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Pitt GPN Lab
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Geriatric Psychiatry Neuroimaging Lab at the University of Pittsburgh

Investigating common causes of geriatric syndromes, including late-life depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's Disease, mobility, and cognitive function 🔬🧠

https://gpn.pitt.edu
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Hope you're having a great summer! We'd like to share our latest newsletter from our lab, highlighting some extraordinary work from our student researchers and events in our community.

Check it out! tinyurl.com/gpnnewslette...

#science #MRI #CogSciSci #Alzheimers #BrainHealth
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A new study by Joaquin Migeot, Stefanie Pina-Escudero, Hernan Hernandez, Agustin Ibanez, et al. reveals that a person's overall social #Exposome is linked to poorer brain health outcomes & increased #Dementia risk. Learn More in Nature Communications 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social exposome and brain health outcomes of dementia across Latin America - Nature Communications
The social exposome—lifelong social and economic adversity—can shape brain health and dementia risk. Here, the authors show that an adverse social exposome is linked to poorer clinical, cognitive, and...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Yesterday was #WorldAlzheimersDay! ⏳ Every 3 seconds, someone develops dementia - and 2 in 3 are women ⏳

Join us in our raising awareness and supporting research that prioritizes women to create a future of better brain health for everyone. 💜

#EndAlz #WomensHealth #AskAboutAlzheimers
September 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"we observed females to have increased bilateral hippocampal functional connectivity change that was associated with greater WMH burden."

Noah Schweitzer leads a study on Sex Differences in Alzheimer's Progression.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37817668/
#Alzheimer's #Dementia #Neurology
Sex-dependent alterations in hippocampal connectivity are linked to cerebrovascular and amyloid pathologies in normal aging - PubMed
These findings suggest sex-dependent compensatory mechanisms in the memory network in the presence of cerebrovascular and AD pathologies and may explain the accelerated trajectory of cognitive decline...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hope you're having a great summer! We'd like to share our latest newsletter from our lab, highlighting some extraordinary work from our student researchers and events in our community.

Check it out! tinyurl.com/gpnnewslette...

#science #MRI #CogSciSci #Alzheimers #BrainHealth
July 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The Spring issue of our quarterly newsletter is here! Check out the wonderful contributions to geriatric research our talented researchers are making!

Read Here: tinyurl.com/gpnnewslette...

#alzheimers #dementia #psychology #mri #brain #research
April 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Alpha synuclein co-pathology is associated with accelerated amyloid-driven tau accumulation in Alzheimer's disease.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40098057/

#neurodegeneration #Alzheimers #Tau
March 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Season's Greetings!

We have a new update of our quarterly newsletter for you! In this issue, we highlight our latest publication about sex-specific risk factors in dementia outcomes, and introduce Dr. Shaolin Yang and Haley Dubovecky

Read Here: tinyurl.com/gpnnewslette...

#scisky #Alzheimers #MRI
December 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM
Season's Greetings!

We have a new update of our quarterly newsletter for you! In this issue, we highlight our latest publication about sex-specific risk factors in dementia outcomes, and introduce Dr. Shaolin Yang and Haley Dubovecky

Read Here: tinyurl.com/gpnnewslette...

#scisky #Alzheimers #MRI
December 20, 2024 at 6:42 PM
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Hi all,
New Starter Pack:
Task-based fMRI
go.bsky.app/Ai1f67H
Discussion of task design, analysis methods, sharing of results, interpretation, and publication sharing for task-based fMRI/cognitive neuroscience
by: @twoodward.bsky.social
Let me know if you'd like to join!
September 27, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Here’s my cognitive neuroscience of speech and language starter pack, now with 100% more @dezubg.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/6iumPee
September 28, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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Starter Pack for #socialscience #research labs and centers is growing. Let us know who is missing! Hope to see more labs make their way to bluer skies 🌞

#scicomms #scisky
go.bsky.app/Tv3Dx9H
September 20, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow!

go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE
October 21, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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I've tried to make a mental health research starter pack. Please suggest more people to add.

go.bsky.app/MfWbYvP
September 15, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Hope you're having a wonderful summer! 🌞

We'd like to share our GPN Newsletter, Summer 2024 issue! Updates on our recent publications, highlights in geriatric psychology, amazing researchers, and more!

Check it out! tinyurl.com/gpn-bulletin...

#science #MRI #CogSciSci #Alzheimers #BrainHealth
August 12, 2024 at 3:54 PM