Asst Professor of Research, Neurology USC
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2011
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Excited to announce that @enigmabrains is launching the ENIGMA-Environment Working Group -a global effort to understand how environmental exposures impact brain health across the lifespan. Please complete the poll if you'd like to participate! forms.gle/LDnyN4oDh6qKoE7B9 @enigma_env
Exciting progress for ENIGMA-ENV!! Check out our newsletter for project details and preliminary results presented at @SOBP in Toronto
We are thrilled to share exciting updates from ENIGMA-ENV in our Spring Newsletter! mailchi.mp/1478361d4714/enig…
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The more jargon you have in your paper the less citations you'll generally get.
help.
Trump EPA Announces Path Forward on National Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (PM2.5) to Aid Manufacturing, Small Businesses: spgv.io/6014c9a
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I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n
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Fast Food is a part of American culture. But that doesn’t mean it has to be unhealthy, and that we can’t make better choices. Did you know that McDonald’s used to use beef tallow to make their fries from 1940 until phasing it out in favor of seed oils in 1990? This switch was made because saturated animal fats were thought to be unhealthy, but we have since discovered that seed oils are one of the driving causes of the obesity epidemic. Interestingly enough, this began to drastically rise around the same time fast food restaurants switched from beef tallow to seed oils in their fryers.
People who enjoy a burger with fries on a night out aren’t to blame, and Americans should have every right to eat out at a restaurant without being unknowingly poisoned by heavily subsidized seed oils. It’s time to Make Frying Oil Tallow Again 🇺🇸🍔
Check out our new paper, published in Cerebral Cortex! Congrats to @laurafenton91 for leading this effort to the finish line :)
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🚨Preprint alert!🚨"The Genetic Architecture of the Human Corpus Callosum and its Subregions" Meta-analysis of 46,685 European and replicated in 7,040 non-European ancestry individuals from the UK Biobank and ABCD studies.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Everyone had amazing research proposal ideas! Props to the great critical thinking skills of this years class! 🧠
🔍With the semester end approaching, our NIIN students have been crafting their final projects.
Here’s a peek into our NIIN 600 Science Communications class (taught by Dr. @LSalminen), in which NIIN students presented their original research ideas. Keep up the great work!👏
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Recently launched ENIGMA-Neuroendocrinology Working Group (enigma.ini.usc.edu/ongoing/e…) just published a commentary in
@NatMentHealth 👉nature.com/articles/s44220-0… Get in touch to join the group's efforts in examining the effects of hormones on the brain 🧠
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Thanks to @LSalminen +the NIMHANS team for puzzling out how to measure air pollution inside and outside people's homes for our India ENIGMA cohort study, at @NIMHANS_BLR If you want your neuroimaging cohort geocoded to link to environmental measures, please contact @LSalminen + join ENIGMA-Environment ! enigma.ini.usc.edu/ongoing/e…
ALT A graphic, from the ENIGMA Environment consortium, shows the global profile of air pollution metrics. Please do join the study if you have MRI data and want to link it to air pollution and other health related environmental measures (e.g., SEDOH, access to healthcare, urban density, greenspace).
Happy to finally share this pre-print!! #AirPollution #AlzheimersDisease
Association between late-life air pollution exposure and medial temporal lobe atrophy in older women medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
FYI! New scoring:
Factor 1: Importance (Significance+Innovation), score 1-9
Factor 2: Rigor + Feasibility (Approach), score 1-9
Factor 3: Expertise + Resources (Investigator+Environment), rated sufficient for proposed work or not (in which case reviewers must provide explanation)
NIH News: #NIH revises its research grant review process to improve focus on scientific merit and reduce reputational bias. The framework will be implemented for applications submitted on or after Jan. 25, 2025. go.nih.gov/9EROYa2
ALT Image reads NIH is strengthening the peer review of research project grants.
Check out and support @donhandfield's latest kickstarter PRODIGAL SON, co-written with Cobra Kai's Martin Kove! @Kickstarter @CobraKaiSeries kickstarter.com/projects/154…
🚨PSA for those with small dogs. Please STAY with them several hours after receiving core vaccines. Yesterday my 2 yr mini dachshund Georgia (cream) had an anaphylactoid reaction to her rabies + distemper/parvo vaccines. Major signs were vomiting, lethargy, and severely low BP
In that incident her face began swelling approx 30 min after receiving the rabies vaccine and she was vomiting in the car the entire way back to the vet. Reversal was more involved but she felt better within a couple hrs. She also had received the vaccine before without issue.
