Meredith Braskie
@meredithbraskie.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. Neurology at USC
Director: MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics Program
MRI, amyloid & tau PET, Alzheimer's disease/ADRD.
metabolic/vascular risk, inflammation, health disparities, sex diff.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-braskie-1a3870321
Director: MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics Program
MRI, amyloid & tau PET, Alzheimer's disease/ADRD.
metabolic/vascular risk, inflammation, health disparities, sex diff.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith-braskie-1a3870321
Recent pictures from the Getty Museum gardens, otherwise known as "the good place".
August 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Recent pictures from the Getty Museum gardens, otherwise known as "the good place".
The Jagust Lab alumni dinner is one of my favorite parts of AAIC each year - and this year was no exception. What an amazing group of people, brought together by an extraordinary mentor!
August 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Jagust Lab alumni dinner is one of my favorite parts of AAIC each year - and this year was no exception. What an amazing group of people, brought together by an extraordinary mentor!
🚨Online #AAIC25 diabetes poster by Amaryllis Tsiknia!
Can a drink of glucose change functional brain connectivity?
🥮+🧠= 🔎
"Default mode network connectivity responses to glucose ingestion in cognitively unimpaired older adults with and without type 2 diabetes"
@uscini.bsky.social
Can a drink of glucose change functional brain connectivity?
🥮+🧠= 🔎
"Default mode network connectivity responses to glucose ingestion in cognitively unimpaired older adults with and without type 2 diabetes"
@uscini.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨Online #AAIC25 diabetes poster by Amaryllis Tsiknia!
Can a drink of glucose change functional brain connectivity?
🥮+🧠= 🔎
"Default mode network connectivity responses to glucose ingestion in cognitively unimpaired older adults with and without type 2 diabetes"
@uscini.bsky.social
Can a drink of glucose change functional brain connectivity?
🥮+🧠= 🔎
"Default mode network connectivity responses to glucose ingestion in cognitively unimpaired older adults with and without type 2 diabetes"
@uscini.bsky.social
🟣At #AAIC25? Come talk science with Zoe Tsokolas at poster 490 today.
🧠APOE-ɛ4 moderates the association between HDL-c and white matter hyperintensity volume.
⏲️ 3:30 - 4:15 pm
@uscini.bsky.social
🧠APOE-ɛ4 moderates the association between HDL-c and white matter hyperintensity volume.
⏲️ 3:30 - 4:15 pm
@uscini.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🟣At #AAIC25? Come talk science with Zoe Tsokolas at poster 490 today.
🧠APOE-ɛ4 moderates the association between HDL-c and white matter hyperintensity volume.
⏲️ 3:30 - 4:15 pm
@uscini.bsky.social
🧠APOE-ɛ4 moderates the association between HDL-c and white matter hyperintensity volume.
⏲️ 3:30 - 4:15 pm
@uscini.bsky.social
🎤 Come see Koral Wheeler's talk today at #AAIC25, relating plasma markers of inflammation to longitudinal tau PET in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black & non-Hispanic White non-demented older adults.
🧠 Session: Developing Topics on Tau Biomarkers
🕝 2:42–2:49 PM | 📍 Room 701
@uscini.bsky.social
🧠 Session: Developing Topics on Tau Biomarkers
🕝 2:42–2:49 PM | 📍 Room 701
@uscini.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎤 Come see Koral Wheeler's talk today at #AAIC25, relating plasma markers of inflammation to longitudinal tau PET in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black & non-Hispanic White non-demented older adults.
🧠 Session: Developing Topics on Tau Biomarkers
🕝 2:42–2:49 PM | 📍 Room 701
@uscini.bsky.social
🧠 Session: Developing Topics on Tau Biomarkers
🕝 2:42–2:49 PM | 📍 Room 701
@uscini.bsky.social
At #AAIC25? Come check out Danielle Luu's poster, "Genetic Variants and Brain Tau Levels" today from 3:30-4:15 pm at poster 106. We related genetic variants to PI-2620 tau PET in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White older adults 🧠🧬
@uscini.bsky.social
@uscini.bsky.social
July 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
At #AAIC25? Come check out Danielle Luu's poster, "Genetic Variants and Brain Tau Levels" today from 3:30-4:15 pm at poster 106. We related genetic variants to PI-2620 tau PET in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White older adults 🧠🧬
@uscini.bsky.social
@uscini.bsky.social
✈️Off to #AAIC25 in Toronto!
Excited to share our new research 🧠🧬
• Tau PET & genetic variants
• APOE, HDL, & WMH
• Longitudinal tau PET & inflammation
• DMN & glucose in aging & T2DM
See our full presentation lineup ⬇️
👋Come talk science with us!
Excited to share our new research 🧠🧬
• Tau PET & genetic variants
• APOE, HDL, & WMH
• Longitudinal tau PET & inflammation
• DMN & glucose in aging & T2DM
See our full presentation lineup ⬇️
👋Come talk science with us!
July 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
✈️Off to #AAIC25 in Toronto!
