Cathy McHale

Risk Factors for the Diagnosis of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in the UK Biobank …mentdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/md…

Me and John Gannon on our second last day in the neonatal unit at Bo Government Hospital, Sierra Leone. When the ministry asked me to establish this unit in 2017, neonatal care wasn’t a thing in the region. Unwell babies just died. It took ages to change that narrative. When we started, we were lucky to admit 20 babies per month - in the main kids hospital in the second largest district in a country with one of the highest newborn deaths rates in the world! We just weren’t reaching the sickest newborns. When we did, our admitted babies would die when the electricity turned off because the oxygen and the overhead heaters turned off. It happened pretty much every day and was so traumatic to watch. Fast forward to 2026, after @MLiebreich and the #ProjectBo team brought their sustainable energy expertise into the equation, we have super-reliable 24 hour power, which allows the nurses and doctors here to concentrate on providing the wonderful care that they give to these babies. It’s not perfect. We still have a very defined ceiling of care, which is lower than you see in most countries. We’re also really overcrowded. We’ve not had running water for the last few years, but that’s about to change, again thanks to Michael and the team. But things are incomparable to 2017 and before, when babies really had no chance whatsoever if they became unwell. So I still have to pinch myself every time I return and walk back in through the door. And it’s all thanks to the kindness of people who were once strangers ❤️❤️👏👏🙏🙏

🚨Webinar alert!🚨 @DownSyndromeIRL, @ageingwithID, @TUH_Tallaght Institute of Memory & Cognition & DRNI are holding a webinar: "Dementia & Down Syndrome – What we know and where we are going next". 🗓️25th March ⌚️7pm 📍online For info & to register: tinyurl.com/bdcm5pde

ACC/AHA & 9 other leading medical associations released an updated clinical guideline for managing #dyslipidemia. About 1 in 4 US adults has high LDL-C, raising risk of heart attack & stroke. Get the details in #JACC: jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #ClinicalGuidelines #cvLipids #ASCVD

Skin intraneural phosphorylated α-synuclein is a highly specific biomarker for early Parkinson’s disease academic.oup.com/brain/article-…

⭐ META-ANALYSIS: Hospital delirium --> devastating long-term outcomes 253 studies, 137,000+ pts: • 5.4x dementia risk • 2.8x institutionalisation • 2.5x mortality • 1.7x readmission ⚠️ Delirium = a serious acute problem AND a risk warning. ➡️ All pts deserve robust delirium assessment

Alzheimer's disease: Biology, diagnostics, and treatment alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tr…

Join us at the Daffodil Centre @TUH_Tallaght for World Delirium Awareness Day Learn about #delirium and how you can make a difference #WDAD26

@martylyricfm She was extraordinary

Laufey at 3Arena tonight… fab

Insights into ADHD heterogeneity- identification of 3 distinct ADHD biotypes with unique clinical-neural profiles  technologynetworks.com/proteomics/new…

Great to be able to deliver Prescriber Education: Implementation of National Clinical Guideline no.21 Appropriate prescribing of psychotropic medications for non-cognitive symptoms of dementia in @TUH_Tallaght today- so important for our patients 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 @dementia_office

Out of 40 + entries, meet the shortlisted nominees for the 'Acute care Team' award...👏congratulations amd see you in Galway.

On #worldhearingday we consider the strong link between hearing loss and dementia, how hearing loss ties to social isolation / loneliness / poorer brain health ⏬️ the importance of screening and correction of hearing loss at all ages 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 @WHO

Natural Speech Analysis Can Reveal Individual Differences in Executive Function Across the Adult Lifespan | Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research share.google/lz2DOqofYCAA0q…

Brilliant panel discussion at BH & Dementia event well done to the panel👏👏 @FionaTobin16 that was not my/ our clinic follow up!!!!🗣 🔊 well done today 😊

🎙️Check out the seventh podcast in our new series on dementia. In this episode, we rejoin our OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS to hear more about their role in the process of reaching a diagnosis and in supporting patients. bit.ly/4plPSAd #TUHdementiaawareness

🧠 Kicking off 'Brain Health & Dementia - understanding and connection' @SPKennelly from @TUH_Tallaght in @civictheatre @drnire @alzheimersocirl

🚨@civictheatre BH /dementia event. Vital spotlight on lived experience and importance of supporting a sense of belonging, ⬆️ community awareness, importance of @IrishDementiaWG @alzheimersocirl amazing supports @hrbireland @drnire @alzheimersocirl @dementiaoffice @SPKennelly

🔊Please join us tomorrow 3-4pm for Nursing Grand Rounds @TUH_Tallaght theme ➡️Cardiology 🫀we hear about Cardiac Rehabilitation and Psychological Ax of a patient with ICD For online viewing email nursinggrandrounds@tuh.ie for access. @HSEDubMidlands @HSECHO7 @INCAnursing

The Fields of Athenry.