🏼
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Tara Spires-Jones 🌈🔬 @tspiresjones.bsky.social · Apr 28
@braincomms.bsky.social booth at #BNA2025 is busy come say hi!
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Ya Yin Chang @yayinchang.bsky.social · Apr 29
What a venue!! At the #BNA2025 Gala dinner 😍
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Tara Spires-Jones 🌈🔬 @tspiresjones.bsky.social · Apr 29
Another fantastic poster session #BNA2025
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Ya Yin Chang @yayinchang.bsky.social · Nov 26
Thanks Jo!!