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Will Scotton
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• Consultant Neurologist RWT - Movement and Cognitive disorders • Honorary Consultant Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham • NIHR West Midlands Specialty Lead for Neuro-degeneration and Dementia • Honorary post-doctoral researcher, John Hardy Lab UCL
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Come and work with us at RWT! Job advert for senior clinical fellow in the Neurology team www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Birmi...
Job vacancy: Portfolio Pathway Fellow - Neurology, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton | trac.jobs
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October 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Job alert! Come and join an ambitious and growing department with supportive colleagues and plenty of scope for building subspecialty interests.. beautiful surrounding South Staffs and Shropshire countryside and also host the NIHR WM RRDN www.bmj.com/careers/job/...
Consultant in Neurology - Wolverhampton job with The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | 713059
Seeking a Consultant in Neurology joining 10 consultants in the Neurology Directorate covering Wolverhampton, Staffordshire & Shropshire.
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July 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
How Do I Diagnose Multiple System Atrophy—A Videolibrary on Clinical and Imaging Features
Click on the article title to read more.
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June 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Exciting communications role at UCL with Prof Cath Mummery, shaping strategic engagement for the UK Dementia Trials Network. Advance dementia research nationwide! Closing date: 18th June

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/uk-dtn-e...
UK DTN Engagement and Communications Lead
Join Prof Cath Mummery's team at UCL, driving strategic communications for the UK Dementia Trials Network to shape dementia research across the UK.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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thelimbus.co.uk/neurology/mp...

Abn were already sounding the alarm 5 years ago..
MPs sound alarm over neurologist shortage
MPs have urged the Government to urgently tackle a “severe shortage” of neurologists in the NHS, warning that the shortfall is contributing to delays in diagnosis and compromised care for people with ...
thelimbus.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
drwillscotton.bsky.social
12 months of full
Immersion. Sad that its over en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%...
Aubrey–Maturin series - Wikipedia
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May 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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parkinsondotorg.bsky.social
A strong link has been shown between Parkinson's disease and exposure to pesticides and herbicides. Learn more about environmental causes of PD: Parkinson.org/understanding-parkinsons/causes/environmental-factors
Environmental Factors
Environmental exposures linked to Parkinson's disease that scientists are working to better understand.
www.parkinson.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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uclbrainscience.bsky.social
How might AI help us to detect dementia through retinal scans? 👀
We spoke to Professor Pearse Keane (@ucleye.bsky.social) about pioneering studies in the emerging field of #oculomics.
➡️ bit.ly/3XuReOH
@moorfieldsbrc.bsky.social #UCLDementia #DementiaActionWeek
Reads: “For more than 100 years, doctors have known that the eyes can be used as a window to the rest of the body. Now, thanks to the power of AI and big data, we can find information hidden within retinal images and use this information to pick up early signs of neurodegenerative diseases.”
May 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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selinawray.bsky.social
Wow!
erictopol.bsky.social Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · May 15
Today "a milestone in the evolution of personalized therapies for rare & ultra-rare inborn errors of metabolism"
—the 1st human to undergo custom genome editing
—from decades of NIH funded research
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@nejm.org
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May 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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annavolkmer.bsky.social
We are doing a survey to understand why other professionals do/don't refer people with Primary Progressive Aphasia for speech-language support

We want Drs, nurses, psychologists, social workers, OTs, PTs & any other profession.

The survey can be accessed here: qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...
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April 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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marcaurelbusche.bsky.social
Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the @ukdri.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk We’re investigating neuronal and circuit dysfunction in Alzheimer's, and developing innovative new treatments.

Apply here👇
shorturl.at/LpCAq
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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May 16, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Early results of an Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation trial show promising improvements in speech, movement and quality of life for patients with #Parkinsons.

Learn more through the eyes of patient Fabio Dywer and #TeamUHN neurologist Dr. @alfonsofasano.bsky.social Fasano:
bit.ly/3F4bTCB
Dr. Alfonso Fasano, a neurologist at University Health Network in Toronto, talks with Dwyer. (Turgut Yeter/CBC)
May 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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cbdresearch.bsky.social
🚀 New study reveals how four different anti-amyloid drugs interact with amyloid beta protein. They found that lecanemab performed best in binding to small oligomeric forms of the amyloid protein, suggesting a working model for treating people in the earlier stages of Alzheimer’s (1/4)
April 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I appreciated learning at the @wisconsinadrc.bsky.social ADRD Research Day about new criteria for limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE).

