Clinical Trial Post-Doctoral Fellow @BuckInstitute | SMDP Scholar '24 | @alzdemjournals Social Media Editor | @ISTAART Ambassador '24
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📢NEW PAPER: Where is sugar in the brain?📢
Sugar in the brain? More like sialylation, a post-translational or sugar modification in AD brains. Check out this 🧵to learn all about PTMs, histology, and translational science in my latest publication!
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Are you interested in scientific publications and the peer-review process?📑
Become a reviewer for the official journal family for the Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's & Dementia (A&D)!
Learn More: alz.org/research/for_researc…
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In the modeled two-step pathway, digital cognitive assessment enriched the population undergoing biomarker testing before pTau217 measurement
This ⬆️pre-test positivity from 30% to 66.6% and improved positive predictive value of pTau217 from 81.7% to 95.3% #DADM
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New research in #DADM highlight @altoida NeuroMarker, a 10-minute self-administered digital cognitive assessment.
Findings support individuals identified as cognitively impaired were more likely to have elevated plasma pTau217🩸
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New in #BSEA: Interactions of economic hardship, social determinants of health, and ADRD caregiver burden
Findings support caregiver burden is a key driver of financial hardship and financial toxicity affects half of Alzheimer's disease caregivers
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Changes at the NIH have resulted in the loss of $11 million in grant funding that was expected to come to Buck. We need your help to keep vital research moving forward.
Stand with our scientists. Stand with Buck Science. 💛
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A&D CALL FOR PAPERS: Spotlight on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research in South Asia!📢
Topics include laboratory preclinical research all the way to observational studies, clinical trials, and epidemiology
⏰DEADLINE: Dec. 31, 2026
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Submit to this new section!🧠#AlzResearch #BSEA
New Section in A&D and A&D:BSEA journals!🎉
The Brain Health section is a collaborative initiative between A&D and BSEA, led by Dr. Yen Ying Lim!
This section emphasizes translatable science that advances real-world impact! 🧠
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How is hormone replacement therapy (HRT) associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk?
Evaluation of postmenopausal women in the UK BioBank demonstrate HRT was associated with lower risk of all-cause dementia and AD #AlzResearch
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Research on Frailty is so important!👏#BSEA
How does social frailty associate with cognitive impairment?
New research in #BSEA highlights social frailty is associated with increased risk of incident dementia/MCI and lower dementia-free survival rates
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How do frontotemporal dementia (FTD) symptoms present in Hispanic populations?
New research in #DADM shows Hispanic participants presented with more movement-related symptoms and advanced cognitive impairment diagnosis
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A&D CALL FOR PAPERS: Vascular Contributions to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia - From Bench, to Bedside, and Back Again
⏰DEADLINE: Dec. 31, 2026
🧠Submit research on pathophysiology, neuroimaging, molecular diagnostic biomarkers, and MORE!🧠
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Important and relevant!!👏
#TRCI
New research in #TRCI highlights health literacy barriers affect recruitment of Hispanic/Latino (H/L) communities!
Results highlighted young H/L individuals can serve as health information liaisons to their families.
Full Study: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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New in A&D: Prognostic value of plasma %p-tau217 in cognitively unimpaired older adults
Findings suggest that %p-tau217 is a robust prognostic biomarker for AD risk assessment that is comparable with immunoassays. #AlzResearch
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#BSEA CALL FOR PAPERS: Examining the Interface Between Structural and Individual Determinants of Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Dementias Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
⏰DEADLINE Extended: Jan. 31, 2027
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New in #DADM!
Key differences in clinicopathological presentation of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 (FTLD-TDP) and limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE-NC)
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How do microbleeds differ between amyloid-associated vascular pathology and non-amyloid vascular conditions?
New research in #TRCI demonstrate cerebral microbleeds emerged selectively in amyloid mouse models
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What is the relationship between dietary protein and fiber intake on depression/anxiety and cognition?
Research in #TRCI highlights fiber may moderate depressive symptoms & cognitive decline🧠
Read the full article here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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#DADM Call For Paper Deadline Approaching!📢
Topic: Novel multi-omic Diagnostic and Analytical approaches for ADRD
⏰Submission Deadline: November 30, 2026
Guest Editors: Carlos Cruchaga, Victoria Fernandez
Full CFP: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.w…
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How do social determinants of health disproportionately impact Non-Hispanic Black men?
New research in #BSEA shows ⬆️ cumulative SDoH burden showed an independent association with poor memory, executive function, & processing speed
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#TRCI CALL FOR PAPERS: Transforming the relevance of preclinical research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias by development and use of novel animal models and cellular systems!
⏰DEADLINE: Dec. 1, 2026
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