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Dr Ally Rooney (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) has published a comprehensive review of the neuropsychiatry of COVID-19 which indicates that even mild Covid-19 can lead to neurological or psychiatric symptoms.
Congratulations to Dr Richard Davenport (Clinical Brain Sciences) on being elected President of the Association of British Neurologists. Richard will be President-Elect during 2021 and 2022 and ascend to President in 2023
The charity Epilepsy Research UK has awarded Edinburgh a new Doctoral Training Centre focused on 'Improving outcomes for Childhood Onset Epilepsies: from mechanisms to treatment’ to be led by Professor Cathy Abbot (Centre for Genomic & Experimental Medicine) and Professor Richard Chin (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences).
Congratulations to Noah Stypidou (PhD Student, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) on winning the best student poster prize (preregistration category) at the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience in April.
The Medical Research Council has invested £2 million into a UK-wide new data research hub, DATAMIND, which promises to make it easier for scientists to speed up research that aims to improve the lives of people with mental health problems.
Tiny 3-D models that mimic vital aspects of the human nervous system have been developed in a step that could accelerate drug research for neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS).
Congratulations to Dr Laura McCulloch on being awarded a £1M Royal Society & Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Dale Fellowship to work on her project “Does stroke impair immunological memory and increase infectious disease risk during the chronic phase of recovery?”
Former rugby stars Shane Williams and Ben Kay are among 50 top former rugby players to join a dementia prevention study led by Professor Craig Ritchie (Edinburgh Dementia Prevention). Funded by the Alzheimer’s Society, the PREVENT:RFC project forms part of the Sport United Against Dementia campaign and aims to understand the links between repeated head injury and possible long-term brain damage.
We are delighted to welcome Prof Daniel Smith to the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Edinburgh Neuroscience as our new Head of the Division of Psychiatry.
Congratulations to Professor Tara Spires-Jones (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, and UK Dementia Research Institute at Edinburgh) on being appointed the new President-elect of the British Neuroscience Assocation.