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Amelia Hicks, PhD
@ameliajhicks.bsky.social
Neuropsychology PostDoc @ Brain Injury Research Center Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai | PhD @ Monash University | Research: Traumatic Brain Injury - chronic outcomes + AD/ADRD, healthy aging,🩸biomarkers, 🧬, suicidality | 🇦🇺 in 🇺🇸
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👋Stop by posters #19 and #20 @neurotrauma.org tomorrow! I’m presenting (1) exploring trajectories of blood based protein biomarkers in chronic TBI and (2) using NSHD to understand prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes for those with pre-existing disability and TBI @neurotrauma.org #nns2025 #TBI
June 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Friends, I have news.

It is very good news.

You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.

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Introducing the Medical Evidence Project
And the quest to make less dead people
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June 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Join us at our Public and Patient Engagement Event, taking place on the 21st May 2025.

If you or a family member are affected by Parkinson’s, we would love to tell you more about our study and hear your thoughts and feedback!

Please scan the QR code to register!

#Parkinsons #Dementia #Research
May 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Hot on the heels of the fascinating study linking the shingles vaccine to reduced #dementia risk in Wales, confirmatory evidence from Australia (this time w/ some good news for men too!). Kudos to @pascalge.bsky.social & team for pushing this area forward.

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More Evidence That The Shingles Vaccine Reduces Dementia Risk
New data from Australia show a benefit in both women AND men
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May 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🩸🩸🩸Our new systematic review examining blood-based protein biomarkers in chronic traumatic brain injury (12mths+ post injury) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40176450/ @sinaibrain.bsky.social
Blood-Based Protein Biomarkers in the Chronic Phase of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review - PubMed
There has been limited exploration of blood-based biomarkers in the chronic period following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Our objective was to conduct a systematic review of studies examining blood-b...
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April 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🚨 Our new paper exploring suicidality and self harm among individuals with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury. Participants shared factors they perceived as increasing risk (eg. sequelae of the TBI) and attenuating risk (eg. being optimistic, family support). psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
Suicidality and Self-Harm Among Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury: Risk and Protective Factors and Coping Mechanisms | The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
Objective: The authors examined lived experience perspectives of suicidality and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) after moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), risk and protective factors, and ...
psychiatryonline.org
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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We've added another webinar. Can you make it?

Designing inclusive environments for people living w/ #dementia: how much do we really know?
Tuesday, 22nd July, 2-3pm
Free Tickets & More Info: buff.ly/6e2bCEN

Speakers: Sarah Waller and Jennifer Bray, University of Worcester
March 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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A study in BMC Psychology finds engaging in moderate or light physical activity at least three days per week, and vigorous physical activity one to two days per week, is associated with a reduced incidence of cognitive impairment among middle-aged and older adults.

#PsychSciSky #alzsky
Relationship between different physical activity parameters and cognitive impairment in middle-aged and older adults: insights from a 4-year longitudinal study
BMC Psychology
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March 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New research indicates that traumatic brain injury may steer Alzheimer's pathology down a different path #braininjury #TBI

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Traumatic brain injury may steer Alzheimer's pathology down a different path
Traumatic brain injury may reshape how neurodegenerative proteins spread in the brain. A new study found that while amyloid-beta and tau levels were not significantly higher, they accumulated in diffe...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Planning for the holidays with someone living in #dementia? Dr. Alexis Eastman shares best practices for holiday travel and family gatherings.
5 Best Practices for Holidays Planning: A Dementia Care Expert’s Guide
Planning for the holidays with someone living in dementia? Dr. Alexis Eastman shares best practices for holiday travel and family gatherings.
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December 11, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."
Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate
The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study
www.science.org
December 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM
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"Iatrogenic harm in FND" – new review article @brain1878 very much the work of Caoimhe McLoughlin – a short thread. academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... 1/
December 5, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Thread on #LongCovid based on our Lancet paper. #episky #medsky #medtwitter (lay summary link is right at the end).
November 24, 2024 at 11:31 AM
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This essay has been long overdue. Chapeau to Tom Pollock for writing it.

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Why inflammatory reductionism is a threat to psychiatry (and the rest of medicine)
Thomas Pollak explores the emergence of a new worldview which attempts to explain all manner of ills as the result of inflammation or immune dysfunction. H
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November 21, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.

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Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
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November 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM