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Fernando Rigon
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🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student @giovannacollar.bsky.social for receiving the AAIC Neuroscience Next ‘One to Watch’ Award at #AAICNeuro 🇺🇸!

A well-deserved recognition by the @alzassociation.bsky.social for her contributions to neuroscience research. 👏✨
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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New Study just out in The Lancet Global Health! #LucasDaRos, @vbwyll.bsky.social, #CristianoAguzzoli & colleagues used a machine learning model to determine the most important risk factors for cognitive and functional decline in Brazil and other LATAM Countries 🧵 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Social and health disparities associated with healthy brain ageing in Brazil and in other Latin American countries
Our findings indicate that Brazil converges with other Latin American countries to show that heterogeneous factors impacted more than demographic factors, but also showed a unique set of health factor...
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January 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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📄 In a new study just published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, our PhD student #AntonioAliaga, in collaboration with #Prof.PedroRosa-Neto's team, evaluated the binding properties of tau radiotracers in postmortem human brain tissue in the context of AD. 👇 1/n jnm.snmjournals.org/content/earl...
Comparison Between Brain and Cerebellar Autoradiography Using [18F]Flortaucipir, [18F]MK6240, and [18F]PI2620 in Postmortem Human Brain Tissue
Our objective was to evaluate the in vitro binding properties of [18F]flortaucipir, 6-(fluoro-18F)-3-(1 H -pyrrolo[2,3-c]pyridin-1-yl)isoquinolin-5-amine ([18F]MK6240), and 2-(2-([18F]fluoro)pyridin-4...
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November 25, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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Hello, Bluesky! 🦋

Excited to join this vibrant community! Looking forward to connecting, learning, and sharing insights.

Let’s explore together 🚀
November 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM
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I’m an Assistant Prof of Pharmacology at @ufrgs.br (🇧🇷) and an adjunct professor at McGill (🇨🇦). We study neurodegeneration, with a particular focus on astrocytes! More about the lab 👉 zimmer-lab.org 👉 Looking forward to rebuild our network here 🦋
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November 19, 2024 at 7:28 PM