2nd Edinburgh Brain Epidemiology Meeting

9.25 am - 12.40 pm, Tuesday 29 April 2021

The Brain Epidemiology Group are excited to announce their second Edinburgh Brain Epidemiology Meeting, with a focus on presentations by our early career researchers.

Free, please use this link to join.

Programme

9.25   - Welcome, Prof Andrew McIntosh, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences - Psychaitry

9.30   - DNA methylome-wide association study of polygenic risk scores for depression implicating antigen processing and immune responses, Xueyi Shen, Psychiatry

9.50   - Stratification of bipolar disorder: harnessing clinical heterogeneity and genetics shared with other disorders, Judith Allardyce, Psychiatry

10.10 - The structural connectome in mid to later life, Colin Buchanan, Psychology

10.30 - Epigenetic insights into chronic inflammation and cognitive ageing, Eleanor Conole, Translational Neuroscience PhD Student

10.50 - Break

11.00 - Rare variants in cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD) genes and the clinical consequences in UK Biobank, A. Ferguson, Usher Institute

11.20 - Using Structural Equation Modelling to explore HPA associated disease and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the EPAD LCS cohort, Sarah Gregory, PhD Student, Centre for Clincial Brain Sciences - Edinburgh Dementia Prevention

11.40 - Dementia risk: insights from routinely-collected health data, Dr Tim Wilkinson, Clinical Lecturer in Neurology, 

12.00 - The electronic Person-Specific Outcome Measure (ePSOM) development programme, Stina Saunders, Centre for Clincial Brain Sciences - Edinburgh Dementia Prevention

12.20 - Close