Mahnaz Shekari (Mehrnaz مهرناز) has successfully defended her doctoral thesis 🥳

It is the 5⃣th thesis developed at the BBRC, and has been qualified with an excellent cum laude. Congrats! 🙌

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Can higher-educated people with #Alzheimer 's disease harbor greater neuropathologic burden than those with less education ❔

📊 Results indicate that it might depend on the disease stage. Find out more in this new AMYPAD study.

📰 bit.ly/4aK6wmp

🗞️🗞️ Stressful events in midlife might be a risk factor for #Alzheimer 's disease in older ages, according to a new study with ISGlobal.

🧠Besides, stressful childhood experiences are associated with neuroinflammatory processes linked to the disease later in life.

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BBRC researchers Mehrnaz مهرناز and Juando Gispert have worked intensively on the implementation of Centiloid quantification within the AMYPAD project.

EMA has now supported its use in clinical practice, a remarkable success for the whole team. Congrats! 🥳

📢 Do not miss tomorrow's roundtable 'Innovative Imaging Modalities and Advancements in Dementia Research', by Alzheimer's Disease Data Initiative!

👥 Dr. Natàlia Vilor-Tejedor (@natvilortejedor), leader of the Genetic Neuroepidemiology and Biostatistics team of the BBRC, will moderate the session.

🧠🔍 Dr. Arcadi Navarro (Arcadi Navarro), BBRC Director and Genomics Research Group Leader, has talked with CaixaResearch about relevant recent discoveries in Alzheimer's research.

🗨️ Read the full interview: bit.ly/43g3QKJ