2010 IoN News Archive
- Professor Alan Thompson elected as Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology
- Michael J. Fox Foundation awards IoN researcher grant to advance Parkinson's research.
- Traces of the past: computer algorithm ‘reads’ memories
- Professor Lees awarded first Lord Brain Memorial Lecture
- Award for Professor Chris Frith
- Professor John Duncan appointed as NIHR Senior Investigator
- Queen Square Symposium success
- IoN brings the scientific method to London primary schools
- Robot trainer to benefit stroke patients
- Researchers to study how the brain 'rewires itself'
- St Peter's Medal for Professor Clare Fowler
- Elections to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowships announced
- New website to help stroke survivors learn to read again
- Queen's Birthday Honours
- Brain study reveals that agreement is rewarding
- Wellcome Success
- Win for IoN at Shape of Science Symposium
- Research shows that two heads are better than one
- Lizard venom offers hope for Parkinson’s disease patients
- Epilepsy prizes
- Developing a cell library resource for dementia research
- Stents may double the risk of stroke in patients over 70
- Scientists identify link between introspection and brain structure
- IoN scientist lands £329k funding boost from dementia research charity.
- Study results consistent with earlier estimates of vCJD prion prevalence in Britain
- Parkinson's UK Fellowship Award
- Award for Professor Lees
- 2010-11 IoN PhD Studentship Round Now Open
- New brain imaging tests to track Huntington’s
- World-leading scientist secures funding for gene research
- Fighter pilots' brains are ‘more sensitive
- Alzheimer’s changes detectable in healthy elderly
- IoN Student wins Santander Formula One Scholarship
- New hope for cluster headache sufferers
- Prestigious European research grant awarded
- New centre brings hope to patients with muscle wasting diseases
- Prestigious stroke program grant awarded
- A role for astrocytes in learning and memory?
QUEEN SQUARE EVENTS
Model-based neuroanatomy: Testing hypotheses about white-matter connections in the living human brain
Published: Jun 20, 2013 2:30:00 PM
PERMANENT PRESENT TENSE: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient H.M
Published: Jul 2, 2013 4:00:00 PM
Translational neuromodeling
Published: Jul 5, 2013 4:15:00 PM
Queen Square Alumnus Association Meeting 2013
Published: Jul 8, 2013 9:00:00 AM
Researchers to study how the brain 'rewires itself'
23 April 2010
A researcher from UCL is part of a US-led team investigating how the brain and its microcircuitry react to physiological changes and what could be done to encourage its recovery from injury.
Dr Maneesh Sahani from the UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, which is based in Queen Square is part of the team led by Stanford University and Brown University.
The project will explore the use of a new generation of ‘optogenetic’ devices small enough to be implanted in the brain, where they would simulate the function of damaged tissue.
The Reorganization and Plasticity to Accelerate Injury Recovery (REPAIR) project, funded by the US government, involves researchers from UCL, Stanford, Brown, and the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF).
Together their expertise spans neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry to semiconductor micro- and optoelectronics, statistical signal processing, machine learning, and brain modelling.
Professor Alan Thompson, Director of the Institute of Neurology said: "This is an exciting and highly innovative approach to addressing a fundamentally important issue - repairing damage to the central nervous system. If successful it could have major implications for improving recovery and reversing impairment in a wide range of neurological disorders both traumatic and acquired and would be a major boost to our efforts in rehabilitation"
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