Alyssa Arentoft, PhD
@alyssaarentoft.bsky.social
Clinical Neuropsychologist | Professor of #Psychology at CSUN | #Neuropsychology #Cognition #BrainHealthEquity #HealthBehavior #SDOH #ENDALZ
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April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
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We now have a blood biomarker that is even more strongly associated with tau PET and cognitive symptoms than even p-tau217! Plasma eMTBR-tau243 will help us to understand whether cognitive impairment is likely to be related to Alzheimer's pathology. #ENDALZ
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Plasma MTBR-tau243 biomarker identifies tau tangle pathology in Alzheimer’s disease - Nature Medicine
Plasma eMTBR-tau243 is a specific biomarker of tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease and enables the detecting and tracking of Alzheimer’s clinical impairment.
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We now have a blood biomarker that is even more strongly associated with tau PET and cognitive symptoms than even p-tau217! Plasma eMTBR-tau243 will help us to understand whether cognitive impairment is likely to be related to Alzheimer's pathology. #ENDALZ
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
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The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
Continued investment in the NIH is essential to fighting current and emerging health threats and to ensuring the U.S. remains a global leader in medical innovation.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
THIS: The Best Investment You Didn’t Know You Made: How NIH Funding Fuels Innovation and Economic Growth
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www.amfar.org/news/how-nih...
Excellent rebuttal to "Doctored" now out in JAMA by Grill & Rabinovici
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
The Bad Medicine of Doctored
This Viewpoint discusses a recent book that alleges scientific misconduct in Alzheimer disease (AD) research; summarizes actual progress made in the field; suggests that the book contributes to a narr...
jamanetwork.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Excellent rebuttal to "Doctored" now out in JAMA by Grill & Rabinovici
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
To our American friends who may now be struggling to find health information on US websites: Please check out the Public Health Agency of Canada's website for helpful resources, updated dashboards & practical health tips.
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canada.ca/en/public-he...
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Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Tens of thousands of psychological measures have been created, but 79% are not reused more than twice.
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a new article in NHB lead by @faridanvari.bsky.social and @ruben.the100.ci we quantify this fragmentation in psychology's measures and propose solutions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Key recommendations for sharing information with memory clinic patients:
- Ask about needs and preferences, and re-assess over time
- Tailor information to the patient (e.g., test results, diagnosis, prognosis)
- Provide jargon-free communication in verbal and visual form
See full article below 👇🏻
- Ask about needs and preferences, and re-assess over time
- Tailor information to the patient (e.g., test results, diagnosis, prognosis)
- Provide jargon-free communication in verbal and visual form
See full article below 👇🏻
Research published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging highlights the need for tailored diagnostic information at memory clinics.
Authors support recurrent information check-ins during treatment of ADRD #BSEA
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Authors support recurrent information check-ins during treatment of ADRD #BSEA
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Patients’ evaluation of information provision in the memory clinic
Background We examined how patients evaluated the information provided during their diagnostic trajectory in a tertiary memory clinic. Methods Between February 2021 and June 2023, 802 patients of ...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Key recommendations for sharing information with memory clinic patients:
- Ask about needs and preferences, and re-assess over time
- Tailor information to the patient (e.g., test results, diagnosis, prognosis)
- Provide jargon-free communication in verbal and visual form
See full article below 👇🏻
- Ask about needs and preferences, and re-assess over time
- Tailor information to the patient (e.g., test results, diagnosis, prognosis)
- Provide jargon-free communication in verbal and visual form
See full article below 👇🏻
Reposted by Alyssa Arentoft, PhD
A recent longitudinal article in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging reports dementia risk factors include low cognitive function and poor health literacy among community-dwelling Japanese older adults
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#AlzResearch #BSEA
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#AlzResearch #BSEA
Cognitive function, health literacy, and subsequent incidence of dementia among Japanese older adults
INTRODUCTION Low cognitive function and poor health literacy are risk factors for dementia and have a bidirectional relationship. Here, we examined their individual and combined effects on the incid...
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A recent longitudinal article in Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging reports dementia risk factors include low cognitive function and poor health literacy among community-dwelling Japanese older adults
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#AlzResearch #BSEA
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#AlzResearch #BSEA
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📣 Calling all future Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) investigators!! Don't forget to submit your application to the Health Enhancement Scientific Program (HESP) due by March 9th!
🌐 For more details and how to apply: hesp.medicine.wisc.edu/applications/
#ADRDresearch #Scholarship
🌐 For more details and how to apply: hesp.medicine.wisc.edu/applications/
#ADRDresearch #Scholarship
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
📣 Calling all future Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) investigators!! Don't forget to submit your application to the Health Enhancement Scientific Program (HESP) due by March 9th!
