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From groundbreaking discoveries in basic science to innovative clinical insights, our publications showcase the breadth and depth of research taking place at the UK DRI. 

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Genetic changes in brain cells link ageing and Alzheimer’s

Genetic differences that contribute to how long a person will live and their risk of Alzheimer’s disease have been identified in a new study led...

Learn more Genetic changes in brain cells link ageing and Alzheimer’s
NPJ Digit Med
Published

Digital remote monitoring for screening and early detection of urinary tract infections.

Authors
Alexander Capstick, Francesca Palermo, Kimberley Zakka, Nan Fletcher-Lloyd, Chloe Walsh, Tianyu Cui, Samaneh Kouchaki, Raphaella Jackson, Martin Tran, Michael Crone, Kirsten Jensen, Paul Freemont, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Magdalena Kolanko, Jessica True, Sarah Daniels, David Wingfield, , Ramin Nilforooshan, Payam Barnaghi
Digital remote monitoring for screening and early detection of urinary tract infections.
Acta Neuropathol
Published

p-tau Ser356 is associated with Alzheimer's disease pathology and is lowered in brain slice cultures using the NUAK inhibitor WZ4003.

Authors
Lewis W Taylor, Elizabeth M Simzer, Claire Pimblett, Oscar T T Lacey-Solymar, Robert I McGeachan, Soraya Meftah, Jamie L Rose, Maxwell P Spires-Jones, Kristján Holt, James H Catterson, Henner Koch, Imran Liaquat, Jonathan H Clarke, John Skidmore, Colin Smith, Sam A Booker, Paul M Brennan, Tara L Spires-Jones, Claire S Durrant
p-tau Ser356 is associated with Alzheimer's disease pathology and is lowered in brain slice cultures using the NUAK inhibitor WZ4003.
PLoS Comput Biol
Published

Method to determine whether sleep phenotypes are driven by endogenous circadian rhythms or environmental light by combining longitudinal data and personalised mathematical models.

Authors
Anne C Skeldon, Thalia Rodriguez Garcia, Sean F Cleator, Ciro Della Monica, Kiran K G Ravindran, Victoria L Revell, Derk-Jan Dijk
Method to determine whether sleep phenotypes are driven by endogenous circadian rhythms or environmental light by combining longitudinal data and personalised mathematical models.
Alzheimers Res Ther
Published

Proof-of-concept recall-by-genotype study of extremely low and high Alzheimer's polygenic risk reveals autobiographical deficits and cingulate cortex correlates.

Authors
Thomas Lancaster, Byron Creese, Valentina Escott-Price, Ian Driver, Georgina Menzies, Zunera Khan, Anne Corbett, Clive Ballard, Julie Williams, Kevin Murphy, Hannah Chandler
Proof-of-concept recall-by-genotype study of extremely low and high Alzheimer's polygenic risk reveals autobiographical deficits and cingulate cortex correlates.
N Engl J Med
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Tominersen in Adults with Manifest Huntington's Disease.

Authors
Peter McColgan, Alpa Thobhani, Lauren Boak, Scott A Schobel, Alessia Nicotra, Giuseppe Palermo, Dylan Trundell, Julian Zhou, Valerie Schlegel, Patricia Sanwald Ducray, David J Hawellek, Jonas Dorn, Cedric Simillion, Michael Lindemann, Vicki Wheelock, Alexandra Durr, Karen E Anderson, Jeffrey D Long, Edward J Wild, G Bernhard Landwehrmeyer, Blair R Leavitt, Sarah J Tabrizi, Rachelle Doody,
Tominersen in Adults with Manifest Huntington's Disease.
Nat Neurosci
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Age-related dysregulation of homeostatic control in neuronal microcircuits.

Authors
Carola I Radulescu, Nazanin Doostdar, Nawal Zabouri, Leire Melgosa-Ecenarro, Xingjian Wang, Sadra Sadeh, Pavlina Pavlidi, Joe Airey, Maksym Kopanitsa, Claudia Clopath, Samuel J Barnes
Age-related dysregulation of homeostatic control in neuronal microcircuits.
bioRxiv
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Creation of de novo cryptic splicing for ALS/FTD precision medicine.

