UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
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We are a world-leading centre for neurological research within the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences. www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/ion. Follow us also on LinkedIn.
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The BNA is thrilled to announce that Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl.ac.uk has won the 2025 Outstanding Contribution to #Neuroscience Award.
Her ground-breaking work is transforming hope and treatment prospects for people with #HuntingtonsDisease.
bna.org.uk/resource/pro...
#ResearchImpact
Her ground-breaking work is transforming hope and treatment prospects for people with #HuntingtonsDisease.
bna.org.uk/resource/pro...
#ResearchImpact
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The BNA is thrilled to announce that Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl.ac.uk has won the 2025 Outstanding Contribution to #Neuroscience Award.
Her ground-breaking work is transforming hope and treatment prospects for people with #HuntingtonsDisease.
bna.org.uk/resource/pro...
#ResearchImpact
Her ground-breaking work is transforming hope and treatment prospects for people with #HuntingtonsDisease.
bna.org.uk/resource/pro...
#ResearchImpact
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Can we repair the ageing brain? 🧠
The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper and Prof Julie Williams join Prof Sonia Gandhi, @rorycj.bsky.social and host Brian Cox to discuss dementia and the ageing brain on the latest episode of @crick.ac.uk's new podcast 'A Question of Science' 🎙️👉 buff.ly/WymdYJ6
The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper and Prof Julie Williams join Prof Sonia Gandhi, @rorycj.bsky.social and host Brian Cox to discuss dementia and the ageing brain on the latest episode of @crick.ac.uk's new podcast 'A Question of Science' 🎙️👉 buff.ly/WymdYJ6
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Can we repair the ageing brain? 🧠
The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper and Prof Julie Williams join Prof Sonia Gandhi, @rorycj.bsky.social and host Brian Cox to discuss dementia and the ageing brain on the latest episode of @crick.ac.uk's new podcast 'A Question of Science' 🎙️👉 buff.ly/WymdYJ6
The UK DRI's Prof Bart De Strooper and Prof Julie Williams join Prof Sonia Gandhi, @rorycj.bsky.social and host Brian Cox to discuss dementia and the ageing brain on the latest episode of @crick.ac.uk's new podcast 'A Question of Science' 🎙️👉 buff.ly/WymdYJ6
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Great two days in York with the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network. Always a pleasure to be invited to share MitoCluster's work, thank you!
@mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @lauragreaves.bsky.social @robpitceathly.bsky.social
@mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @lauragreaves.bsky.social @robpitceathly.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Great two days in York with the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network. Always a pleasure to be invited to share MitoCluster's work, thank you!
@mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @lauragreaves.bsky.social @robpitceathly.bsky.social
@mrcmousenetwork.bsky.social @jellevda.bsky.social @lauragreaves.bsky.social @robpitceathly.bsky.social
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🎉 16 UCL Brain Sciences academics have been named in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List 2025, recognising their exceptional global research impact.
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
16 UCL Brain Sciences academics recognised in 2025 annual global list of influential researchers
A total of 16 academics from the UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences have been identified in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ 2025.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎉 16 UCL Brain Sciences academics have been named in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers List 2025, recognising their exceptional global research impact.
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
👏 Congratulations to all!
Read the list in full:
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Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social on earning the @britishneuro.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award, for excellence and leadership in UK neuroscience and recognising her transformative impact on Huntington's disease research
Pioneering UCL Huntington’s researcher wins major neuroscience award
Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of the UCL Huntington’s Disease Centre, has been awarded the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award for 2025, the assoc...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congratulations to Professor Sarah Tabrizi @ucl-hd.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social on earning the @britishneuro.bsky.social Outstanding Contribution to Neuroscience Award, for excellence and leadership in UK neuroscience and recognising her transformative impact on Huntington's disease research
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Thrilled to share our review on imaging and fluid biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies with @angelikaza.bsky.social and wonderful collaborators Brit Mollenhauer Louis CS Tan Michael Bartl and Nick Fox @uclqsion.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Diagnostic and other biomarkers of dementia with Lewy bodies: from research to clinical settings
Dementia with Lewy bodies is characterised clinically by visual hallucinations, fluctuating cognitive function, parkinsonism, and rapid eye movement s…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thrilled to share our review on imaging and fluid biomarkers in dementia with Lewy bodies with @angelikaza.bsky.social and wonderful collaborators Brit Mollenhauer Louis CS Tan Michael Bartl and Nick Fox @uclqsion.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🚨We’ve just awarded Research Fellowships to nine outstanding early career scientists🚨
Meet the Fellows bringing bold ideas to life: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/new-res...
Meet the Fellows bringing bold ideas to life: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/new-res...
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🚨We’ve just awarded Research Fellowships to nine outstanding early career scientists🚨
Meet the Fellows bringing bold ideas to life: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/new-res...
Meet the Fellows bringing bold ideas to life: www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/news/new-res...
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Congratulations to Pete Harley on successfully being awarded a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award - 'Uncovering the interplay of synaptic activity and TDP-43 pathology in neurodegeneration', starting in January 2026.
@peteharley95.bsky.social
@peteharley95.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Congratulations to Pete Harley on successfully being awarded a Wellcome Trust Early-Career Award - 'Uncovering the interplay of synaptic activity and TDP-43 pathology in neurodegeneration', starting in January 2026.
@peteharley95.bsky.social
@peteharley95.bsky.social
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Nature research paper: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial histology of five human half brains, and which can be used to automatically segment brain MRI scans into 333 regions.
go.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Nature research paper: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
go.nature.com/4nDj2di
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The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social professor is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
Dedicated national network of Dementia Research Nurses launches
The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a UCL professor of neurology, is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The UK Dementia Trials Network, led by a @uclqsion.bsky.social professor is establishing a dedicated nationwide network of Dementia Research Nurses.
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, November 14th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Adrien Doerig giving a talk entitled "LLMs as models of high level perceptual processing"
In person or online. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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An amazing collaboration with @uclqsion.bsky.social spearheaded by @alexlepauvre.bsky.social! This is also one of the many spinoff initiatives in @arc-cogitate.bsky.social to build open, standardized open, standardized practices for cognitive neuroscience data collection and analyses. See others at:
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
An amazing collaboration with @uclqsion.bsky.social spearheaded by @alexlepauvre.bsky.social! This is also one of the many spinoff initiatives in @arc-cogitate.bsky.social to build open, standardized open, standardized practices for cognitive neuroscience data collection and analyses. See others at:
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🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🎙️ Professor Sir John Hardy’s journey at @uclqsion.bsky.social reshaped Alzheimer’s research. Discover the thrill of gene-hunting and the future of brain science in Episode 5 of Faces of UCL: “The Neuroscience Rockstar”.
👉
👉
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A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
Parkinson’s breakthrough could unlock treatments for devastating disease
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking new technique to visualise the brain clusters that may trigger Parkinson’s
www.the-independent.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A team involving @uclqsion.bsky.social scientists has, for the first time, directly visualised and quantified the protein clusters believed to trigger Parkinson’s disease.
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This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
share.google
November 6, 2025 at 5:35 AM
This is 🤯
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool.
#neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...
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New research shows grey matter networks in early #multiplesclerosis have a biphasic response to the first demyelinating attack 👉 buff.ly/9iv1vKJ
@SaraCollorone
@SaraCollorone
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
New research shows grey matter networks in early #multiplesclerosis have a biphasic response to the first demyelinating attack 👉 buff.ly/9iv1vKJ
@SaraCollorone
@SaraCollorone
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Best of luck to all the nominees at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social Awards 2025 this evening!🥇
We're a proud sponsor of the Leading Researcher Award: Sex/Gender in Neuroscience 💫
Read more 👉 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/winuk-awards...
We're a proud sponsor of the Leading Researcher Award: Sex/Gender in Neuroscience 💫
Read more 👉 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/winuk-awards...
November 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Best of luck to all the nominees at the @womeninneurouk.bsky.social Awards 2025 this evening!🥇
We're a proud sponsor of the Leading Researcher Award: Sex/Gender in Neuroscience 💫
Read more 👉 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/winuk-awards...
We're a proud sponsor of the Leading Researcher Award: Sex/Gender in Neuroscience 💫
Read more 👉 www.womeninneuroscienceuk.org/winuk-awards...
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📻 Tune in to Times Radio to hear Professor Nick Fox (@uclqsion.bsky.social) discussing early onset dementia and what he hopes the new Hilary and Galen Weston Rare Dementia Support Centre at UCL will achieve.
Listen from 57 mins:
Listen from 57 mins:
Times Radio Drive with Carolyn Quinn | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
Listen to Times Radio live for the latest breaking news, expert analysis and well-informed discussion covering the biggest stories of the day.
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November 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
📻 Tune in to Times Radio to hear Professor Nick Fox (@uclqsion.bsky.social) discussing early onset dementia and what he hopes the new Hilary and Galen Weston Rare Dementia Support Centre at UCL will achieve.
Listen from 57 mins:
Listen from 57 mins:
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A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by @uclqsion.bsky.social researchers.
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A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by a team led by Dr Juan Eugenio Iglesias @uclengineering.bsky.social & Dr Zane Jaunmuktane @uclbrainscience.bsky.social, in a major advance in neuroimaging
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
New brain atlas offers unprecedented detail in MRI scans
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can help visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by UCL researchers, in a major step forward for neuroscience and neuroimaging.
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A new AI-assisted brain atlas that can visualise the human brain in unprecedented detail has been developed by a team led by Dr Juan Eugenio Iglesias @uclengineering.bsky.social & Dr Zane Jaunmuktane @uclbrainscience.bsky.social, in a major advance in neuroimaging
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/no...
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🔬 These images show forebrain organoids that are grown at the UCL Wray Lab to study dementia. This research focuses on a genetic form of frontotemporal dementia, and the colours confirm that the organoids have developing neurons (neural progenitors).
📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🔬 These images show forebrain organoids that are grown at the UCL Wray Lab to study dementia. This research focuses on a genetic form of frontotemporal dementia, and the colours confirm that the organoids have developing neurons (neural progenitors).
📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
📸: Sophie Goldsmith, @uclqsion.bsky.social
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Congrats to Peter Finnigan, a Highly Specialist Neuromuscular Physio from NHNN’s Highly Specialist McArdle & Related Disorders Service, on his Small Acorns grant from The National Brain Appeal of £5,691.60 to establish normative strength profiles and quantify sarcopenia risk in McArdle disease👏
October 31, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Congrats to Peter Finnigan, a Highly Specialist Neuromuscular Physio from NHNN’s Highly Specialist McArdle & Related Disorders Service, on his Small Acorns grant from The National Brain Appeal of £5,691.60 to establish normative strength profiles and quantify sarcopenia risk in McArdle disease👏
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Excellent recent series from @thelancet.com on Alzheimer's disease bringing together international experts including Prof Nick Fox (UK DRI at UCL) to distill a century of research into actionable insights 🧠
Read the full series 👉 www.thelancet.com/series-do/al...
Read the full series 👉 www.thelancet.com/series-do/al...
The Lancet Series on Alzheimer’s disease
The initial successes of anti-amyloid β monoclonal antibodies offer new perspectives for improving the clinical trajectory of Alzheimer’s disease for the first time since its identification in 1906.
www.thelancet.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Excellent recent series from @thelancet.com on Alzheimer's disease bringing together international experts including Prof Nick Fox (UK DRI at UCL) to distill a century of research into actionable insights 🧠
Read the full series 👉 www.thelancet.com/series-do/al...
Read the full series 👉 www.thelancet.com/series-do/al...
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Next year, a pioneering service at UCL will support thousands of people diagnosed with rare dementia, combining science with emotional support. (£wall) @uclqsion.bsky.social
‘I see people with dementia in their 20s’: first centre for young patients
A pioneering service at University College London will support thousands of people diagnosed decades before old age, combining science with emotional support
www.thetimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Next year, a pioneering service at UCL will support thousands of people diagnosed with rare dementia, combining science with emotional support. (£wall) @uclqsion.bsky.social