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The COVID-19 Clinical Neuroscience Study (COVID-CNS) is a UK-wide case-control study designed to understand why neurological complications occur in individuals following Covid-19 infection, in order to develop strategies to prevent and treat them.
Dr Janie Corley (Lothian Birth Cohorts Group, Psychology) and colleagues in Psychology and Clinical BrainS sciences, have published a study that people who eat a Mediterranean-style diet—particularly one rich in green leafy vegetables and low in meat—are more likely to stay mentally sharp in later life.
Dr Will Whiteley (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) is leading a new study, the largest study of its kind in the world, to understand how Covid-19 infection can lead to an increased risk of suffering a stroke.
Dr Maria Doitsidou (Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences) and Dr David Breen (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) have been awarded a £750,000 grant from the Reta Lila Weston Trust to ‘Investigate the disease-modifying potential of the probiotic Bacillus subtilis in Parkinson's disease’.
Dr Tom Russ ( Director, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre) and colleagues have found that greater exposure to air pollution at the very start of life was associated with a detrimental effect on people’s cognitive skills up to 60 years later.
Dr Chloe Fawns-Ritchie (Psychology) has undertaken research that has revealed that three out of five Scottish teenagers were concerned that returning to school would increase the risk of their family contracting Covid-19.
Dr Una Clancy (Clinical Research Fellow and PhD student in Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences) has been awarded the 2021 John Halliday Croom Prize by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Our Caja Embroidery Project has featured in an article in Lancet Neurology in December 2020 and is the front cover of Lancet Neurology in Janaury 2021!
Motor neuron disease treatments that boost energy in nerve cells could be developed thanks to new research.
Dr Stephanie Adams (Moray House School of Education and Sport) has launched a new initiative with two leading figures from British sport to raise awareness of concussion (mild traumatic brain injury).