@ABorsini

Senior Lecturer @KingsIoPPN | Head MBP Lab | Course Leader MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface

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Joined August 2011
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💥💥I am glad to share with you our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface! Join me, @ParianteLab, @MondelliValeria, @paola_DZN and our team to unravel how the #mind and #body interact in powerful ways that affect our health 💥💥 kcl.ac.uk/study/postgraduate…

Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface MSc | King's College London

Our Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface MSc will enable you to gain a theoretical and practical understanding of the psychology and the neuroscience underlying brain/mind processes in...

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The first cohort of students of our MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface! Lot’s of memories and great fun 😊 ⁦@KingsIoPPN⁩
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Bottom line: A Mediterranean type diet high in fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, whole grains, low fat dairy products, plant-based foods, and reduced sodium, trans fats, animal-based foods, sugary beverages, ultra- processed foods was the optimal pattern. Link nature.com/articles/s41591-0…

Optimal dietary patterns for healthy aging

Nature Medicine - In two longitudinal cohorts followed for 30 years, the associations of eight different dietary patterns with healthy aging—encompassing cognitive, physical and mental...

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Adherence to these diets (most to least in quintiles) linked to healthy aging
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These are the specific foods that were linked with healthy aging and other outcomes. Green-favorable; Red-unfavorable
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Of >105,000 participants with 30-year follow-up, only 9.3% achieved healthy aging (age 70, w/o any chronic diseases). Their diet was significantly associated with this outcome🧵 @NatureMedicine
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Multi-omics profiles show major aging changes at approximately 44 and 60 years of age nature.com/articles/s43587-0…

Nonlinear dynamics of multi-omics profiles during human aging

Nature Aging - Understanding the molecular changes underlying aging is important for developing biomarkers and healthy aging interventions. In this study, the authors used comprehensive multi-omics...

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Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment nature.com/articles/s41591-0… @NatureMedicine

Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality

Nature Medicine - Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for...

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💥💥If you are thinking of applying for our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface do join me and my team on the 26th of February at the Postgraduate Open Evening at Guy’s Campus! 💥💥 Sign up here 👇👇👇 kcl.ac.uk/events/postgraduat… @KingsIoPPN
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@CarminePariante @MondelliValeria @paola_DZN @Lombardo_GG @nik_naghmeh @Zajkowska_Z @_Luca_Sforzini @cworrell26 @SPILabKCL @inspirethemind_ @KingsIoPPN
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How our gut microbiome regulates sugar preference nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
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The gut microbiome products and..... —propensity to eat foods high in sugar nature.com/articles/s41564-0… @NatureMicrobiol —accelerating cellular senescence nature.com/articles/s43587-0… @NatureAging
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NEW research by IoPPN (@cathrynlewis) and @EdinburghUni (@mcintosh2001) researchers have identified new genetic risk factors for #depression across all global populations for the 1st time, in study in @CellPressNews Read more: kcl.ac.uk/news/global-study-…
Depiction of hundreds of mini people arranged like a DNA symbol. New research. Global study pinpoints genes for depression across ethnicities.

ALT Depiction of hundreds of mini people arranged like a DNA symbol. New research. Global study pinpoints genes for depression across ethnicities.

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@CarminePariante @MondelliValeria @paola_DZN @Zajkowska_Z @Lombardo_GG @nik_naghmeh @_Luca_Sforzini Katie Hazelgrove Rebecca Bind @inspirethemind_ @cworrell26 @leadelia_schmid @melisaakose @SPILabKCL @PIXIELabKCL @KingsIoPPN
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Alessandra Borsini@ABorsini19 Dec 2024
💥💥Very pleased to share the video of our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscienec of Mind-Body Interface! Applications for the 2025-2026 academic year are now OPEN!! 💥💥 vimeo.com/1039976299/e97bbe7…
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Typical development of synaptic and neuronal properties can proceed without microglia in the cortex and thalamus @NatureNeuro nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Typical development of synaptic and neuronal properties can proceed without microglia in the cortex...

Nature Neuroscience - Microglia are proposed to have a role in brain development through synaptic engulfment and paracrine signaling. O’Keeffe et al. show that certain neurodevelopmental...

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The gut microbiome signature from different diets in >20,000 individuals. Red meat intake correlated with reduced cardiometabolic health; the opposite for plant-based foods or in omnivores with enriched plant-based intake nature.com/articles/s41564-0… @NatureMicrobiol @nsegata @Fackelmeister
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1/10 As we approach the end of the year, I am sharing with you my pieces on #mentalhealth published in 2024, in @inspirethemind_ and other outlets. I hope you can use this opportunity to catch up with what has inspired or excited me this year, and on what I do as a psychiatrist, researcher and writer.
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2/10 In May, in preparation for the launch of a new @KingsIoPPN Master on #MindandBody, I wrote this piece on how blood hormones influence the #brain and #mental health. inspirethemind.org/post/is-o…

Is our blood at the core of the mind-body interface?

Our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscience of Mind-Body Interface offered by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience at King’s College London aims to answer this question.The blood...

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💥💥Very pleased to share the video of our new MSc in Psychology and Neuroscienec of Mind-Body Interface! Applications for the 2025-2026 academic year are now OPEN!! 💥💥 vimeo.com/1039976299/e97bbe7…
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@CarminePariante @MondelliValeria @paola_DZN @Zajkowska_Z @Lombardo_GG @nik_naghmeh @_Luca_Sforzini Katie Hazelgrove Rebecca Bind @inspirethemind_ @cworrell26 @leadelia_schmid @melisaakose @SPILabKCL @PIXIELabKCL @KingsIoPPN
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Very excited that our paper “From placenta to the foetus: a systematic review of in vitro models of stress- and inflammation-induced depression in pregnancy” has just been published in @molpsychiatry 🤩
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Thanks to our amazing team of scientistis @MaddyKirkp @Gargi_Mandal_ @NicoleMariani_ @Kristi_Prstly @CarminePariante @SPILabKCL @KingsIoPPN Link 👇👇👇 eur03.safelinks.protection.o…
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