Research
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded €780 million in grants to emerging science talent across Europe, including €1.5 million for a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) research project. TBI affects 30 million women globally each year. The highest reported incidence is in people over 75 years old, and while women account for more TBIs than [...]
New findings on how classical music positively impacts on the brain could help to shape clinical practice, researchers say. Their goal is to find more effective ways to use music to activate the brain in those who otherwise don’t respond, such as people with treatment-resistant depression. “Our research integrates the fields of neuroscience, psychiatry, and [...]
Breakthrough findings have unveiled new targets and biomarkers for novel therapies for Alzheimer's Disease treatment - supporting a new understanding of the mechanism behind Alzheimer’s disease. The study has suggested that amyloid beta deposits, long known to build up in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, act as a scaffold for the accumulation of other proteins. Because [...]
A new study has identified distinct molecular and immune subtypes across individuals with Down syndrome, offering breakthrough new insights that could lead to personalised medicine approaches for the clinical management of the condition. The research, part of the ongoing Crnic Institute Human Trisome Project, analysed the expression of genes encoded on chromosome 21, which is [...]
Dementia risk factors associated with cardiovascular health may have increased over time compared to factors such as smoking and having less education, new analysis suggests. A UCL study has explored how the prevalence of dementia risk factors had changed over time and how this could impact rates of dementia in the future. There has been [...]
A new mental health treatment has been developed for children with epilepsy that enables multiple mental health conditions to be treated at once, instead of having different treatments for different mental health difficulties. The treatment - named the Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy (MICE) - has been developed by a UCL-led team of [...]
Through the creation of a new pathway for survivors of intracerebral haemorrhage - a stroke with some of the lowest survival rates, which have not improved for decades - Dr Adrian Parry-Jones is helping to lead long-awaited life-saving change. Here, we speak to the consultant vascular neurologist about his work, which recently won the NR [...]
Biopharma firm Ipsen has identified links between injection guidance techniques and improved rehab outcomes in people with lower-limb spasticity.
Ipsen’s AboLiSh study evaluated the use and effectiveness of Dysport®(abobotulinumtoxinA) in people living with lower-limb spasticity. It found that injection guidance techniques significantly help to improve outcomes and goal attainment in patients.
A US university has developed a new robotic platform, which utilises a patient’s brainwaves and muscle activity, to enable post-stroke rehab.
The assistive planar robot includes a closed-loop feedback system to monitor the muscle and brain activity of the user in order to trigger the execution of reach and grab in an adaptive way.
In a new paper, researchers at the University of Rhode Island Motor Control and Rehabilitation lab write: “Numerous rehabilitation approaches such as muscular electrical stimulations, brain-computer interfaces, and transcranial magnetic stimulation have been investigated to assist the affected individuals.
The global pursuit of new neurological treatments has been bolstered by a €38 million boost from the European Commission.
EBRAINS is an EU co-funded collaborative project to develop a “digital ecosystem” that enables researchers and clinicians to explore the complexity of the brain at various scales. From here they can derive new solutions for neurological medicines, interventions and technologies. The European Commission has now accepted the “EBRAINS 2.0” proposal, granting €38m for the further development of services of the EBRAINS research infrastructure to 2026.
