Jul-Dec 2016

SPRINT-MND/MS: a network of PhD studentships across five Scottish Universities, is open for applications until 20th January 2017.

Dec 2016: Edinburgh Imaging is delighted to announce that a new magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner is now operational at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.

Dec 2016: The Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences is looking for an Operations Manager to lead Centre administration and work closely with senior research leads to ensure the continued growth and success of the Centre.

Nov 2016: Congratulations to the two winners of this year's Arthur Fonville Award for Stroke Research.

Nov 2016: Congratulations to Dr Danielle Leighton, who was awarded prize for best platform presentation at the Scottish Association of Neurological Sciences (SANS) Annual Meeting earlier this month.

Nov 2016: Congratulations to CCBS researchers Jon Stone and Alan Carson, who have co-edited the textbook, "Functional Neurologic Disorders" and are planning a conference on the topic. They also have both been promoted to Reader.

Nov 2017: Applications for the Euan MacDonald Centre PhD studentship, commencing Sept 2017, are now open.

Nov 2016: Researchers from the National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit have studied the brains of people who developed CJD after receiving injections of human growth hormone.

Oct 2016: CCBS researchers have created a shortlist of environmental factors that may contribute to our risk of developing dementia.

Oct 2016: The Research to Understand Stroke due to Haemorrhage (RUSH) team has assembled an active patient reference group to comment on study priorities, design and materials.

Oct 2016: Professor Lindsay Thomson is taking part in a study to see whether a drug called methylphenidate can reduce ADHD in young male prisoners.

Aug 2016: CCBS researchers have developed a way of detecting a protein linked to Parkinson's disease in samples of spinal fluid.

Aug 2016: CCBS researchers have published research indicating that the partners of people with depression are more likely to suffer from chronic pain.

Brain scans carried out by researchers in the Division of Psychiatry have revealed how a genetic mutation linked to major psychiatric disorders affects the structure, function and chemistry of the brain.

Aug 2016: Professor Siddharthan Chandran has been appointed to the Executive Team of Dementias Platform UK

Aug 2016: Congratulations to Professor Seth Grant, who has been awarded two grants on synapse research.

July 2016: Many congratulations to Tim Wilkinson who has been awarded an MRC clinical research training fellowship to use big data in the field of dementia prevention.

July 2016: The Arthur Fonville Award 2016 competition is now open. This prize is awarded for the best dissertation about stroke research written by a medical student at Edinburgh.

July 2016: Summer e-newsletters are now available from the Development Autism Research Technology (DART) team, the Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.

July 2016: People at risk of dementia could be helped by new research that aims to identify brain changes linked to Alzheimer’s disease.