🌐 For more details and how to apply: hesp.medicine.wisc.edu/applications/
#ADRDresearch #Scholarship
🌐 For more details and how to apply: hesp.medicine.wisc.edu/applications/
#ADRDresearch #Scholarship
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A major milestone for @alzdemjournals.bsky.social #BSEA! We now have our Inaugural Issue. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 I could not be more honored and proud of our work together. Shout out to all Authors, Reviewers, Editorial Board members, and Supporters!!! 💛💜💚 Lundi Gras, indeed!
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging (BSEA) has launched the inaugural issue!
Check out exciting peer-reviewed research and detailed editorial from Editor-in-Chief @cgster.bsky.social
Issue 1 available here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/29973805...
Check out exciting peer-reviewed research and detailed editorial from Editor-in-Chief @cgster.bsky.social
Issue 1 available here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/29973805...
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging: Vol 1, No 1
Click on the title to browse this issue
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A major milestone for @alzdemjournals.bsky.social #BSEA! We now have our Inaugural Issue. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 I could not be more honored and proud of our work together. Shout out to all Authors, Reviewers, Editorial Board members, and Supporters!!! 💛💜💚 Lundi Gras, indeed!
Our inaugural issue is here and open access!
#ENDALZ
#ENDALZ
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior and Socioeconomics of Aging (#BSEA) launches its inaugural issue March 2025!
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
A&D's newest journal has published 6 peer-reviewed articles!
Check out the most recently published articles: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/doSea...
#AlzResearch
February 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Our inaugural issue is here and open access!
#ENDALZ
#ENDALZ
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⭐Introducing Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging, the latest addition to the @alzassociation.bsky.social’s A&D journal family ⭐️
#BSEA Blitz week starts now! Follow for content highlights and meet the editors!
Learn more: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#BSEA Blitz week starts now! Follow for content highlights and meet the editors!
Learn more: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging – Purpose, Vision, and Guidance
Click on the article title to read more.
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
⭐Introducing Behavior & Socioeconomics of Aging, the latest addition to the @alzassociation.bsky.social’s A&D journal family ⭐️
#BSEA Blitz week starts now! Follow for content highlights and meet the editors!
Learn more: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#BSEA Blitz week starts now! Follow for content highlights and meet the editors!
Learn more: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Have you heard the latest ISTAART Voices episode? 🎙️
Hear Dr. @jaceflatt.bsky.social talk about the unique risks & disparities LGBTQIA+ older adults face with dementia & innovative ways to engage this community in research. 🏳️🌈
Listen at alz.org/ISTAARTpodcasts or your favorite podcast platforms! 🎧
Hear Dr. @jaceflatt.bsky.social talk about the unique risks & disparities LGBTQIA+ older adults face with dementia & innovative ways to engage this community in research. 🏳️🌈
Listen at alz.org/ISTAARTpodcasts or your favorite podcast platforms! 🎧
January 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Have you heard the latest ISTAART Voices episode? 🎙️
Hear Dr. @jaceflatt.bsky.social talk about the unique risks & disparities LGBTQIA+ older adults face with dementia & innovative ways to engage this community in research. 🏳️🌈
Listen at alz.org/ISTAARTpodcasts or your favorite podcast platforms! 🎧
Hear Dr. @jaceflatt.bsky.social talk about the unique risks & disparities LGBTQIA+ older adults face with dementia & innovative ways to engage this community in research. 🏳️🌈
Listen at alz.org/ISTAARTpodcasts or your favorite podcast platforms! 🎧
Reposted by Alyssa Arentoft, PhD
Please drop a heart 💙 and "share" if you stand with the National Institutes of Health and the vital research it supports to address Alzheimer’s, cancer, autism, mental health, infectious disease, substance misuse, diabetes, heart disease, vision and hearing impairment, pain, and so much more.
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Please drop a heart 💙 and "share" if you stand with the National Institutes of Health and the vital research it supports to address Alzheimer’s, cancer, autism, mental health, infectious disease, substance misuse, diabetes, heart disease, vision and hearing impairment, pain, and so much more.
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Hey y’all! Please see below for an awesome event for researchers who aim to work and collaborate with diverse Black communities focused on aging. #BHM
January 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hey y’all! Please see below for an awesome event for researchers who aim to work and collaborate with diverse Black communities focused on aging. #BHM
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There is so much to learn about lab work or team management that is not scientific. We tend to kludge together our own method by trial and error, which is why it is special that @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social collects hints and tips from others to share:
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<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> | ASI Journal | Wiley Online Library
<em>Immunology & Cell Biology</em> is the flagship journal of the ASI, focusing on the general functioning of the immune system, with particular emphasis on its cell biology.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
There is so much to learn about lab work or team management that is not scientific. We tend to kludge together our own method by trial and error, which is why it is special that @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social collects hints and tips from others to share:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Interested in teaching people about social identity, group dynamics, intergroup conflict, & social psychology?
