@MarchantLabUCL

We investigate modifiable psychological factors associated with healthy ageing and dementia using a multi-domain approach @UCLpsychiatry

 London, England
ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/mental-health-older-people-department/marchant-lab
Joined May 2019
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We're (@VonettaDotson @alexleighclark @vdcalhoun) are hiring postdocs to work on our NIA multi-year, multisite grant exploring the neurocognitive mechanisms of depression, memory impairment, and decline in racially and ethnically diverse adults. Dm or happy to chat at #CNSmtg!
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Claudia@ClaudiaACooper115 Mar 2024
New RA role on two interesting projects, @DeNPRU_QM @charl_marshall @drruthdobson & with @UCL_PCPH @NathanDavies50, policy-focused dementia research, great team & institute @QMULPsychiatry @QMUL_WIPH ! qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/it… closes 28 March @BetterResearch @AlzSocResearch
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📢New publication @ANA_journals Associations of stressful life events with #Alzheimers, neuroinflammation & atrophy pathways depend on early/midlife events, sex & history of psych disease Huge congrats to 1st author @PalpatziEleni! 1st PhD paper! 🎊 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Lifetime Stressful Events Associated with Alzheimer's Pathologies, Neuroinflammation and Brain...

Objective Along with the known effects of stress on brain structure and inflammatory processes, increasing evidence suggest a role of chronic stress in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD)....

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We're looking to make a quick appointment of a research assistant who can start soon to help us finish off some Policy Research Unit studies - come and get some varied experience in an excellent team, publications very likely. ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
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Thanks @AlzheimerEurope for the opportunity to present exciting results from the PREADAPT project. Lots of interest from the audience. Now looking forward to day 2 of #33AEC tomorrow. – at Helsinki, Finland
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The EventBrite link is here: eventbrite.com/e/mental-heal…

Mental health careers workshop for Black students

Mental health careers workshop for Black students hosted by the Race Equity & Ethnic Diversity group in the UCL Division of Psychiatry

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Are you asking how modifiable risk factors could impact resistance and resilience to Alzheimer’s disease pathology? Our recent collaborative review is for you! We also talked about biological mechanisms behind. @BiologicalPsyc1 @sylv_villeneuve 👉doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2…
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🚨 I'm looking for a post-doctoral researcher to join our team in @UCLPsychiatry! 🚨 It's a 3-year role embedded within a large UK-wide collaborative @MedResFdn funded project. More details👇. Please feel free to email me if you have any questions 😊 tinyurl.com/ypynprz5
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🚨 New Research from @SilverSanteEU @hdemnitzking, PhD student in @MarchantLabUCL, investigated the effect of #meditation and non-native #LanguageLearning interventions on #cognition Now in @JAMANetworkOpen 👇 Huge congrats Demnitz-King et al.!! @ucl @UCLPsychiatry
JAMA Network Open@JAMANetworkOpen14 Jul 2023
Neither meditation nor non-native language training helped improve global cognition, memory, executive function, or attention in cognitively healthy older adults, in this secondary analysis of an RCT. ja.ma/3pWdGC2 @SilverSanteEU @hdemnitzking #AAIC23
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... and if you want to learn more about this study, @hdemnitzking will be presenting this work at #AAIC23 tomorrow (Wednesday, July 19)! Don't miss it -> Poster P4-799 #AAIC2023 #ENDALZ @alzassociation @MarchantLabUCL @UCLPsychiatry
SilverSantéStudy EU@SilverSanteEU18 Jul 2023
🚨 New Research from @SilverSanteEU @hdemnitzking, PhD student in @MarchantLabUCL, investigated the effect of #meditation and non-native #LanguageLearning interventions on #cognition Now in @JAMANetworkOpen 👇 Huge congrats Demnitz-King et al.!! @ucl @UCLPsychiatry
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It's not too late to apply to the Health Equity Scholars Program for Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and Health and Aging Brain Study-Health Disparities (HABS-HD): deadline June 21 healthequityscholarsprogram.…
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Our review article on the links between social participation and dementia risk is published here. Thanks to co-authors @Gill_Livingston @MikaKivimaki @epiAgeing @SusanneRoehr and others @UCLPsychiatry nature.com/articles/s43587-0…
Nature Aging@NatureAging18 May 2023
🗞Focus Issue! We bring together Reviews, Perspectives & Comments on the most recent advances in changing landscape of #dementia research. 🎨 Cover designed by Valentina Galata. nature.com/nataging/volumes/…
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Céline El Baou@celbaou19 Apr 2023
Our study looking at associations between depression therapy outcomes and cardiovascular risk was just published in the European Heart Journal! Follow this 🧵to find out more! #EHJ #mentalhealth #therapy #CardiovascularDisease #NHS academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…

Psychological therapies for depression and cardiovascular risk: evidence from national healthcare...

AbstractAims. People with depression are up to 72% more at risk to develop cardiovascular disease (CVD) in their lifetime. Evidence-based psychotherapies a

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✨ Excited to share the pre-proof of our latest open access paper, accepted and published in @J_Psychosom_Res. We conducted a systematic review & meta-analysis to investigate the association between anxiety symptoms and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers. tinyurl.com/2tvzm7j4 ✨
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📣We want to hear from you...! (2 days left) As we approach the new year we are organising the @ReservePIA Year In Review. What are the major advances in the field of reserve, resilience, & protective factors? Click the link below and let us know. alz.surveymonkey.com/r/82V68…
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Everyone's talking about the phase 3 results of #Alzheimers drug Lecanemab presented at #CTAD #CTAD22 and published this evening in the @NEJM. But a really striking subgroup analysis that no one else has pointed out yet (cred. @RoreBole) is that the findings are driven by men!
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Matthew Todd@MatToddChem8 Nov 2022
40 fully funded PhD scholarships available at @UCL for students from any country via the new Research Excellence Scholarship scheme ucl.ac.uk/scholarships/resea… Deadline Jan 13th. @DrZoeWaller @profgeraintrees @duncancraigucl #phdchat

Research Excellence Scholarship

UCL’s prestigious Research Excellence Scholarship (UCL-RES) aims to attract outstanding scholars to undertake doctoral research at UCL.

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And thats the end of BHM 2022! Thank you all for your support in sharing papers and tweets, and making an active decision to cite work by Black authors @UCLPsychiatry
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The last paper to promote is “How do person-centered outcome measures enable shared decision-making for people with dementia and family carers?-A systematic review” by Jesutofunmi Aworinde and colleagues. doi.org/10.1002/trc2.12304 @tofunmiaworinde @UCLPsychiatry
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Welcome to our new PM, @RishiSunak. We look forward to working with you on behalf of the 900,000 people living with dementia in the UK. Please ensure dementia remains a priority by delivering the 10-year plan for dementia, social care reform, & the National Dementia Mission.
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