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- The Great Brain Experiment: crowdsourcing data on how we think and act
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- Human Brain Project wins major EU funding
- Gene mutation causes familial form of cranio-cervical dystonia
- Professor Ray Dolan awarded prestigious Klaus Joachim Zülch Prize
- Professor Dimitri Kullmann elected Editor of Brain
- Hereditary Whispering Dystonia gene identified
- Belgian Stroke Council Award to UCL student
- Professor Nicholas Wood appointed as neuroscience programme director for UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
- UCL neuroscientists awarded highly competitive ERC Advanced Grants
- Drugs could provide new treatment for epilepsy
- Breakthrough in the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy
- UCL Institute of Neurology enters gene-editing research collaboration with Horizon Discovery
- Lifetime achievement award for Professor Thompson’s MS work
- New biography of Gowers released
- Repurposed cardiac sodium channel blocker brings significant benefit for patients with a rare neuromuscular disease
- Toxic protein build-up in blood shines light on fatal brain disease
- Professor Lees receives prestigious German Society of Neurology award
- Cause of Alternating Hemiplegia identified
- Results from stroke treatment study are in top 10 of Lancet’s most highly cited papers
- Skin patch improves attention span in stroke patients
- Genetic study identifies treatable pathway in childhood motor neuron disease
- Awards and congratulations
- Medical Photographer Wins Wellcome Image Awards
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- Unlocking the mysteries of the mind
- Professor Simon Shorvon appointed Harveian librarian at the Royal College of Physicians
- Parliamentary Group Visit the Institute
- Cultural Consultation Service website launches
- Clinical Teaching Awards 2011/12
- Prestigious European Science Foundation networking grant awarded to Institute of Neurology professor
- International project to determine vascular contribution to neurodegeneration begins
- Prime Minister visits UCL Institute of Neurology
- Institute scientist takes his research to Parliament
- Professor Ray Dolan gives the prestigious Alan Turing Lecture
- The Performing Brain – A moving story? Friday 16th March
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- Detecting stroke
- Queen Square Clinical Trial Centre launched
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- Professor Ray Dolan elected Fellow of the APS
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- Professor Hardy receives IFRAD 2011 European Grand Prize for Alzheimer's Research
- Medical Illustrators presented prestigious Wellcome Image Award
- Neurodegenerative disease research projects secure international collaborative funding
- Novel treatments for epilepsy
- Stem cell study offers hope for Parkinson’s patients
- Professor Alan Thompson appointed as Dean of UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging student receives Young Researcher Award
- UCL Alzheimer’s researcher receives lifetime achievement award
- Dr Jonathan Schott receives the US Alzheimer Association 2011 de Leon Prize in Neuroimaging: New Investigator Award
- Study reveals genetic clues underlying progressive supranuclear palsy
- UCL neuroscientists among the most cited in Parkinson’s disease research
- Professor Maguire awarded Kemali prize
- Award for Professor Roger Lemon
- Professor Dimitri Kullmann recognised for his outstanding research
- 'Consciousness connections' revealed in coma brains
- Four UCL neuroscientists elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences
- May 25 Marks World MS Day
- Prion infection begins after one minute of exposure
- Successes of Deep Brain Stimulation for patients with Parkinson's disease
- Professor Hanna invited to give prestigious ANZAN Lecture
- Severe reaction to epilepsy drug linked to genetic variant
- Rhythm and the perception of time
- How prions propagate
- Understanding how the brain determines coincidence
- Lancet papers testament to clinical impact and significance of neuroscience research at UCL
- World’s first blood test for vCJD
- Researchers identify 5 new genetic variations in total of 11 thought to be important in Parkinson’s Disease risk
- IoN scientist receives prize to promote German-Anglo relations
- Epilepsy surgery shows promising results, says study
- Scientists make step towards better understanding of the brain's teaching signals
- UCL scientists get £88k boost to study hearing problems in Alzheimer’s
- Professor Jon Driver
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging researcher scoop Lloyd’s 2011 Science of Risk Prizes
- Launch of the UCL Institute of Neurology YouTube channel
- Researchers move closer to finding successful drugs to treat Huntington’s disease
- Imaging the evolution of multiple sclerosis
- Brain changes seen in cabbies who take 'The Knowledge'
- Professor Brown gives Annual Stroke Association Royal Lecture
- New Institute Director
- Wolfson Foundation awards £20million to UCL for experimental neurology centre
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IoN EVENTS
Queen Square Alumnus Association Meeting 2013
Published: Jul 8, 2013 2:00:00 PM
Translational neuromodeling
Published: Jul 5, 2013 5:29:00 PM
Sorting of axonal retrograde cargoes in motor neurons
Published: Jun 5, 2013 3:54:00 PM
Casting light on multiple sclerosis heterogeneity: the role of HLA-DRB1 on spinal cord pathology
Published: Jun 5, 2013 2:24:00 PM
Understanding how the brain determines coincidence
19 February 2011
Neurons in the brain are bombarded by incoming signals, and one of the challenges facing neuroscience research is to understand how the brain sorts this information.
One mechanism is to determine which inputs are coincident (ie arrive at the same time) and therefore presumably generated by the same or closely associated processes. In order to achieve this, the brain needs to be able to analyse inputs with millisecond precision.
Ivan Pavlov and colleagues at UCL Institute of Neurology have shown in work published in Nature Communications (Nat. Commun. 2 : 199 doi:10.1038/ncomms1202 (2011)) that this precision is critically dependent upon the presence of a particular ion channel, which determines the way in which inhibition alters the voltage of neurons. Importantly, certain diseases such as epilepsy can interfere with this process, possibly leading to a disruption of cognitive function.
reference >> Nature Communications. 2 : 199 doi:10.1038/ncomms1202 Ih-mediated depolarization enhances the temporal precision of neuronal integration
Ivan Pavlov, Annalisa Scimemi, Leonid Savtchenko, Dimitri M. Kullmann, & Matthew C. Walker
