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Hansard to 4 November 2026 · 31,174 contributions indexed · 1,439 MPs & peers
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Dr Anya Topiwala: no licensed photograph is held, so the clinician plate is shown instead.
Clinician
Dr Anya Topiwala
Senior Clinical Researcher at Oxford Population Health
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press citations on 1 topic since 25 Feb 2026 · last quoted 22 May 2026
02 Quoted on · 1 of 29 topics
Dr Anya Topiwala: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Clinician
- Role
- Senior Clinical Researcher at Oxford Population Health
- Quoted on
- Dementia
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 22 May 2026
- First quoted
- 25 Feb 2026
04 The signal · where Dr Anya Topiwala sits on dementia
Ranked 32= of 462 voices quoted in the press on dementia, level with 45 others on 2 citations.
Ranked on press citations on this topic only, not across all topics. Joint positions share a rank.
- 1Eric SchmidtAcademicResearch Associate Professor (Laboratory of Molecular Biology); also named as scientific reviewer of ALZinfo.org articles for the Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation, The Rockefeller University (New York); reviewer credit given as Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University10
- 2Hilary Evans-Newton CBESector leaderChief Executive, Alzheimer's Research UK8
- 3Prof Jonathan SchottAcademicProfessor of Neurology, Dementia Research Centre; Chief Medical Officer, Alzheimer's Research UK, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology7
- 32=Dr Manolis FantoClinicianReader in Functional Genomics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London2
- 32=Dr Rebecca CastertonAcademicSenior Researcher at the UK Dementia Research Institute at King's and first author on the paper2
- 32=Dr Anya TopiwalaClinicianSenior Clinical Researcher at Oxford Population Health2
- 32=Professor Clive BallardAcademicProfessor of Age-Related Diseases at the University of Exeter Medical School2
- 32=Dr Jeffrey CummingsAcademicworld-leading dementia researcher2
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05 On the record · press
What Dr Anya Topiwala has said
By outlet · linked articles
- ndph.ox.ac.uk2
Where Dr Anya Topiwala has been quoted
- 01Opioid addiction linked to increased risk of dementiandph.ox.ac.uk · 22 May 2026
- 02Study finds no links between cannabis use and cognitive decline or dementia in older peoplendph.ox.ac.uk · 25 Feb 2026
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“While the short-term effects of opioids are well known, our findings show that opioid use disorder may also have important long-term consequences for brain health, including a higher risk of dementia. Using large-scale data and genetic methods, we found evidence suggesting this link may be causal, pointing to the direct impact of opioid exposure rather than underlying genetic risk.”
“Across large UK and US cohorts, and using genetic approaches to explore potential causal relationships, we found no evidence that cannabis use was associated with accelerated cognitive decline or increased dementia risk in older adults.”
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