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Dr Heather Whalley (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) and colleagues have used samples from Generation Scotland - a bank of human tissue from volunteers - to look for genetic causes of depression, as part of an initiative called STRADL (stratifying resilience and depression longitudinally).
Prof. Mike Cousin (Centre for Integrative Physiology and Muir Maxwell Epilepsy Centre) has been awarded an Investigator Award in Science by the Wellcome Trust.
Research carried out by Dr Simon Cox and colleagues at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology shows that brain connections playing a key role in complex thinking skills are not well preserved in later life. Findings show, however, that connections supporting functions such as movement and hearing are relatively well preserved in later life.
Professor Neil Mabbott (The Rosin Institute) and colleagues have discovered why some people appear more susceptible to infection by prion proteins, which cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in people and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows.
Dr Dirk Sieger's laboratory has developed a new model of glioblastoma, the most common and most aggressive brain tumour, in the zebrafish.
Dr Jon Stone and Dr Alan Carson have launched a new textbook covering all functional disorders in neurological practice.