The Panizzon Lab

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is not part of “normal aging,” and an estimated 10-15% of individuals with MCI develop #dementia each year. Share the facts: alz.org/facts

Serious women’s health investment is evidence-driven + accountable + built through convening. Start here: nationalacademies.org/projects/HMD-B… Click: tinyurl.com/3fyumhy3

The largest GWAS for Alzheimer's disease is now out 👉109,479 cases, 74,141 proxy cases, 2,131,799 controls, 499,708 proxy controls 👉improved SNP-based heritability: 5% in previous studies --> 19% 👉127 loci, 48 novel with enrichment in microglia & neurons

Proud that the third GWAS for Alzheimer's dementia from the PGC-ALZ working group was just posted online! Huge amounts of work, and what a great collaboration! Check out our exciting findings below 👇 @PGCgenetics #ctglab #alzheimer #dementia #GWAS

FYI. Post-doc opportunity focusing on women's brain health. karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacanci…

Please RT: We are recruiting a postdoc in statistical genetics for a project in my lab on genes and environment in autism

We are proud to be one of the 13 projects funded by the NIH Autism Data Science Initiative. Our project: "Elucidating the Interplay of Genes and Environment in Autism Using Genomic and Exposure Data from Large Populations" 🧵nytimes.com/2025/09/26/hea…

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to info@wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊

Our team has developed a prognostic model to predict the 5-year risk of dementia in older veterans with traumatic brain injury using VA electronic health records. This tool could help doctors provide better, more personalized care for veterans facing the challenges of TBI.

New findings out today on the relationship between age at menopause and dementia. With data from the Swedish Twin Registry we show that early menopause increases dementia risk, but there's a catch. Fantastic work by Ursual Saelzler. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

If you have expertise in MRI/behavioral data collection and are eager to break into the women's brain health/human neuroendocrinology field, this is an outstanding opportunity for you! Plus you get to live in beautiful Santa Barbara ☀️ 🌊 🌴 ⛰️

We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @Bowers_WBHI, my lab is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

First poster done at #AAIC2025. 😊 Grateful to my lab @VETSATwinStudy, mentors (@elman_jeremy @PanizzonLab), and my funding from @NIHAging for being able to do this research.

📢Breaking: New Open🔓 Access Publication Subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructural integrity in community-dwelling middle-aged men by Rongxiang Tang (@RongxiangTang) & William S. Kremen et al. rdcu.be/exRUB #memoryconcern #NegativeAffect #Corticalmeandiffusivity #traitanxiety #depression

RT @TylerBellPhD: Excited to share my new study with the @VETSATwinStudy team (@Jeremyelman @PanizzonLab) published in #JINS showing that m…

This June is # AlzheimersAndBrainAwarenessMonth. Raise #Alzheimers awareness by understanding more about #BrainHealth. Read this 2020 research study to learn about the role of #hormones and #SexDifferences in developing Alzheimer’s: bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

New paper out where we look at the role of early adulthood cognitive ability on dementia risk in the Swedish Twin Registry. authorservices.wiley.com/api/pdf/fullAr…

Excited to share my new K01 work to understand chronic pain as an AD risk factor - a collaboration of the @VETSATwinStudy, @PanizzonLab, and investigators for the @RushMedical ROSMAP data. doi.org/10.1093/brainc…

@neiltyson @Startalk That was fantastic. Thank you for sharing that conversation with everyone.

If curious — from the @StarTalk Archives. A 2020 Mother’s day conversation with — my Mother (1928 - 2023) youtube.com/watch?v=T3KkTI…

New paper now out from our work with the Million Veteran Program. A multi-ancestry GWAS of androgen levels. Lead author Megan Pagadala did an incredible job with this one. nature.com/articles/s4146…