Douglas Leffa

MD-PhD, researcher in ADHD, Psychiatry resident @PittPsychiatry

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

Very happy to see this paper out!

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

New paper alert🚨
Our new study led by @dtleffa & @guilhermepovala published @alzdemjournals links genetic risk for ADHD to more severe dementia.
Check here: https://t.co/CvRurVUDg9

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

Looking forward to the Pascoal team’s presentations at this Saturday’s #AIC pre-conference! @NeuroimagingPIA @ISTAART @alzassociation

Check out our line-up:

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

Congratulations to @BellaverBruna for receiving the Publication of the Year Award from the Biofluid Based Biomarkers @ISTAART Professional Interest Area at PIA day, for her recent paper in Nature Medicine! #AAIC24

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@HusseinZalzale @PittPsychiatry @TharickAPascoal Welcome!

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@CorteseSamuele @StephenFaraone @DiseasePrimers Amazing job!

[Bruna Bellaver @BellaverBruna]

Very proud to share this one! Here we showed transcriptomic similarities and differences between three AD animal models and EOAD and LOAD. Thank you all to collaborators involved @giovannacollar
@erzimmer @mvlourenco @aslfricardo @TharickAPascoal @pedrorosaneto

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@DrMarielyH Thank you for the discussion!

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

Amazing work by the great @jpfsouza33 !

[João Pedro Ferrari-Souza @jpfsouza33]

Out now in Neurobiology of Aging!

In this new article, we demonstrated that vascular risk burden & AD pathophysiology jointly accelerate neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in CU individuals

@erzimmer @ufrgsnoticias @ppgbioq @CAPES_Oficial @TharickAPascoal @LabPascoal

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@CorteseSamuele @SotonPsych Congratulations @CorteseSamuele very well deserved!!

[Pitt Psychiatry @PittPsychiatry]

Please join us in welcoming new faculty members Bruna Bellaver, PhD (Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry), and Pamela Lukasewicz Ferreira, PhD (Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry)! https://t.co/3hv0D1E40k

[University of Pittsburgh @PittTweet]

Research from Pitt's School of Medicine may hold the key to understanding Alzheimer's progression. Read more about this groundbreaking study. https://t.co/Obu1tIKDtF

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@HusseinZalzale @AubmcPsychiatry Amazing job @HusseinZalzale !

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

@luis_farhat @APAPubJournals @rachelblakey @thaliaeley @anita_thapar1 @gvpolanczyk @lizzieshephard @stergiakouli @mendel_random @TedsProject @CO90s Amazing work @luis_farhat

[BrightFocus Foundation @_BrightFocus]

A link between #ADHD and #Alzheimers disease has been suspected for some time, and now two separate #research studies have shown a #connection.

Find out more ➡️ https://t.co/JLkI6nYTh9.

[João Pedro Ferrari-Souza @jpfsouza33]

What an amazing experience at #AAIC23! Thanks a lot for the @alzassociation @ISTAART for the opportunity to share our work from @LabPascoal 🇺🇸 & @zimmerneurolab 🇧🇷. Already excited to see you all again in Philly #AAIC24 🧠

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

Amazing @jpfsouza33 !

[Zimmer Lab @zimmerneurolab]

Congrats to our PhD student @jpfsouza33 for receiving the Prof. Gilberto Schwartsmann Award for publishing the best paper in 2022-23 (https://t.co/2uRlEWud0V) among the medical students at @ufrgsnoticias! Huge team effort led by João together with @LabPascoal & @zimmerneurolab 👏

[Douglas Leffa @dtleffa]

Any program would be lucky to have you!

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

We are happy that @dtleffa's work linking ADHD with Alzheimer's is being featured in numerous TV broadcasts across the country, reaching millions of Americans https://t.co/srK8XweAS2

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

We thank the @alzassociation and are very proud of our postdocs @gbnegrini and @SarahAbbas52 awarded with the AA Research and Clinical fellowships, respectively. They will address important gaps in tau PET harmonization and the use of inflammation biomarkers in trials. Congrats!!

[Pascoal Lab @LabPascoal]

What a fantastic talk by @guilhermepovala at #AIC23, where he discussed the impact of microglial activation on brain atrophy in preclinical AD. #AAIC2023 @alzassociation @ISTAART