LATE has been recently been identified as a fairly common cause of memory loss.

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Clinical criteria for limbic‐predominant age‐related TDP‐43 encephalopathy
Limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy neuropathologic change (LATE-NC) is highly prevalent in late life and a common co-pathology with Alzheimer's disease neuropathologic change (ADNC...
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April 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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💻 Upcoming #webinar on “Recent Advances in Clinical Trials in Multiple System Atrophy”
📅 20th May, 3:00 CEST
🗣️ David Bendetowicz, University Hospital Bordeaux, France
Sign up 👉 https://t1p.de/ri7k3
Joint with the European Reference Network for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases and @ean.org
April 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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thelancet.com
Genetic mutations contribute to a small but significant portion of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases.

A new @thelancetneuro.bsky.social Series summarises groundbreaking research on genetic ALS, offering insights into potential treatments: tinyurl.com/544kx3fu
Morphologically distinct TDP-43 aggregates. Representative photomicrographs (mag 40×) from the anterior horn of the cervical spinal cord of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (as described by Spence et al) and a healthy control individual. Copyright: 2025 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
April 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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drneurochic.bsky.social

With so many great tau researchers like @leatgrinberg.bsky.social @lucbuee.bsky.social @sjorsscheres.bsky.social @selinawray.bsky.social @karchlab.bsky.social on #SciSky could not help but put together my 1st starterpack⤵️

We are all fighting for you @curemaptftd.bsky.social 💙

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January 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A first in human genomics: a 4-generation pedigree reference, now in Nature.

Built with #PacBio HiFi, it maps de novo mutation rates, reveals paternal bias, and captures high mutation rates in tandem repeats—even in Y and repeat-rich regions.

Paper here: go.nature.com/4lGMPlP

#TheresHiFiForThat
April 24, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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uclbrainscience.bsky.social
#ICYMI A new AI tool that can help interpret and assess how well treatments are working for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
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AI tool can track effectiveness of multiple sclerosis treatments
A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can help interpret and assess how well treatments are working for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) has been developed by UCL researchers.
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April 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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uclqsion.bsky.social
Final programme for this event is now available! www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/events/2...
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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charlesmarshall.bsky.social
🚨Fantastic job opportunity for neurology trainees

Neurology Clinical Lecturer post in Dementia with us @qmuldementia.bsky.social now open to applications!

Please DM me for info and to discuss

www.oriel.nhs.uk/Web/PermaLin...
Oriel
Published vacancies that are available for applicants to apply to. This includes key information suchs as the training programme(s), post type(s), advert information and duration.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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scotsfriction.bsky.social
"In the absence of replication, together with private conversations, such papers used to quietly die. Now they are being publicly murdered. I am not sure which is the better way." - Prof John Hardy

www.alzforum.org/papers/bad-m...
The Bad Medicine of Doctored | ALZFORUM
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March 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Accelerate your MND research from lab to patient! Up to £500k available through My Name’5 Doddie Foundation's 2025 Advancing Treatments Award. #MotorNeuroneDisease @mndoddie5.bsky.social

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/funding/mnd-...
MND Advancing Treatment Awards - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
The My Name’5 Doddie Foundation Advancing Treatments Award will support the early-stage development of new treatments to slow, stop or reverse MND progression
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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annavolkmer.bsky.social
2-weeks till PPA awareness day 4 April!

Webinar link: speechtherapyppa.com/ppa-awarenes...

This wk we are sharing another podcast, this time created with student speech & language therapists abt the UCL PPA clinic: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

#PPAawareness
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March 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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dementiaresearcher.bsky.social
Applications are invited for a Group Leader in the @ukdri.ac.uk at the University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. Closing date: 28th April

www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/ukdri-gr...
UKDRI Group Leader/ Senior Research Associate
Applications are invited for a Group Leader in the UK Dementia Research Institute at University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Neurosciences
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM