News Jul-Dec 2018

Dec 2018: An afternoon symposium was held to celebrate the Department of Clinical Neurosciences' tenure at the Western General Hospital, before its move to Edinburgh BioQuarter in 2019.

Dec 2018: Congratulations to Maggi Laurie, who has been awarded a prestigious Fellowship in the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

Dec 2018: A report on the Wellcome Trust ‘Stratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally’ (STRADL) annual meeting, which was held in Edinburgh in October 2018.

Dec 2018: The results of the FOCUS clinical trial have shown that stroke patients prescribed a common antidepressant show no improvement compared with those given a dummy drug.

Nov 2018: Many congratulations to the two winners of this year's Arthur Fonville Award.

Nov 2018: We are open for applications for PhDs starting in September 2019.

Oct 2018: Congratulations to Dr Suvankar Pal, who has been awarded a Senior Lectureship position in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences.

Oct 2018: Congratulations to Sarah McGlasson, a postdoctoral researcher in David Hunt's lab, who has won the Elsevier / US-UK Fulbright Commission 2018 UK Early Career Researcher Award in Medicine.

Sep 2018: Huge congratulations to Owen Gwydion James on winning the UK Three Minute Thesis competition.

Sep 2018: A group of Edinburgh Neuroscience and SPRINT-MND/MS PhD students travelled to Glasgow to learn what it's like to live with multiple sclerosis.

Sep 2018: Young people with learning difficulties and their families have helped to identify key areas of research that could improve their lives.

Aug 2018: The Mild Stroke Study 3 recruited its first participant on 22nd August. The study aims to improve understanding of what affects the progression of small vessel disease, and to identify novel targets for prevention and therapy.

Aug 2018: New research suggests that people who suffer a stroke caused by bleeding in the brain could be helped by four simple checks of their brain scans.

Aug 2018: A new map of more than a billion synapses in the brain helps to shed light on how memories are formed and recalled.

Jul 2018: A team of CCBS researchers led by Marcelo Barria have published findings that prions that cause chronic wasting disease in deer and elk can convert human prions in a test tube to the disease-associated form.

Jul 2018: A team involving CCBS researchers has published findings suggesting that reversing damage to the cells that line the small blood vessels in the brain could offer new avenues for therapy in dementia and stroke caused by small vessel disease.