UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
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We are a world-leading centre for neurological research within the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/ion. Follow us also on LinkedIn.
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Researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social have joined forces with three leading organisations to accelerate research and potential treatment options for Coffin-Siris syndrome.
UCL joins global effort to develop treatments for rare neurodevelopmental disorder
Researchers at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology have joined forces with three leading organisations to accelerate research and potential treatment options for Coffin-Siris syndrome.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social have joined forces with three leading organisations to accelerate research and potential treatment options for Coffin-Siris syndrome.
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Join us on Weds (3 Dec) to explore UCL’s new Sustainability Plan, hear inspiring climate action stories, and find out how you can make a difference. Panel discussion and Q&A with senior leaders. #GreenUCLPALS
👉 Find out more & register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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December 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us on Weds (3 Dec) to explore UCL’s new Sustainability Plan, hear inspiring climate action stories, and find out how you can make a difference. Panel discussion and Q&A with senior leaders. #GreenUCLPALS
👉 Find out more & register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
👉 Find out more & register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
December 1, 2025 at 10:15 AM
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, December 5th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Andrew MacAskill giving a talk entitled "A role for ventral hippocampus in hidden state inference"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
Today we publish our annual review, celebrating a year of outstanding translational progress, innovative partnerships, and dedication from our inspiring community of researchers, clinicians, students, and professional services staff. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Today we publish our annual review, celebrating a year of outstanding translational progress, innovative partnerships, and dedication from our inspiring community of researchers, clinicians, students, and professional services staff. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
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A new review, led by researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social, outlines how cutting-edge biomarkers could enable earlier, more accurate diagnosis and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies.
Advances in new biomarkers for dementia with Lewy bodies could transform diagnosis and care
A new review, led by researchers at Queen Square Institute of Neurology, outlines how cutting-edge biomarkers could enable earlier, more accurate diagnosis and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A new review, led by researchers at @uclqsion.bsky.social, outlines how cutting-edge biomarkers could enable earlier, more accurate diagnosis and treatment of dementia with Lewy bodies.
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🏆 1/ Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre (@ucl-hd.bsky.social), was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award for 2025, the association’s top annual prize.
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Pioneering UCL Huntington’s researcher wins major neuroscience award
Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, has been awarded the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award for 2025, the…
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November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🏆 1/ Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre (@ucl-hd.bsky.social), was awarded the British Neuroscience Association Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award for 2025, the association’s top annual prize.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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🧠 4/ A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
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New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🧠 4/ A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no... @uclqsion.bsky.social
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no... @uclqsion.bsky.social
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Centre Manager role at the Rare Dementia Support Centre in London supports operations and events and works with the team to deliver specialist services. Closing date: 17th December
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/rare-dem...
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Rare Dementia Support Centre Operations Manager
Centre Manager role at the Rare Dementia Support Centre in London supports operations and events and works with the team to deliver specialist services.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Centre Manager role at the Rare Dementia Support Centre in London supports operations and events and works with the team to deliver specialist services. Closing date: 17th December
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/rare-dem...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/rare-dem...
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🧵/ November was packed with breakthroughs and stories from UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! Here’s your monthly roundup of research, awards, and achievements 👇
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November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🧵/ November was packed with breakthroughs and stories from UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences! Here’s your monthly roundup of research, awards, and achievements 👇
@uclpals.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social
@uclpals.bsky.social @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @ucleye.bsky.social
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Check out the October 2025 edition of the #HD Clinical Trials Update, now published in the Journal of Huntington's Disease and available online! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @profwild.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Check out the October 2025 edition of the #HD Clinical Trials Update, now published in the Journal of Huntington's Disease and available online! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @profwild.bsky.social @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social
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Wonderful Annual Address lecture from Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu this evening 🧬 🧠
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wonderful Annual Address lecture from Prof Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu this evening 🧬 🧠
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📣📣Registration and call for abstracts now open!
UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference 2026
17/18 April, Cambridge, UK
Our 2026 agenda spans acquired/autoimmune and genetic neuromuscular, neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions bit.ly/3XOjZF8
UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference 2026
17/18 April, Cambridge, UK
Our 2026 agenda spans acquired/autoimmune and genetic neuromuscular, neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions bit.ly/3XOjZF8
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
📣📣Registration and call for abstracts now open!
UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference 2026
17/18 April, Cambridge, UK
Our 2026 agenda spans acquired/autoimmune and genetic neuromuscular, neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions bit.ly/3XOjZF8
UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference 2026
17/18 April, Cambridge, UK
Our 2026 agenda spans acquired/autoimmune and genetic neuromuscular, neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions bit.ly/3XOjZF8
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
November 24, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, November 28th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Tricia Seow giving a talk entitled "Biases in belief and simulation in obsession-compulsion"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diagnosed, finds a study co-led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social academic.
AI tool spots blood cell abnormalities missed by doctors
An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are…
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diagnosed, finds a study co-led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social academic.
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👟 Meet Joe Gregory — England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research champion. He’s taken part in a whopping 12 research projects at @uclqsion.bsky.social and other universities to help find better treatments.
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“I stopped saying no to things” Joe Gregory on Parkinson’s, football and taking part in research
Why is research participation important? We speak to Joe Gregory, England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research advocate, about why he got involved with research at UCL.
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November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
👟 Meet Joe Gregory — England walking footballer and Parkinson’s research champion. He’s taken part in a whopping 12 research projects at @uclqsion.bsky.social and other universities to help find better treatments.