Authors
Oscar G Wilkins, Max Z Y J Chien, Josette J Wlaschin, Maria Pisliakova, David Thompson, Holly Digby, Rebecca L Simkin, Juan Antinao Diaz, Puja R Mehta, Matthew J Keuss, Matteo Zanovello, Anna-Leigh Brown, Peter Harley, Annalucia Darbey, Rajvinder Karda, Elizabeth M C Fisher, Tom J Cunningham, Claire E Le Pichon, Jernej Ule, Pietro Fratta
Creation of de novo cryptic splicing for ALS/FTD precision medicine.
Nat Commun
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Knockout or inhibition of USP30 protects dopaminergic neurons in a Parkinson's disease mouse model.

Authors
Tracy-Shi Zhang Fang, Yu Sun, Andrew C Pearce, Simona Eleuteri, Mark Kemp, Christopher A Luckhurst, Rachel Williams, Ross Mills, Sarah Almond, Laura Burzynski, Nóra M Márkus, Christopher J Lelliott, Natasha A Karp, David J Adams, Stephen P Jackson, Jin-Feng Zhao, Ian G Ganley, Paul W Thompson, Gabriel Balmus, David K Simon
Knockout or inhibition of USP30 protects dopaminergic neurons in a Parkinson's disease mouse model.
Nat Neurosci
Published

Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus.

Authors
Ines R Violante, Ketevan Alania, Antonino M Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, Emma Acerbo, Romain Carron, Adam Williamson, Danielle L Kurtin, Edward Rhodes, Adam Hampshire, Niels Kuster, Edward S Boyden, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Nir Grossman
Non-invasive temporal interference electrical stimulation of the human hippocampus.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth
Published

Three Contactless Sleep Technologies Compared With Actigraphy and Polysomnography in a Heterogeneous Group of Older Men and Women in a Model of Mild Sleep Disturbance: Sleep Laboratory Study.

Authors
Kiran K G Ravindran, Ciro Della Monica, Giuseppe Atzori, Damion Lambert, Hana Hassanin, Victoria Revell, Derk-Jan Dijk
Three Contactless Sleep Technologies Compared With Actigraphy and Polysomnography in a Heterogeneous Group of Older Men and Women in a Model of Mild Sleep Disturbance: Sleep Laboratory Study.
Cereb Circ Cogn Behav
Published

A multi-disciplinary commentary on preclinical research to investigate vascular contributions to dementia.

Authors
Sarmi Sri, Adam Greenstein, Alessandra Granata, Alex Collcutt, Angela C C Jochems, Barry W McColl, Blanca Díaz Castro, Caleb Webber, Carmen Arteaga Reyes, Catherine Hall, Catherine B Lawrence, Cheryl Hawkes, Chrysia-Maria Pegasiou-Davies, Claire Gibson, Colin L Crawford, Colin Smith, Denis Vivien, Fiona H McLean, Frances Wiseman, Gaia Brezzo, Giovanna Lalli, Harry A T Pritchard, Hugh S Markus, Isabel Bravo-Ferrer, Jade Taylor, James Leiper, Jason Berwick, Jian Gan, John Gallacher, Jonathan Moss, Jozien Goense, Letitia McMullan, Lorraine Work, Lowri Evans, Michael S Stringer, Mlj Ashford, Mohamed Abulfadl, Nina Conlon, Paresh Malhotra, Philip Bath, Rebecca Canter, Rosalind Brown, Selvi Ince, Silvia Anderle, Simon Young, Sophie Quick, Stefan Szymkowiak, Steve Hill, Stuart Allan, Tao Wang, Terry Quinn, Tessa Procter, Tracy D Farr, Xiangjun Zhao, Zhiyuan Yang, Atticus H Hainsworth, Joanna M Wardlaw
A multi-disciplinary commentary on preclinical research to investigate vascular contributions to dementia.