Excited to share our new research 🧠🧬
• Tau PET & genetic variants
• APOE, HDL, & WMH
• Longitudinal tau PET & inflammation
• DMN & glucose in aging & T2DM
See our full presentation lineup ⬇️
👋Come talk science with us!
Excited to share our new research 🧠🧬
• Tau PET & genetic variants
• APOE, HDL, & WMH
• Longitudinal tau PET & inflammation
• DMN & glucose in aging & T2DM
See our full presentation lineup ⬇️
👋Come talk science with us!
🧠New paper alert!
We define PI-2620 tau PET cutpoints in a diverse cohort — summary of 🗝️ findings below ⬇️
675 adults:
• AB+ cognitively impaired (CI)
• AB– cognitively unimpaired (CU)
• 28% Hispanic, 31% NH Black, 41% NH White
🔗 Read it here:
(bit.ly/44RLVwe)
@victoriatennant.bsky.social
We define PI-2620 tau PET cutpoints in a diverse cohort — summary of 🗝️ findings below ⬇️
675 adults:
• AB+ cognitively impaired (CI)
• AB– cognitively unimpaired (CU)
• 28% Hispanic, 31% NH Black, 41% NH White
🔗 Read it here:
(bit.ly/44RLVwe)
@victoriatennant.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🧠New paper alert!
We define PI-2620 tau PET cutpoints in a diverse cohort — summary of 🗝️ findings below ⬇️
675 adults:
• AB+ cognitively impaired (CI)
• AB– cognitively unimpaired (CU)
• 28% Hispanic, 31% NH Black, 41% NH White
🔗 Read it here:
(bit.ly/44RLVwe)
@victoriatennant.bsky.social
We define PI-2620 tau PET cutpoints in a diverse cohort — summary of 🗝️ findings below ⬇️
675 adults:
• AB+ cognitively impaired (CI)
• AB– cognitively unimpaired (CU)
• 28% Hispanic, 31% NH Black, 41% NH White
🔗 Read it here:
(bit.ly/44RLVwe)
@victoriatennant.bsky.social
👋Welcome to Patrick Walsh, who has joined our lab as a full time Project Assistant! Patrick has an MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics from USC (NIIN). He will be working on projects whose goal is to better understand risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias 🧠
June 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
👋Welcome to Patrick Walsh, who has joined our lab as a full time Project Assistant! Patrick has an MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics from USC (NIIN). He will be working on projects whose goal is to better understand risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias 🧠
📣Our paper (bit.ly/3ZndVVh), led by PhD student, Amaryllis Tsiknia, links diabetes to cortical thickness in 2171 Hispanic & non-Hispanic Black and White cognitively unimpaired older adults 🧠🥮
We found that:
We found that:
June 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
📣Our paper (bit.ly/3ZndVVh), led by PhD student, Amaryllis Tsiknia, links diabetes to cortical thickness in 2171 Hispanic & non-Hispanic Black and White cognitively unimpaired older adults 🧠🥮
We found that:
We found that:
🎉Congrats to Noelle Lee, who will start a software development engineer internship this summer! Noelle has been with the lab 4 years and her amazingly analytical mind, careful work, and fun personality made the lab a better place 🌟🧠.
We miss you already, Noelle!
We miss you already, Noelle!
June 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🎉Congrats to Noelle Lee, who will start a software development engineer internship this summer! Noelle has been with the lab 4 years and her amazingly analytical mind, careful work, and fun personality made the lab a better place 🌟🧠.
We miss you already, Noelle!
We miss you already, Noelle!
🎓 Another year with our terrific USC MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics program students draws to an end 🧠💻.
Congrats NIIN graduates! So proud of you 🎉!
Congrats NIIN graduates! So proud of you 🎉!
May 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
🎓 Another year with our terrific USC MS in Neuroimaging and Informatics program students draws to an end 🧠💻.
Congrats NIIN graduates! So proud of you 🎉!
Congrats NIIN graduates! So proud of you 🎉!
Lab chocolate tasting! 🍫
Winners:
1st: Kinder Bueno
2nd: Cadbury Dairy Milk
3rd: Beyond Good 73% Cocoa Salted Caramel (my fav)
The stats:
Milk chocolate fans: 5
Dark chocolate fans: 4
White chocolate fans: 1
Chocolate euphoria + spiking blood sugar: Everyone
Winners:
1st: Kinder Bueno
2nd: Cadbury Dairy Milk
3rd: Beyond Good 73% Cocoa Salted Caramel (my fav)
The stats:
Milk chocolate fans: 5
Dark chocolate fans: 4
White chocolate fans: 1
Chocolate euphoria + spiking blood sugar: Everyone
April 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Lab chocolate tasting! 🍫
Winners:
1st: Kinder Bueno
2nd: Cadbury Dairy Milk
3rd: Beyond Good 73% Cocoa Salted Caramel (my fav)
The stats:
Milk chocolate fans: 5
Dark chocolate fans: 4
White chocolate fans: 1
Chocolate euphoria + spiking blood sugar: Everyone
Winners:
1st: Kinder Bueno
2nd: Cadbury Dairy Milk
3rd: Beyond Good 73% Cocoa Salted Caramel (my fav)
The stats:
Milk chocolate fans: 5
Dark chocolate fans: 4
White chocolate fans: 1
Chocolate euphoria + spiking blood sugar: Everyone
🎉Congrats to Cecilia Ardon Pane! Cecilia started research with us last summer through our CSUF/USC Neurocognitive Aging and Analytics Research Education (NAARE) program.
