Great work from postdoc Paula Iso-Markku! Physical activity as a protective factor for dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: systematic review, meta-analysis and quality assessment of cohort and case–control studies https://t.co/wbtI530v1k
A Finnish twin study suggests that the deteriorative effects of cardiovascular risk factors on late-life cognition are stronger in individuals with lower education compared to those with higher education. @vuoksimaa
https://t.co/JgAVzit1ZV
Suomalainen kaksostutkimus osoitti, että sydän- ja verisuonitautien riskitekijöiden vaikutus ikääntyneiden muistiin korostuu vähän koulutetuilla. Löydös korostaa lapsuuden ja nuoruuden koulutuksen merkitystä dementian ennaltaehkäisyssä. @Vuoksimaa#tiede https://t.co/w9tnJCH1iX
Education as a moderator of middle-age cardiovascular risk factor—old-age cognition relationships: testing cognitive reserve hypothesis in epidemiological study https://t.co/LweEVQULJh
Perheympäristö ja geneettiset tekijät selittävät keski-iän dementiariskipisteiden ja vanhuusiän kognition välisiä yhteyksiä | Helsingin yliopisto https://t.co/NTtNmYyhOR
Our new twin study about risk factors and cognition. Great work from postdoc Paula Iso-Markku! Middle-age dementia risk scores and old-age cognition: a quasi-experimental population-based twin study with over 20-year follow-up https://t.co/E9g1ySJISM
Kauko Heikkilä will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled "In search of perinatal correlates of left-handedness" in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, on 21 August 2020 at 12. Thesis work is part of the the Finnish Twin Cohort study. https://t.co/I9aWLFPmIc
FIMM is taking proactive measures regarding the #COVID19 outbreak. We encourage our staff to work remotely whenever possible, and have suspended work-related travel, visits and F2F meetings to increase #socialdistancing. Read more here: https://t.co/b4VsTp7Oel
Our study published in @braincomms Great work from PhD student Noora Lindgren👍 Association of neuroinflammation with episodic memory: A [ 11 C]PBR28 PET study in cognitively discordant twin pairs https://t.co/6Xicm441Uh
Uusi katsaus aiheesta #älykkyys@AnttiLatvala, Karri Silventoinen & Eero Vuoksimaa @Duodecimlehti: Mitä tiedetään perimän ja ympäristötekijöiden vaikutuksesta Älykkyyteen? https://t.co/Qv5pFnS0i5
Diagnostic study finds 99.9% accuracy of imputation-based #APOE status from genome-wide genotyping data, suggesting direct genotyping of APOE gene is not needed https://t.co/DVhp17yhir @Vuoksimaa
Tomorrow: Building Bridges 2019 symposium on Aging @helsinkiuni @FIMM_UH Sessions about physical activity, cognitive aging & aging society https://t.co/rqdtBeMSCB
Great preprint from Palmer et al. #ABCDstudy@UCSDMedSchool https://t.co/JQWOWIVICm
Importance of cortical configuration for cognitive ability in 10 145 children (above).
Vuoksimaa et al. 2016 #NeuroImage (below): cortical
configuration and cognitive ability in adults
Blood-brain-barrier opened in humans. Interesting to see how this translates into treatment of brain diseases?
First-in-human trial of blood–brain barrier opening in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using MR-guided focused… https://t.co/AcYqgB1pIT