BrainLat UAI

Latin American Brain Health Institute (BrainLat UAI) -
Empowering leaders and innovative research on brain health across Latin America

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We welcome Cristian Ávila-Rincón, a PhD student in Neuroscience at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia, who joins BrainLat UAI as a visiting doctoral researcher.
His work studies how the social exposome and DNA methylation are linked to brain health and dementia in LA.

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🧠 ¿La desigualdad puede influir en cómo envejece el cerebro?

En esta cápsula de Cerebro en 40 segundos, Joaquín Migeot explica cómo las condiciones de vida pueden impactar la salud cerebral, y qué factores pueden ayudar a protegerla.

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On #WorldBrainDay, BrainLat UAI highlights an urgent question: how does air pollution affect brain health?
Joaquín Migeot’s work contributes to understanding the link between pollution and the brain, with a focus on Latin America.

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Beautiful meeting of @GBHI_Fellows hearts + minds across @tcddublin + @UCSFmac . In between is where our shared values truly come alive.

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BrainLat UAI participated in #AAIC2026 with 11 team members involved in scientific committees, sessions, oral presentations, preconferences and posters on brain health, dementia, biomarkers and aging in Latin America.

Sharing some moments from the conference.

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How well do we know when we’re right?
A new BrainLat UAI study found that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in metacognition—our ability to evaluate our own performance—in working memory and emotion recognition tasks.
Read the paper: https://t.co/D1IFPk96io

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BrainLat UAI joined #FENSForum2026, a meeting organized by the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies to share advances in brain research. Agustín Ibáñez and Claudia Duran-Aniotz took part in activities on brain health, aging, and dementia.

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Wonderful discussion about the future of healthy aging and dementia in global settings
Amazing speakers Julia Neitzel, Ludovica Griffanti, and @MiiaKivipelto, chairs David Cash and @sylv_villeneuve .

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Our lifestyle, socioeconomic factors and environment shape the brain as much as genes do. A new Perspective in @NatureRevNeuro proposes the “exposome” as a framework to understand this cumulative impact and highlights the need for research in diverse populations.

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Multimodal aging clocks (spanning epigenomic, brain, behavioral, speech, and biobehavioral models) offer a powerful new approach to understanding aging and dementia globally. But how well do they generalize across diverse, underrepresented populations, and how reliably do they capture longitudinal change? Join us at #AAIC26 for this Perspectives Session, where I will share new findings alongside Julia Neitzel, Ludovica Griffanti, and @MiiaKivipelto, chaired by David Cash and @sylv_villeneuve.
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
2:00–3:30 p.m.
Victoria 2/3

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A new paper co-authored by @AgustinMIbanez introduces the International Alliance on Brain Health (IABH), promoting integrated strategies that connect research, public health, policy, neurology and psychiatry.
https://t.co/ST5aF5ZLqT

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🧠 ¿Qué nos dicen las redes del cerebro sobre la salud mental?
En el primer capítulo de Cerebro en 40 segundos, Josefina Cruzat explica por qué muchos trastornos no dependen de una región aislada, sino de cómo el cerebro se organiza y se comunica.

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ReDLat2, proyecto liderado por BrainLat UAI, estudiará las demencias y el envejecimiento cerebral en poblaciones latinas.

Escucha la entrevista a Agustín Ibáñez en Cooperativa Ciencia: https://t.co/lnhvtoM7uA

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¿Te interesa investigar el cerebro, la cognición y la salud cerebral? 🧠
Postula al Doctorado en Neurociencia Social y Cognición UAI, un programa único con investigación desde el inicio y tecnología de vanguardia @cscn_uai @BrainlatUAI↘️
https://t.co/FEGfoTwjIq

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Claudia Duran-Aniotz, directora de BrainLat UAI, participó en La Sociedad de la Ciencia de Radio Usach para hablar sobre Alzheimer, envejecimiento cerebral y nuevos avances científicos.

Revive el capítulo: https://t.co/VIWmEv2pxf

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🎥 #AgingShort:
Abstract #video about this #research paper #published in Volume 17, Issue 11, titled “Infusion of blood from young and old mice modulates amyloid pathology.” @BrainlatUAI @UTHealthHouston

🔗 https://t.co/sKQns4zb4A

#aging #PaperSpotlight #alzheimers #oa

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Honored to be selected as a winner of the 2026 Nature Awards Healthspan Accelerator in London. With a dream team— Fabio Mattiussi, Sebas Moguilner, @HernHdezL , @carlosmig_12 , @PavelPradoG , and @alopevas —we will develop multi-aging clocks in real-world settings and hope to build a strong alliance with @fpmaragall . https://t.co/OCxOKUmgAF @SpringerNature

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BrainLat UAI será parte de #AAIC2026, conferencia internacional sobre Alzheimer, demencias y salud cerebral.

11 integrantes participarán en comités, sesiones, presentaciones orales, preconferencias y pósters sobre salud cerebral en América Latina.

https://t.co/z8bKfqUob9

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BrainLat UAI at #ASSC29 in Santiago.
Agustín Ibáñez, Josefina Cruzat and Enzo Tagliazucchi took part in this international meeting on consciousness, subjective experience and brain science.