We made a syllabus with free content:
-Course schedule
-Videos
-Readings
-Chapter summaries
-Slides
-Tests
-Activities
-Interactive class Q&A
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...
We made a syllabus with free content:
-Course schedule
-Videos
-Readings
-Chapter summaries
-Slides
-Tests
-Activities
-Interactive class Q&A
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...
The POWER OF US Course: A syllabus for teaching about social identity
Issue 123: Calling all educators: we have new free educational materials for teaching about the Power of Shared Identity
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
June 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Interested in teaching people about social identity, group dynamics, intergroup conflict, & social psychology?
We made a syllabus with free content:
-Course schedule
-Videos
-Readings
-Chapter summaries
-Slides
-Tests
-Activities
-Interactive class Q&A
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...
We made a syllabus with free content:
-Course schedule
-Videos
-Readings
-Chapter summaries
-Slides
-Tests
-Activities
-Interactive class Q&A
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-power-...
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New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.
Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women
Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.
www.cuimc.columbia.edu
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.
Reposted by Alyssa Arentoft, PhD
A interesting body of commentary from key people on this critically important topic. Definitely worth a read. Is removing substantial amyloid plus meeting safety targets enough to approve a treatment for #Alzheimer's? #ENDALZ
www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
Is It Time to Approve Drugs Based on Amyloid Removal? | ALZFORUM
www.alzforum.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM
A interesting body of commentary from key people on this critically important topic. Definitely worth a read. Is removing substantial amyloid plus meeting safety targets enough to approve a treatment for #Alzheimer's? #ENDALZ
www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
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🚨🔔Calling all Neuropsychologists and those who know and support them!!!
Check out a new position posting here.
Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362
Check out a new position posting here.
Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362
Assistant Professor- Tenure Track, Clinical Neuropsychology
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
December 15, 2024 at 9:03 PM
🚨🔔Calling all Neuropsychologists and those who know and support them!!!
Check out a new position posting here.
Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362
Check out a new position posting here.
Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362
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So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!!
Check out the ToC!
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Check out the ToC!
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The Portable Mentor
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry - The Portable Mentor
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December 13, 2024 at 6:26 PM
So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!!
Check out the ToC!
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Check out the ToC!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
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Want to see if your research has had an impact on public policy?
Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents.
You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents.
You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
December 27, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Want to see if your research has had an impact on public policy?
Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents.
You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
Enter your info in SagePolicyProfiles to see the citations of your own publications in policy documents.
You get a profile page. Here is mine as an example: policyprofiles.sagepub.com/profile/5920...
Very useful for those of us who are fresh from the other place
if you’re trying to find the people you follow on twitter, check out @kawamataryo.bsky.social’s www.sky-follower-bridge.dev
it found a full 1/3 of the people i follow. impressive work by the developer, but also impressive to see that that many twitter people are setting up here.
it found a full 1/3 of the people i follow. impressive work by the developer, but also impressive to see that that many twitter people are setting up here.
December 4, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Very useful for those of us who are fresh from the other place
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Straight from “The Source”, a health equity starter pack from Dr. Lisa Barnes (@beyoung40.bsky.social) herself! #brain #health #equity go.bsky.app/B19wWRe
November 21, 2024 at 5:22 AM
Straight from “The Source”, a health equity starter pack from Dr. Lisa Barnes (@beyoung40.bsky.social) herself! #brain #health #equity go.bsky.app/B19wWRe
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I missed the MELODEM (Methods in Longitudinal Research on Dementia group) talk today by Yingyan Wu (PhD student working with @ermayeda.bsky.social at UCLA) but it was recorded! In fact, all recent melodem talks are posted: sites.bu.edu/melodem/reso...
If you're an #EndAlz geek, this site's for you.
If you're an #EndAlz geek, this site's for you.
Working Group slides, videos, and other materials | Methods for Longitudinal Studies in Dementia (MELODEM)
sites.bu.edu
November 22, 2024 at 2:09 AM
I missed the MELODEM (Methods in Longitudinal Research on Dementia group) talk today by Yingyan Wu (PhD student working with @ermayeda.bsky.social at UCLA) but it was recorded! In fact, all recent melodem talks are posted: sites.bu.edu/melodem/reso...
If you're an #EndAlz geek, this site's for you.
If you're an #EndAlz geek, this site's for you.