This fall, she will be joining the Master of Public Health program at UC Irvine with a concentration in Epidemiology!✨
This fall, she will be joining the Master of Public Health program at UC Irvine with a concentration in Epidemiology!✨
April 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
🎉Congrats to Cecilia Ardon Pane! Cecilia started research with us last summer through our CSUF/USC Neurocognitive Aging and Analytics Research Education (NAARE) program.
This fall, she will be joining the Master of Public Health program at UC Irvine with a concentration in Epidemiology!✨
This fall, she will be joining the Master of Public Health program at UC Irvine with a concentration in Epidemiology!✨
🧠✨Great USC Neuroscience Graduate Program Research Symposium yesterday! Good to talk with current students, hear about their research, and meet new people (including some terrific prospective students).
March 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
🧠✨Great USC Neuroscience Graduate Program Research Symposium yesterday! Good to talk with current students, hear about their research, and meet new people (including some terrific prospective students).
✨Join the virtual information session for our USC Master of Science in Neuroimaging and Informatics (NIIN) program!
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4 pm PST
Hear about our curriculum, research opportunities & student perspectives 💻
To register: email NIIN@ini.usc.edu, subject line “Information Session”
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4 pm PST
Hear about our curriculum, research opportunities & student perspectives 💻
To register: email NIIN@ini.usc.edu, subject line “Information Session”
February 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
✨Join the virtual information session for our USC Master of Science in Neuroimaging and Informatics (NIIN) program!
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4 pm PST
Hear about our curriculum, research opportunities & student perspectives 💻
To register: email NIIN@ini.usc.edu, subject line “Information Session”
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4 pm PST
Hear about our curriculum, research opportunities & student perspectives 💻
To register: email NIIN@ini.usc.edu, subject line “Information Session”
Our federal gov't funds ~25% of medical research in the USA-helping us to understand disease mechanisms & test treatments. NIH funding is now in danger.
Please contact your senators & reps to ask them to preserve NIH funding.
2024 NIH-funded research:
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Please contact your senators & reps to ask them to preserve NIH funding.
2024 NIH-funded research:
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
February 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our federal gov't funds ~25% of medical research in the USA-helping us to understand disease mechanisms & test treatments. NIH funding is now in danger.
Please contact your senators & reps to ask them to preserve NIH funding.
2024 NIH-funded research:
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
Please contact your senators & reps to ask them to preserve NIH funding.
2024 NIH-funded research:
www.nih.gov/news-events/...
In 833 cognitively unimpaired older adults, obesity related differently to brain tau across ethnoracial subgroups.
To find out more, come talk to Victoria Tennant at poster #143 tomorrow (Friday) 11:05 am-12 at Human Amyloid Imaging #HAI2025
Follow her at -->@victoriatennant.bsky.social
To find out more, come talk to Victoria Tennant at poster #143 tomorrow (Friday) 11:05 am-12 at Human Amyloid Imaging #HAI2025
Follow her at -->@victoriatennant.bsky.social
January 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In 833 cognitively unimpaired older adults, obesity related differently to brain tau across ethnoracial subgroups.
To find out more, come talk to Victoria Tennant at poster #143 tomorrow (Friday) 11:05 am-12 at Human Amyloid Imaging #HAI2025
Follow her at -->@victoriatennant.bsky.social
To find out more, come talk to Victoria Tennant at poster #143 tomorrow (Friday) 11:05 am-12 at Human Amyloid Imaging #HAI2025
Follow her at -->@victoriatennant.bsky.social
Los Angeles area friends - the LA Times reported that some fire hydrants in affected areas have run dry due to demand. To help firefighters and protect our neighbors & their homes, please reserve water, especially now.
Hoping for the safety of all & quick containment of these horrible blazes.
Hoping for the safety of all & quick containment of these horrible blazes.
January 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Los Angeles area friends - the LA Times reported that some fire hydrants in affected areas have run dry due to demand. To help firefighters and protect our neighbors & their homes, please reserve water, especially now.
Hoping for the safety of all & quick containment of these horrible blazes.
Hoping for the safety of all & quick containment of these horrible blazes.
Imaging Genetics Center potluck party at the marina.
Wishing you all a wonderful break & a very happy new year!
(Photo credit: Dr. Neda Jahanshad and a soda can)
Wishing you all a wonderful break & a very happy new year!
(Photo credit: Dr. Neda Jahanshad and a soda can)
December 18, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Imaging Genetics Center potluck party at the marina.
Wishing you all a wonderful break & a very happy new year!
(Photo credit: Dr. Neda Jahanshad and a soda can)
Wishing you all a wonderful break & a very happy new year!
(Photo credit: Dr. Neda Jahanshad and a soda can)