Rachel Spicer PhD 🧬 🧠

#neuroscience #alzheimersdisease #dementia #research #delirium

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Have any questions or know someone with delirium and want more resources? Feel free to reach out #WDAD26

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For more information and how to get involved in raising awareness for delirium, visit delirumday.com

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World Delirium Awareness day 🧠

Delirium isn’t something that is commonly discussed but impacts the lives of up to many patients in the hospital, including their loved ones.

On #WDAD26, let’s highlight what delirium is, what to look for, and how we can support our loved ones 🤍

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FENS Forum 2026 | Barcelona, 6-10 July Advancing Neuroscience Together

Who’s going to @FENSorg ?!

I’m really excited to be a Social Media Ambassador for FENS 2026🧠

July 6-10th, Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸

Registration is open until June 2nd!

fensforum.org

#FENS2026 #FENSAmbassador #FENS

I’m excited to share my latest piece of writing with Drs Fiona Harrison and Peter Olofsson. 🧠

Here we wrote a commentary exploring vagal nerve stimulation in postoperative delirium and dementia, centered on the research by Niccolo Terrando’s lab at Duke University!

🔬 The FENS-EJN Competion is open!

Take your best scientific or neuroscience-inspired image & submit them by 28th February! 🧠

🏆 Winners get featured at #FENS2026!

#FENSAmbassador #FENS 🇪🇸

First meeting of the Social Media Ambassadors for #FENS2026 in Barcelona! 🇪🇸 Really excited to be part of this team & you’ll be hearing more soon 🧠

#FENSambassador #FENSForum

Weekend of working but have no fear; the laptop is set up for the Arsenal game! ⚽️ Let’s go Gunners!

#lifeofapostdoc #arsenalfc

This year has come and gone so quickly but I have to be thankful for all the incredible opportunities I’ve had!

Moving away from family and friends was difficult, but God has blessed me more than I could imagine ❤️

I’m really excited for what 2026 will bring! ✝️

Christian Neuroscience Society Breakfast at SfN

A full house at the Christian Neuroscience Society Breakfast at #SfN25 🧠✝️ A huge thank you to Dr. William Struthers for a really interesting talk & great discussion!

Thank you for organising such an awesome event!

Thank you to all who joined us for our first in-person event! 💜 We hope you left feeling inspired and empowered!

#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN #SFN2025

At the pre #SfN @storiesofwin.bsky.social Symposium. Inspiring, entertaining, motivating, and encouraging to hear all these honest stories from these women scientists who truly are making an impact on their environment and science in general.

Landed in San Diego for #SfN25!

I’d love to connect for coffee ☕️ You’ll find me in the hat! 👒

Wednesday 8am-Midday PSTR381.01
“Peripheral Inflammation Alters Microglial Response to Amyloid Pathology and Indicates Advanced Cellular Aging in a Model of Alzheimer’s Disease”

Have signed up! 🙌

Obligatory lab pic at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day 🥼

P.S. I won ‘Best Poster’ 🙌 🏆

Excited to share a new publication! 🧠

Here, we report on the cognitive, motor, and metabolic phenotype of the zQ175 mouse model of Huntington's Disease, data of which supports its ability to recapitulate the features of disease progression #huntingtonsdisease

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New study: elevated brain iron may predict cognitive decline years before Alzheimer’s symptoms appear, especially in the presence of amyloid burden.

Follow MCI and Beyond for updates

#BrainHealth #CognitiveDecline #Neuroscience #AlzheimerResearch #EarlyDetection

Today I got to present my first study as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University Medical Center! 🧠 And, what a beautiful spot… the Nelson Andrew’s Leadership Center! #VBI #VandyBrainInstitute

Happy to be the new co-chair for Scholarly Advancement on the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association Executive Board! 👩‍🔬

Who else is heading to San Diego?! 🙌

@sfn.org 🧠

I’m excited to have been nominated to join the Board of Executives for the Vanderbilt Postdoctoral Association! 🙏🫣

Voting ends soon! #VPA

This has been a fantastic meeting! Made new connections, caught up with former colleagues, and learned so much from thought leaders and innovators in AD drug development. Cheers to all and safe travels home. #AAIC25 #AAIC2025

Spent the entire weekend at the lab, but this view isn’t so bad 🙏 🧠

I just submitted my first, first author paper! Here’s hoping 🙏 🧠

We need your help 🙏❤️

We need your support to continue our mission to create a loving and welcoming community of scientists interested in Jesus!

Please consider donating to our cause. 100% of proceeds goes to funding these events ✝️

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Happy 4th July to all my American friends and colleagues! 🙌🇺🇸

Bringing my two favourite things together.. Music and Neuroscience 🧠

Music is So powerful! How do I get involved in this research?! 🙌🙊

#ADSNASH25

Day 2 at ADS 2025! 🧠

As a researcher, I don’t often get to see the perspective of those in the clinic. Really insightful discussion by Dr. Kirby Mayer, Brittany Work and Spencer Freeman about effective & individualized post-ICU treatment

♥️ ♥️ #ADS25NASH