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Didn't realize Gipi (Giampietro Schiavo) was Neuro Editor @jcellsci.bsky.social longer than I have had a lab...: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
Interview with Professor Giampietro Schiavo
ABSTRACT. Giampietro Schiavo is a Professor of Cellular Neuroscience, Deputy Director for strategy at Queen Square Institute of Neurology, academic lead of the Alzheimer Research UK Drug Discovery Ins...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Didn't realize Gipi (Giampietro Schiavo) was Neuro Editor @jcellsci.bsky.social longer than I have had a lab...: journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
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Research Assistant at UCL Dementia Research Centre London working with Philip Weston on early Alzheimer changes using digital and AI methods. Closing date: 10th December
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Research Assistant: Diagnosis using digital & AI tech
Research Assistant at UCL Dementia Research Centre London working with Philip Weston on early Alzheimer changes using digital and AI methods.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Research Assistant at UCL Dementia Research Centre London working with Philip Weston on early Alzheimer changes using digital and AI methods. Closing date: 10th December
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/research...
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One more pre-print!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is an amazing collaboration investigating the mechanisms underlying an intriguing and mysterious neurodegenerative disorder: cerebellar ataxia and sensory neuropathy caused by AAGGG repeat expansions in the RFC1 locus.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is an amazing collaboration investigating the mechanisms underlying an intriguing and mysterious neurodegenerative disorder: cerebellar ataxia and sensory neuropathy caused by AAGGG repeat expansions in the RFC1 locus.
CANVAS causing AAGGG repeat expansions cause tissue-specific reduction in RFC1 expression and increase sensitivity to DNA damage
Biallelic AAGGG expansions in Replication Factor Complex Subunit 1 ( RFC1) are associated with cerebellar ataxia, neuropathy, vestibular areflexia syndrome (CANVAS) and are increasingly recognised as ...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One more pre-print!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is an amazing collaboration investigating the mechanisms underlying an intriguing and mysterious neurodegenerative disorder: cerebellar ataxia and sensory neuropathy caused by AAGGG repeat expansions in the RFC1 locus.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This is an amazing collaboration investigating the mechanisms underlying an intriguing and mysterious neurodegenerative disorder: cerebellar ataxia and sensory neuropathy caused by AAGGG repeat expansions in the RFC1 locus.
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An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diagnosed, finds a study co-led by Prof Parashkev Nachev @uclqsion.bsky.social
AI tool spots blood cell abnormalities missed by doctors
An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diag...
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
An AI tool that can analyse abnormalities in the shape and form of blood cells, and with greater accuracy and reliability than human experts, could change the way conditions such as leukaemia are diagnosed, finds a study co-led by Prof Parashkev Nachev @uclqsion.bsky.social
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Experts from @uclqsion.bsky.social are among those who have updated the international guidelines for diagnosing multiple sclerosis. The update aims to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce delays in treatment initiation to improve long-term outcomes.
Updated global guidelines aim to speed up Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis
Updated international guidelines for diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS), co-authored by UCL academics, aim to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce delays in treatment initiation.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Experts from @uclqsion.bsky.social are among those who have updated the international guidelines for diagnosing multiple sclerosis. The update aims to improve diagnostic accuracy and reduce delays in treatment initiation to improve long-term outcomes.
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Wonderful news and hugely well deserved, Nadine is knocking it out of the park! 👏👏👏
Thanks so much @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! 🤩
And a big thank you to @smfleming.bsky.social for the nomination!!
And a big thank you to @smfleming.bsky.social for the nomination!!
Congratulations 👏👏👏 to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social who has been selected as one of @thetransmitter.bsky.social Rising Stars of Neuroscience, 2025!
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November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Wonderful news and hugely well deserved, Nadine is knocking it out of the park! 👏👏👏
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Magrinelli et al. define the pheno-genotypic spectrum of NDUFA9-related mitochondrial disease in 12 cases. Biallelic NDUFA9 variants cause complex I deficiency, with symptoms from neurodevelopmental delay with dystonia to isolated dystonia with basal ganglia MRI abnormalities 👉 buff.ly/t5XWVkv
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Magrinelli et al. define the pheno-genotypic spectrum of NDUFA9-related mitochondrial disease in 12 cases. Biallelic NDUFA9 variants cause complex I deficiency, with symptoms from neurodevelopmental delay with dystonia to isolated dystonia with basal ganglia MRI abnormalities 👉 buff.ly/t5XWVkv
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Pre-print alert! Very happy to highlight two fantastic pre-prints on bioRxiv led by stellar post-doc Simon Lowe @satlowe.bsky.social in the lab.
Pre-print no. 1 is a paper I am particularly proud of:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pre-print no. 1 is a paper I am particularly proud of:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Micro-/nano-plastics accentuate Parkinson's Disease-relevant phenotypes in a Drosophila model
Micro- and nano-plastic (MNP) particles are a ubiquitous environmental contaminant that are increasingly bioaccumulating in human tissues, particularly the brain. MNPs induce mitochondrial defects, ox...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Pre-print alert! Very happy to highlight two fantastic pre-prints on bioRxiv led by stellar post-doc Simon Lowe @satlowe.bsky.social in the lab.
Pre-print no. 1 is a paper I am particularly proud of:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Pre-print no. 1 is a paper I am particularly proud of:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sir John Hardy (@uclqsion.bsky.social) is on Esquire’s Better Men List 2025 for pioneering Alzheimer’s research. We’re proud to see him recognised as a role model in science. 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/news/ucls-professor-sir-john-hardy-named-esquires-better-men-list-2025
November 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Sir John Hardy (@uclqsion.bsky.social) is on Esquire’s Better Men List 2025 for pioneering Alzheimer’s research. We’re proud to see him recognised as a role model in science. 🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/news/ucls-professor-sir-john-hardy-named-esquires-better-men-list-2025
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We’re recruiting an institute director, take a look!
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November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We’re recruiting an institute director, take a look!
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