Sandra Billinger
@Sandy_REACHLab
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Scientist physical therapist Research interests: Vascular health, heart, brain, physical activity. Passions: hiking, nature, exercise, life-long learner
Kansas, USA
Joined November 2012
After taking some time away from Twitter, it is time to return. We have lots of updates to share! Let’s start with a cool paper showing that endothelial cells co-localize w/ amyloid-β in the brain of a humanized animal model of Alzheimer’s @alzassociation
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Increasing evidence shows that cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are associated with an increased risk of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's diseases (AD). It is unknown whether systemic vascular...
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The day just keeps getting better! Surrounded by #strokerecovery #researchers, #physiotherapists who truly care about finding answers to support people living w/ stroke and who see #exercise as an important component of stroke recovery.
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When you get to spend time in person w/ outstanding stroke researchers focused on #physicalactivity #exercise post #stroke @WorldStrokeOrg #WSC2025. A short conversation starts and lasts for an hour!!! @kevinmoncion @TorstenRackoll @ksnoguchi @BernatDelas #NikKudiersky
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Excited to have been a site for new @JAMANetworkOpen study testing electromagnetic field therapy to boost stroke recovery. 🧠 Safe, feasible & showing early promise-next step: larger trials! Read here: Electromag Stim to ⬇️Disability After Ischemic Stroke
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This randomized clinical trial examines whether electromagnetic network targeting field therapy accompanied by a guided physical and occupational exercise regimen is a safe and effective treatment...
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Congratulations to @BriaBartsch on receiving the NOA for her @NIHFunding F31! This is such a great opportunity and we are excited for Bria. Congratulations! 🎉🥳
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Such a pleasure to speak with @debkhk from @Being_Patient_ about Alzheimer’s Disease risk in women 🧠 Hint: it may in large part hinge on vascular health! https://t.co/BE3TGit0Uh
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Women face a greater risk for Alzheimer’s than men. Dr. Fanny Elahi is exploring factors from menopause to vascular health to understand why.
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Try this link.... 🤞🤞🤞 https://t.co/9suXhbOlYY
Join our NIH-funded stroke recovery research team @KUMedCenter . I am hiring a Physical Therapist to deliver innovative interventions, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to advancing recovery science. Apply here: University of Kansas Medical Center
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Please RT and share this position: @alicen_whitaker @JA_Palmer_ @Carkauf23 @kevinmoncion @MacstrokeCan @APTAStrokeSIG @SfNtweets @ResearchAPTA @TK_timoklein @BethCrowner
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Join our NIH-funded stroke recovery research team @KUMedCenter . I am hiring a Physical Therapist to deliver innovative interventions, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to advancing recovery science. Apply here: University of Kansas Medical Center
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Key finding: People w/ worse higher arterial stiffness & higher NfL showed the greatest cognitive deficits—especially in episodic & working memory. @TK_timoklein @J_C_MD_PhD @FannyElahi @NAASociety @VascAgeNet @Barnes_Lab @balkhaz @kevinmoncion @LBeishon @DrJMinhas
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Arterial stiffness moderates the link between NfL and cognition: The IGNITE study,” is now published! Proud to contribute to this project & publication w/ #IGNITE team & our @KUALZ team JillMorris EricVidoni JeffBurns https://t.co/CyQVUZ4vcz
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
INTRODUCTION Arterial stiffness (carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity [cfPWV]) and plasma neurofilament light (NfL), markers of vascular and neuroaxonal aging, are linked to cognitive decline....
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🚨 We’re hiring! Join a high-impact, multi-lab initiative that aims to uncover how vascular dysfunction drives brain degeneration. We’re looking for a scientist with experience in iPSC-based neuroscience research to help engineer vascularized mini-brains from human iPSC lines.
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New manuscript from our HIT Stroke team. Way to go #DariaPressler! Short-burst HIIT may have an edge for walking recovery after stroke. HIIT & MICT training reduced variability in walking patterns #strokerecovery #walking #exercise #HIIT
https://t.co/8cZWJkOSW2
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Big milestone at #REACHLab! 🎉 We’ve enrolled 200 participants in the KU Stroke Recovery Registry across 116 zip codes, with 50%+ referred into trials. Huge thanks to Eli, our stellar med student driving this work! 💪🧠 #StrokeRecovery #ClinicalResearch
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Way to go Lyndsey!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🤩🤩
Congratulations to Lyndsey Dubose, PhD for winning the Career Development Award from the 2025 NAA Conference. Lyndsey gave us a moving lecture on how NAA has helped shape her career as a leading early-stage investigator in the field of women’s health.
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Congratulations @alicen_whitaker for driving this huge project forward!! Your #leadership kept us on task!! #strokerecovery #collaboration #HIIT #exercise
Check it out 👀👟🏃♀️secondary analysis of HIT-Stroke Trial is published online 👏👏🎉🎉 Higher Heart Rates During Locomotor HIIT were associated with spatial asymmetry & ⬆️fatigue in week1
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📢 Paper published. 📢“Dysregulation of cerebral perfusion dynamics is associated with/ #AD” in @journal_ad 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #BB8
@J_C_MD_PhD -this is the paper you asked about. For those going to CARNet, the lead author Vasilis Marmeralis, PhD will be presenting. https://t.co/vZuB2rb5Cj
alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
INTRODUCTION A novel physio-marker, termed “cerebrovascular dynamics index” (CDI), was developed and evaluated in a multi-center National Institutes of Health (NIH)–funded study for improved diagno...
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