Axel Laurell

Terrific work from the whole MELODIC team here, a real shot at helping some very unwell people.

Today a quick stop in Wales for the #RCPsychIC @SabinaLondon @rcpsych

It was really great to be at #EuroPAD this week to present my research on the hypothalamus in dementia. Also managed to spend some time exploring the beautiful Barcelona. Now back to much colder ground for Swedish midsummer. @BarcelonaBeta

Today and tomorrow we are hosting the EuroPAD 2025 symposium! #EuroPAD seeks to enhance and extend late-stage biomarker cohorts focused on Alzheimer’s, with the specific aim of establishing the most extensive and deeply phenotyped longitudinal cohort of at-risk individuals.

The most common mental health information on Tiktok: 1) Pathologising normal emotions 2) Misusing therapeutic language 3) Unevidenced treatments 4) Anecdotal evidence theguardian.com/technology/202…

🚨 New paper! 🚨 Increasing age and APOE4 are associated with hypothalamic changes and worse sleep in two large cohorts studies. I've learnt so much working with this project and it's amazing to see it in published form! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

Great to be at the @rcpsychOldAge conference showcasing some really important projects on fracture risk, communication strategies and future planning of services! @DrBenUnderwood1

✨March = Women's History Month ✨ We're celebrating by introducing you to a Department member each week. Today is Dr Juliette Davis, a post-doc in the Imbeault Group. Read about her research, defining moments and how she got into science ⬇️ gen.cam.ac.uk/womens-history…

Great to be at the international Lewy body dementia conference in Amsterdam this week presenting my recent systematic reviews. Papers: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 New paper! 🚨 A systematic review of diffusion tensor imaging in Lewy-body Dementia. I'm really proud that this complex paper is now available. The figure shows the brain regions with changes in AD (red) and DLB (green), as shown by DTI. doi.org/10.1016/j.neub…

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🚨 New paper! 🚨 Alzheimer's disease co-pathology is associated with worse longitudinal clinical outcomes in people with Lewy body dementia. Great work by Dr Jerry Tan, ACF at University of Oxford. @ProfJTOBrien @CambridgeFTD sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Almost all leading AI chatbots show signs of cognitive decline, finds #ChristmasBMJ study. The findings challenge the assumption that AI will soon replace human doctors. Includes an interactive #BMJInfographic showing the findings bmj.com/content/387/bm…

Recently I was asked to write a chapter about mental health for a really important handbook aimed at paramedics and ACPs. And it arrived just in time for Christmas! Great work @ACPFrailtyCarol and @DuncanSCAS for bringing this together. @DrBenUnderwood1 @ParamedicsUK

Very pleased to see this piece of research from my Neuroscience iBSc with @DrSimonMcArthur published! I This was the first time I was involved in research as a medical student and the experience opened up the idea of a working as a clinical academic! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Grateful to be interviewed by @sciam to discuss the important findings of our recent @AD_PREVENT study in @JAMANetworkOpen on the implications of even mild traumatic brain injuries #TBI scientificamerican.com/article/concus… Paper: jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… @racingdementia @Cambridge_Uni

Great to be in Dublin today at the PREVENT-Dementia AGM presenting my research 😴🧠 @AD_PREVENT

Proud to have received “Star Baker” 🌟🌟 today at the Department of Genetics Bake off competition raising money for @SU2CUK for my Chromatin cupcakes #bakeoff #chromatin #beadsonastring #dna #nucleosome #histone @GeneticsCam

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🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 Is the hypothalamus smaller in Alzheimer's disease? Yes, and it may be associated with endocrine dysfunction. @_Sita_S @DrBenUnderwood1 @ProfJTOBrien medrxiv.org/content/10.110…